Rate plans: How AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile stack up
Now that Verizon has the iPhone, you can start to choose your carrier by its rates As long as AT&T (T) was Apple's (AAPL) only U.S. carrier, nobody who really wanted an iPhone did much comparison shopping on voice and data rates. You signed up for the AT&T plan that made sense for you and...
Verizon iPhone: The reviews are in
The verdict is unanimous: It's slower than AT&T's, but it rarely drops calls Pre-orders for the Verizon (VZ) iPhone began Thursday, and deliveries will begin next week, but Apple (AAPL) made review copies available to its favorite publications -- before Verizon's network might suffer, like AT&T's (T) did, the strain of a few million new...
iPhone sales in the AT&T era
Analysts estimate that Apple may have sold as many as 90 million between 2007 and 2010 Next week, when Apple (AAPL) releases its earnings for the quarter that ended Christmas Day, it will be closing the books on the era of AT&T (T) exclusivity in the U.S. -- the company's largest single market for iPhones....
Gene Munster: Verizon will sell 9 million to 15 million iPhones in 2011
Piper Jaffray's senior Apple analyst offers two scenarios for next year's U.S. iPhone sales Joining the growing list of analysts who have "baked in" the launch of a Verizon (VZ) iPhone in the first quarter of 2011, Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster offered two sets of estimates Wednesday: A "conservative" scenario in which Verizon sells 9...
Rumor: Verizon stockpiling iPhones for post-Christmas launch
Management training was reportedly held last week with fully-functioning units MacDailyNews, a site that is usually a repository for Apple (AAPL) news broken elsewhere, unloaded a motherlode of Verizon (VZ) iPhone rumors Monday. Among their bullet-points: Verizon held management training for iPhone sales last week with functioning iPhones in management hands for the training sessions...
Verizon’s smartphone dilemma
The data that surfaced last week, if accurate, show how badly the carrier needs the iPhone Most of the analysts who looked at the Verizon (VZ) sales data that All Things Digital's John Paczkowski published Friday picked up his story line: Thanks to Google's (GOOG) Android, Research in Motion's (RIMM) BlackBerry has gone, in Paczkowski's...
Munster: Apple made two big mistakes when it launched the iPhone
No, they weren't the sealed battery and the lack of Adobe Flash support "We believe that Apple has made two meaningful errors since its entrance into the iPhone business in 2007." That's how Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster begins the answer to his own question -- "(When) will Apple launch the iPhone on Verizon?" -- one...
Report: Apple has cut a sweet deal with Verizon for the iPhone
Verizon said to be eager to keep the hot-selling smartphone away from T-Mobile and Sprint According to a report to clients issued Monday by Kaufman Bros.' Shaw Wu, Apple (AAPL) got the terms it wanted from Verizon (VZ) for the version of the iPhone expected to be released by the carrier in early 2011. Citing...
Apple ‘smoked the competition’ in PC World’s 2010 reliability survey
MacBooks and iMacs scored the highest marks in a survey of 79,000 tech users "Apple once again smoked the competition," writes PC World's Jeff Bertolucci, summarizing the results of his magazine's annual service and reliability survey. "The Macintosh and iPhone maker did so well that virtually all its scores were above average. Apple's only average...
The world’s first subsidized iPads
Apple's tablets will reportedly sell in the U.K. for more than 60% off. Could it happen here? Americans dreaming of an iPad Chrismas will be watching closely to see if AT&T (T) and Verizon (VZ) follow the lead of Orange and T-Mobile (DT), two carriers authorized to sell 3G iPads in the United Kingdom. On...
