Apple’s latest financial report was pretty much nothing but good news, including setting an iPhone sales record with 7.4 million units moved last quarter, along with a 100% increase in iPod Touch sales, despite relatively flat iPod sales during the quarter. Dropping the price and advertising the Touch a bit more did the trick, helping [...]
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Apple’s latest financial report also featured COO Tim Cook stating (in response to a question about competitors like the new Android phone, Palm Pre, etc) that: “Frankly, I think people are still just trying to catch up with the first iPhone 2 years ago.” Now that’s quite a statement, given that phone didn’t have any [...]
Based on the advertisements for the phone (hinted at with ads this weekend), it appears Verizon and Motorola are taking full aim at the iPhone with their Droid phone, and they’re pulling very few punches. This handset will come with the Android 2.0 OS and was a joint effort between Google and Motorola, and Boy [...]
It appears that AT&T is backpedaling a bit in regards to supporting (officially anyway) tethering by the end of the year, much to the chagrin of many advanced iPhone users, we’re certain. 9 to 5 Mac, an unofficial site with lots of Apple news, is reporting they believed it was coming later on this year, [...]
Yes, we’re all shocked: The iPhone ranks best among smartphones for customer satisfaction among business and consumer users. It received highest marks in everything (except battery life, a known iPhone issue). More from the JD Power report: — Apple ranks highest among manufacturers of smartphones used primarily for personal reasons, with a score of 811, [...]
AT&T shocked more than a few pundits this week when it said VoiP services could utilize its network to run, such as Skype and Google Voice. However, iPhone data tethering is something it isn’t prepared to offer right now, according to the company. AT&T had many lengitimate bandwidth concerns with the VoiP feature — and [...]
Yes, the holiday season is on its way, and Apple (according to industry predictions) is on its way to selling a lot of gadgets, including iPhones by the end of the year. AppleInsider, popular Apple blog, published a report that indicates big holiday returns for Apple, and even larger sales in 2010 as well. It [...]
AT&T’s announcement that it will allow iPhone VoIP services over its mobile network was met with mostly good reaction from customer and commenters on blogs around the web, and now Apple and provider Skype have issued statements reacting to the announcement, and their reactions have been quite positive as well. The AP recorded Apple’s reaction: [...]
We’re not quite sure about this report, but ComputerWorld is saying that tech research firm Gartner is forecasting huge growth in the now quite low-on-the-totem-pole Android OS for smartphones, predicting Android to pass Apple’s iPhone to claim the number two spot behind Symbian OS with 14.5% of the smartphone market in the world by 2012. [...]
MacRumors (and various other blogs) now are reporting that AT&T is planning to support Skype, Google Voice, and other voice related software on their network, something they previously hinted they would never do. A quote from the original article in the Washington Post: “One source close to the thinking of AT&T executives said the company [...]


Skype for iPad supports video calling and will be released very soon.