An LTE iPhone has been on customers’ wish lists for the past year due to the influx of Android devices that have added 4G support. Now, Apple may finally be preparing to release an LTE offering for 2012. DigiTimes reports that as the competition gets more fierce, “Nokia, Apple, RIM and Sony Ericsson are expected to join the LTE club in 2012 as more telecom service providers around the globe are also going to launch LTE services in the coming year, said [their] sources.”
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For the many people who are eagerly awaiting for the iPhone 4S to hit their regions, 22 countries are said to be no taking pre-orders for the iPhone 4S.
As per MacRumors, iPhone 4S pre-orders are now up in countries like Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. They will be available in-store starting October 28, Friday.
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Apple’s net profit in the recently-ended quarter soared with booming iPad sales but its stock sank on the eve of a workplace tribute to Steve Jobs due to missed iPhone expectations.
The iconic California company reported record-high September quarter profit of $6.62 billion on revenue of $28.27 billion boosted by iPad sales that nearly tripled to 11.12 million in comparison with the same period last year.
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Apple’s iPhone 4S was on sale on Hong Kong’s grey market at the weekend, attracting hundreds of fans paying up to six times official prices to get their hands on the latest model.
The smartphone, released in seven countries on Friday, was not yet officially for sale in the southern Chinese city but dealers had imported them, mainly from Australia and Japan, for resale to local customers.
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OVERLAND PARK, Kan.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sprint (NYSE: S) began selling iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 in Sprint retail stores nationwide this morning at 8:00am local time. Sprint is the only U.S. carrier to offer new and existing customers the iPhone experience with unlimited data plans starting at just $79.99 per month.
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NEW YORK (Xinhua) — The iPhone 4S went on sale at Apple store on the Fifth Avenue of Manhattan in New York early Friday.
An Apple store worker said people were waiting outside the store around 3 p.m. Thursday and underwent an overnight rain for an early purchase of the smart phone which started sale at 8 a.m. Friday.
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Apple fans in Australia and Japan on Friday became the first to get their hands on the new iPhone as the US technology giant unleashed its first device since the death of co-founder Steve Jobs.
In a party atmosphere, hundreds of people queued outside Apple’s four-storey flagship Sydney store and at its counterpart in Tokyo, filming the experience on their iPhones and iPads as staff inside clapped, cheered and chanted.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — To some people, Apple’s new iPhone 4S isn’t the complete overhaul they have been hoping for. Its model number, which doesn’t include a “5,” reeks of the status quo.
That’s ridiculous.
Sure, the 4S doesn’t render the iPhone 4 hopelessly obsolete, and on the surface they’re nearly identical. But with a faster processor, new software, a voice-activated personal assistant and a souped-up camera, it’s a major improvement over the current iPhone.
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CANBERRA (Xinhua) — The Apple iPhone is Australia’s most popular mobile phone, a consumer survey released on Thursday found.
According to the 2011 Australian Mobile Phone Lifestyle Index, released by Aimia, the peak industry body for Digital Content, Services and Applications in Australia, 32 percent of Australians own an Apple handset, while 28 percent own a Nokia mobile phone, with Samsung (13 percent), HTC (eight percent), Sony Ericsson ( five percent), LG (four percent), Blackberry (three percent), Motorola (three percent) and Other (three percent).
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fter months of speculation, the iPhone 4S has finally been officially, truly, actually revealed. It’s not a groundbreaking redesign packed with new features, it’s a more powerful but same-looking iPhone 4. And in many ways, it’s a case of Apple catching up to Android, not the other way around.
Of the new features that the iPhone 4S sports, most of them are already available on comparable Android phones like the Samsung Galaxy S II. Apple has made a big deal out of some of these improvements, and among iPhone owners, many of them are pretty cool. The A5 dual-core processor chip, for example, speeds up the iPhone’s capabilities for video and gaming, bringing them more in line with the iPad 2. Read More
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