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The world collectively held its breath last week during Apple’s iPhone 5 announcement. As usual, once pre orders went live on Friday, people lost their minds trying to get in on being one of the first to get their hands on the latest and greatest from Apple. Well, numbers for pre-orders are starting to trickle…
T-Mobile may be left out from the “official iGame” but it does want to prepare itself for folks looking to bring Apple’s latest smartphones to its network. To that end, the Deutsche Telekom-owner carrier will be offering Nano SIMs in mid-October which interested customers will then be able to put into their unlocked iPhone 5…
According to a report in Bloomberg, Walmart will join Apple and the wireless carriers in selling the iPhone 5 on a pre-order basis. Pre-orders with the retailer will start at 8 am at US stores and the iPhone will be available to pick up in stores on Friday, September 21st. Walmart is one-upping the competition…
Apple confirmed today that it will start accepting pre-orders of the iPhone 5 at 12:01 AM PT on September 14. Besides Apple, customers can also secure their handset by pre-ordering directly from Sprint or Verizon. Sprint announced it will kick off sales at 12:01 AM, while Verizon will start a minute earlier at 12:00 AM…
While all of the major carriers in the UK have announced their intentions to carry the iPhone 5, only customers on the newly-launched EE network and Three will have access to LTE. EE is the only carrier in the UK to run an LTE network on a band supported by LTE chips found in the…
Earlier this year, the iPhone dabbled in the prepaid market, offering non-contract iPhone 4 and 4S devices on Cricket and Virgin Mobile. As you’re probably aware by now, Apple announced the iPhone 5 yesterday, and we’re happy to report that Cricket has announced it’ll carry the iPhone 5 sans contract just one week later than…
Mobile ad network Millennial Media released its new Mobile Mix report, sharing which platforms and phones are most popular among its users. Here are the highlights: Apple remained the leading manufacturer on our platform with more than 31% of the impression share. The iPhone also remained the leading individual mobile phone in the network. Samsung…
Although the highlight of today is the announcement of the new iPhone 5, that does not mean Apple’s other products can’t get your attention. The newest generation Apple iPad is currently on sale at WalMart. The refurbished 16GB WiFi version of the iPad is on sale for just $439, which is a savings of $60…
AT&T has decided to be a little less evil than usual today. It turns out that if you’re lucky enough to still have AT&T’s old unlimited data plan tied to your account, you’ll still be able to use that plan with the 4G LTE-compatible iPhone 5. “We offer customers the flexibility to keep the iPhone data…
The Wall Street Journal is reporting from sources that claim to be “people familiar with the matter” that Apple is currently in talks to possibly create a custom radio streaming service to rival Pandora. Pandora Radio was launched in January of 2000, using the information gathered from the Music Genome Project, an ambitious project designed…