Mobile Minute
Apple is at work on a 12.9-inch iPad, according to Bloomberg. The current full-size iPad measures 9.7 inches diagonally. The report says production on the new slates won't start until next year.
The global tablet market is still smaller than the PC market, but...
International demand for the iPhone led to another strong quarter for Apple. The company posted $37.4 billion in revenue and a net profit of $7.7 billion for its third quarter ending on June 28. The results both were increases from the same quarter last...
The touch-screen is a key element of most smartphones and tablets today, and the speed with which it responds to users’ touch is a critical part of successful interaction with the device. While stats on screen size and resolution are readily available, judging responsiveness...
Amazon says that its own Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Fire HDX 7 were the best sellers on its website during the weekend that included Black Friday and Cyber Monday. The news comes on the heels of another report showing that the Kindle Fire...
Well, few could argue that it’s been a long week (month, year, years) for BlackBerry. This one-time proud (and oddly-named) non-polar bear or hockey monument
Editor’s Note: Wireless operators are a busy bunch, and as such RCR Wireless News will attempt to gather some of the important announcements that may slip through the cracks from the world’s largest carriers in a weekly wrap-up. Enjoy!
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Apple has launched new iPads and revamped its tablet product line, discontinuing the iPad 3 and the iPad 4 in order to focus on the new iPad Air and the new iPad Mini. The iPad Air, which goes on sale Nov. 1, is billed...
As the press descends on San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts for yet another Apple announcement today, the mood may be equally upbeat miles to the north at the Washington headquarters of T-Mobile US. Last week T-Mobile CEO John Legere was tweeting...
Carrier fines, new MVNO, possible iPad delays ... Today's top stories in mobile and wireless:
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The Federal Communications Commission has shut down due to the Congressional budget impasse, but when commissioners return to work they plan to...
The iPad is still the number one tablet with consumers surveyed by JD Power and Associates, and Time Warner Cable is bringing free citywide Wi-Fi to Austin, Texas.
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Today's Mobile Minute:
Time Warner Cable says it has been deploying citywide Wi-Fi hotspots for some time, but...
Apple took investors through its numbers yesterday, but not all those numbers were financial results or product sales. Faced with slowing growth rates and declining margins, Apple focused on numbers from outside research firms that show the high degree of loyalty and engagement that...
AT&T went on a spectrum buying spree and investors went on an Apple selling spree. Verizon Wireless and AT&T both reported healthy gains in postpaid subscribers and both said that more than half of those subscribers are now using smartphones. RCR wraps up the...
Record sales of iPhones and iPads were not enough to renew Wall Street's appetite for Apple. The stock fell 10% in after hours trading following the company's fiscal first quarter earnings report. Many investors are worried that future revenue gains will increasingly come from...
Saying that companies should compete in the marketplace rather than in court, Samsung today withdrew its requests for sales bans of some Apple (AAPL) products in Europe. The Korean giant is still suing Apple for damages, saying the iPhone maker infringed some of its...
If you work in IT or handle mobile devices for your organization, you’ve likely already experienced it: requests to move to the latest, greatest, fastest smartphone on the market (for the time being),
President Obama probably used his iPad to post the most popular tweet in history Tuesday night. The fact that the President is stepping out with an iPad instead of his BlackBerry is a coup for Apple, but like the President the Cupertino company has...
On the heels of announcing plans to offer Apple’s slate of iPad products, Sprint Nextel released no-contract data plans catering to those devices that undercut similar offerings from larger rivals.
Sprint Nextel said beginning Nov. 11 it will offer tablet-specific data plans beginning at $15...
Apple’s release today of a smaller iPad, quaintly called the iPad Mini, along with updates to its “regular” iPad model, is expected to have a dramatic impact on the still developing tablet market, which Apple continues to dominate. More pressing for Apple’s wireless carrier...
To the surprise of no one that has consumed any form of media over the past week, Apple today unveiled a smaller iPad device, along with updates to a handful of the company’s core computing devices. The announcements follow the release of Apple’s iPhone...
