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iPhone 4S carries BOM of US$188, says IHS

On the outside, the iPhone 4S may have disappointed some with its perceived lack of new features. But on the inside, the latest member of the iPhone line includes a wealth of innovation, including a new wireles    

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Some iPhone suppliers likely to record shipment declines in 4Q11, say sources

Some suppliers in the iPhone supply chain may see their shipments decline sequentially in the fourth quarter due to a high base recorded in the previous quarter, although Apple CEO Tim Cook has stated that sale    

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ARM unveils new processor for cheaper smartphones

ARM has announced the ARM Cortex-A7 MPCore processor, which the company claims is the most energy-efficient application class processor it has ever developed. The new processor will enable a rich user experienc    

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New iPhone Concept Images Shows Off A Larger 4.3-inch Screen With A Capacitive Gesture-based Home Button

There's really no stopping the rumor-mill is there? We're less than a week since the release of the iPhone 4S, hell, we're just two weeks since its announcement, and the mill is already spinning    

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Expect a bunch of new Nokia WP7 phones, Ballmer says, new chassis

After the announcement of the eagerly awaited Samsung Galaxy Nexus running the latest Android 4.0, it's now time to turn our heads to the next main event, which is exactly a week away from now. Yes, we    

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Google's Andy Rubin: 'six million' Android-based tablets out there

Google's Andy Rubin kicked off the opening keynote here at the Asian branch of All Things D (that's AsiaD, if you're curious), and he finally cleared up a figure we've been wondering about f    

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HTC expected to offer additional NFC-enabled smartphones in 2012

While NFC-enabled smartphones are still unlikely to become mainstream models in 2012, HTC is expected to continue to offer NFC smartphones in 2012 to differentiate from iPhones, according to industry sources.    

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iPhone 4S and Galaxy S II snap sale records just like that

It's been only three days since the iPhone 4S started selling and it has already managed to allure more than 4 million people into buying it. Put in retrospect, in its first days of availability, the i    

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iPhone 4S hits four million in sales after first weekend

How did you spend your weekend? If you're Apple, the answer is simple, really: selling a whole lot of iPhones. Cupertino this morning announced that iPhone 4S sales have reached four million -- quite an im    

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RIM to offer all Blackberry users free apps starting October 19

RIM takes its apologies one step further after the nasty outage of RIM's servers which made all Blackberry users' life hell for a period of up to three days. Following the company's o    

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