iPhone 5 mockups look just about right…
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We’re in love with Guilherme Schasiepen’s iPhone 5 mockups (via MacMagazine.br).
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WSJ: Thinner, lighter iPhone is expected this fall
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The WSJ reports on the next generation iPhone due this fall:
According to some suppliers of components to Apple, the new version of the iPhone is expected to be thinner and lighter than the iPhone 4 and sport an 8-megapixel camera. One person said the new iPhone will operate on Qualcomm Inc.’s wireless baseband chips. The current iPhone 4 uses memory chips made by Samsung Electronics Co. and baseband chips from German chip maker Infineon Technologies AG, according to a report by market-research firm iSuppli Corp.
Verizon execs have already said the next iPhone will be a GSM/CDMA world phone – which means it is likely that it will use Qualcomm’s Gobi chips (As the current Verizon iPhone and iPad currently do). Numerous reports have also said it will contain a 8megapixel camera – from Sony and other manufacturers.
There is some question about whether or not these devices will meet production deadlines, however…
Apple and Intel among those entering the Nortel auction
Nortel decided to extend the deadline for the start of the auction for its patents until June 27 citing “significant interest” from third parties. Today we learn that two Silicon Valley giants are significantly interested in Nortel’s war chest of more than five thousand wireless patents said to be worth well over a billion dollars. They are Apple and Intel, reports The Wall Street Journal.
Other bidders include Ericsson AB and a company called RPX Corp which “defensively buys up patents on behalf of other companies to stop them from being used against them by investors”.
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What we think we know about the Verizon iPhone
COMPUTERWORLD: After a CES no-show, Verizon is teasing us with an iPhone-generated Tweet today on the eve of its press event where it is expected Verizon will at last introduce the iPhone, meaning US customers will now enjoy some choice of which network carries their iPhone. The move should also boost Apple in its battle with Android. So, what do we know?
Verizon iPhone 1.11.11
Wow. New York. And I am in SF. We had a hunch.
Also the unverified source that gave us that earlier info also told us:
VZiPhone: Release window: Feb 9-16. The vacation blackout :Feb 1-16 give or take.
iPad2 will be announced on the 1st week of March, released within 30 days.
Update: The Wall Street Journal says it’s the Verizon iPhone.
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iTunes dominates US music retail, Amazon fails to dent share
The figures are in and they confirm that iTunes remains the biggest US digital music retailer, with Amazon failing to grab too much of Apple’s digital music heartland.
NPD tells us AAPL’s iTunes took 66.2% of the digital music market in the third quarter of this year – that’s up from 63.2% in Q3 2009. Easy still beats free.
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Does Verizon need iPhone more than it has been letting on?
Asymco has an interesting report today in which analyst Horace Dediu argues that Verizon may need the iPhone more than its letting on, and suggests Google Android may not be as big a business as many think it to be.
To be fair, while Dediu makes a good argument for his points, critics are already pointing out that they are based on data which may not be 100 per cent accurate, and that Verizon’s best month was in August, two months after iPhone 4 shipped. (Though it was only a slightly better month on back of hype around new product from Samsung).
We’ve had an update from the sources of the orginal data, which is posted at the foot of this article: