IPhone Outsells Smartphones in July
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Apple's first cell phone outsold all other smartphones in its first full month, poll says.
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Citing research from ChangeWave Research, Jonny Evans (Macworld) reports that âthe iPhone now leads the pack in terms of customer satisfaction among its US customer base. An unprecedented 82 per cent of iPhone owners reported being Very Satisfied with their purchase, up five points since the previous survey in July and by far the highest rating of any mobile manufacturer.â Evans notes that âthe research found 16 per cent of respondents who plan to purchase a phone in the next six months saying theyâll buy an iPhone - placing Apple up at the top among all manufacturers.â
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After months of silence, Bob Levitus (Houston Chronicle) wanted to âshare my opinion of iPhone after seven months of heavy use.â After saying that he couldnât âimagine living without oneâ way back in July, Levitus adds âthat is still true today, as well.â Seven months later, he says, âI believe the iPhone is the best darn mobile phone money can buy.â âWhere else,â he wonders, could âcan you find a world-class phone, plus video, audio, Web and e-mail, all in a single hand-held device with an intuitive user interface?â
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Apple Inc.  sold about 525,000  iPhones at Apple and AT&T Inc.  stores in the first  weekend since its June 29 launch, the Los Angeles Times  reported on Monday, citing an analyst.
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Apple lowers the price of the iPhone just two months after it was initially released.
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About 19 million U.S. cell phone users are ready to buy Apple Inc.'s iPhone, nearly double the number Apple projected it would sell by the end of 2008, according to a new survey.
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Mobile phone operator O2 is reported to have won the battle to sell Apple's iPhone in the UK.
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On the Seeking Alpha blog, Paul Carton (ChangeWave Alliance) waxes bullish about the forthcoming iPhone. âItâs not often that we say âit rocksâ when analyzing a consumer device trend. But the findings of our latest ChangeWave cell phone survey invite extremes to describe the startling impact the Apple iPhone is having on the cellular industry.â One reason for the excitement: in a recent member survey, ânearly one-in-10 respondents (9%) say they are likely to buy the new iPhone once it becomes available in June.â
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Apple is expected to sell iPhone through O2 in the UK, Orange in France, and Deutsche Telekom in much of Europe.
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By Joe Kirby  That ringing in your ears is the deafening buzz starting to again surround the biggest technology story of the summer: the release of the iPhone.
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Only just... 02 has shifted 190,000 iPhones in its first two months of sales, just short of its target of 200,000.â¦
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Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC sold 2 million of the Microsoft-based mobile phones it developed to compete with the iPhone last year, the &#39;Touch&#39; family of handsets.At last week&#39;s Macworld Expo in San Francisco Apple CEO Steve Jobs said his company had sold 4 million iPhones since launch.The HTC Touch&#160;uses Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 software and has a touch screen that takes up most of its face, similar to the iPhone. The Touch was launched in June of last year, just weeks ahead of the iPhone.The company sold 11.8 million handsets overall last year, an roughly 12 percent increase over 2006, executives said.Strong sales of the handset helped HTC&#39;s revenue grow nearly 12 percent last year as well, and the company already sees good prospects for the first quarter of this year.&quot;The first quarter looks good, it will be a lot better than our first quarter last year,&quot; said Peter Chou, president and CEO of HTC, at a year-end party Friday evening. Companies in Taiwan and throughout China typically host parties around this time of year as the Lunar New Year is approaching.Some of the global economic issues that have hurt stock markets, including subprime mortgages and fears of recession in the U.S. have no impacted HTC so far in the first quarter.&quot;We&#39;ve seen no impact from global economic turmoil. We feel pretty good about this quarter,&quot; said Chou.&#160;
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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.
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- Apple Inc.  and AT&T Inc.  said  they will launch three service plans for iPhone, which is  scheduled to be launched on June 29, starting at $59.99 per  month.
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Millions being unlocked - or gathering dust at Carphone Warehouse Analysts looking at both Apple's results and those posted by AT&amp;T - Apple's iPhone partner in the US - have noticed a large discrepancy in the figures.â¦
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Given the iPhone hype, it's easy to forget other phones can play music and browse the Web. Here are three iPhone competitors that offer a lot of features for less money.
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Cell phone contacts find their way into new phones for $1.99 a month--without the thumb strain.