If you are one of the many who wants an iPhone but doesn't want to be on AT&T, at least one analyst thinks that you may get your wish soon. According to an analyst from, Piper Jaffray the iPhone may be on other networks soon. Gene Munster expects the iPhone to hit other carriers in the U.S. within the next year. ... continued »

Apple’s App store is seeing more than 2 million applications downloads everyday. Even though people thought that the initial swell in applications downloads would eventually top off and slow down, the App Store is actually seeing more traffic flow than before. It was not long ago that Apple advertised claims of 300 million downloads since the App Store opened. Just back ... continued »

Apple has their sights set high and if their business plans are accurate, we can expect to see the company producing 40 million iPhones next year. And while some analysts think this number is appropriate to keep up with global demand, others aren't so optimistic. According to BusinessWeek: Many analysts expect Apple (AAPL) to sell around 11 million iPhone 3Gs in ... continued »

As of now, we don't know of any plans for AT&T to release a pre-paid plan for the iPhone 3G (in fact AT&T has said that they won't be doing this at all, but you never know). Of course this isn't the case overseas where many carriers will offer this choice. So just how many new iPhones will be pre-paid? ... continued »

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster didn't get to list Apple under "areas of expertise" on his CV by not knowing a fair bit about the Cupertino company, and the smiling soothsayer has been addressing fifteen key Apple-related questions this week in a report to his flock of investors.  Covering all aspects of Apple's retail, Mac, Apple TV and, of course, ... continued »

Cheery-faced PiperJaffray analyst Gene Munster told clients the other day that one of the signs of an upcoming 3G iPhone was that twenty Apple stores are apparently out of stock of the handset.  Om Malik obviously has a decent long-distance call package, because his team decided to test out Munster's claim and call as many Apple stores as they could; locations ... continued »

Sturdy-jawed tech tyke and PiperJaffray analyst Gene Munster has been stirring up rumors again with his latest prediction that Apple will launch a "budget" iPhone at the beginning of 2009, priced between $200 and $300, as part of a rapid expansion plan designed to drive sales over the next two year.  Expecting the lower-cost model to hit stores by the ... continued »

Seemingly solid confirmation that Apple have a 3G iPhone waiting - or at least being polished up - in the wings for a 2008 launch came this week from AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson, and with it a rise in Apple stock price from $180.22 to in excess of $184.  The 3G handset, which is set to answer criticisms from reviewers ... continued »

Ever since the concept of a Google Phone or gPhone was suggested, pundits and analysts alike have theorised about the battle between it and the iPhone.  Since Google's announcement of Android and the Open Handset Alliance, the side-taking has reached even headier heights; although there have been a few voices of relative reason - ARM's Warren East, for instance - ... continued »

As far as I'm aware, our boy Vincent has never been described as psychic but with his trials of a 64GB Samsung SSD NAND drive in a MacBook Pro over at SlashGear it could be that he's pre-empted Apple's latest laptop move.  AppleInsider quote analyst Gene Munster who has highlighted the solid-state drive as a likely candidate for inclusion in ... continued »

That Apple gets a cut of the monthly subscriber love from AT&T is common knowledge, but neither party has been too keen to share the exact details of just how much of your iPhone rental passes straight through the carrier's fingers and into Cupertino's coffers.  Now, thanks to an obscure rule regarding "deferred revenue" - basically when one company promises ... continued »

UPDATE: JP Morgan retracts Kevin Chang’s prediction of iPhone Nano Now that they can't drop cryptic hints about the iPhone's existence, analysts are moving on to the next predicted phase in Apple's master plan: a nano-based cellphone. Kevin Chang, an analyst with JP Morgan, has quoted anonymous sources in the Apple hardware supply chain as well as pointing to recently-revealed ... continued »