Apple has received yet another boost to iPhone sales from massive pre-order sales of the new CDMA iPhone 4 ahead of the launch this week. US network Verizon Wireless said that pre-orders of Apple’s iPhone 4 created “the most successful first day sales in the history of the company.” The company have ended online sales…
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eBay mobile sales up 146% on Cyber Monday
eBay has released some figures from Cyber Monday and for the first time they’ve included some mobile figures. The eBay shopping data results from Cyber Monday 2010 (November 29th) on eBay Mobile in the United States showed that mobile sales increased by 146 percent over Cyber Monday 2009, and globally, eBay’s mobile service is on…
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Three get aggressive on data PAYG pricing
Three announced some quite aggressive Pay As You Go (PAYG) pricing to add to its All In One product, you can now get 500Mb for £5 per month which must be one the cheapest rates around. Three announced that from yesterday it would be updating it’s PAYG pricing and instead of the normal texts and…
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Orange off-loading iPhones
Seems like Orange have ordered too many iPhone 4s or they’ve got their iPhone pricing policy badly wrong, as we’ve just received an email from Orange saying “Now that the rush to get the iPhone 4 has slowed down a bit, we have a good stock of the very popular iPhone 4 Black 16GB on…
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Where to find the cheapest unlocked iPhone
Website www.choreographics.eu has put together a startlingly good infographic of how much the iPhone 4 sells for in each of the 23 countries the iPhone 4 is currently on sale in. Of the 23 territories the iPhone is only available unlocked in just 14; France, UK, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy,…
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Apple take down antennagate vids
Apple’s claims that it’s not just them that has problems with mobile phone antennas has created bad feeling amongst Apples competitors. So, it’s no surprise that Apple have now removed videos of other devices suffering from similar problems from its Antenna site www.apple.com/antenna Sometime over the last few days Apple has removed the videos of…
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T-Mobile now stocks the iPhone 4
In the game of iPhone bingo it’s time to shout Full House!! as T-mobile finally comes on board with the iPhone 4. The only major network not to stock the iPhone is Virgin Mobile, but it can’t be long surely? The iPhone 4, which launched over a month ago, is available on tariffs starting from…
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iPhone 4 goes on sale at Three shops
As reported yesterday Three is stocking iPhone 4′ s from today but as we reported yesterday we’re not going to be getting a phone from Three, and the phones are only available to new customers. “The anticipation around iPhone 4 has been unprecedented,” said Marc Allera, sales and marketing director at Three. “The feedback we received…
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Three and the case of the returning iPhone 4
Yesterday my iPhone 4 arrived, hurrah. Unfortunately sometime in the next five days it’s going back to Three, and I’m changing to another phone company because I’ve had enough, boo. How did things turn so bad? Well it all happened at least eight weeks ago when I expressed a desire to upgrade to an iPhone…
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Apple press conference to address iPhone issues
Apple is to address iPhone 4 issues at Friday press conference. According to a report in the Guardian, Apple has called an impromptu press conference tomorrow (Friday 16 July) to explain the problems with the iPhone 4 and to stop increasing speculation over an iPhone 4 recall . In a brief email, Apple invited press…
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O2 is restocking with iPhone 4’s today
O2 has just tweeted that it will be restocking with iPhone 4’s this weekend and you’ll be able to find where from 12am (midday) today. Since the iPhone 4 launch last week the shiny new Apple gadget has flown of the shelves like hotcakes, and it’s been hard to track one down, so it’s great…
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iPhone delivery dates now 14th July
The Apple pre-order website now gives the delivery date for both the 16 and 32 GB versions of the iPhone 4 in the UK and US as 14 July. The pre-order has now had two huge jumps in less than a week. The site which went live on Tuesday where it advertised shipping dates as…
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Vodafone iPhone 4 pricing
Vodafone has finally launched their pricing for the iPhone 4 and there’s very little in it if you’re looking at pricing. The main difference is that Vodafone ofer 1Gb of data with all of their plans and 1Gb of wi-fi through BT Openzone per month. Cheapest per monthly plan is £25 per month for an…
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O2 iPhone 4 pricing announced
Anyone who pre-registered for the iPhone 4 on O2 should be getting an email with the iPhone tariffs – which we knew already – but they’re now updated with the iPhone costs. The cheapest tariff for the iPhone is £25 per month on a 24 month contract which gives 100 minutes, 500Mb of data, unlimited…
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iPhone 4 winning in analyst sweepstakes
Mobile analysts have upped their guesstimates for iPhone 4 sales, following the demand for the wunder-phone on its first day of pre-orders. In a research note, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster changed his iPhone sales targets for both the quarters ending in June and September to 9.5 million from 8.5 million. He wrote that Apple…
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Apple takes 600,000 pre-orders on first day
Apple has said that it took more than 600,000 orders yesterday. It’s not apparent if this is Worldwide or just in the US. If it’s in the US then Apple took in something in the order of $150 million (£101 million) in orders – others have speculated Apple’s takings to be over $300 million (£202…
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Orange reveals iPhone 4 pricing
Orange has launched it’s iPhone 4 plans and they’re offering an unlimited browsing capacity of 750Mb per month on both internet and wi-fi through BT. Why don’t they just come clean and say 750Mb per month? This is NOT unlimited in any shape or form. Additionally they also fail to say what the costs will…
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iPhone 4 first batch already sold out
Bad luck if you want to buy a SIM-free version of the iPhone 4 and receive it on the 24 June, they’re all sold out. The Apple pre-order website now gives the delivery date for both the 16 and 32 GB versions of the iPhone 4 as 2 July. The pre-order site went live yesterday…
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iPhone 4 now also at Tesco
Tesco have revamped their mobile site and are now offering iPhone 4 on pre-order http://direct.tesco.com/p/inc/specials/iphone/default.asp Tesco are currently the best on price for the 3GS iPhone and are selling the 3GS 8GB for £449 on pay as you go with 12 months unlimited web and wi-fi. It will be interesting to see if they stick…
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iPhone 4 pricing and pre-order now live
The Apple iPhone 4 is now available to pre-order directly from Apple http://www.apple.com/iphone/pre-order/. An iPhone 4 can be yours for just £499. “When you purchase your iPhone from the Apple Online Store, you’ll get it SIM-free. So you can sign up for service with the carrier of your choice and change your carrier at any…