Mobile Hardware

Apple Ignores Loyal Mac Pro Customers
InformationWeek
But unfortunately, many of us need to make decisions on hardware for
professional uses that allow us to make a living." Yet Apple is more
focused on mobile and TV than workstations and business. Although the
upcoming Worldwide Developer's Conference ...
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Hardware Wars
Kotaku
[Dealzon] • GAEMS G155 Gaming and Entertainment Mobile System is $209.99
+ $7.99 shipping from GameStop. Next best is $250. [Dealzon] • Asus
ENGTX570 GeForce GTX 570 (Fermi) 1280MB GDDR5 PCIe Video Card is $289.99
after rebate, free ship from NewEgg.
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Video Game Companies At E3 Show Must 'Evolve Or Die'
Investor's Business Daily
By PATRICK SEITZ, INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY With the latest generation of
consoles running out of gas and free social and mobile games stealing the
spotlight, video game makers are looking for the hardware companies to do
something to spark sales.
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The Latest on the Facebook Phone
Technology Review (blog)
Facebook is being coy about the Bilton report, only pointing to a former
statement they'd given the blog AllThingsD: "We're working across the
entire mobile industry; with operators, hardware manufacturers, OS
providers, and application developers.
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Cool or creepy? Alohar tracks your location, always
CNET
It was his team, he says, that created the back-end technology that enabled
the creation of the blue dot on Google's mobile maps: the one that tells
you where you are. Now, six years later and at his own company, Alohar
Mobile, he's working on a new ...
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Ensuring that mobile applications are truly secure, part 2
Network World
This team has learned the idiosyncrasies of mobile operating systems like
Apple iOS and Google Android, as well as the base level hardware platforms
from virtually every device manufacturer. They've learned the most likely
ways that mobile apps will be ...
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Apple looms over E3 once again
CNET
Apple, the 800-pound gorilla of the industry, never has an official
presence at shows like CTIA (mobile), CES (consumer electronics), and
Computex (PCs). But if you read between the lines of the press conferences
and press releases, every company at ...
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Sterne Agee Expects Software to Outweigh Hardware at WWDC
The Mac Observer
Most of the pre-World Wide Dvelopers Conference (WWDC) attention has been
focused on new hardware offerings from Apple, but Sterne Agee analyst Shaw
Wu believes that software developments could be more important. He
specifically cited a new Apple ...
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iPhone4S

Comparing iPhone 4S Bike Pack and iPhone 4 Cycling Capabilities
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Heart Rate Watch Company blog testers recently compared the iPhone 4 and
the iPhone 4S bike computer conversion technologies. The main difference is
that newer models like the 4S are converting to Bluetooth 4.0 LE whereas
older models used ANT+ and the ...
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Boost Mobile to Offer Prepaid iPhone 4 & 4S in September
The Mac Observer
Prepaid wireless carrier Boost Mobile may offer the iPhone 4 and 4S
starting this September, according to "trusted sources" speaking with
tech site TechnoBuffalo Thursday. The rumor comes on the heels of carrier
Cricket Wireless's announcement that it ...
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Samsung's Galaxy S3 is already Britain's most popular phone - knocking
Apple's ...
Daily Mail
The Android handset outpaced Apple's iPhone 4S after just one month,
according to figures from mobile site uSwitch. For the previous 11 months,
Samsung's Galaxy S2 had held onto the number-one position, measured by a
combination of sales and web ...
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Cricket offers prepaid iPhone 4, 4S for $55 a month starting June 22
TechSpot
You'll have to cough up $400 for an iPhone 4 8GB or $500 for an iPhone 4S
16GB -- far more than signing a two-year contract via major providers, but
still a tad cheaper than the full retail price offered by AT&T, Verizon and
Sprint (currently $550 and ...
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Leap estimated to pay Apple $150 subsidy for contract-free $500 iPhone 4S
Apple Insider
By Neil Hughes For customers who buy a $500 contract-free iPhone 4S through
carrier Cricket Communications, its parent company, Leap Wireless, is
likely to still pay a subsidy of about $150 to achieve that price.
Currently, a contract-free 16-gigabyte ...
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US Prepaid Carrier Boost Mobile Will Also Offer iPhone 4, 4S Starting
September
Gotta Be Mobile
According to a report on TechnoBuffalo, the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S will be
available on Boost Mobile starting in September, though device pricing is
still uncertain at this point. It's not clear if Boost will follow
Cricket's lead in a partially ...
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iPhone 4S 4 Masses Plays Cricket with "Unlimited Data"? 6/22 Release Date
Wireless and Mobile News
On Friday, June 22, Cricket Wireless will offer iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 with
its $55 per-month, unlimited talk, text and data plan. The unlimited data
however is given a fair-usage policy of 2.3GB month which means after you
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Cricket to begin offering the iPhone 4 and 4S on June 22
Network World
Cricket announced today that both the iPhone 4 and 4S will be available to
subscribers without a 2-year contract beginning on June 22. The rub, of
course, is that the buy in price for the 4 and 4S will be at $399 and $499
respectively.
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Boost Mobile to offer Apple iPhone 4, iPhone 4S in September, claims report
Know Your Cell
Sprint MVNO Boost Mobile will launch the Apple iPhone 4 and Apple iPhone 4S
later this year, according to a new report. The news comes just one day
after prepaid powerhouse Cricket Wireless announced it would begin carrying
the iPhone starting on June ...
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Cricket becomes first prepaid carrier to offer iPhone
Washington Post
Cricket has just become the first prepaid carrier to offer the iPhone —
as of June 22nd, customers will be able to purchase the iPhone 4S and
iPhone 4 along with a no-contract prepaid plan that offers unlimited voice,
text, and data for $55 per month.
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