Posts Tagged handset

Engadget’s take on Apple’s Next iPhone

The iPhone 4G? iPhone 4? iPhone HD? Simply ‘iPhone’? There’s plenty we still don’t know about Apple’s upcoming handset, like the name for instance…

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Apple predicted to introduce lower cost iPhone in June

Apple’s next update to the blockbuster iPhone handset is expected by one prominent analyst to have a lower total cost of ownership, and to also include new gesture-based functionality.

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Rumor: iPhone 4G Will Be Taller Than Predecessors [PICS]

iPhone repair shop iResQ claims that it has the front panel component of the next iteration of Apple’s iPhone, and it has posted a few photos to demonstrate a couple of ways the handset will differ from its predecessor. If these pics are legit, then the new iPhone will actually be one-fourth of an inch taller than all of the previous three models.

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Did Apple sell over 11 million iPhones this quarter?

Apple come next month is expected to announce — by far — the most successful quarter for iPhone sales in the handset’s history, according to one Wall Street analyst who raised his price target on the company to $260 per share.

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100,000 iPhones Sold in China

The handset’s Chinese carrier, Unicom, reported this week that it has moved more than 100,000 units since Apple’s phone first went on sale in that country at the end of October

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An iPhone on steroids

Apple may be cooking up a new iPhone that could rock both the netbook and handset markets.

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Evidence of new Apple’s iPhone model, Maps App uncovered

Signs of a new iPhone hardware model being tested online and Apple’s interest in updating the handset’s built-in Maps application have been revealed.

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Video: Luke Wilson’s back to bash Verizon 3X

Perhaps the most interesting thing about these newest ads feature actor Luke Wilson is the fact that Apple’s iPhone isn’t the center of conversion, rather it’s AT&T’s network and the ability to use a handset’s phone and web features at the same time.

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Jailbreak Community Battles Apple for Control of iPhone

When he was 17, George Hotz poured hundreds of hours of his summer vacation into a special project: learning the iPhone�s secrets. His unpaid labor eventually paid off. With the help of a soldering iron, he was the first to unlock the iPhone, delivering the handset to international networks before Apple had a chance to.

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Apple Surpasses Nokia as Most Profitable Handset Vendor

Apple’s third-quarter operating profit from iPhone sales was $1.6 billion, while Nokia had operating profit of $1.1 billion from its handset unit, Neil Mawston and Alex Spektor, analysts for the Boston-based research firm, wrote in a report.

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Orange sells 30,000 iPhones on its first day

Mobile phone company breaks O2’s two-year exclusive grip on the Apple handset in the UK and sells 30,000 iPhones.

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Report: Apple to launch Verizon iPhone in Q3 2010

A new report citing sources in the Taiwan handset supply chain says Apple has contracted to produce a UMTS/CDMA hybrid iPhone due in the third quarter of next year that will enable the company to sell a single global handset to all carriers, and specifically to Verizon Wireless in the US.

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Apple’s one carrier iPhone exclusivity to end in Canada

Apple’s exclusive carrier contracts for the iPhone in each country continue to fall, as a new report has claimed that two new carriers in Canada will offer the handset.

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Overheating iPhones ‘exploding’ in France, Apple responds

Reports of iPhones exploding, starting fires and killing people in cold blood have been around since the inception of the handset. They’ve also been relatively sporadic, seemingly short on evidence, and Apple hasn’t given complaints much credence or response.

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Apple Set to Invade China With iPhone

Apple watchers are waiting on pins and needles as reports surface that the company will soon announce the launch of the iPhone in China. With more than a billion citizens, DailyFinance says a China handset arrangement could be the biggest boon to Apple since the launch of the iPod sparked a company turnaround nearly a decade ago.

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Nokia N900 official, uses Linux to ‘kill’ iPhone

Nokia this morning launched a new class of smartphone as its flagship. The promised N900 is a crossover between smartphones and Nokia’s Internet tablets, and makes its biggest break in its change of operating system: although still a phone, the handset runs Nokia’s latest Linux variant, not Symbian: this gives it multitasking iPhones can’t have.

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WSJ.com – Opinion:Why AT&T Killed Google Voice

Earlier this month, Apple rejected an application for the iPhone called Google Voice. The uproar set off a chain of events—Google’s CEO resigning from Apple’s board, and the FCC investigating wireless open access and handset exclusivity—that may finally end the 135-year-old Alexander Graham Bell era. It’s about time.

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Nokia Stock Nosedives as Apple Gains on Market Leader

Shares of Nokia tumbled this week, as the world’s largest handset maker believes its market share will recede over the next year, while competitor Apple sees continued growth with the iPhone platform.

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iPhone sales: Did consumers save? Or are old habits back?

Together, the iPhone handset and service commitments made by consumers this weekend should be between $500 million and $1 billion. The success of the new phone is either a sign that customers have the cash to help push up consumer spending, or they are willing to return to their leveraged habits, habits that helped bring on/exacerbate the recession

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iPhone 3G S OpenGL performance rocks

Apple has said their new handset is up to 2.5 times faster than the old one. For once, it looks like Cupertino’s marketing mavens were actually being conservative. Whether you’re benchmarking or just doing a visual comparison, there can be little doubt what the “S” stands for.

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