Passport? Check. Sunscreen? Check. Interactive Frommer’s Guide for iPad? Check.

Now you can ditch the dead-tree guidebook on vacation, if you’re so inclined.
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Usage-Based Data Pricing: The Solution to AT&T’s iPhone Problems?

According to Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi, the average iPhone user consumes five to seven times the monthly bandwidth of the average wireless voice subscriber and at least twice the amount of the typical smartphone phone user. With usage levels like these and the network degradation and customer dissatisfaction issues that go along with them, is it reasonable to think that iPhone carriers like AT&T will swap their all-you-can-eat data plans for usage-based pricing? Sacconaghi thinks so.
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iPhone Nano, Touch Debut in Bernstein Analyst Rumornote

Would an iPhone that doesn’t require a data plan spike Apple’s addressable market in the mobile devices space? In a research note to clients today, Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi makes the case that it would. Arguing that the market for standalone portable media players is certain to decline as consumers upgrade to multimedia smartphones, Sacconaghi says it would behoove Apple to migrate its vast iPod user base to two new iPhones: the iPhone Nano and the iPhone Touch.

iPhone Nano, Touch Debut in Bernstein Analyst Rumornote

Would an iPhone that doesn’t require a data plan spike Apple’s addressable market in the mobile devices space? In a research note to clients today, Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi makes the case that it would. Arguing that the market for standalone portable media players is certain to decline as consumers upgrade to multimedia smartphones, Sacconaghi says it would behoove Apple to migrate its vast iPod user base to two new iPhones: the iPhone Nano and the iPhone Touch.