Entries from May 2008

FiTotW - Week of May 18th

Date May 27, 2008

(FiTotW stands for Free iTunes of the Week) Apple provides a list of a select few pieces of media in which they provide to the masses for free, each week. The media listed below will not be free for long, so hurry up and take advantage of this great opportunity while it is still here.
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Apple Seeking Lead Camera Engineer for Future (Not 2nd-Gen) iPhone

Date May 27, 2008

It was noticed that there is a job entry within the jobs section of the Apple website which is entitled “Lead Camera Design Engineer - iPhone”.
Here is what the listing reads:
Duties include research into both current and future camera technologies, evaluation of proposed solutions, executive presentation of current and future options, working with suppliers to [...]

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Video: Gary Krakow Shares His Top 15 Wish-List for Upcoming 3G iPhone

Date May 27, 2008

Thestreet.com took the time to interview Gary Krakow about what he wants to see within the second-generation iPhone.
Gary Krakow has put together a list of the top 15 changes he wants Steve Jobs to make before the new iPhones hit stores this summer. His list was in fact larger, but he had to cut it [...]

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Goldman Adds Apple to Americas Conviction Buy List

Date May 27, 2008

Goldman Sachs added Apple Inc to its Americas conviction buy list, stating that shares will most likely benefit from the launch of the company’s second-generation iPhone next month, and from higher projections of iPhone sales for the second half of the year.
Analyst David Bailey also raised his target on the stock to $220 from his [...]

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Readers’ Wish List of iPhone Features

Date May 27, 2008

Below you will find a list of features that iPhone users and non-users alike would like to see made for Apple’s iPhone. The list of features was sent in to thestreet.com and can be seen published here.
AW says:
“Would like to be able to take movies with the camera. A 3 MP camera [...]

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AT&T CFO: No Pricing Yet for Next iPhone

Date May 27, 2008

“There’s not been a product announcement. There hasn’t been any pricing decisions made. That’s yet to come,” AT&T’s CFO, Rick Lindner told the Reuters Global Technology, Media and Telecoms Summit in New York.
Lindner states that there are over 2.5 million iPhone customers that have signed a contract with AT&T to date, with the average subscriber [...]

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TeliaSonera Bringing iPhone to Seven Additional Countries by Years End

Date May 27, 2008

Can ya believe it? The iPhone isn’t done making its way around the world just yet.
That’s right. According to a one-sentence press release made last week, Apple and TeliaSonera have made deals to bring the iPhone to Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the years end.
“TeliaSonera today announced it has signed an [...]

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China Opens Doors for iPhone; Apple Wants In

Date May 27, 2008

According to FORTUNE Apple 2.0:
China Mobile lost more than $25 billion in market value after the government announced over the weekend that it was merging two smaller competitors in an effort to weaken the giant carrier’s hold on the country’s cell phone business — prompting Goldman Sachs to issue a rare “sell” rating on China [...]

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Video: A Round-Up of Keynote Bloopers

Date May 27, 2008

With just under two weeks to go until our next Keynote presentation featuring Steve Jobs himself, I figured I’d share a YouTube video of many Keynote bloopers that have occurred in the past. The video features marketing Vice President; Phil Schiller, and Sony President; Kunitake Ando, as well as the one and only; Steve Jobs. [...]

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iPhone to Get Joint Launch in Japan and Korea

Date May 26, 2008

The Telecoms Korea news service has reported late last week that Apple is planning a special joint release of the 3G iPhone with two carriers: Japan’s NTT DoCoMo, and Korea Telecom Freetel.
NTT DoCoMo, Japan’s predominant mobile phone carrier has more than 50 million subscribers to date.
KTF has 12 million subscribers in South Korea and operations [...]

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AT&T’s 3G Network will be Available in 275 Markets by June 30th

Date May 26, 2008

Having a look at this press release, you’ll notice that Apple’s U.S. mobile carrier announced Wednesday that roughly 2/3rd’s of its native cellphone network will be 3G ready within the next month or so.
By June 30th, it is being reported that 275 U.S. markets will offer download speeds of 1.4Mbps (1400kbps) and upload speeds of [...]

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OMG Moar iPhone 2.0 Rendurz Sekrit Pitchures!

Date May 26, 2008

Sometimes the “spy shots” are plausible. Others are so bad they weren’t even phoned in — they were texted.
This week’s OMG iPhone 2!!!1!!elebentyone!1 shots come all the way from Greece of all places — a country that doesn’t even have the iPhone yet. iPhone Hellas’ putative iPhone 2.0 is thinner and available in [...]

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