Yes, the iPhone brings in new customers, increases revenue, and lets the carrier bask in Apple's halo effect, but all of that comes at a cost. One analyst calls the iPhone a habit the carriers just can't kick.
(Credit: Apple) Apple's iPhone 4S appears to be winning a healthy number of customers from rival mobile platforms. A hefty 36 percent of iPhone 4S buyers said they jumped ship from an Android, BlackBerry, or Palm device, according to a study released yesterday by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP). Specifically, 50 percent of the rival phone jumpers polled by CIRP upgraded from a …
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iPhone 5 fever is picking up as we inch closer to the Mobile World Congress in Spain in February where many new smartphones are set to debut, including the Samsung Galaxy S3. That's because nothing in the consumer tech world generates as much buzz as new Apple iPads or iPhones.
The Apple iPhone 4S is a hit, if the new numbers from market research firm Nielsen are any indication. During the final three months of 2011, 44.5 percent of respondents purchased an iPhone 4S. That’s up from just 25.1 percent who went with an iPhone in October. This boost in sales helped Apple steal market share from the still-dominant Android during the fourth quarter of 2011.
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There is no shortage of Apple news this week, but the hype of iOS 5, iCloud, and Lion OS have overshadowed some important iPhone reports. A handful of insiders are saying that the iPhone may be making its way to Sprint this summer, possibly within a couple of months. According to 9to5Mac, Sprint customers may soon be able to get their hands on the CDMA version of the iPhone. These rumors are …
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The iPhone’s Safari browser couldn’t win this week: it was either hopelessly outdated against the efforts of Google and Android or part of a larger conspiracy to drive more business to Apple’s App Store.
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The fabled white iPhone 4 is back in the news again, thanks to some Apple Store placards that say the smartphone will hit stores in spring 2011. Trouble is, the discovery isn’t actually new.
We’ve previously looked at what the iPhone is capable of shooting in terms of still images, but this time around we’re delving into the video side of things.
Sometimes you wonder how to transfer your favourite music from your computer to the iphone. Don’t worry, you can easily do that. What you have to do is to follow a simple procedure. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to understand the methods mentioned below.
It is preferable for you to set your iphone to not sync automatically to iTunes, as this will provide you with huge amount of unwanted information at the beginning. You can also set iTunes to not sync right way with all iphones. After setting it up to not sync automatically, you can connect the iphone to your computer via iTunes and click at the ‘Summary’ tab. Then un-check “Automatically Sync iphone is connected” as this will prevent tunes coming up when your iPhone is connected. Finally to set up to not sync iTunes for all iphones; choose iTune, then choose ‘Preference’ and after that un-check the “Disabled automatic syncing for all iPhones “ option. After the selection of this check box, you can be rest assured that your iPhone will not sync automatically. Then click on the ‘Summary’ tab and after that click on ‘sync’, which is located at the lower-right corner of the window. Now you can to go to “Music” pane to select your personal play list or podcasts. The different available audio files, music videos or audio books will load here. You will get the option of “Video Pane” and all you need to do is follow the same procedures like picking and choosing.
All the users of iPhone can easily transfer their favourite audio and video files with this simple method. So enjoy the music on the move. Have a blast!
The Simplify Media application for iPhones is now available and it’s free for the first 100,000 users who download it. So, rush to get it today, as they’ll start charging $3.99 after the freebies are all given out. What’s the big deal about Simplify Media? It’s an application for streaming files from your desktop iTunes Library to your iPhone. With this, the storage cap on your iPhone music is removed completely too. You can get your iTunes to work over EDGE and 3G technology, plus you get the choice to listen the iTunes Libraries of up to 30 friends.
Filled with potential, Simplify Media is still under review and it’ll probably be a few weeks before we can discover how good this application is in actual performance, flexibility, features and user-friendliness. Have you got the application yet? Let’s hope you get the opportunity to download it free and let us know your opinion about it.
A fairly new application for the iPhone is gaining popularity. In May Intelliborn showed a new application on the Today show: the Intelliscreen. What this application does is allow the iPhone user to personalize the lock screen.
This is a current feature list. By the time the product rolls out for full use there are suppose to be additional features added.
View Calendar, Email, Text Messages, News, Sports, and Weather from your iPhone “Slide To Unlock” screen
Smooth scrolling across each item to quickly glimpse at your data
Auto-Checks Email when you view the unlock screen – no need to “Refresh” from Mail.app or wait 15 minutes
Go directly to the application of your choice with a “Swipe”
Precise International Weather (by Zip) provided by Weather Underground.com
News Feeds include Yahoo!, CNN, Fox News, and Reuters
ESPN Sports Feeds include MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, NCAA Men’s Football and NCAA Women’s Basketball
Customizing your IntelliScreen is easy! Choose which content you want to view and where
Mail and Text Messages can be shown only if new items are available
Another great feature is that if the program fails to engage more than once, a screen will pop up asking the user if they want to disable the program.
I must say that this application looks like it will be a winner if it delivers everything above. Since the product is just in beta and has a lot of the features active already, there is no reason to doubt this product.
All of your loved web-comics are now available for viewing properly formatted for the iPhone with the “Stripr iPhone Web App”. Load it up before you leave home, and they will then be available for viewing offline.
Rate the comics, if you don’t like them let your opinion be heard.
A new iPhone app has been released called ‘Outalot’ the concept of it is quite simple, all you do is tell Outalot where abouts you are and it will tell you the nearest restaurants, bars, and movie theaters, including show times. You can then bookmark locations you like, dislike or want to try in the future. You just tap the heart icon next to the place to bookmark it.
Blockbuster, arguably one of the slower companies to innovate in the next-gen movie market, is developing a set-top device to rival the likes of Apple TV, The Hollywood Reports states.
The standalone branded gadget will stream films directly to TV sets and is expected to be announced “sometime” this month.
Apple’s Apple TV product received a revamp earlier this year in the face of disappointing sales while Blockbuster rival Netflix has been linked with LG in creating a similar device.
Sorry for the recent downtime, the current server I am hosted on has not been stable in the last few days, causing the server to go offline due to high server loads, it wasn’t actually down as such just refusing connections.
We may move servers shortly, however iPhoneYabber.com (our domain) was registered by one of my good friends who has had his net cut off for a while, so I don’t know what to do with DNS.
If I can’t get in contact with him, we may need to get a new name, i’ll try my hardest to get in contact with him though.
Just letting you know we have finished upgrading to Wordpress 2.5, this doesn’t really mean much in terms of how you see the site, it’s mainly updated features for the ACP by the looks of it.
During the upgrade we had about 5 minutes downtime because I deleted a file I wasn’t meant to however all is fixed now.
Wolfson Microelectronics, the Edinburgh microchip designer, has suffered a significant setback after losing its contract to supply components for the Apple iPod Touch and iPod Nano.
Failure to renew the deal, which analysts believe accounts for at least 15 per cent of Wolfson’s revenue, led to the Scottish group’s share price dropping by a third in early trading yesterday. Wolfson will continue to provide audio chips for Apple’s iPhone.
Its shares tumbled by as much as 30 per cent to a three-and-a-half-year low of 99p, recovering to 116p by the close, down 26p on the day.
Apple’s withdrawal is the latest blow in a year that has seen Wolfson’s shares fall by almost two thirds. They hit a record high of 560p in June 2006.
The company was considered the bright spark of the UK technology sector when it floated in October 2003, with contracts to supply parts for devices such as the X-Box, Tom-Tom satellite navigation systems and Samsung handsets.
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