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Wall Street Journal’s report yesterday that Apple is secretly working on building a less expensive iPhone to compete with the cheap Android devices that are selling like hot cakes in emerging markets struck me as odd. This rumor has been flying around for years — that Apple would eventually expand the iPhone line with an iPhone…
Verizon and AT&T haven’t announced their year-end quarterly earnings, but that isn’t stopping the carriers from crowing about how many smartphones they sold. The day after AT&T said it activated 10M smartphones, Verizon chimed in and confirmed it had activated 9.8M. This admission by Verizon was first spotted by ZDNet in a recent 8-K form…
Walmart and Straight Talk Wireless are preparing to start offering the iPhone without requiring customers to sign a single piece of paper. Starting on January 11, interested users will be able to grab Apple’s smartphone in more than 2,000 Walmart stores and online at Walmart.com, and use it with Straight Talk’s $45 no contract unlimited…
T-Mobile USA for quite some time has talked about the amount of customers who use iPhones on its network. Apparently, that number is growing by 100,000 devices per month, which is an impressive number for a company struggling against the other major U.S. carriers. TMoNews parsed through what the company’s CEO John Legere had to…
iOS 6 users, like myself, who schedule their Do Not Disturb mode to automatically turn on and off at certain hours woke up on New Year’s Day to find that it had not been shut off at the scheduled time. Ironically, that same day, Apple aired an add with famous tennis players Venus and Serena…
New year, new Apple rumors. There’s speculation circling the interwebs about the Cupertino based tech giant potentially testing the waters with different colors and screen sizes for its next iPhone. Of course, this all started from an analyst last month who came out with a bold proclamation that the iOS maker’s next-generation iPhone could launch…
Edison Junior, the company behind the Kickstarter-funded POP power station, is canceling the project after it failed to get the necessary licensing from Apple. The company’s downfall was its decision to include a lightning cable, which is owned by Apple and requires a license before it can be used in a commercial device. The POP portable power…
Samsung isn’t the only one trashing Apple’s iPhone in its ads with LG joining this trend, too. According to Korea Times, the ad above has been posted in all major local media in Korea, depicting LG Optimus G as it slices through a bitten apple. The text says “a moment’s choice will decide your next…
Independent mobile ad network InMobi released its latest Insights Report, revealing that Apple continues to lead the North American mobile ad impression market. Apple’s iOS took 46% market share and increased in size by 4.1% from the previous quarter. Android continues to track closely, with a higher growth rate than iOS at 5.4%, and currently…
Apple has rounded up its list of the best iPhone apps and games of 2012. Every year Apple posts its list in iTunes, giving its pick for the best app of the year, best game of the year, and runner-ups for each. iPad apps get their own separate list, which we’ll also cover. Best-sellers are…