iPhone 4S

Siri accounts for 1/4 of Wolfram Alpha queries as search engine goes 'Pro'

About one quarter of the queries to the "computational knowledge engine" Wolfram Alpha now come from the Siri voice assistant found in Apple's iPhone 4S.

Katie Marsal | 12 years ago

Apple retakes crown as world's top smartphone maker

After tallying the numbers from top smartphone manufacturers' fourth quarter 2011 earnings, it was revealed on Monday that Apple has wrested the top spot from Samsung following the highly successful iPhone 4S launch.

AppleInsider Staff | 12 years ago

NPD: Apple's iPhone 4S, 4 & 3GS were top 3 US smartphones over holidays

Apple's iPhone lineup dominated smartphone sales during the holiday 2011 quarter, with the iPhone 4S, iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS taking the top three spots, respectively, in total U.S. sales.

AppleInsider Staff | 12 years ago

Apple iPhone 4S A5 chip incorporates Audience EarSmart noise reduction tech for Siri

Apple's A5 System on a Chip incorporates dedicated noise reduction circuitry by Audience, Inc., which optimizes the performance of Siri voice recognition on iPhone 4S.

Daniel Eran Dilger | 12 years ago

Apple pulls all 3G iOS devices but iPhone 4S from German online store

Apple has removed all 3G/UMTS-capable iPad and iPhone models from its German online store in response to an injunction based on a wireless standard FRAND patent owned by Motorola Mobility.

Mikey Campbell | 12 years ago

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iPhone's 36% of Q4 global handset revenue accelerates industry growth

New data shows that Apple accounted for 36 percent of worldwide mobile phone revenue and 74 percent of industry EBIT in the fourth quarter of 2011, with the iPhone taking more than a quarter of the entire smartphone market.

Mikey Campbell | 12 years ago

Samsung target of official EU antitrust probe

The European Commission announced on Tuesday that it has opened a formal investigation to decide whether Samsung's use of standard-essential FRAND patents as leverage in high profile cases, such as the company's worldwide battle with Apple, violates EU antitrust laws.

Mikey Campbell | 12 years ago

China Telecom confirms upcoming iPhone 4S launch could come as early as Feb.

China's third-largest wireless carrier confirmed on Monday the imminent launch of the iPhone 4S on its network and suggested that it could begin selling the device as early as the end of February or the beginning of March.

Josh Ong | 12 years ago

Rumor: Handset vendors waiting for iPhone 4S demand to cool before releasing new models

International smartphone vendors, including Samsung, HTC, Nokia and LG, are rumored to be waiting until the second quarter to release new handset models in order to avoid direct competition with Apple's hot-selling iPhone 4S.

Josh Ong | 12 years ago

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Apple Hong Kong instates iPhone lottery to combat rowdy scalpers

Faced with an influx of grey marketers and incidents of repeated violence over sales of the iPhone 4S in Hong Kong, Apple has turned to a safer, more secure system for divvying out new stock of the handset to customers each day.

Katie Marsal | 12 years ago

Apple predicted to sell up to 40M iPhones on China Mobile, China Telecom in 2013

Investment bank Morgan Stanley believes Apple will partner up with both China Telecom and China Mobile "over the next year" to make its iPhone available on all three Chinese carriers, a move that could bring incremental sales of as many as 40 million units next calendar year.

Josh Ong | 12 years ago

German court dismisses second Samsung patent suit against Apple

In an early morning ruling on Friday, the Mannheim Regional Court dismissed the second of five 3G/UMTS standards patent suits Samsung leveled against Apple.

Mikey Campbell | 12 years ago

Apple's iPhone believed to account for record 8% of global mobile phone market

Even as Apple appears to have retaken the top spot among smartphone makers during the fourth quarter of 2011, a new analysis claims the iPhone made up 8.3 percent of the worldwide mobile phone market during the same period.

Josh Ong | 12 years ago

Apple reclaims title of world's largest smartphone maker after blowout quarter

Apple overtook Samsung in the fourth quarter of 2011 to grab the top spot among global smartphone makers, earning 23.9 percent of the market with sales of 37 million iPhones, according to one set of estimates.

Josh Ong | 12 years ago

iPhone 4S accounts for 90% of US iPhone sales, 42% of customers break contract to buy

Despite the customary price drop of Apple's last generation iPhone 4 and the free-on-contract iPhone 3GS, the company's newest handset dominated sales and has seen strong numbers not only from early adopters, but "conventional" smartphone users as well.

Mikey Campbell | 12 years ago

More than 80% of smartphones activated at AT&T were Apple's iPhone

Apple's first carrier partner remains its strongest, as AT&T revealed on Thursday that it activated a record 7.6 million iPhones over the holiday 2011 quarter.

Sam Oliver | 12 years ago

New Motorola suit seeks injunction against Apple's iPhone 4S, iCloud

Motorola Mobility has filed a new U.S. lawsuit, presumably with approval from Google, against Apple, seeking an injunction against the newly released iPhone 4S as well as the iCloud service.

Slash Lane | 12 years ago

Massive holiday quarter pushes iPhone sales past Android in US

Apple's share of smartphones sold in the U.S. doubled in the fourth quarter of 2011, pushing iPhone sales just past the myriad of devices that run Google's Android platform.

Katie Marsal | 12 years ago

iPhone vs. Android a tight race but iPad puts iOS 'way ahead' in mobile OS war

Apple CEO Tim Cook outlined his thoughts on the company's iOS device performance during Q1 2012 and sees iPhone sales momentum closing the gap with rival handsets running Google's Android platform, while iPad and iPod touch are in a league of their own.

Mikey Campbell | 12 years ago

Verizon's 4.2M Q4 iPhone activations were more than half of its smartphones

Verizon on Tuesday revealed its quarterly earnings for the fourth quarter of 2011, in which it sold 7.7 million smartphones, 4.2 million of which were iPhones.