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To: pyslent who wrote (11434)	10/21/2011 9:17:34 AM
From: sylvester80	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32692

AT&T, the LARGEST iPhone carrier by far, reported in Q3 that it sold 2.7mil iPhone. Verizon's 4G LTE Android smartphones ALONE are more than 50% what the largest iPhone carriet shipped. MORE than 50%. It is clear to anyone with HALF a brain that 4G LTE's growth is off the chart and clearly 4G LTE has gone mainsteam..... bwahahahahahahaha

To: pyslent who wrote (11434)	10/21/2011 5:49:59 PM
From: pyslent	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 32692

Who will save LTE? The hits keep coming... today Verizon announced that it sold 1.4 million LTE devices in Q3, but in the Q3 conference call, they revealed that just over 50% were phones. So between 4 flagship smartphones, they got to split 700 K in sales for a quarter. No wonder Apple is killing it at the high end. Total 4G phone sales to date (since a late March launch) is estimated (by me) to be 1.6 million. I have no doubt that 4G is the future, but it's simply not here now. Not all is lost for the Android faithful, they have the mid tier sewn up (for now). Other notes from the call: - VZ sold 2 million iPhones - Sold 5.6 million smartphones - "More than half" of these smartphones were Android, so for those counting, Android > iPhone at Verizon However, Apple has seen great success at Verizon where we've seen the carrier post iPhone sales that climb to almost 40% of smartphone sales from literally 0% 1 year ago... that is a huge number when you consider the entrenched head start Android once had at Verizon.