"Important details still being ironed out," writes analyst. Could T-Mobile and Sprint be next? Apple (AAPL) needs another carrier to maintain the iPhone's current rate of growth in the U.S., says Kaufman Bros.'s Shaw Wu in a note to clients Monday, but it doesn't necessarily have to be Verizon (VZ). According to Wu, Apple's...
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T-Mobile, not Verizon, will be the next carrier to get Apple's smartphone, says an analyst Like most analysts, Kaufman Bros. Shaw Wu believes Apple (AAPL) will eventually end its exclusive relationship with AT&T (T) and give the iPhone to other U.S. carriers -- by 2011, most likely, and perhaps as early as this fall....
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The pressure is on Apple's CEO to surprise and amaze the tech world on Monday "You won't be disappointed," wrote Steve Jobs a few weeks ago in one of his cryptic -- and increasingly frequent -- e-mail pronouncements. This one was in response to a fan concerned that Apple's (AAPL) Worldwide Developers Conference, which...
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An attack on the bandwidth hogs? A price cut for the rest of us? Something else entirely? It's been four days since AT&T (T) announced the wireless pricing changes that go into effect on Monday June 7, and opinions about what they mean vary widely. The responses we've seen fall into five basic categories....
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The carriers' combined market share shrank to 4.9% last year as Apple solidified its lead Songs streamed directly to cellphones, once touted as the next big thing in digital music, failed to take off and is now rapidly losing ground to Apple's (AAPL) iTunes Store. That's the conclusion of a survey in the May...
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Three times as many as Verizon, according to a consumer survey released Tuesday AT&T (T) announced in January that it was spending $2 billion this year to improve its much maligned cellular network. But you wouldn't know it from the survey of smartphone customers released Tuesday by ChangeWave Research, the consumer polling division of...
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The next day, some analysts are having second thoughts about the Wall St. Journal's scoop
"WSJ's Lame Entry in the iPhone Rumors Game," was the headline on John Gruber's Daring Fireball blog Monday evening, even as after-hours traders were driving Apple's (AAPL) shares to dizzying new heights. (See Apple surges on Verizon iPhone report.)
Gruber's headline...
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Verizon leads the pack. AT&T is No. 2. T-Mobile and Sprint bring up the rear
There's bad news for Apple (AAPL) and not such great news for Palm (PALM) in a BrandIndex consumer survey published Tuesday by YouGov. Both firms originally tied their cellphones to exclusive U.S. carriers — AT&T and Sprint, respectively — neither...
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The tech world turns its attention to San Francisco to see what Steve Jobs has up his sleeveThe Yerba Buena Center for the Arts was buzzing Tuesday afternoon with black-shirted Apple staffers hauling in electronics, heavy-set security guys guarding the perimeter, TV satellite trucks jockeying for position and workers on a crane plastering the...
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At the end of two years, the Nexus One will have cost you $500 less than the iPhoneOn the heels of Google's (GOOG) release of the HTC Nexus One — popularly known as the Google phone — the folks at BillShrink have done us all a favor.
They've put out one of their handy charts...
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