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 Writing for Fortune, ex-The Street writer Moritz cites industry sources in speculating that AT&T may be subsidizing the next-generation 3G iPhone to the tune of $199. The price subsidy would help cut the expected $399 and $499 (for the 8GB and 16GB variants, respectively) price tags to a more easily swallowed $199 and $299.
AT&T is preparing to subsidize $200 of the cost of a new iPhone, bringing the price down to $199 for customers who sign two-year contracts, the source says. Apple is expected to have two versions of the new iPhone, an 8-gigabyte-memory and a 16-gigabyte-memory model with price tags widely expected to be $399 and $499.
Apple has previously prohibited iPhone carriers from subsidizing the iPhone, and has even required that carriers kick-back a portion of iPhone-generated monthly revenue to Cupertino. But, recent moves to clear out iPhone inventories have seen Apple allowing iPhone carriers in the UK and Germany to subsidize the current iPhone's selling price. Futhermore, rumors are swirling that the next-generation iPhone will hit certain carriers unlocked and without contract - hinting that Apple is considering a radical change to their current iPhone business model.
Apple's newly relaxed stance on the iPhone-carrier relationship bodes well for the prospect of seeing an AT&T subsidy on the 3G iPhone. But, Moritz's mention that the next-gen iPhone will sport a 9.2mm thick casing (2.5mm thinner than the current iPhone) while still managing to pack in a 3G radio and GPS receiver, goes against other speculation (from more reliable sources) that the 3G iPhone will actually be thicker. It should be noted that the possibility of a thinner iPhone variant has been thrown into the mix, but the smaller iPhone would exclude the GPS hardware. Is Moritz and his source simply confused on which iPhone rumor to spin off from?
We're not going to hold out breath on this one - mostly because the speculation comes from unreliable rumor-monger Scott Moritz.
Still, the “source” states that the 3G iPhone will be launched on or around June 27 to coincide roughly with the one-year anniversary of the iPhone's initial global launch in the US. So, we'll just have to wait and see which portions, of this latest rumor pans out.
[Via: Fortune]
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Writing for Fortune, ex-The Street writer Moritz cites industry sources in speculating that AT&T might be subsidizing the next-generation 3G iPhone to the tune of $199. The price subsidy would help cut the expected $399 and $499 (for the 8GB and 16GB variants, respectively) price tags to a more easily swallowed $199 and $299.
AT&T is preparing to subsidize $200 of the cost of a new iPhone, bringing the price down to $199 for customers who sign two-year contracts, the source says. Apple is expected to have two versions of the new iPhone, an 8-gigabyte-memory and a 16-gigabyte-memory model with price tags widely expected to be $399 and $499.
Apple has previously prohibited iPhone carriers from subsidizing the iPhone, and has even required that carriers kick-back a portion of iPhone-generated monthly revenue to Cupertino. But, current moves to clear out iPhone inventories have seen Apple allowing iPhone carriers in the UK and Germany to subsidize the current iPhone's selling price. Futhermore, rumors are swirling that the next-generation iPhone will hit certain carriers unlocked and without contract - hinting that Apple is considering a radical change to their current iPhone business model.
Apple's newly relaxed stance on the iPhone-carrier relationship bodes well for the prospect of seeing an AT&T subsidy on the 3G iPhone. But, Moritz's mention that the next-gen iPhone will sport a 9.2mm thick casing (2.5mm thinner than the current iPhone) while still managing to pack in a 3G radio and GPS receiver, goes against other speculation (from more reliable sources) that the 3G iPhone will actually be thicker. It should be noted that the possibility of a thinner iPhone variant has been thrown into the mix, but the smaller iPhone would exclude the GPS hardware. Is Moritz and his source simply confused on which iPhone rumor to spin off from?
We're not going to hold out breath on this one - mostly because the speculation comes from unreliable rumor-monger Scott Moritz.
Still, the “source” says that the 3G iPhone will be launched on or around June 27 to coincide roughly with the one-year anniversary of the iPhone's initial global launch in the US. So, we'll just have to wait and see which portions, of this latest rumor pans out.
[Via: Fortune]
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 Sure, CDMA networks are going to stick around for the next couple years, but in the long-term, CDMA's prospects are bleak. All relevant 4G plans are starting to form around GSM technology like HSPA (HSDPA and HSUPA) and LTE (Long Term Evolution). So, it makes sense that proactive carriers are already planning for the future and jumping off the CDMA ship. As expected, Telstra is now preparing to take down their CDMA network for good - replacing it with their new GSM infrastructure.
Come midnight, Australians still hanging on to their CDMA handsets will no longer see a CDMA signal. Telstra is pushing the migration to GSM networks in order to push the carrier's “Next G” UMTS/HSDPA network and accompanying data speeds.
The move also opens the door for the carrier to make good on speculation that the Apple iPhone will be coming to Australia via Telstra. The iPhone, and especially the 3G iPhone, requires a GSM network, so the move to GSM and 3G technology is a good sign for iPhone hopefuls in Australia.
[Via: PocketPCThoughts]
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Back in November I had the pleasure of attending the Nokia N82 product launch with several other bloggers. We all got a opportunity to meet one of the Product Managers who worked on the Nokia N82, Tomoharu Yazawa [23 minute video interview]. He was, without a doubt, one of the coolest cats in the room, answering all of our questions without any hesitation all while sounding highly enthusiastic, professional and down to earth. If I could have changed anything from that day I would wish he could have joined us for dinner and a few drinks.
I want to let you guys in on a tiny secret, well it isn't really a secret, but many of you will be surprised to know that I never actually purchased an Nseries device, ever. The Nseries brand turned 3 years old on April 27, but for a majority of those 3 years I was a Series 40 fan. The devices not only looked better, my personal view, but they were vastly cheaper. For a college student with no job that made a large difference.
During the summer of 2006, after selling off a few of the digital toys I had stopped playing with and doing a quick job here and there, I had enough money to spend on the first device that would introduce me to the world of S60, a Nokia E61. I liked it so much that I started blogging in the fall and the hard work I was pouring into Ring Nokia made WOM World notice; they started providing plenty of other devices for me to test, 2 weeks at a time of course.
Last year when I moved to Finland the Nseries Digital Marketing team couldn't believe how crazy I was to actually pull a stunt like that, so they gave me a Nokia N95 as a present and it served me extraordinarily well. The GPS helped me navigate around a foreign land and the camera was brilliant for taking photos to show my friends back home what this strange new country they couldn't find on a map looked like. On November 14 2007 the Nokia N82 launched and I was one of the first people to get a review unit [N82 Review]. I remember telling Tomo (that's what we called him) how awesome this device would look like in Black, he said he'll take the idea into consideration, but made no promises. In December at Nokia World in Amsterdam and I bumped into Tomo again, this time with a new bigger batch of bloggers at either side of me, and we all pounded the drum asking for a Black version, no promises were made, but he could tell how badly we wanted one.
Fast forward to today, Fedex woke me up at 9 in the morning to deliver a Black Nokia N82. This is the first Nseries device I’ve spent my own actual money on and it is just as beautiful as I was anticipating it to be. Now I know someone is going to say “Ummm, you have a Silver Nokia N82, why did you buy a Black Nokia N82?”
The answer to that question is that there is no other way to show how much you enjoy a product than by paying for it, the same applies to music, art, anything really. This is my way of saying thank you to Tomo for not only listening to my suggestion, I'm positive I wasn't the first to advocate Black, but for creating a mobile phone that I can actually tell people I love owning and using on a daily basis.
Domo arigato.
Picture of my baby after the jump.
Oh and since I know a lot of you’ll ask, differences between the Silver and Black: The soft keys (Left, Right, Symbian and C) are not mushy, but instead very clicky in a good way. The dpad is also higher (aka more raised) and not as mushy, but still not as clicky as the soft keys.
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Back in November I had the pleasure of attending the Nokia N82 product launch with several other bloggers. We all got a opportunity to meet one of the Product Managers who worked on the Nokia N82, Tomoharu Yazawa [23 minute video interview]. He was, without a doubt, one of the coolest cats in the room, answering all of our questions without any hesitation all while sounding highly enthusiastic, professional and down to earth. If I could have changed anything from that day I would wish he could have joined us for dinner and a few drinks.
I want to let you guys in on a little secret, well it isn't really a secret, but many of you will be surprised to know that I never actually purchased an Nseries device, ever. The Nseries brand turned 3 years old on April 27, but for a majority of those 3 years I was a Series 40 fan. The devices not only looked better, my personal thought, but they were vastly cheaper. For a college student with no job that made a big difference.
During the summer of 2006, after selling off a few of the digital toys I had stopped playing with and doing a quick job here and there, I had enough money to spend on the first device that would introduce me to the world of S60, a Nokia E61. I liked it so much that I started blogging in the fall and the hard work I was pouring into Ring Nokia made WOM World notice; they started providing plenty of other devices for me to test, 2 weeks at a time of course.
Last year when I moved to Finland the Nseries Digital Marketing team couldn't believe how crazy I was to actually pull a stunt like that, so they gave me a Nokia N95 as a present and it served me extraordinarily well. The GPS helped me navigate around a foreign land and the camera was brilliant for taking pictures to show my friends back home what this strange new country they couldn't find on a map looked like. On November 14 2007 the Nokia N82 launched and I was one of the first people to get a review unit [N82 Review]. I remember telling Tomo (that's what we called him) how awesome this device would look like in Black, he stated he'll take the idea into consideration, but made no promises. In December at Nokia World in Amsterdam and I bumped into Tomo again, this time with a new bigger batch of bloggers at either side of me, and we all pounded the drum asking for a Black version, no promises were made, but he could tell how badly we wanted one.
Fast forward to this day, Fedex woke me up at 9 in the morning to deliver a Black Nokia N82. This is the first Nseries device I’ve spent my own actual money on and it is just as beautiful as I was expecting it to be. Now I know someone is going to state “Ummm, you’ve a Silver Nokia N82, why did you buy a Black Nokia N82?”
The answer to that question is that there is no other way to show how much you enjoy a product than by paying for it, the same applies to music, art, anything really. This is my way of saying thank you to Tomo for not only listening to my recommendation, I'm positive I wasn't the first to recommend Black, but for creating a mobile phone that I have the ability to actually tell people I love owning and using on a daily basis.
Domo arigato.
Picture of my baby after the jump.
Oh and since I know a lot of you’ll ask, differences between the Silver and Black: The soft keys (Left, Right, Symbian and C) are not mushy, but instead very clicky in a good way. The dpad is also higher (aka more raised) and not as mushy, but still not as clicky as the soft keys.
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Intel CEO Paul Otellini, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, stated that they're in talks with all the major handset manufactures about getting their chips inside future products. What does this mean for ARM? Not much in the short term, and by short I mean ~ 3 years, but what happens when Moorestown starts shipping and the product that’ll come after that?
WSJ:Do you expect to get your chips into new iPhones and such?
Otellini: All the major handset manufacturers have a family of products, and they're all speaking to us.
[Video above via Engadget]
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SAP announced that its on demand enterprise suite Business ByDesign roll out is moving slower than previously expected. The company said that it would take 12 to 18 months longer than the original target of 2010 to reach $1 billion in revenue and touch 10,000 customers in the mid-market. …
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Swarm Systems will enter autonomous quadrotor micro air vehicles weighing less than 2 pounds.
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A village in England will host a robot hide-and-seek exercise next month, when 11 teams drawn from private companies and universities compete to sniff out snipers, roadside bombs, and other hidden dangers while relaying real-time images to a command post.
The MOD Grand Challenge, as it’s called, is billed as the U.K. Ministry of Defense’s counterpart to the U.S. DARPA Challenges, except it’s military robots that compete against one another instead of robotic cars.
The purpose is to boost development of small robot teams capable of scouting out and alerting troops to potentially hazardous surprises on the urban battlefield.
The robots must autonomously negotiate complex, unfamiliar terrain and urban clutter to locate the threats. Points are earned based on the number of threats uncovered in one hour. Points are lost if a team resorts to remote control to maneuver its bots at any stage.
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I’ve got a question for you: How are you doing? Sure, of course you’re fine. Here’s a follow up: How do you know you’re doing fine? Tougher question, huh?
What’s that, you have a question for me? Why am I asking these inane questions?
Because, when people ask us how we’re doing, we respond automatically. I’m fine, we’re fine, everything’s fine. After all, if we engaged everyone in a rant about the gory truth, nothing would ever get done.
But it doesn’t stop there. We don’t even engage ourselves in a dialogue about the gory truth, and for much the same reason. We’re too busy “living.”
The truth is that seemingly easy questions can actually be pretty loaded, so loaded that we’d sometimes rather not know the answer. We have all these sayings about leaving well enough alone. Why upset the apple cart? Why open a can of worms? Don’t fix it if it isn’t broken.
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Time Warner is splitting off its cable services division, the company said Wednesday.
Time Warner currently owns around 84 percent of Time Warner Cable. The media giant, which has been struggling of late, has been rumored to be discussing an AOL partnership with Yahoo.
“A complete structural separation of Time …
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