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Topic: iPhone

Samsung's new Galaxy Core targets lower end of smartphone market

2013/06/05, 12:05 pm

Chief Apple rival Samsung is leaving no corner of the smartphone market unaddressed, as the tech giant revealed on Monday the Galaxy Core, which packs many of the features of its high end model into a lower-cost handset.

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Apple takes 57% of handset profits, Samsung accounts for remaining 43%

2013/06/05, 11:05 am

Apple and Samsung have once again accounted for all of the profits in the smartphone business, with the iPhone taking 57 percent of the market's value.

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Apple's strict conditions keep it from offering iPhone to 2.8 billion customers

2013/06/05, 09:05 am

Prohibitive carrier requirements made by Apple have prevented some 2.8 billion customers from having access to the iPhone, according to a new analysis.

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Editorial: Apple's iOS is the new Windows

2013/04/05, 06:05 pm

Over the last six months, Apple earned $22 billion on revenues of over $98 billion, while selling 85 million iPhones and 42 million iPads globally. The profits Apple is now earning in mobile dwarf the best mobile profit performance records set by Nokia in 2008 by more than a factor of three. Why are Apple's competitors not beating back its advances?

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T-Mobile releases 'T-Mobile TV' app for iOS with 30-day free preview

2013/03/05, 07:05 pm

T-Mobile on Thursday gave iPhone users on its network a new means of accessing on-demand and live video content with the debut of the T-Mobile TV app in Apple's App Store.

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Samsung returns to targeted anti-Apple ads with latest Galaxy S4 spot

2013/03/05, 05:05 pm

In a recently released commercial, Samsung once agains sets its sights on Apple's flagship iPhone, pointing out the "inadequecies" of the iOS device while at the same time touting new Galaxy features like Air View.

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Apple widens lead in US smartphone market as iPhone nears 40% share

2013/03/05, 04:05 pm

As of March, Apple boosted its share of the U.S. smartphone market to 39 percent, according to the most recent statistics from market research firm comScore, with a three-month percentage growth outperforming Samsung by a factor of four.

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Apple's iPad mini seen as 'winning template' for launching low-cost iPhone

2013/03/05, 01:05 pm

Apple surprised many last year when it priced the iPad mini at $329 — more than $100 higher than the Amazon Kindle Fire and Google Nexus 7. But the same premium approach will probably be used to successfully introduce a more affordable iPhone, a new analysis concludes.

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US Cellular to begin selling Apple products this year

2013/03/05, 09:05 am

U.S. Cellular, the sixth-largest wireless provider in America, announced on Friday that it will begin carrying Apple products later this year.

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Samsung, BlackBerry gain Pentagon security clearance, Apple still waiting

2013/03/05, 09:05 am

The Pentagon's push toward a platform-agnostic Department of Defense moved forward today, as BlackBerry 10 devices and a number of Samsung's Galaxy handsets were approved for DoD use, even as Apple's iOS devices still await approval.

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Apple releases iOS 6.1.4 for iPhone 5 with updated audio profile for speakerphone

2013/02/05, 01:05 pm

Apple on Thursday issued a new software update for iPhone 5 owners, adding an updated audio profile for speakerphone. The minor update is now available for download and install.

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NYT article accuses Apple of not doing enough to prevent iPhone thefts

2013/02/05, 10:05 am

Smartphone manufacturers and wireless carriers could be doing a lot more to counteract iPhone and other mobile device thefts, security experts and industry observers say in a New York Times report that singles out Apple.

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MetroPCS version of iPhone 'not imminent,' says T-Mobile CEO

2013/01/05, 05:05 pm

After the official announcement of T-Mobile's merger with MetroPCS, pundits in the tech community assumed the no-contract carrier would be granted access to the iPhone, but T-Mobile CEO John Legere warned subscribers will have to wait before such an offering is established.

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Flaw in distracted driving study: no evaluation of Apple's "Eyes Free" Siri mode

2013/01/05, 04:05 pm

A widely publicized study that reported that voice assistants like Apple's Siri aren't any safer than manually texting while driving failed to test Siri as it was actually designed to be used in its distracted driving experiment.

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T-Mobile, MetroPCS officially merge, bringing iPhone to 9M more in US

2013/01/05, 10:05 am

Deutsche Telekom and T-Mobile announced on Wednesday the completion of T-Mobile USA's merger with MetroPCS Communications, creating an entity with roughly 43 million subscribers across the United States and making Apple's iPhone available to an additional 9 million customers.

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iPhone 5 bests Samsung's Galaxy S4 in smartphone torture test

2013/30/04, 07:04 pm

Samsung's design choices for the Galaxy S4 took another knock today, as phone insurance firm SquareTrade found the company's new flagship handset to fall short of Apple's iPhone 5 in terms of durability.

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Samsung celebrity tweets out support for Galaxy S4 from his iPhone

2013/30/04, 02:04 pm

Spanish tennis player David Ferrer sent a tweet out to his more than 350,000 followers noting his pleasure with using Samsung's new Galaxy S4, but accidentally sent the message from his iPhone.

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Rumor: Boost Mobile to start prepaid iPhone sales in Q3

2013/29/04, 10:04 pm

In a post to Twitter late Monday, user @evleaks, who has been reliable in leaking pictures and specifications of various cellular products in the past, said Boost Mobile will start carrying Apple's iPhone in the third quarter of 2013.

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Microsoft Windows Phone commercial mocks Apple-Samsung wars to promote Nokia Lumia

2013/29/04, 01:04 pm

Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 platform may have stumbled out of the gates, but that hasn't stopped the software giant from poking fun at smartphone industry-leading rivals Samsung and Apple in a new commercial touting Nokia's Lumia 920.

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Apple's 'flypaper-like' ecosystem viewed as an undervalued asset

2013/29/04, 01:04 pm

The ecosystem supporting Apple's products can be deceptively sticky, akin to flypaper, which is why one analyst believes its value has been underestimated by the investment community.

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