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Small Businesses Using iPhone Apps To Target Customers

Small Businesses Using iPhone Apps To Target Customers

The report comes from “people briefed on Apple’s plans” and as usual the source prefers to remain anonymous.

A cheaper price tag seems more plausible than a smaller device as changing the size of the iPhone would mean apps would have to be rewritten to work on the smaller display.

It’s possible that Apple could make the iPhone cheaper by reducing the cost of the older model or there is talk that the internal hardware could be changed to use cheaper components.

Small Business

Last year one of our most popular articles of the year was written by Shara Karasic, who pointed out 10 small-business apps for the iPhone.  The response was so enthusiastic, that we invited Shara back for an even bigger and better roundup of apps for entrepreneurs and small-business execs this year.  And who better than Shara to contribute this article she lives, breathes, sleeps and eats apps in her role with Appolicious, a community review site for mobile apps.  Here in 2011 we are delighted to bring you Shara’s much bigger list of iPhone and iPad apps, organized by type of activity.

Network Speed

Other significant decision making details to consider is network speed. District sat down and physically tested the speeds of two iPhone 4’s side by side, Verizon vs. AT&T. First we turned off WiFi, and went outside to the park to avoid any electronic interference. We then downloaded Speedtest.net’s free network benchmark app, selected the same settings and ran the test 4 times at the same time on each phone. On the AT&T iPhone average download speeds were 4.13mb/s and average upload speeds were 1.61mb/s. Instead, launch-day lines outside Apple and Verizon Stores were rather short, if at all. Perhaps that’s because the phone itself wasn’t anything new. Sure there were Verizon customers who wanted to get their hands on it, as well as those who refused to ever buy an iPhone on AT&T. But for the most part, the masses of people who absolutely had to have an iPhone 4 ASAP already got one on AT&T.

[Thanks: http://dailynewspulse.com]

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