Post iPhone 5 release date: Can AT&T maintain subscriber growth?

Rumor mill is claiming that Apple might allow other carriers like Sprint Wireless and T-Mobile USA to sell its still-unannounced, but most likely existing Apple iPhone 5. So for the former exclusive carrier of the iPhone AT&T, is this a big bad news? Well, a bit, but not what others were then suggesting.

According to AT&T, they have added at least 331,000 new subscribers last quarter, which is more than 100% compared to 91,000 that analysts have suggested. However, the company’s profit fell to $3.59 billion compared to its previous record of $4 billion, but still better than the estimates made also by analysts.

Apparently, Verizon Wireless started selling the iPhone 4 in Q1 of this year, which is the first CDMA version of the iPhone to land in United States. Analysts and journalists then have predicted the growth slowdown of AT&T, but if the new figures presented yesterday is accurate, then it looks like there’s still hope for AT&T even after September, which is the rumored release month of the iPhone 5.

Can AT&T maintain its subscriber growth post iPhone 5 even with more competing carriers? Well, obviously they can especially if they will carry more Android and Windows Phone by the end of this year, which is actually possible (Nokia with Windows phones should start popping out of warehouses later this year).

Rumor has it that Google will introduce a new Nexus phone later this year, which will carry the Android’s latest build called Ice Cream Sandwich. It’s worth noting that AT&T is the latest carrier to support the Google Nexus S which is a phone manufactured by Samsung. The AT&T-flavored Nexus S will arrive by weekend and will sport a tag price of $99 with contract. Obviously, Google and AT&T have started a partnership regarding the Nexus line, so Nexus 3 under AT&T is highly possible now.



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Verizon Expects the iPhone 5 to Launch This Fall

While discussing Verizon’s results from the past quarter, Verizon COO and soon-to-be CEO Lowell McAdam made a very candid quip about Apple’s next iPhone release saying that while his company had expected it this summer, the carrier now expects it to arrive sometime this fall. Of course, this isn’t new. There are rumors abound about a release sometime this fall and possibly as soon as the end of August but what does make this interesting is that it’s coming from the CEO of a major wireless provider and not from a source. He did however state that his company still has no idea when the phone is going to come out.

So, if you’ve been worrying about whether or not the iPhone 4S/iPhone 5 would be coming out this year, you can probably rest pretty easy. It’s now just a matter of getting a specific date down.

Speaking of that, iPhone Italia, a source that will surely get a laugh out of our own Will Shanklin, is reporting that September 5th is the date that a “very reliable source” told them would be launch day for the next iPhone in the United States. That launch would then be followed by a October 5th launch everywhere else. Take those specific dates with a grain of salt but that early September release date has popped up so many times that it seems like the right horse to bet on.



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Here Are Some New Details On The iPhone 5

Bloomberg dug up some new details on the iPhone 5, which it says is coming in September. Some of them are already out there:

The iPhone 5 will include a faster chip, the A5, that Apple is using with the iPad 2

The camera resolution will improve to 8 megapixels, from 5 megapixels

The iPhone 5 release was delayed until September to wait for the iOS 5 release. (This is the first time we have heard an explanation for this delay.)

Apple is developing a cheaper "low-end" iPhone for developing countries that will be similar to today's iPhone 4. This will help the company compete with the Android onslaught.

The iPad 3, meanwhile, will likely have better screen resolution and a more responsive touchscreen.

IDC is projecting that Android will have more than twice the global market share as the iPhone by the end of the year: 40% for Android versus 18% for iPhone. This makes the cheaper iPhone even more important.





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