Piper Jaffray tech analyst, Gene Munster, appeared on Bloomberg radio (Dec. 16) and the prime topic was smartphones. Munster discusses iPhone and Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone platform first-mover advantage. The Piper Jaffray analyst also talks about Android, the rumored Google (GOOG) Phone, and Research in Motion’s (RIMM) Blackberry. Piper Jaffray has a $277 price target on Apple [...]
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Posted in China Mobile, TD-SCDMA on Dec 17th, 2009
Update – December 17, 2009: During today’s quarterly earnings call, Research in Motion unveiled a distribution deal with China Telecom. RIM also announced that they shipped 10.1 million BlackBerry units in latest quarter. Color me jaded (and iPhone biased) betcha RIM’s record shipments were pumped up by their their seemingly perpetual “buy one, get one free” promos. December 8, [...]
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Posted in AAPL, Investment, iPhone, Smart Phones on Feb 7th, 2009
iPhonAsia issues our 2nd Dean Wormer Award **************************** And the co-winners are … drum roll please … Royal Bank of Canada and Canaccord Adams iPhonAsia comment: Opinion Alert! The following post is just one man’s opinion (yes bias) and our view is unabashedly pro Apple (AAPL). See also related post > Does RBC have a leaky [...]
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Posted in iPhone on Jan 29th, 2009
iSuppli: BlackBerry Storm costs $4 more than its purchase price to build > HERE In a fiscal climate where profit margin reigns intensely supreme, we’ve got yet another dollop of bad news to heap upon the parfait of pain that is the $199 (after $50 mail in rebate) BlackBerry Storm.Research firm, iSuppli, estimates that the cost for [...]
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Posted in 3G, AAPL, iPhone on Nov 11th, 2008
See Video > HERE *************************************************** Excerpt: iPhone vs. BlackBerry: Apple Has Fallen But RIM Can’t Get Up Apple shares have fallen on hard times lately and the company remains vulnerable to a consumer slowdown. But, relatively speaking, Steve Jobs & Co. are holding up much better than its rivals, notably Research In Motion. In the third quarter, the iPhone [...]
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