Sprint has just announced its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2011. Sprint reports that it sold 1.8 million iPhones in the last quarter, of which 40 percent were new customers.
for the first time in October.
a net loss of $1.3 billion, which was due to subsidy for wireless devices that increased to $1.7 billion from $1.3 billion due to the launch of the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S. The company however viewed the iPhone launch as a success (more…)

Holiday earnings reports are being posted, and Verizon’s indicates that more than half of its smartphone sales were iPhones.

This resulted in a revenue surge for its wireless division, but because of heavy subsidies, an overall decline in profits.

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Verizon’s Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo said in a report by CNNMoney the loss is OK in Verizon’s eyes, noting that Verizon’s (more…)

Apple has posted record revenue of $46.33 billion and net quarterly profit of $13.06 billion, or $13.87 per diluted share, compared to revenue of $26.7 billion and net quarterly profit of $6 billion, or $6.43 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter in Q1 2012. It is Apple ‘s highest revenue and earnings ever in a quarter.
Apple sold 37.04 million 
 in the quarter, up 128 percent over the year-ago quarter.
Apple also sold 15.43 million 
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Apple has been busier making and selling iPhones of late than all of humanity has been at getting busy.

The company smashed most expectations yesterday when it announced its iPhone sales for the last three months of 2011 totaled over 37 million units, a figure that exceeds the number of babies born on planet earth–using the global average daily birth rate –during a comparable period (more…)

Sony’s backside-illuminated CMOS image sensors, newly out of the development stage, may further improve the quality of images and videos captured through smartphone cameras, and also help shrink the size of the camera module as a whole, leading to thinner devices.
This image sensor layers the pixel section containing formations of back-illuminated structure pixels onto chips containing the circuit section for signal processing, which is in place (more…)

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Those of you disheartened because your older iPhone or iPod Touch won’t support iOS 5 have an “unofficial” alternative.

Available for free, a piece of software dubbed Whited00r can install a custom edition of iOS 5.1 on the iPhone 2G and 3G as well as the iPod Touch 1G and 2G. The software works by tapping into the Restore feature directly through iTunes. And it automatically (more…)

Last week, we reported about a company called
, which claimed to
, with a process that applies a patent pending waterproof coating on the iPhone to protect it from water or liquids.
Though it seemed too good to be true, quite a few of you seemed to be interested in the technology that could waterproof your iPhone .
– another startup demonstrated their “WaterBlock” technology at CES 2012, which could make smartphones like the iPhone waterproof.
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Dot makes your iPhone into a panoramic camera

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LAS VEGAS–This could become the year for panoramic video.

New York-based startup Kogeto, which makes the Dot camera lens, is on a roll. I met up with founder and CEO Jeff Glasse this morning at CES’ Eureka Park exhibition, where Kogeto is showing off the device, and he told me that his 1-year-old company just raised more than $1 million (more…)

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iPhone sales jumped last quarter thanks to the debut of the iPhone 4S. But just how many phones did Apple sell around the world?

A bevy of 37 analysts polled for a Fortune story by Philip Elmer-Dewitt all chimed in with their iPhone sales estimates for the holiday quarter. And as usual, the forecasts varied.

Coming in at the low end, eyeing sales of 25 million, was Gabelli analyst Hendi (more…)

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iPhone sales jumped last quarter thanks to the debut of the iPhone 4S. But just how many phones did Apple sell around the world?

A bevy of 37 analysts polled for a Fortune story by Philip Elmer-Dewitt all chimed in with their iPhone sales estimates for the holiday quarter. And as usual, the forecasts varied.

Coming in at the low end eyeing sales of 25 million was Gabelli analyst Hendi Susanto. (more…)