A nice analysis of the economics of the iPhone for Apple and Cingular, thanks to an interview with a Piper-Jaffary analyst. From their number, Apple’s goal of 10 million units actually seems reachable — whereas I didn’t really believe it was when I first heard it. Visit site »
The most interesting deductions from this are that Apple obviously wanted the iPhone to be 3G and that Apple considered making the iPhone CDMA (which would seem like an odd choice, since it would limit it to America). Visit site »
This seems to good to be true, but damn would it freaking rock. Basically, the idea is that AT&T want to use the iPhone to attract new customers very aggressively, and they would acknowledge the high price of the iPhone and the service termination fees for many people by proving free network service for an extended period of time. That would be awesome. I’m pretty doubtful, though. Visit site »
For anyone wondering why the complaints about the iPhone not being 3G. Visit site »
A nice overview of the various cell networks, how they relate, and what they specifically in regard to the iPhone. My local mobile expert says it’s not a perfect analysis, but a good-enough overview. Bottom line for me personally? I’d love to have 3G in the iPhone, but the prevalence of WiFi in my life should pretty much makes up for (although, it’s important to note that Europeans have an overabundance of 3G and very little public WiFi, so this argument probably won’t hold water overseas). Visit site »
Cringely is “100 percent convinced that all it would take to turn an EDGE iPhone into a 3G iPhone is a firmware upgrade, if that.” I’m 100 percent convinced he’s crazy. That would require the phone to have both 2.5G and 3G chips inside, which is absurd. The iPhone is not 3G because including a 3G radio would have made it bigger, and because Cingular only has 3G in a few select American markets, anyway. Visit site »
David Pogue has a lot of iPhone questions here — and most of them don’t have the answers you want to hear. And yet, I’ve already set my $500 aside. Sad, but true. Visit site »
“”We need to see what the iPhone can really do,” said Jeffrey Nelson, a spokesman for Verizon Wireless. “Like, can it even really make a phone call?” That loosely translates to “Oh shit, we’re fucked so hard we can’t even think of spin that doesn’t sound utterly ridiculous.” Despite the goofy quote, it’s a good article. Visit site »
A short, but interesting, piece on the lengths Apple went to to keep the iPhone’s details on the DL, even while working with Cingular, Google, and Yahoo. Visit site »
Remember, The Wall Street Journal had the “Apple Switching To Intel” story the night before it happened, too. Visit site »
Who knows whether to believe this or not, but I’d just like to say for the record that I would love to see an Apple MNVO. That’s the ideal iPhone situation as far as I’m concerned. Visit site »
Yet another reason to switch to Cingular. Hot shit. Visit site »
This should come as a surprise to no one, and pretty much confirms Sprint will never seen an Apple phone, which pretty much confirms I won’t be staying on Sprint too much longer. Visit site »