Nationwide Study Shows AT&T Has Fastest iPhone Data Speeds, Sprint Most Dropped Calls

According to a study by Metrico Wireless, a mobile performance measurement company, AT&T has the fastest iPhone 4S data speeds for both upload and download. Sprint’s data speed is roughly five times slower, echoing earlier anecdotal reports of poor Sprint data connections.

In all, Metrico performed 21,000 Web page downloads nationwide with the iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 over…

AT&T Raises Subsidized iPhone 3GS Price to $0.99

In a curious move, AT&T has raised the subsidized price of its cheapest iPhone to $0.99, up from free.

When the iPhone 4S was announced in October, Apple specifically mentioned in its press release that the iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS would be available in 8GB capacities for subsidized pricing of US$99 and for free, respectively.

During AT&T’s Q3…

Financial Times’ Mobile Site Broadens Readership to Morning and Evening Hours [iOS Blog]

The Financial Times’ web app has drawn more than 1 million readers since June, growing by 300,000 readers since late September. However, the raw numbers don’t tell the whole story.

In its press release about breaking the 1 million mark, the FT staff built an infographic with data from its mobile website. 20 percent of FT page views are from mobile devices, and 15 percent of its digital…

March Launch for Slightly Thicker iPad 3? iPhone with 4-Inch Screen in Summer?

iLounge offers a series of tidbits from its “most reliable source” regarding Apple’s product plans for 2012, reporting that the iPad, iPhone, and MacBook Pro will all be receiving redesigns.

- iPad: The source indicates that the iPad 3 is planned to launch in March and that it will be approximately 0.7 mm thicker than the iPad 2 due to the need to incorporate a dual light bar…

Apple Claims Potential Injunction Against iCloud Could Result in $2.7 Billion Loss

FOSS Patents reports that a pending court case in Germany could have significant ramifications for Apple, with a potential injunction shutting down the company’s iCloud service there over infringement of a Motorola Mobility patent being pegged as a $2.7 billion risk to Apple.

In brief, Motorola asserted last year that Apple’s MobileMe service infringes upon a Motorola patent related to…

"A Charlie Brown Christmas" Comes to the iPad

Childhood classic A Charlie Brown Christmas has made its way to the iPad as an interactive book that Mashable describes as “spectacular” and “like magic”.

The app turns the 1965 television special into an interactive children’s book, giving kids (and nostalgic adults) the chance to “play Schroeder’s piano, finger paint with the gang, go carolling with the Peanuts choir,…

George Clooney and Noah Wyle Vying to Play Steve Jobs on Film?

Last month, we noted that Sony Pictures was reportedly courting Aaron Sorkin to write the screenplay for a film adaption of Walter Isaacson’s authorized biography of Steve Jobs. At the time, former ER star Noah Wyle, who played Jobs in the 1999 made-for-TV movie Pirates of Silicon Valley, reported that he would love to reprise the role in a new film.

Clooney and Wyle guest starring on…

Steve Jobs on an Apple Television: No Need for ‘All These Complicated Remote Controls’

The New York Times publishes an interview with Steve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson which among other topics may touch a bit further on Apple’s plans for a connected television set.

Isaacson had quoted Jobs in his biography as saying that he had “finally cracked” the difficulties in building an Apple television set, describing “the simplest user interface you could…

AppleCare+ Now Available for Sale Within 30 Days of iPhone Purchase

Alongside the launch of the iPhone 4S, Apple also debuted a new $99 AppleCare+ program offering an extended warranty with accidental damage coverage. The AppleCare+ package replaced the previous $69 AppleCare for iPhone offering that did not offer accidental coverage.

Some confusion about the AppleCare+ program arose in its early days, stemming in large part from Apple’s requirement that the coverage be purchased at the same time…

iPad 3 Display Shipments Nearing 3 Million Units with Assembly Set for January Start

Just yesterday, Digitimes noted that Apple had reduced its fourth-quarter orders for iPad 2 display components in order to accommodate production of iPad 3 parts. Apple’s strategy has apparently involved boosting production of iPad 2 parts during the third quarter and stockpiling them as it begins the transition to the iPad 3 this quarter.

Digitimes now expands upon that…