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Sprint: iPhone brought 40 percent of new signups in Q4

Erica Ogg — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:15:48 +0000

Sprint sold 1.8 million iPhones in the last three months of 2011, or just a quarter of the number of iPhones that AT&T did. But it's actually good news for the nation's third-largest carrier, which announced its quarterly earnings Wednesday.

How The iPhone Saves Money For Businesses (And Why Android Can’t)

Ryan Faas — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:54:52 +0000

A big challenge for businesses and organizations is cost management, particularly in the current economic climate. Many companies are trying to maximise their budgets – one of the big factors pushing the BYOD trend. Where BYOD isn’t feasible, however, businesses may still have the need to support mobile professionals – and need to do so [...]

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Former Apple exec Bob Borchers talks Apple marketing, packaging, and his time at Apple

Jordan Kahn — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:10:54 +0000

Update: Apple had these videos taken offline. We will make an effort to see if they exist somewhere else. Help us out in the comments if you find them. Former Apple marketing executive Bob Borchers, who was part of the original iPhone team and helped lead the Nike+iPod partnership and third-party iPod integration with car [...]

Verizon’s Getting Ready To Let Your iPad And iPhone Share The Same Data Plan

John Brownlee — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:59:16 +0000

If you think about it, it’s pretty convoluted having a separate data plan for both your iPhone and iPad when you could just pay your carrier a lump sum and share a data allowance between the two. Verizon and AT&T certainly think so: they said as far back as June last year that they were [...]

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Morgan Stanley: 24-36 million more Chinese iPhones in 2013

Philip Elmer-DeWitt — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:39:16 +0000

As the middle class expands, Apple's sales in China could soon reach 60 million per year

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Morgan Stanley has seen the future and it's a well-heeled Chinese man (or woman) with an iPhone.

In a note to clients Sunday, Katy Huberty drew on Morgan Stanley's proprietary AlphaWise survey of buying patterns among China's rapidly growing middle class to paint a picture of the smartphone market on the mainland after MORE

$1.99 app sneaks into the App Store, allows tethering via Proxy

9to5 Staff — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:33:59 +0000

It appears that another app has snuck into the App Store that allows tethering. QuasiDisk ($1.99) purports to be a filemanager for iPhone but it appears that in the most recent update over the weekend, it stealthily got the ability to tether via proxy. Apple is usually pretty quick to pull these so you might [...]

AT&T’s iPhone “sales” versus “activations”: Doing the Math

Richard Gaywood — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:00:00 +0000

Love Apple gear? Like math? TUAW's Doing the Math series examines the numbers and the science behind the hardware and software. Several sites -- including TUAW -- reported yesterday that 80% of all smartphones AT&T sold in Q411 were iPhones, base...

AT&T’s iPhone “sales” versus “activations”: Doing the Math

Richard Gaywood — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:00:00 +0000

AT&T CEO: Recent price jacks due to AT&T’s attempt to monopolize GSM in US

Elyse Betters — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:43:31 +0000

AT&T has a grudge with the Federal Communications Commission, and during the mobile carrier’s quarterly earnings call today, CEO Randall Stephenson criticized the FCC over spectrum availability and the bombed acquisition of T-Mobile USA, with him further claiming AT&T’s spectrum crux is forcing jacked prices against its highest data users. The American Telephone and Telegraph [...]

AT&T: iPhone made up 80% of smartphones, 66% of all phones sold last quarter

Casey Johnston — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:30:22 +0000

AT&T sold 9.4 million smartphones in the fourth quarter of 2011, but 7.6 million of which were iPhones, the company reported today. According to those numbers, the iPhone made up a whopping 80 percent of AT&T's smartphon...

AT&T: 80% Of All The Phones We Sell Are iPhones

Ed Sutherland — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:49:45 +0000

Despite losing its exclusive standing with Apple, AT&T announced selling 7.6 million iPhones, comprising 20 percent of Apple’s 37 million smartphone sales during the fourth quarter of 2011, which ended Dec. 31. Even more impressive: Apple’s handset accounts for 80 percent of all smartphones the carrier sells. AT&T said it sold a record 9.4 million [...]

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AT&T says it activated 7.6 million iPhones in Q4 2011, a whopping 80.8 percent of all smartphones they sold

Christian Zibreg — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:59:09 +0000

United States carrier AT&T said this morning it activated 7.6 million iPhones during the holiday quarter, besting Verizon’s 4.2 million iPhone activations. It was the best-ever quarter for sales of Apple’s handset for AT&T as iPhone accounted for a whopping 80.8 percent of the 9.4 million smartphones the carrier sold in Q4 2011 (56 percent in Q3 [...]

Apple Q1 results show why the iPhone doesn’t have LTE—yet (Updated)

Chris Foresman — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:50:00 +0000

Apple released its iPhone 4S without high-speed LTE capabilities amidst a sea of high-profile LTE Android handsets. While technophiles complained about lack of support for the next-generation wireless standard, there are mu...

AT&T announces new smartphone data plans

Chris Rawson — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:00:00 +0000

AT&T has announced new smartphone data plans, outlined below and effective January 22. This is the first significant update to AT&T's smartphone data plans in a year and a half, aside from AT&T's inclusion of an additional 2 GB of data pe...

AT&T Announces All New (And More Expensive) iPhone & iPad Data Plans

John Brownlee — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:23:21 +0000

AT&T has been forcing the same crappy $25 for 2GB plan down everyone’s throat since June 2010, but now they’re upgrading it for the first time. Starting Sunday, AT&T will be upgrading all their new smartphone data plans with larger data allocations… and larger prices. Yes, pay-by-the-month iPad users, that means you too. Starting Sunday, [...]

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