We’ve just heard some pretty sour news. Peter Schneider, head of Maemo marketing, has waxed official about the N900’s release and quite casually noted that it’ll “start shipping during November 2009,” which as you very well know is a whole month later than originally expected. An interesting tidbit to his post is that he notes Nokia had lent out 300 pre-production units to the community, and he stresses the importance Nokia places on the feedback received. Connecting the dots might suggest that feedback wasn’t quite as hot as Espoo had hoped, and a few last-minute refinements are now being applied. Either way, you’re gonna have to refill your patience for potentially another month of waiting.
source: engadgetmobile.com
AT&T has come clean with its third quarter earnings today, and on paper, it seems like big ol’ Number Two doesn’t have much to complain about as far as cash flow goes. EPS comes in at 54 cents, 4 cents more per share than the consensus estimate; revenue was up from the prior quarter (though down a bit from the same quarter a year ago) and they clocked in 2 million net adds, 1.4 million of which were postpaid. That now leaves AT&T with a staggering 81.6 million subs, 6.7 million more than a year ago. Meanwhile, 4.3 million new phones were activated on the network — 3.2 million of which were iPhones, AT&T’s best quarter ever for iPhone activations — which might actually be perceived as a bad sign for the company seeing how it stresses how heavily reliant it is on Apple’s baby for customer conquests. Data continues to be a heavy focus with data-focused revenue up 33.6 percent from the same period last year, and for everyone’s sake, we hope that every cent of that revenue is going right back into the network.