Nov

14

Blackberry Bold

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November 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment

The long wait for the new look in Blackberry’s ended this week with the launch of the BlackBerry Bold aka the 9000 via AT&T Mobile.
$399.99 upfront with a $100 rebate for new activations via AT&T.
$249.99 upfront with a $100 rebate for new activations through Amazon.
If this seems a little pricey, it is. To buy it [...]

Apr

24

Apple sells 1.7 million units

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April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Apple announced revenue of $7.5 billion and net profit over $1 billion in its 2nd fiscal quarter, with revenue beating expectations. This is what happens when you sell 10.6 million iPods, 2.3 million Macs, and 1.7 million iPhones — which the company said kept it on pace to reach its year-end goal of 10 million [...]

Apr

23

AT&T Mobile has big 1st quarter

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April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment

At&t Mobile has announced Q1 2008 numbers in which they added 1.295 million wireless customers, an 8.7% increase compared the first quarter of 2007. The numbers pushed the carrier’s customer base to more than 71.3 million subscribers. This is especially impressive considering they shut down their TDMA network and along with it 330,000 customers.
Churn remained [...]

Mar

12

iPhone SDK disapointments pile up

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March 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment

While there are a lot great things about the Apple SDK many are starting to question its brutal terms of service, its blocking of VOIP and GSM connections as well as its blocking of Opera and Firefox. Some experts are wondering how this is legal considering how much trouble Microsoft got for having IE as [...]

Feb

21

The price of owning a Blackberry

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February 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment

In the past few months Research in Motion has seemingly been pushed to the background by all the recent exciting product launches in the wireless industry. They appear to be loosing track to Apple’s iPhone, Nokia’s N series, and even HTC’s touch. Not to mention the new SonyEricsson Xperia X1 that is poised to be [...]

Feb

20

Unlimted plans popping up everywhere

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February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment

As I alluded to yesterday, the wireless companies did react to Verizon’s unlimited offerings with plans of their own. AT&T essentially matched the $99 voice plan but only for non smartphone users, which is ridiculous as most power users don’t use flip or candy bar phones. As expected, soon thereafter T-Mobile matched the $99 a [...]

Feb

6

Touching Apple just got more expensive

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February 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment

The iPhone has been hitting the gym and has bulked up to 16GB while the iPod Touch has been obviously using ‘alternative’ workout methods to hit the 32GB mark, however it will require both sacrifice and moolah to afford these $499 beasts. That sound you hear is the collective moan of the apple fan base [...]

Jan

30

Symbian, the open operating system

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January 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Nokia 77

Jan

25

Free software upgrade for Samsung Black Jack

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January 25, 2008 | 2 Comments

In what could become a trend in the smart phone world AT&T and Samsung are offering a free upgrade to Windows Mobile 6 which brings the older Black Jack up to speed with version 2.0. This might sound familiar as this is the same thing that Microsoft did for its Zune users and was roundly [...]

Jan

25

2007 4Q Financial Reports

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January 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment

In a stunning announcement AT&T Mobile added a U.S. Wireless Company record of 2.7 million new activations in the 4th quarter of 2007, this contributed to them eclipsing the 70 million subscriber mark. Profits soared to $3.14 billion, a 62% increase from 2006, ARPU went over $50, and data revenues increased over 50%. Of course [...]

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