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Apple iPhone 4S is done at Apple's highest ever manufacturing margin of 70%
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Proving once again that its incremental annual upgrade strategy still works flawlessly, Apple is said to squeeze the astonishing 71-73% manufacturing margins out of the Apple iPhone 4S.
According to a Deutsche Bank analyst the 16GB unit carries $170 Bill of Materials (BOM), whereas the 8GB iPhone 4 goes down to $140.
It's not only BOM, we have other expenses like R&D as well, but when it's all done and dusted, Apple will probably be making north of 60% on a single unit, considering its carrier subsidies per 16-gigger are about $450, the largest margin in the industry, and its own personal record.
This comes hot on the heels of the news that, thanks to its appearance on a new carrier and a ...
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Apple iPhone 4S gets stacked with an iPhone 4, Samsung could sue on the antenna design
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A Vietnamese newspaper has gotten a hold on the iPhone 4S, and has snapped a few photos of it stacked up with an iPhone 4 to illustrate the design differences. They are subtle, but changes in the outer chassis do exist, and will most likely lead to new cases needed for the iPhone 4S, since the dimensions of the new iPhone are slightly different than those of the fourth generation.
The biggest change besides the slightly taller chassis of the iPhone 4S (4.54" vs 4.5") are the notches in the steel band surrounding the iPhone 4S. Apple's engineers have redesigned the reception area after the "you're holding it wrong" drama last year, and have moved the notch from near the headphone jack on top ...
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Samsung Galaxy Note hitting Australia in early 2012
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U.S. won’t be the only developed country that won’t get Samsung Galaxy Note this year, with Samsung Australia saying that their smartphone-tablet will be launched “by early 2012.” The information comes from PC World, which quoted the company’s spokesperson saying: “Essentially, we do want to bring it to Australia but it won’t be until next year.”
Of course, if you want it badly this year, you could import it from Europe where Sammy’s device is expected to start selling at some point in November. Actually that’s the launch date for the United Kingdom, but it’s safe to bet other EU countries will get “their Notes” in the same period.
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Apple iPhone 4S Safari browser benchmarked, a photo gets taken with the new 8MP camera
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In out Apple iPhone 4 browser benchmarks we were getting around 45-49 000 scores on BrowserMark, which was only slightly below the browsers on dual-core handsets like the Samsung Galaxy S II, although loading times of pages with Safari were slower in comparison with the multicores despite lack of plugins like Adobe Flash.
Now someone with an early access to the iPhone 4S has posted BrowserMark results of 89567, which is almost double the achievements of Safari on the iPhone 4. So, yes, surfing the Internets will be much quicker on the new dual-core iPhone 4S than before. SunSpider, which measures Java performance, returned results that are 3x better than on the iPhone 4. Of course, these res...
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CTIA Fall 2011: What to expect
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CTIA 2011 is the bi-annual expo that brought us the HTC EVO 3D this spring, but another, fall edition, is coming up soon. What should you expect? Maybe it would be better to start with what you shouldn’t expect and that’s a Samsung Nexus Prime announcement. This CTIA, which kicks off tomorrow officially and goes until the 13th, was all centered around the Nexus Prime (at least from our viewpoint), so by cancelling their joint event, Samsung and Google pretty much ruined the show.
Officially, both companies said the cancellation is made to pay tribute to Steve Jobs, but coincidentally, Samsung has reportedly scheduled a new date - October 27th in London, falling on the same day and place whe...
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AT&T starts CTIA off right by introducing five new smartphones to its Android lineup
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At CTIA last March, AT&T stole the show by announcing its intent to purchase T-Mobile US. This time around the news is a bit more modest, but the company is still hoping to give us a bit of a shock by introducing a litany of new handsets right on time for the holiday season. The carrier promised the release of 12 Android devices throughout the course of the year, and this week's announcement pushes the 2011 running count to 19. Not too shabby. Naturally, we're looking for quality more than quantity, so we couldn't wait to dig into the devices that are coming out. Check out all five after the break, along with a quick video teaser.
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Samsung Transform Ultra reaches Boost Mobile
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The new Samsung Transform Ultra has arrived at Boost Mobile. The slider handset had been previously announced by the prepaid carrier last month. The phone will serve as the flagship for Boost's Android phone lineup.
The Android 2.3 smartphone has a relatively large 3.8-inch screen, a 1GHz single-core processor, a full QWERTY keypad, a three-megapixel rear-facing camera, and and VGA front-facing camera.
The Transform Ultra is priced at $230. Boost requires a subscription to either its $55 Android Monthly Unlimited or $2 Daily Unlimited plans.
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iPhone 4S unlocked option November in US
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Apple US’ pre-order page for the iPhone 4S has finally come online, offering not only would-be buyers a choice of AT&T, Sprint or Verizon options for the new dual-core smartphone, but the promise of a contract-free, unlocked version in next month. According to the page, shoppers can “get iPhone unlocked and contract-free. Coming in November” paying the full, unsubsidized price for the handset but avoiding any agreement lock-in.
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Nokia 603 about to be unveiled at Nokia World, en masse Symbian Belle updates might be coming too
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It seems that Nokia is ploughing ahead with the promise to out 10 new Symbian handsets be next summer. It already did out four - the Nokia 500, 600, 700 and 701, and now a fifth is rumored to be on the way in time to be announced at Nokia World October 26-27 in London - the Nokia 603.
The specs are in line with the new crop - 1GHz processor and 5MP fixed-focus camera on the usual 360x640 resolution. It also has pentaband 14.4Mbps HSDPA and NFC, so it is a step above the low-end Nokia 500, with probably a bigger screen, but keeps the interchangeable battery colors from the 500 to spice things up.
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AT&T now offering HTC HD7S for a single penny
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It’s not that often to see carriers slashing the prices of their phones. Quite the contrary, usually it’s the third-party retailers like Amazon, Walmart and Wirefly that try to compete by cutting their margins to get customers on board. In that sense, today’s deal is an exception with AT&T offering the HTC HD7S for a single penny. Needless to say, you’re still required to put your signature on a two-year contract, but let’s face it – that’s something you would have to do anyway.
At the moment I’m writing this, the HD7S is still running the original version of the Windows Phone. The Mango update (Windows Phone 7.5) is scheduled to be released around the middle of October when you will (assumi...
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Apple iPhone 4S now shipping in 'one to two' weeks, over 200,000 AT&T pre-orders in first 12 hours
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If there was any question of how hot a tamale Apple's iPhone 4S would be, the answer's edging toward muy caliente. AT&T's stated that the iPhone 4S has ushered in its best iPhone launch to date, receiving over 200,000 pre-orders for the device during the first 12 hours of availability (crediting its success to having the only US version operating over 14.4Mb/s HSPA+, aka FauxG). While that's good news for Ma Bell, as of today, you'll be looking at a wait time of "one to two weeks" after placing an order for this latest iThing (Sprint and Verizon included). We've yet to hear how the latter two telecoms have fared, but we'd imagine it won't be a secret for too long -- the iPhone 4S is official...
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BlackBerry Bold 9900 in white spotted and photographed
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What is it about the color white that makes a handset look more luxurious? Take the BlackBerry Bold 9900 for instance. With a physical portrait-oriented QWERTY keyboard that many call the best ever attached to a cell phone, the device in black looks every inch the flagship model that it currently is for RIM. Make the casing and keys in white and the BlackBerry Bold 9900 looks even better.
The BlackBerry Bold 9900 done "white"
The white BlackBerry Bold 9900 in the photo was spotted at a technical exhibition in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. But this is not the first time that we have seen this model looking pale. Back in August, a T-Mobile reseller in Hungary showed a slide that had both the b...
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First camera samples from the HTC Amaze 4G
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Following after the T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide, the upcoming HTC Amaze 4G is shaping up to be yet another camera centric device that’s sure to make you ditch your point and shoot. Interestingly enough, we’ve actually been seeing HTC becoming more aggressive with its portfolio, as they’ve been attaching some serious camera hardware to its devices – such as the Mango flavored HTC Radar and Titan.
Packing along an 8-megapixel auto-focus camera in the rear, it’s sure to impress with its F2.2 wide-angle lens, backside illuminated sensor, and dual-LED flash to make the experience undeniably gratifying. Of course, you won’t be able to miss a beat with its nearly instant zero shutter lag – thus, enab...
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San Francisco cell phone ordinance materials are 'alarmist and false' CTIA says
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The CTIA recently filed a lawsuit in San Francisco, California in an effort to block the city’s “Cell Phone Right-to-Know” ordinance, which the CTIA says is misinforming consumers. The ordinance requires cell phone retailers to post information about cellular radiation next to devices, which the CTIA argues wrongly suggests there is proof phones cause brain tumors and pose other health risks. “The materials the City would require be posted and handed out at retail stores are both alarmist and false,” the CTIA said in a statement. “The FCC and FDA have repeatedly found that cell phone use does not pose a danger to human health. The Ordinance recommends such things as turning the phone off whe...
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Nokia Sun leaks in an Orange roadmap with a micro SIM, availability November 7-13
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A French tech blog, dedicated to Windows Phone, has been tipped with the latest Orange France roadmap, and the carrier is listing the availability of a Nokia Sun on its shelves in week 46, which is 7-13 November, just two weeks after the expected Nokia World announcement of the first Nokia Windows Phones.
The Nokia Sun is listed as sporting a 3.7" AMOLED display, that deep-colored polycarbonate unibody we see on the Nokia N9, a 1.4GHz processor, 8MP camera, 16GB of internal memory and... a micro SIM card, like on the Nokia N9. What brings credibility to the roadmap is the Sharp Aquos 3D phone listed at the top, with its stereoscopic 8MP cameras, since we know it was announced to appear exclu...
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