iPhone

T-Mobile is no longer offering a $99 down deal to get you an iPhone 5 – now it’s $149.

I don’t see this as the smartphone manufacturers problem. They make a device that thieves want to steal — how can they combat that? Is Nike going to make their shoes explode if stolen?

AT&T is launching a prepaid subsidiary that is selling the iPhone and other handsets.

T-Mobile reported selling half a million iPhone 5s to new and existing customers in their most recent financial report – not bad for a month’s work.

Ben Evans takes a look at the global market for phones like the iPhone, and decides that there are about 1.6 billion people left who might get one.

Apple’s facing global pressure to work differently with international carriers that represent huge numbers of cell phone users, in order to expand iPhone market share.

Market research firm comScore on Friday released a new study that shows Apple is leading the smartphone market in the U.S. The study focused on a three month average ending March 2013.

Funny because a lot of people said that once they deleted the app, the battery returned to normal functionality.

Spanish tennis player David Ferrer sent a tweet out to his more than 350,000 followers noting his pleasure with using Samsung’s new Galaxy S4, but accidentally sent the message from his iPhone.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

The headline at the Motley Fool:

Samsung’s Mediocre S4 Reviews Are Bad News for Apple

This must be a joke, right? Not even Motley Fool are stupid enough to let that go on their site.

Right?

Comparing the Samsung Galaxy S4 to the S3 and Apple’s iPhone®5, the iPhone 5 was the clear winner.

Quality usually wins.

Russell Holly for Geek.com:

If you head to the Storage section of the Settings on a new Galaxy S4, you’ll find that only 8.82GB is available to the user. That’s the total space available to you, so applications that were pre-loaded by your carrier and anything you sync over during account creation will pull from that amount. The rest of that 16GB you can’t even see as the user — Android tells you that the phone only has 8.82GB total, entirely cutting out the space used by the system itself.

Terrible.

I agree with Gruber on this. No matter what Apple does, someone will find a problem with it.

There’s a big trade in stolen iPhones, but SF cops are trying to do something about it.

With Google Reader closing down, it’s nice to see Reeder adding support for some new services. I have a Feedbin account and tried it out earlier today — it worked great.

Great ad.

iPhone was 57% of smartphone activations and 49% of ALL contract phone sales.

Not bad at all for a company that analysts keep bashing.

I can’t ruin the surprise, I’ll let Gruber tell you.

A good look at the smartphone market by Benedict Evans.