Apple expected to announce another record quarter today, here is what to expect

After Google’s big financials release yesterday, today it’s Apple’s turn and this would be probably the most important announcement as everyone is expecting lots of iPhones sold and another record-shattering quarter.

What makes this quarter’s earnings particularly interesting is the sharp decline in Apple stock value over the last few months. Since September, Apple stock has tanked to around $500, down from reaching nearly $700 value.

We’ve heard numerous reports about declining supply, demand and who knows what else for Apple devices so it’d be interesting to see how many iPhones and iPad Apple actually sold. Here is Wall Street’s analysts’ forecast:

Revenue: $54.58 billionEPS: $13.34Gross Margin: 39.5%iPhone: 50 millioniPad: 23 millionMac: 5 millioniPod: 12 millionMarch quarter revenue: $46.9 billionMarch quarter EPS: $12.10March quarter gross margin: 41.5%
Stay tuned for the actual results arriving later on today.

source: Business Insider

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New Instagram update adds yet another filter

A couple of days ago, Instagram created a furor by changing its ToS which set off speculation that the photo-sharing site was going to sell your pictures to advertisers and keep the money for itself. What made this believable was recent talk that Facebook was going to do something to monetize its billion dollar white elephant. As a public company, Facebook must put its shareholders first which means trying to squeeze profits out of Instagram. But by the end of the day, CEO Kevin Systrom had reversed direction and said that the change in the ToS had nothing to do with selling your photos to third parties and was all about experimenting with innovative advertising. Now that the anger has subsided, Instagram felt it might be able to divert your attention by issuing a new update that includes yet another new color photo filter. Version 3.4.0 of the app comes with "Mayfair," a new filter that adds a touch of lavender to your photos and brightens up the center of them. The update adds support for 25 languages on the app, Facebook integration allowing you to share pictures with the social-networking site and also fixes some bugs that were infesting Instagram.

Filters were in the news the last couple of weeks. First, the previous Instagram update brought the "Willow" filter to to the site, while Twitter and Flickr both added their own new selection of filters in order to compete with Instagram. Flickr and Twitter's timing seemed perfect as they both added filters around the same time that you would expect to see a number of Instagram users looking for a new photo-sharing site. Truthfully, though, not that many people left Instagram as they decided to give the site the benefit of the doubt. Now that the photo-sharing site has done and said all the right things with its damage control, the update issued Friday is icing on the cake. When the dust settles, we wouldn't be surprised to see Instagram with only a small loss of subscribers over the last week.

The new update is available from iTunes and the Google Play Store.

source: GooglePlayStore, iTunes via BGR

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Another BlackBerry 10 video tutorial leaked

Earlier this month, we showed you a leaked video tutorial for the BlackBerry 10 L-Series handset. The gestures displayed in the video allowed the user to see the tool bar on the top of the screen by pulling down on the display. At the same time, a tool bar on the bottom disappeared. An upward scroll of the screen reduced the image to thumbnail size.

This time, the image on the screen reveals a weather application rather than the travel website or app that was seen on the first leak. The gestures appear to be the exact same as seen previously. Like the first leak, it isn't much but it does show us how the gesture based UI handles some tasks. What do you guys think about this early look at BB10?

source: Crackberry

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Another BlackBerry 10 video tutorial leaked

Earlier this month, we showed you a leaked video tutorial for the BlackBerry 10 L-Series handset. The gestures displayed in the video allowed the user to see the tool bar on the top of the screen by pulling down on the display. At the same time, a tool bar on the bottom disappeared. An upward scroll of the screen reduced the image to thumbnail size.

This time, the image on the screen reveals a weather application rather than the travel website or app that was seen on the first leak. The gestures appear to be the exact same as seen previously. Like the first leak, it isn't much but it does show us how the gesture based UI handles some tasks. What do you guys think about this early look at BB10?

source: Crackberry

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First images of Huawei Ascend W2 surface, another high-class Windows Phone

The Huawei Ascend W2 has just leaked out and it follows in the footsteps of HTC and Nokia who each have one lower and one higher end Windows Phone 8 device. We have already seen the Huawei Ascend W1, the company’s affordable device, and this here Ascend W2 will hit the high-end market.

There is only a few things we know about the Huawei Ascend W2, though. First, it’s got an 8-megapixel rear camera with dual LED flash. There is obviously a front-facing shooter as well.

Chances are we will get to see it soon, though. Huawei’s Windows Phone lineup will probably get unveiled at CES in Las Vegas, NV in January 2013.

We know that the more affordable Ascend W1 will cost around $300 at launch, so this here should much more expensive.

source: UnwiredView

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