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| quote: | Originally posted by CAKE
yeah.. its 30 months for hups and if you got the ipone4 or a BB 9800 your EHF is 20$ per month were other smartphones are 15$. IMO the eatrly hup program is best for people who do not have a Smartphone and want one as the EHF is only 10$ per month. |
And then they gotta add data, if not ... add $300 for the HUP. |
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Apple iPhone 4S and iPad 3 production slated for September, report claims
We have heard at least a dozen rumors that Apple will launch the next iPhone in September, possibly alongside the next-generation iPad. Several of those rumors have suggested Apple will announce a new iPhone 5 and an iPad 3 with a Retina Display, while others have predicted the Cupertino-based company will simply announce the iPhone 4S, a marginal upgrade from the current model. The latest rumor from Macotakara.jp says that Apple will begin production of the iPhone 4S in September and will bring it to market in October along with the iPad 3. The iPhone part of this rumor corresponds with an earlier report from TiPb in terms of release timing, though that report also claimed that the iPad 3 won’t launch until next year. Macotakara.jp mentions the iPhone 5 briefly but says it has “not found any information” about the device. BGR reported that the iPhone 5 will land in mid-September and several reports indicate that mid to late-September is still the likely launch time frame.
Unreleased MacBook Pro Prototype 2007 With Built-In 3G Modem Listed on eBay
An unreleased MacBook Pro Prototype with a built-in 3G modem has been listed on eBay for sale.
Despite creating an entire lineup of ultra portable notebooks with the MacBook Air, Apple still has not added 3G connectivity as a feature of its laptops. However, a new eBay auction reveals that the company has in fact been testing MacBooks with cellular network connectivity.
This laptop was originally purchased from Craigslist as a non-functional parts machine. Upon removing the top case it was immediately clear this was no normal Macbook Pro: the circuit boards inside were bright red as opposed to the normal blue! Further inspection found multiple differences from the stock version, most notably a feature never seen in a Macbook laptop of any kind: what appears to be a fully integrated cellular modem and SIM slot. There is an extendable cellular antenna located at the right top side of the display assembly (The antenna is marked with "Tyco Proto / #006" when slid out), and a standard size SIM card slot located underneath the memory cover on the bottom of the machine. The SIM card board is connected to the logic board via a connector not found on production machines. The solder footprint for it is still present on the production boards and not populated, which is interesting. This would seem to suggest that it was a last minute decision to remove the cellular functionality before going into mass production. The optical drive is marked as a "Sample for Evaluation". Rather than a normal EMC Number the specifications lapel simply says "XXXX", and the serial number does not show up in Apple's online database. Rather than use the machine for parts I of course had to put the time into repairing it to its original condition and see what happened!
The seller notes that despite getting the computer up and running he was not able to get it working with his SIM card; although, it is seen by the operating system and recognized as a modem device usable to connect to the internet with various configuration options.
The current bid price is $2,065.00 with 4 days and 11 hours left |
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Finally got around to install a anti glare (matte) screen protector for the back.
Anti Glare is a pain in the ass to install dust free, it's like vacuum & magnet for dust.
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Google acquiring Motorola Mobility
Google and Motorola Mobility have announced an agreement whereby Google will acquire Motorola for $12.5 billion. The acquisition price equates to $40 per share of Motorola stock, or a premium of 63% over Friday’s closing price._“Motorola Mobility’s total commitment to Android has created a natural fit for our two companies,” Google CEO Larry Page said in a statement. “Together, we will create amazing user experiences that supercharge the entire Android ecosystem for the benefit of consumers, partners and developers. I look forward to welcoming Motorolans to our family of Googlers.”_It is unclear how this might affect Google’s relationship with other Android partners. The deal is subject to regulatory approval, of course, and it is expected to close in late 2011 or early 2012. The full press release follows below.
Google to Acquire Motorola Mobility
Combination will Supercharge Android, Enhance Competition, and Offer Wonderful User Experiences
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. & LIBERTYVILLE, Ill.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: MMI) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Google will acquire Motorola Mobility for $40.00 per share in cash, or a total of about $12.5 billion, a premium of 63% to the closing price of Motorola Mobility shares on Friday, August 12, 2011. The transaction was unanimously approved by the boards of directors of both companies.
“Motorola Mobility’s total commitment to Android has created a natural fit for our two companies. Together, we will create amazing user experiences that supercharge the entire Android ecosystem for the benefit of consumers, partners and developers. I look forward to welcoming Motorolans to our family of Googlers.”
The acquisition of Motorola Mobility, a dedicated Android partner, will enable Google to supercharge the Android ecosystem and will enhance competition in mobile computing. Motorola Mobility will remain a licensee of Android and Android will remain open. Google will run Motorola Mobility as a separate business.
Larry Page, CEO of Google, said, “Motorola Mobility’s total commitment to Android has created a natural fit for our two companies. Together, we will create amazing user experiences that supercharge the entire Android ecosystem for the benefit of consumers, partners and developers. I look forward to welcoming Motorolans to our family of Googlers.”
Sanjay Jha, CEO of Motorola Mobility, said, “This transaction offers significant value for Motorola Mobility’s stockholders and provides compelling new opportunities for our employees, customers, and partners around the world. We have shared a productive partnership with Google to advance the Android platform, and now through this combination we will be able to do even more to innovate and deliver outstanding mobility solutions across our mobile devices and home businesses.”
Andy Rubin, Senior Vice President of Mobile at Google, said, “We expect that this combination will enable us to break new ground for the Android ecosystem. However, our vision for Android is unchanged and Google remains firmly committed to Android as an open platform and a vibrant open source community. We will continue to work with all of our valued Android partners to develop and distribute innovative Android-powered devices.”
The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including the receipt of regulatory approvals in the US, the European Union and other jurisdictions, and the approval of Motorola Mobility’s stockholders. The transaction is expected to close by the end of 2011 or early 2012.
Google CEO Larry Page explains reasoning behind Motorola acquisition (spoiler: patents)
In a post penned by Larry Page on Google’s company blog, the CEO explains why Google decided to shell out $12.5 billion to purchase smartphone vendor Motorola Mobility. While Page had plenty to say about Motorola’s extensive history and its leading role in Android’s explosive growth, he also points to what many believe to be one of the leading factors behind the deal: patents. “We recently explained how companies including Microsoft and Apple are banding together in anti-competitive patent attacks on Android,” the CEO wrote on Google’s blog. “The U.S. Department of Justice had to intervene in the results of one recent patent auction to ‘protect competition and innovation in the open source software community’ and it is currently looking into the results of the Nortel auction. Our acquisition of Motorola will increase competition by strengthening Google’s patent portfolio, which will enable us to better protect Android from anti-competitive threats from Microsoft, Apple and other companies.” Read on for more.
Regarding where this deal might leave other big Android partners such as Samsung and HTC, Page was sure to indicate that Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility will not push them out of the space. “This acquisition will not change our commitment to run Android as an open platform,” Page noted in his post. “Motorola will remain a licensee of Android and Android will remain open. We will run Motorola as a separate business. Many hardware partners have contributed to Android’s success and we look forward to continuing to work with all of them to deliver outstanding user experiences.” Google is obviously looking to build a scenario where it can control the end-to-end Android user experience as a result of this acquisition, but it also appears that the company is looking to protect the Android ecosystem as a whole by using patents obtained through the deal to fight off assailants like Apple and Microsoft.
HTC, Samsung, LG, Sony Ericsson sound off on Google’s Motorola acquisition
Early Monday morning, Google announced that it will acquire Motorola for $12.5 billion. Google CEO Larry Page explained the acquisition will help bolster the tech giant’s patent portfolio and that his company will continue to “work with all [of its partners] to deliver outstanding user experiences.” While it may seem that Motorola will now have the upper hand in creating Android smartphones, execs from Samsung, Sony Ericsson, HTC, and LG have all issued statements in support of the acquisition. “We welcome today’s news, which demonstrates Google’s deep commitment to defending Android, its partners, and the ecosystem,” J.K. Shin, president of Samsung’s Mobile Communications division said. “I welcome Google’s commitment to defending Android and its partners,” Sony Ericsson president and CEO Bert Nordberg said. “We welcome the news of today’s acquisition, which demonstrates that Google is deeply committed to defending Android, its partners, and the entire ecosystem,” HTC’s CEO Peter Chou added. “We welcome Google’s commitment to defending Android and its partners,” LG’s president and CEO Jong-Seok Park said. The deal should certainly help Google defend Motorola, Samsung and HTC in their ongoing patent battles with Apple and other companies, though it remains to be seen how the acquisition might affect the Android ecosystem in the long run.
(Competition is healthy for everyone, as long as they all push for innovation for the future. Sadly, it seems Apple is the only one doing this and yes, they have bought most of the Nortal patents for protection and I don’t blame them. Keep in mind, there wouldn’t be an Android OS and all the “other” devices if Apple didn’t invent the iPhone and iPad.
Google should have ditched out more money and buy Samsung, this will indeed cause some major problems for Apple and Windows.
Speaking of Samsung, it’s very naïve for their CEO to welcome this buy out (even though we all know he’s trying to be polite). Google will now make the Nexus series migrate over to Motorola; which isn’t such a great idea, American engineer will always be a major thumbs down.)
Google’s Motorola buy could spell trouble for Android partners
By now, you’ve no doubt seen the news: Google intends to acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. What this will do is not only give Google access to Motorola’s vast patent library consisting of nearly 25,000 patents, but it will also give Google an end-to-end hardware and software strategy with smartphones, tablets and even with Google TV. The thing is, Google didn’t need to buy Motorola. Google could have just licensed the patents from Motorola. Google bought Motorola because it felt like control of the Android experience was slipping away. It’s apparent that one Nexus-like device from Google a year won’t be enough — MOTOBLUR has probably given Andy Rubin ulcers — and it’s apparent that a company that’s leading in many areas of the smartphone arena wants to control that entire experience. Open or not, it is Google’s, after all. Smartphones and tablets are also going to be the biggest categories in technology for the foreseeable future, and if you think Google is just going to play around with that, well, you obviously haven’t seen the company’s recent moves. Read on for more.
HTC, Samsung, LG, and other manufacturers are probably pissed. Regardless of any protection they might receive from Google owning Motorola’s patent library, and regardless of recent official comments, they are now not only competing with one of the best Android device vendors, but also with Google itself. The end result? You’re going to see HTC, Samsung and LG continue to buy up as many Beats-like companies as possible to further differentiate their Android experiences, because they’re not going to have anything else to offer pretty soon. There are only so many ways to physically differentiate a touchscreen device, and with Google in control of its own hardware, software and services, differentiation could become the key to other partners’ survival the Android ecosystem. |
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| quote: | Originally posted by E2EK1EL
Google and Motorola Mobility have announced an agreement whereby Google will acquire Motorola for $12.5 billion. |
You beat me to it. I still don't like Motorola phones. For some reason the radiation that gets emitted during phone calls is always higher :nervous: |
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| quote: | Originally posted by jester
You beat me to it. I still don't like Motorola phones. For some reason the radiation that gets emitted during phone calls is always higher :nervous: |
Tin Foil hats Ftw ! |
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Exclusive: 4G LTE iPhone currently in carrier testing
Exclusives Exclusive: 4G LTE iPhone currently in carrier testing
By: Jonathan S. Geller | Aug 15th, 2011 at 10:20AM 36 CommentsFiled Under: Exclusives, Mobile
Apple’s iPhone 5 is set to be unveiled in the next month or so, though no one quite knows what the device will feature thanks to the ongoing flood of rumors. Sure, we have a pretty good idea of what it will look like, though one technology we’ve repeatedly seen requested is LTE support for 4G networks across the globe. While we can’t confirm that the upcoming fifth-generation iPhone will be able to support 4G LTE, we can now exclusively confirm that Apple’s carrier partners are testing iPhone models with LTE capability. BGR has obtained evidence of an internal iOS test build from one of Apple’s major carrier partners, and buried in the firmware is a property list (.plist file) for LTE. This doesn’t necessarily mean every Apple device that’s about to be released will feature an embedded 4G LTE modem, but it certainly means Apple isn’t sitting on the sidelines as 4G LTE networks continue to roll out around the world. Plus, when Apple finally does make a 4G LTE device, the battery might actually last longer than a few hours. Check out our photo gallery for images of Apple’s LTE plist file. |
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New Renderings of Future Apple Campus Emerge
On Saturday, the world received an amazing new look at what the future home of Apple will look like.
City officials in Cupertino raised the curtain on images, details and renderings of the forthcoming 2.8 million square-foot circular office homestead that media reports have vastly likened to a ground-based spaceship. Among a veritable ocean of office space, the structure delivers a corporate auditorium capable of seating 1,000 people (possibly for future product and software revealings), with another 300,000 square feet dedicated to research space.
“It's a pretty amazing building," Apple chief Steve Jobs told the Cupertino City Council last June when Apple pitched the development to city leaders. Apple recently purchased the 150 acres from Hewlett-Packard. |
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Brand new sealed 32 Gb iPhone4 clone w/ original accessories+bo
Date Listed 15-Aug-11
Price $300.00
Address Toronto, ON, Canada
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http://toronto.kijiji.ca/c-buy-and-...QAdIdZ306070585
Hey everyone, as the title reads I'm selling a brand new sealed black iPhone 4 clone which comes with the original apple box and unused accessories. Thinking that it was authentic, I paid $620 for it from an individual on kijiji who claimed the phone to be original. But after opening the sealed box, sadly, it turned out to be a clone. I have no use for this phone so I would like to sell it asap. The phone appears to be fully functioning and there is nothing wrong with it. It looks and appears to work exactly like the real iphone 4. Also, the phone is unlocked and therefore will work with any carrier.
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Just got some BB9900 yo!!! |
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IPhone 5 pre-orders said to begin September 30th ahead of October 7th launch
Apple will begin taking pre-orders for its new iPhone 5 smartphone on September 30th, with a launch set to occur one week later on October 7th. Apple watcher 9to5 Mac claims to have confirmed the dates with multiple sources, though it does say Apple is currently deciding between two launch dates, October 7th and October 14th. The report also says Apple is mulling September 29th as the date pre-order availability will begin, though one source says the 30th is more likely. TiBp reported last week that Apple will launch its next-generation iPhone handset on October 7th, so this is the second time we’ve seen the date mentioned. TiBp also stated in the same report that Apple’s iPad 3 will not launch until next spring, as opposed to this fall or winter as had been previously reported.
AT&T is Installing 4G LTE Equipment in Apple Stores?
AT&T is reportedly installing 4G LTE equipment in Apple Stores reigniting rumors that the iPhone 5 will support LTE, reports Engadget.
We've received the image you see above, which shows some 4G LTE equipment that was recently installed in a major Apple store -- by AT&T, according to our source. Making things somewhat more interesting is the equipment itself, one piece of which supports only the 700MHz and AWS bands -- both of which AT&T plans to use for its LTE network if the T-Mobile acquisition goes through.
The site also reports that all the Apple Stores in the region of that photo are trying to increase their sales staff by 30%. This increase is said to be unrelated to the usual holiday hiring.
EDIT: Also Verizon has done the same.
About a month and a half ago, one of our Apple Store sources told us that some Verizon techs had visited that day and upgraded the in-store cell equipment to LTE. At the time, LTE iPhones seemed like a distant possibility for upcoming iPhones and a Verizon source told us that upgrades to cell boxes were happening somewhat arbitrarily all over the country. Tim Cook, in a conference call earlier this year, made it sound like LTE was going to have to wait until later builds.
Tim Cook said that these early generation LTE chips would require too many compromises in design.
But yesterday things changed when a report detailled the LTE (specifically Verizon in this case) strings that were pulled from a carrier version of iOS OTA updates. Could the changing of the iPhone release schedule be timed to allow Apple to get the most modern LTE chips in iPhones aas well as give the networks time to mature?
Fast forward to this today, where Engadget says AT&T is also upgrading its on-premise Apple Store Cells to LTE. |
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27,000 South Koreans sue Apple over iPhone privacy concerns
27,000 people have filed a class-action lawsuit against Apple in South Korea over concerns Apple collected private location data, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. The group is seeking 1 million won per person in damages, or about $930 each and just over $25 million total. In early August, the Korean Communications Commission fined Apple 3 million won ($2,829) following the “Locationgate” scandal that occurred earlier this year. Apple has stood by its claims that the location-tracking was the result of a bug that was fixed in a software update. The iPhone maker was also sued in the United States by two consumers in Florida and by one man in Puerto Rico. Apple paid South Korean lawyer Kim Hyung-suk $945 this past May after he filed a lawsuit against the company, and that is the only other recorded pay-out at this point regarding the iOS location tracking bug.
(F*cking Koreans, give them an inch and they will all gang up and sue you lol)
iAd chief calls it quits
All Things D reports that Apple’s vice president of mobile advertising Andy Miller is leaving the company, citing “sources close to the situation”. The departure is interesting because Apple in early 2010 snatched mobile advertising firm Quattro Wireless for $275 million, the company Miller co-founded back in 2006.
Miller will go on to become a general partner at venture firm Highland Capital and staffers at Apple were reportedly told today of his “impending departure”. It is also an undesired setback for Apple’s iAd mobile advertising platform, which had gotten off to a good start only to fade to irrelevance due to high prices and Apple’s seeming inability to exercise flexibility with major marketing agencies who are not used to dealing with such a controlling middle-man. |
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