TechBytes: iPhone 4 Gets a Thumbs Up For Life
Here is a summary of make up reports for selected telegraph and satellite TV companies and what they reveal about the industry’s prospects:
July 28: Comcast Corp., like many other cable TV companies, continues to lose TV customers. In the reciprocal ohm quarter, Comcast lost 265,000 basic goggle box subscribers to end with 23.2 million. That’s greater than the loss of 214,000 in the same menses last year. But Comcast is seeing development in those signing up for pricier digital cable service, and it’s seeing growth in high-speed Internet and phone customers.
Aug. 5: Time Warner Cable Inc., the body politic’s second-largest cable TV go with, lost 111,000 basic video subscribers to end the seasonally slower second quarter with 12.7 million. But Time Warner Cable saw more customers sign up for digital cable TV, Internet and phone services.
Cablevision Systems Corp., a regional cable TV company in the New York City area, reports strong mental process across the board, adding video subscribers in the second quarter unlike other major cable TV operators. Cablevision gained 2,900 video customers to end the quarter with 3.07 million.
DirecTV Inc., the nation’s largest satellite TV provider, says it added 100,000 net U.S. subscribers in the second quarter to end with 18.8 million. The company also added 415,000 subscribers in Latin America, boosted by the World Cup soccer tournament, to end the quarter with 5.2 million.
Among pay live internet TV companies’ earnings coming up:
Monday: Dish Network Corp.
There’s good news for the iPhone 4. A small review conducted by Change Wave search found 72 percent of all users are “very satisfied” with it. The iPhone 4 had received bad press because of antenna problems that led to a “not recommended” rating from Consumer Reports.
A survey of users finds 72% of customers as being satisfied with the new phone.Google WaveGoogle is dropping the Wave. The Wave was designed to let groups of throng pass with features that resembled instant messaging, e-mail and documents. BlackBerry Torch ReviewThe new BlackBerry Torch smartphone will be in stores next week. The Torch is getting a thumbs up from USA Today’s Ed Baig. He says the new BlackBerry 6 software brings the production up to date. Baig also says the Torch should appeal both to BlackBerry’s core business customers and to other smartphone users.
“The Torch is a slider phone and that means it has a physical keyboard that actually slides out from the bottom. And it’s worthy of the BlackBerry keyboards in the past, it’s an area of great strength for Blackberry” Baig said. “But it also has a touchscreen, and it’s a touchscreen that folks have come to expect with recent smartphones.”
The Torch costs about $200.
