AT&T Hoping the iPhone Has Coattails
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Analysts agree that the sleek iPhone will change what consumers expect from the mobile phones offered by wireless companies.
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As the wait for Apple Inc.'s iPhone reaches a fevered pitch, here are five trends in gadgets that may be even more important, and a few highly touted ideas that may not make it.
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The iPhone is getting ready for work. On Monday, AT&T announced business plans for Apple's popular touch-screen device, and there are reports that IBM will soon announce Lotus Notes e-mail for the iPhone.
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Apple's iPhone is set to get a jump on its competitors and spark a flurry of new phone designs, regardless of how well the device actually sells.
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Slow transfers while using AT&T's EDGE network for Web browsing with the iPhone have prompted interest in when Version 2 will emerge and whether a faster 3G network will be ready to accommodate it.
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Trendy geeks and stylish tech-heads anxiously await the unveiling this week of Apple&#39;s breakthrough iPhone, putting phone, web browser and music player in the palm of the hand.
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AT&T unveiled business plans for Appleâs iPhone, the first time that the mobile carrier has courted corporate customers of the smart phone.
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Also: Impending Apple phone to be Cingular-exclusive upon launch. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Analyst firm suggests that Apple might add enterprise devices or applications to make phone more adaptable, secure.
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Owners of Apple's iPhone are beginning to receive their first monthly bill from AT&T since the new purchase and are discovering a number of mistakes on the wireless carrier's part. Most notably, AT&T is not removing prior data plans, charging users $20 for the iPhone data, as well as up to $50 for their previous package.
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Sprint is hoping to answer AT&T with a touch-screen device of its own and a faster network experience. On Tuesday, the wireless carrier announced a partnership with smartphone manufacturer HTC to offer a device to rival Apple's lawsuit-riddled iPhone.
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Blog: Apple and AT&#38;T stores are starting to advertise the iPhone, promising "the wait is almost over."
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By Leslie Cauley  For consumers eager to get their hands on an Apple iPhone, here's the good news: It will be available in all 1,800 AT&T phone stores at 6 p.m. sharp on June 29.
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Apple's iPhone is locked to AT&T's telecom service, but now that the device is finally available for sale, a number of hackers are working to unlock it. The prognosis is promising.
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Verizon will be able to compete against AT&#38;T, the exclusive carrier of the iPhone, with its advanced 3G services, CEO says.
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AT&amp;T Inc. on Monday unveiled business plans for Apple Inc.'s iPhone, the first time that the mobile carrier has courted corporate customers of the smart phone. But the lowest-cost data plan is still two-and-a-half times higher than a comparable consumer plan.
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(InfoWorld) - When Apple launches the iPhone on Friday, it is set to get a jump on its competitors and spark a flurry of new phone designs, regardless of how well the device actually sells. By introducing a combined smartphone, mobile e-mail platform, and MP3 music player with a touchscreen interface, Apple has sent other hardware vendors running back to their drawing boards. And the company has enjoyed positive press coverage since CEO Steve Jobs announced the iPhone in January, analysts said. Apple is feeding the fire with strong advertising in its retail stores. On Monday, staffers at the Apple store in the Cambridgeside Galleria mall in Cambridge, Massachusetts, wore black T-shirts with the logo "the wait is almost over," printed above an image of a calendar page for Friday, June 29. iPhone anticipation has already created a "halo effect" of increased sales for Apple's notebook and desktop PCs, an impact that is likely to increase after the launch, according to a report from ChangeWave Research. Apple posted a strong profit for the last period despite struggling with a U.S. federal investigation into executives backdating their stock options. In April,Â Apple beat Wall Street expectations by posting a profit of $770 million for the second quarter, an 88 percent rise from that period last year. Because the company has already garnered media attention and a sales boost from iPhone demand, Apple will suffer little damage even if the device is a flop in retail sales, one analyst said. "No way Apple will seriously impact Nokia or Motorola or Samsung, who combined sell over a billion phones a year. But if Apple manages to sell several million, then that is probably pretty good for their overall business," said analyst Jack Gold, founder of the research firm J. Gold Associates. "I think the potential gold mine is in the services, not the phone hardware." The iPhone will bring new subscribers to Apple's iTunes online music store, and Apple could make more money if it decides to launch future wireless mobile products like navigation, location-based services, VoIP telephony, and video streaming, Gold said. In the meantime, Apple has already given a headache to competitors scurrying to catch up, such as Motorola, Samsung, and LG Electronics. Even vendors with comparable products -- like Nokia's N Series and High Tech Computer's HTC Touch phones -- lack Apple's cachet and will have trouble competing on store shelves, he said. In fact, some experts are warning that iPhone sales could fall short of Apple's high expectations. Their criticism includes potential user confusion about Apple's "virtual keyboard," a battery that may fade too fast and is not user-replaceable, andÂ resistance by some corporate IT departmentsÂ to the added expense and security risk of supporting mobile e-mail networks in addition to the servers they use to support Research in Motion's BlackBerry device. Those drawbacks could limit the iPhone's success in the business market, said Shaw Wu, an analyst with American Technology Research. Still, the iPhone will be popular with those who tend to use smartphones more by scrolling through menus than typing long messages and who have made Apple's iPod music player a huge hit despite similar concerns about its battery, Wu said. Likewise, consumers will likely shrug off corporate security concerns and use mobile e-mail systems from GoogleÂ and Yahoo. In the long run, Apple will use the iPhone to beat its competitors in creating an end-to-end channel for digital media, spanning from Mac PCs to the mobile iPod music player, iTunes online store, and Apple TV set-top box for sharing Internet and television video content. The only thing Apple could do to spread that net even wider would be to offer iPhone models at less than the current $499 for a 4GB version and $599 for the 8GB, Wu said.