Now there is another jewel in the iPhone 3G’s crown. A report from NPD Group shows that the iPhone 3G has surpassed the Motorola RAZR in the Q3, as it was the leading handset purchased by US adult consumers.

In US, the RAZR has been ruling as the top-selling handset for the last 12 Qs. The report is based on more than 150,000 online consumer surveys conducted each month to represent all 18 years and older US consumers.

“This replacement of the RAZR by the iPhone shows a cut-off point shift in handset design from fashion to fashionable functionality. During third quarter, four out of the five best-selling handsets had advanced Internet features and were optimized for messaging,” said Ross Rubin, who is NPD’s director of industry analysis.

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It will be disappointing for T-Mobile fans to find that there is a problem with the Nokia 5610 XpressMusic, as the screens on these handsets are faulty.

It means the T-Mobilers will have to stop selling the handset as well as send back all the demo units. The network is also being asked to recall the handsets it has already sold.

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Nokia owned more than half of the market for smartphone sales for this period last year, but today the company finds itself looking at a life-size slump and dolefully wondering why. It needs look no further than the iPhone to find the answer.

Nokia still leads the smartphone industry with its 38.9 percent of global share in the recent quarter, but Apple’s iPhone has taken something out of that huge lead and stands at 17.3 percent.

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Craig Berger, who is a FBR Capital Markets analyst, says in his research report that Apple to significantly cut back its iPhone production by 40 percent in Q4.

The company has already predicted to cut its production output by 10 per cent after selling almost seven million phones in the third quarter, however, the current report indicates a much larger figure.

It is unknown how much inventory Apple builds after the successful launch of the iPhone 3G that got far better response than the original iPhone.

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Though the price tag is around £4,000, it’s, indeed, the fastest PC in the world. With Intel’s new Core i7-965 Extreme Edition, the YoYotech Fi7epower MLK161 has been developed keeping one purpose in mind and it is to break the world record in the benchmark that many believe is actually metric of overall CPU performance.

The Core i7’s HyperThreading feature shows that a minimum of 8GB of quite expensive high performance DDR3 memory is there. But the novel triple-channel layout makes system pack 2GB plus 1GB per channel for a total of 9GB. Thus, the face value cost of the CPU and memory is around £2,000.

It has 2GB of ultra fast GDDR5 memory and 1TB spinning-disk storage from Samsung. HIS Radeon HD 4870X2 graphics card and two of AMD’s awesome RV770 graphics processors have also been packed.

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