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The edge version of the Iphone could be a better product
Sep 10th
Recently it has come out that the new 3G iPhones are cracking at stress points, such as near the volume buttons, the headphone jack, the power button, and the connection port and many of these phones were reported to spend the entire time the owners had them inside a padded case. The iPhone 3G has one very important difference in manufacturing process, the metal case that existed in the original iPhone has been replaced with a glossy plastic (which is why the 3G iPhone is available with a white or black backing), and this would be a benefit to the iPhone, as it makes it look good, however with the cases breaking Apple (AAPL) has had to replace thousands of iPhones.
This all got me thinking, what does the 3G iPhone really have on the original edge iPhone?
Speed: Yes when you’re out and about the 3G iPhone will load pages faster, roughly 3 times faster, but with modern web pages the load time of the iPhones is measured in seconds. However, both phones work on Wi-Fi, and load the same National Geographic page for the iPhone in 17 seconds according to apple, so if you are sitting around at home, 3G iPhones and a edge iPhones should connect just as fast.
Price: Yes, the 3G iPhone is only 199$ but you can find an edge iPhone for only $100 on eBay in fairly good shape. In addition to this, by some reports, the 3G iPhone can cost the average user over $500 more over the span of the payment plan than what the original would have cost.
Firmware: This is what makes the iPhones work, and they are the same on both, both phones will use the same incredibly entertaining applications.
Hackability: This is a concern to some users, as they may be on T-mobile. Apparently while they both have been successfully hacked to work on any network that uses sim cards (sorry Verizon users in the United States), however I have been told that for future updates it is also easier to hack the edge network iPhone.
GPS: The only real unavoidable advantage of the 3G iPhone in my opinion is the GPS, however in areas like New York with tons of reference points for its Google (GOOG) driven cell phone pinging technology, the edge iPhone technology usually gives a good enough location to figure out your location.
Overall, the only superiority the new iPhone has is when your out and about, but that may not be a good idea, because you might break it.
You might want to consider SDS tommrow: EARNINGS BRIEF
Jul 16th
It is my opinion that you may want to short the market tommrow, as I am expecting the market to have a retracement tommrow. A good choice might be to buy SDS tommrow, as you will double what the market does, this being said, get out of it before close.
I’m not entirely sure what time these are all coming out but here but here are my predictions.
- TD Ameritrade (AMTD) will beat earnings with .35 a share in earnings as opposed to .32
- Coke (KO) will take a hit after failing to meet earnings because of oil and other costs. .91 a share in earnings IMHO
- Microsoft (MSFT) will beat earnings with an eps of .50 this might be from the fallback in a bad economy, blowing up cars with a rocket launcher (In gta. not that gates couldnt afford to do that).
- Google (GOOG) will beat the streets estimate of 4.74 with a compelling 5.00, I am expecting this extra amount from my own data gathering from sources operating websites outside of the United States.
- Bank of New York Mellon Corp (BK) could beat earnings because of exchange rates with Dubai etc. 0.75 expected, I’m not sure on this one.
- CIT Group (CIT) may only lose 3.35 a share as opposed to the estimated 3.4, as i think there may be a few unaccounted for $ in earnings they can come up with
- BancorpSouth, Inc. (BXS) will SMASH earnings, judging by my input from friends and family from my native Tennessee. I honestly expect 50 cents a share in earnings.
- Harley-Davidson (HOG) will miss earnings, knowing the people who buy harley’s now adays arent the rough riders, they are the retired doctors and such that may be directly affected by this bad stock market. I expect 65 cents a share as opposed to the streets expected 75
- JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) may actually do worse than expected but if it does it will only be slight, however that wont matter as much because Dimon has been talking it down long enough that just surviving will send it soaring.
- Merrill Lynch (MER) Will NOT BEAT EARNINGS. Period, if it does, I will post a picture of me wearing a burger king kings hat. THEN I WILL EAT IT.(partially at least)
- Nokia (NOK) will not beat earnings because of increasing material prices and decreasing demand. I expect 50 cents a share.
- PNC Financial Services Group Inc. (PNC) will not beat Earnings due to market situations combined with losses in customer base. I expect 1.10 eps
Id take this time to also get back into apple as I can see it shooting up to 200 from this point.
All of that being said, this market is crazy and im a College student, do as you want, thats what I think is going to happen, If you want some really good advice, I’d suggest reading TheCodyReport as Cody Willard, one of the smartest people I know writes it, and he is rarely wrong (consistantly beating the markets while he managed his fund (bought apple at 7 and google at IPO))
Googleplexed? Heres my opinion on Google Inc. (GOOG)
May 28th
Quicktake
- AN AU Google (GOOG)(an AU is the distance between the earth and the sun, inotherwords, really long.)
Google, the everlasting giant of the series of tubes we all know as the internets, is at what i consider to be a great buying price. Google will experience a dominance of search technology similar to the dominance of tissues that the kleenex corporation did, and this is only because of the fact that everyone no longer searches for anything but rather googles it. Google managed to be able to create a corporate enviorment that is the best in the world. These productive and happy employees have come out with gems that everyone knows about in their SPARE TIME, such as GMail.
Google however has a few things you might not be taking into your considerations when calculating how they get their earnings.
- Google makes loads of money off of MOZILLA, this is because of the embedded search bars you see on the top right of your browser. One analysts projection is that between that search bar and the toolbars, google makes at least a BILLION dollars. Important to note of the value of this is that google will pay people 1$ for any bar their site refers onto someones browser. The importance of this is that Mozilla is coming out with Firefox Release Candidate 2 for firefox 3.0 (Which this is being written on)(this means more users gleamed from IE when it is released and more profit for google.
- The 3G IPHONE, for the same reason as Mozilla, google makes loads of money everytime someone uses google, which is preset onto these iphones, to click on one of their paid links (which belive me get used with iphones)(I <3 my Iphone, which is paid for when you click on adds, so thanks)
- The android, not to be confused with [[Iron Man]], Is an open phone (can be used with any carrier that signs up) Loaded with the absolute best nerds could come out with, this phone is going to smack the Blackberry Bold and the 3G iphone into the ground, im talking deathmatch style, it will hurt Apple Inc.(AAPL) and Research in Motion (RIMM) (RIMM More, check this article out)
- Jerry Yang, need i say more, is going to be the best thing to happen to google since USB 2.0 (they need flashdrives) he manages to increase googles profits when he lets them serve some of the adds, further driving people to just go with google alone because, hey, it’ll end up on yahoo anyway.
Overall, i have a 12 month price target of $750 with this stock. Have at it, and look me up on google.
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