Mobile Phone News

Filed under: Apple

Psst… you hear that there’s a new iPhone coming out next month? Yeah, us too. in this place are a few iPhone stories we’ve been tracking from the past handful of days:

• An analyst for Oppenheimer claims that AT&T is plan to be shelling out $325 for each and every iPhone 3G it sells, compared to an average of $200 for other devices on the carrier’s shelves. What’s more, devices sold in Apple stores (as opposed to AT&T stores) will cost AT&T another $100 for some reason, bringing the grand total to $425 — not including the $199 or $299 the customer is paying for the 8GB and 16GB models, respectively. Where Oppenheimer is getting its figures isn’t precisely clear, but we suppose it’s believable — and as the analyst suggests, the higher subsidy reflects AT&T’s confidence that they’ll be able to recoup the loss with a higher ARPU.
• The on-again, off-again saga of Adobe Flash on the iPhone continues, with the company’s CEO trumpeting during its Q2 earnings call that it at this time has a version working in the SDK’s emulator. That’s all well and good, but there’s still no sign that Apple wants Flash on the iPhone, and since Cupertino’s still the ultimate gatekeeper in this place, Adobe’s efforts could still all be for naught.
• Canada’s Rogers has finally decided to stop playing coy and has replaced the silhouette of the mystery device launching on July 11 on its site with the real deal. You weren’t fooling anyone anyhow, guys.
• A Columbus, Ohio bus rider was unceremoniously beaten this week in an attempt to nab his iPhone as other riders calmly looked on, showing no emotion whatsoever — a sad state of affairs, to say the least. Fortunately, the victim was able to hang on to the goods but suffered some injuries in the scuffle. If it had been an iPhone 3G, we’d have to summon every ounce of willpower not to have a go at swiping it ourselves, but an iPhone 1? Seriously, come on.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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Filed under: Motorola, Misc

Good news coming from the Motorola camp? Say it ain’t so! The long-standing feud between the flagging company and investor Carl Icahn has finally come to an end, and lo and behold, the pending litigation between the two has even been dismissed. Apparently the two parties managed to agree that (effective immediately) Keith Meister, a managing director of the Icahn investment funds and principal executive officer of Icahn Enterprises would be “appointed to serve on the [firm’s board of directors],” and William R. Hambrecht, founder, chairman and CEO of WR Hambrecht + Co. and co-founder of Hambrecht & Quist, would be “nominated for election” during the 2008 annual shareholders meeting. Heck, Moto’s even soliciting Mr. Icahn’s input in dealing with the hopeful separation of businesses — but then again, it would probably take advice from just about anyone given the current state of affairs.

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