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21% of people keen to buy Apple’s unannounced tablet

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Sep 23rd 2009 No Comments

We may well laugh about Apple addicts and their long-queueing ways, but when a survey finds more than a fifth of those asked would happily pay between $500 and $700 for an Apple tablet, sight-unseen, you have to admire the company's hype machine. Analysts RBC Capital Markets asked 3,100 people whether they were interested in buying the tablet, and 21-percent said yes; that contrasts to 9-percent of people asked in April 2007 whether they'd be interested in an iPhone, in a similar survey prior to the smartphone's launch.

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BlackBerry Tour 9630 returns high as 50% claims analyst [UPDATED]

By Chris Davies on Friday, Sep 18th 2009 No Comments

According to research done by analyst David Eller at TownHall Investment Research, return rates of BlackBerry Tour 9630 handsets to Sprint and Verizon might be as high as 50-percent. The most frequent complaint is believed to be problems with the QWERTY smartphone’s trackball, but somewhat bizarrely Eller also claims that people are “complaining about the sensitivity of the touch screen”. We’d suggest that’s probably because the Tour doesn’t actually have a touchscreen.

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Ten Motorola Android phones in next 6-10 months?

By Chris Davies on Friday, Sep 18th 2009 No Comments

Motorola have been previously tipped to be putting many of their cellular eggs in one Android-shaped basket, but could they be planning an initial range of 10 devices within the next six to ten months? That’s the prediction of Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry, who expects the beleaguered cellphone manufacturer to push out handsets with end-user pricing ranging from just $39 to $399.

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New iMac and MacBooks incoming tip analysts

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Sep 16th 2009 No Comments

The dust has only just started to settle after Apple’s iPod event last week, and already the company are tipped to be readying another range refresh. Research firm Wedge Partners are predicting that Apple will release new iMacs and MacBooks “in the next several weeks”. The iMac has not been significantly updated since March 2009.

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Amazon Limits Number of PS3 Slim Consoles Per Household

By Evan Selleck on Thursday, Aug 20th 2009 No Comments

So, Sony announced the PlayStation 3 Slim yesterday, and while we’re sure you read about it, and are clamoring to get one, Amazon wants you to hold your horses. While they have the console up for pre-order right now, they are now limiting the number of consoles available to a household down to a marginal one console per home. Of course, this isn’t really unheard of, especially not with the launch of a new console, so it’s not necessarily unorthodox. But, Amazon is also saying that there are already shortages across the US. So, did Sony not manufacture enough for the initial September launch? Or has the PlayStation 3 suddenly become preternaturally desired?

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Two Apple tablets tipped: 6-inch Kindle rival and larger OS X pad

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Aug 19th 2009 No Comments

The idea that an Apple tablet may not arrive in September and may in fact only be forthcoming in early 2010 seems pretty well accepted now, but according to one market research group we should be expecting two devices from the Cupertino company. According to Richard Doherty of the Envisioneering Group, Apple have been working on two prototype tablets: one with a 6-inch touchscreen, which resembles a large iPod touch, and another with a bigger touchscreen.

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Apple tablet could sell $1.2bn-worth in one year claims outspoken analyst

By Chris Davies on Friday, Aug 7th 2009 No Comments

apple tablet render piper jaffray It’s been a few months since we last heard Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster’s opinion on Apple’s much-rumored tablet, so happily the always-opinionated man is back with not only some pricing, sales and hardware predictions, but a slick render too. According to Munster, his sources in Asia have tipped an unnamed manufacturer winning the contract from Apple to produce the touchscreen device, with fulfillment at the end of 2009; that, he says, underscores his previous assertions of an early 2010 launch.

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Wireless charging “pointless” without super capacitors say analysts

By Chris Davies on Friday, Aug 7th 2009 No Comments

Don’t tell Palm or WildCharge, but analysts Strategy Analytics reckon that right now wireless charging is “pointless”. In fact, according to the company’s latest report, manufacturers of wireless charging systems such as Palm’s Touchstone for the Pre or WildCharge’s eponymous system are currently falling way short of their potential.

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The Wright Brothers and Frequent Flyer Programs or Why Predicting the Future is So Hard

By Michael Gartenberg on Tuesday, Aug 4th 2009 No Comments

Life as an analyst is exciting. For fifteen years, I have had the privilege of standing at the center of the technology universe, observing the technology landscape, charting the major tends and offering my predictions for the future. In that course of time, I watched as fundamental changes occurred. Changes that were large enough to alter the course of the industry. Changes that were sweeping in nature. The funny thing is they were all changes that were almost universally missed by the pundits and experts.

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Apple tablet hands-on claims analyst; November release for media/gaming device

By Chris Davies on Monday, Aug 3rd 2009 No Comments

The Apple tablet runaway rumor train continues, with word from Barron’s that an unnamed “veteran” analyst has seen first-hand the upcoming touchscreen slate. In keeping with earlier speculation and leaks, the device is tipped to arrive in November after a September announcement, and is potentially being positioned as a home media and gaming platform. According to the analyst, “it’s better than the average movie experience, when you hold this thing in your hands.”

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