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Mac OS Ken: 09.28.2012

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7996 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2012

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

iPhone 5 Wave 2 Takes Communicator to 22 More Countries Six US Regional Carriers Start iPhone 5 Sales Today (Some with $50 Discounts) UBS Analyst Lowers Holiday-Quarter iPhone Sales Expectations to 38-Million Units Due to Supply Constraints Some Users See Purple Halo and Purple Flare in Pictures Taken with iPhone 5 Apple Approval Process May Make iPhone 5 Lightning Accessories Slow to Arrive B of A Testing NFC-Free Payment System for iPhone and Android Phones Urban Outfitters CIO Says Chain is Ditching Cash Registers for iPod touches and iPads Apple Denied Music Icon Trademark Due to Similarity to Trademark Owned by MySpace Motorola Advertises Against iOS 6 Maps with Non-Existent Address

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0:00.0

This is Mac OSKIN.

0:09.2

It's iPhone 5 Wave 2 day. I things get a couple of pushes in retail and Motorola does something dumb.

0:21.0

It's Friday, September 28, 2012. I'm Ken Ray, and this is news from MacO

0:27.8

S-Can. Brought to you by yours truly and supported by listeners like you subscribers to MacoS Ken Day 6.

0:36.9

More information is available at MacoS Ken.com.

0:41.2

This show is also supported by the MacOS-Can Podcast app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch,

0:48.0

available in the App Store now for $2.99.

0:53.1

The second wave of the iPhone 5 onslaught should be underway.

0:57.3

Assuming all has gone as planned, the sixth iPhone is going on sale or has gone on sale in 22 more countries including Austria, Belgium

1:06.3

Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway,

1:16.7

Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. In addition to the new nations

1:24.0

CNET says the slew of regional carriers in the states

1:27.0

are starting sales of the iPhone today

1:29.0

with some actually selling the phone at $50 off.

1:33.0

Selcom, N telos, Appalachian Wireless, C-SPire, G.C.I, and Cricket, all get going with the phone today.

1:41.0

Three of those, Selcom and TELOS in

1:44.6

Appalachian, will do the $50 drop making a 16 gigabyte iPhone 5

1:49.6

$147 for the 32-Gger, and $349 for the 64-Gibiby model, each with a corresponding

1:59.2

contract, of course.

2:00.8

Cricket, meanwhile, has a very interesting deal, an off-contract 16 gigabyte iPhone

2:06.6

5 for $490.99, which is a lot, though it's $150 less than the contract-free price for the iPhone from AT&T.

2:18.0

Perhaps the most interesting thing about the addition of the regional carriers and the 22 countries, they're hopping on the iPhone

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