Ina Fried in Mobile on October 6, 2011 at 8:53 pm PT
Although Sprint, Verizon and AT&T are all selling the same iPhone 4S, how a device is purchased and activated can have long-term implications on which networks the device can later be used on.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on August 24, 2011 at 3:35 am PT
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster says a Sprint deal with Apple could raise iPhone sales growth from 30 percent to 37 percent in 2012.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on May 16, 2011 at 4:25 am PT
Further corroboration of rumors that the next iteration of Apple’s iPhone will be more of a refinement of its predecessor than an overhaul. Jefferies & Co. analyst Peter Misek too says the device will be largely similar to the iPhone 4, but with significant improvements under the hood.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on April 13, 2011 at 4:05 am PT
The Verizon iPhone was likely just the first step in Apple’s broader push into the CDMA handset market. And while the company stands to reap the most benefit from that first partnership, there are plenty of other opportunities abroad for CDMA market success.
Kara Swisher in News on February 22, 2011 at 10:00 am PT
To those who care intensely about this kind of stuff–which would be pretty much everyone in the tech ecosystem–Apple will hold its much-anticipated event on March 2, where the tech giant seems poised to unveil a new version of its hugely successful iPad, according to multiple sources. As in, iPad 2! Or, as BoomTown is now officially nicknaming it: iPad Too! According to several sources close to the situation, the Wednesday date in a little more than a week is firm and will take place in San Francisco, the scene of many such Apple events.
Ina Fried in Mobile on February 14, 2011 at 7:00 am PT
In an interview, Microsoft phone unit President Andy Lees walks through the changes that Redmond plans to make to bolster Windows Phone 7.
Improvements coming later this year include Twitter integration, a better browser and the ability to do more things at once.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on February 10, 2011 at 9:25 am PT
After the nearly interminable buildup to the iPhone’s launch on Verizon–the years of anticipation, rumors and speculation–you’d think eager buyers would be camping out in front of their local Apple Store and that Verizon stores would literally be overrun with frustrated AT&T iPhone users looking for relief. But evidently that’s not the case.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on February 8, 2011 at 4:00 am PT
So those rumors that had Apple developing a “World iPad” based on one of Qualcomm’s multimode CDMA-GSM chips? There may be something to them after all. An iFixit teardown of the CDMA iPhone 4 headed for Verizon reveals a world mode chip in the device’s innards: Qualcomm’s MDM6600, which supports CDMA and EVDO network standards as well as GSM and HSPA+.
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Andrew Morse and Don Clark, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 7, 2011 at 4:04 pm PT
Apple Inc.’s iPhone for the Verizon Wireless network contains a newly designed version of the antenna that was associated with dropped calls on the original device, according to a company that disassembled the handset.
