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Apple awards CDMA iPhone contract to Pegatron

Apple has apparently awarded a contract for building a CDMA iPhone to Pegatron Technologies. The news arrives from Taiwanese newspaper DigiTimes, which back in February announced that the company had won the contract for building the expected next generation UMTS iPhone 4. Previous iPhones have been built by Foxconn, which also builds Apple’s Mac mini, […]

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AT&T advances upgrade dates for some iPhone customers in anticipation of fourth-gen handset

AT&T wants to sell some iPhones. And they’re taking steps to do so. Per MobileCrunch, AT&T has begun modifying some customers’ upgrade dates, shortening them in some cases by months to allow customers to buy a new, subsidized, fourth-generation handset in June. This week, a reader contacted MobileCrunch to say that his upgrade date was […]

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Court documents confirm Apple/AT&T exclusive five year deal, questions surface over contract renegotiations

With additional chatter surrounding the idea of Apple extending the iPhone to Verizon this year, the exact specifics of Apple’s five-year exclusive contract with AT&T have never really been published. Fortunately, the cool cats at Engadget managed to uncover the following: An ongoing California class-action lawsuit filed in 2007 claims that Apple and AT&T illegally […]

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AT&T holds back on data tethering for iPhone, cites potential traffic spikes

You’ve wanted data tethering on your iPhone for years now. And AT&T may one day provide this. Per MacRumors, Engadget received a comment from AT&T stating that installing data tethering could create high traffic usage that could hamper network performance: “iPhone tethering has the potential to exponentially increase traffic, and we need to ensure that […]

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Apple pushes iPad 3G pre-order ship date back to May 7th, ships camera kit

Right, this is NOT going to make you happy. Over the weekend, Apple began e-mailing customers to tell them that their iPad 3G orders had been pushed back to May 7th to reassure them that their hardware will ship on schedule in late April. In addition, the company has also begun shipping the iPad camera […]