Mar 17
Is O2 about to change its pricing?
According to many rumors O2 is looking at lowering its price points for both the free 8Gb and 16Gb units. These currently require a subscriber to pony up £45 / mnth for the 8Gb and £74 for a free 16Gb.
People are saying that the price will come down in May as O2 clear the stocks for a new iPhone to be released in the summer time. But who knows.
However later today we will get a peep at the new OS as Apple are holding an invation only iPhone SDK event later today.
Mar 03
The litte Mac Mini get a long awaited refresh. It joins the rest of the Mac range with NVIDIA GeForce graphics. The CPU is the 2 Gz Intel Core 2 Duo.
The iMac offers 3 24″ puppies and just one 20″ babby. The top of the range of 3 Gz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4Gb RAM and 1 T of hard disk while the base model uses the 2.6 Gz processor with 2 Gb Ram and 320 G disk.
The super duper Mac Pro moves up to the Nehalem chip with Quad Core.
Mar 02
Is demand picking up for the iPhone?
Research firm Wedge Partners said in a research note published kast Friday that its checks have found “a recent uptick” in iPhone production. They believe this reflects a pickup in global demand.
They say specifically that this is not related to the production of any new models.
Seeking Aplha reported the story and listed 3 potential reasons.
- One factor, Wedge contends, is recent heavy marketing of the App store. Wedge notes that copy-cat sites from Nokia and Google and others have cropped up, but that “Apple’s store offers the most compelling experience due to ease of use and delivery of applications as well as the broad developer base creating fun and and functional apps.”
- They also note a wave of regional promotions. They point out that there have been some aggressive promotions of the phone in some countries, with free iPhones from Telefonica in Spain and O2 in the U.K. under certain contracts. In Japan, Softbank Mobile is now offering free 8GB iPhones for customers who sign a two-year contract.
- Not least, they note a move toward lower data plan pricing. “We understand that Apple has been in discussion with numerous carrier partners around the globe to look at lower tiered data plans in order to make the iPhone more affordable on a monthly basis,” Wedge writes. “Lower cost data plans generally drive an uptick in demand for smartphones, and the high monthly data fee for the iPhone has been a barrier to success for the handset in a number of countries, particularly emerging markets.”
