Sprint Nextel CEO Daniel Hesse had gone all-in to start offering Apple’s iPhone last year. But Hesse’s decision doesn’t seem to have gone down too well with shareholders as they are not happy that the results were hit due to the heavy subsidy that Sprint has to pay Apple for the iPhone.
In response to the shareholder disappointment, Hesse has announced that he will cut his personal compensation by $3.25 million this year.
Late last November, we reported of an iPhone self combusting on-board a domestic Australian flight that had just landed in Sydney.
Though it was certainly not the first time an iPhone had exploded, 2009 had a string of incidents related to iPhones, the bizarre incident of the iPhone exploding on a flight scored tons of press coverage due to the dangerous situation it caused.
AT&T’s CEO Randall Stephenson who spoke at the Milken Institute’s Global Conference, said that his only regret was to offer unlimited data plans to iPhone users when it was launched.
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Cult of Mac reports that Walmart has slashed the price of 16GB iPhone 4S and 8GB iPhone 4 models.
Walmart is offering the 16GB iPhone 4S for $114, which is a discount of $74 from Walmart’s regular price of $188.
While Samsung may have grabbed the top place in the worldwide smartphone market in Q1 2012, Apple has made most of the profit among top mobile phone vendors, according to the data released by asymco‘s Horace Dediu.
Apple and Samsung accounted for 99% of the total profit made by top mobile phone vendors in Q1 2012.
There have been some speculations lately that the next generation iPhone will be made of Liquidmetal alloys.
Few weeks back, a Korean website claimed that the next generation iPhone will be made of Liquidmetal quoting industry sources. The rumor inspired a French designer to make a stunning mockup of the next iPhone with Liquidmetal casing.
Research firm International Data Corporation (IDC) reports that vendors shipped 398.4 million units in 1Q12 compared to 404.3 million units in the first quarter of 2011.
Based on these estimates, Apple grabbed a record 8.8% of the mobile phone market compared to 8.7% market share in the last quarter.
If you are a long time iOS user who is used to the on-screen virtual keyboard, then you probably find the need of a physical keyboard unnecessary.
But that hasn’t stopped rumors from claiming that Apple will launch an iPhone with a physical keyboard.
It looks like the iPhone 4S ads starring Samuel L. Jackson and Zooey Deschanel were popular with viewers, according to advertising tracking firm Ace Matrix.
Apple has just announced that WorldWide Developer Conference 2012 will be held from June 11th to June 15th.
