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Sprint to launch first WiMAX handset in Q1 2010, must be Supersonic

by Stefan Etienne on 19. Feb, 2010 in HTC, Rumors, Sprint

In an interview with Forbes magazine, Sprint revealed that its first 4G handset would be available in Q1 2010. Paget Alves, Sprint’s president of Business Markets, confirmed the existence of such device and pointed out that the smartphone would target businesses and government agencies as well as regular consumers. He declined to leak more info on the handset itself, but we have a pretty shrewd idea that it’s the HTC A9292 WiMAX bar that was spotted in Sprint’s inventory earlier this year. The actual prodcut is believed to be the HTC Supersonic, an Android-rocking Snapdragon-rolling, totally awesome, cool-looking handset, which was photographed and rendered in January. Anyone planning to get their first 4G phone when this comes out?

[Via Engadget]

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Breaking: Apple reports record earnings for Q1 2010

by Stefan Etienne on 25. Jan, 2010 in Apple, Breaking

It’s breaking news! Apple has posted its record earnings for the first quarter of 2010, which for Apple ended on December 26th, 2009. The results are very grand, and the figures are nothing short of that. What these new sales figures also do is that now, Apple is officially a 50+ billion-a-year company. Here the numbers speak for themselves, in a big way:

Revenue of $15.68 billion ($11.88 billion in Q1 2009)
58% of revenue derived from international sales
Net quarterly profit of $3.38 billion or $3.67 per diluted share ($2.26 billion, or $2.50 per diluted share in Q1 2009)
Gross margin of 40.9 percent (37.9 % in Q1 2009)
$5.8 billion generated in cold hard cash

This translates into 3.36 million Macs and 8.7 million iPhones sold, which represents a 33% unit increase for Macintosh sales and 100% unit growth for the iPhone when compared to Q1 2009. The only minor hiccup here is iPod sales; Apple sold 21 million iPods which is 8% less than Q1 2009. Besides amazing sales figures, and Jobs’ alleged statement of the Apple Tablet: “This will be the most important thing I’ve ever done”, he also said, and officially (mind you), “The new products we are planning to release this year are very strong, starting this week with a major new product that we’re really excited about.”

I think I smell Apple Tablet. Full PR after the break.

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Droid Eris to get Android OS upgrade in Q1 2010

by Stefan Etienne on 04. Dec, 2009 in Android, Handsets

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Whichever Android firmware version the Eris is getting, it’s good. According to BGR, Verizon has announced that in Q1 2010, the Droid Eris will get a firmware update that will let it run Google Maps Navigation. Since Google Maps Nav can run on all firmware 1.6 and up, no one knows which version it will run. Good news nevertheless.

[Via BGR]