P. J. Connolly

UPDATED: The updated operating system for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch brings a raft of new features to these mobile devices; iPhone 3GS users in particular will be able to congratulate themselves, knowing they finally have an OS that pushes the smartphone to its limits. Read my full review at eweek.com.

Apple’s Safari Web browser may never break out of fourth place in the browser sweepstakes, but new features for users and developers in Safari 5 indicate that the company is committed to using it as a model for its idea of what the Web should be. Read my full review at eweek.com.

The newest MacBook Pros stand up for themselves, as eWEEK Labs found when it spent some time with Apple’s newest notebooks. The 15-inch and 17-inch models, which offer a choice between Intel’s Core i5 and i7 processors and automatic switching of graphics processors, bring a mix of portability and extreme performance. Meanwhile, the 13-inch models […]

I swear to heaven that this will be the last thing I write about the iPad until the other side of Labor Day, unless I’m specifically asked. (Even I’m getting tired of the subject.) Could Apple have developed the iPad without the experience gained during the three years that the iPhone has been in the […]

Apples Slim, 3G-Connected iPad Packs a Lotof Punch by P. J. Connolly Auto-rotate A view of the iPad from the user’s perspective; the image rotates automatically as the device is turned and can be locked at the touch of a button.SOURCE: eWEEK Labs (Sturdevant) Wireless Antennas The iPad as everyone else sees it; the antennas […]

One downside to the iPad is that the only mobile carrier it can be used with in the United States is AT&T; although Apple has a perfect right to partner with the carrier of its choice, users who spend a lot of time in locations that don’t have very good 3G coverage from AT&T may […]

So I spent the last few hours wandering around the edges of downtown San Francisco, testing the iPad with AT&T‘s 3G network. I didn’t find anything terribly unusual about either the device or the network performance at my first four stops; it wasn’t until I was in the home stretch that things went to Helena […]

If you were on the main drag of San Francisco‘s Noe Valley yesterday, you may have seen me fiddling with an iPad that Apple sent us for testing. After Sunday brunch at Joe’s 24th Street Cafe, I parked myself at one of the outdoor tables for an hour or so, to see how well the […]

The FCC has been in the news lately for its attempts to get serious about regulating the actions of Internet service providers, in the name of what parties to the discussion call “Net neutrality.” The most fluff-brained of commenters seem to be following the idea that, to borrow the words of Thomas Jefferson, all Internet […]

Tech Analysis: As eWEEK Labs Senior Analyst P. J. Connolly wraps up an evaluation of the iPad and prices some solid-state drives, the end of the road for conventional hard disks looms on the horizon. Read my full review at eweek.com.