CHICAGO, Sept. 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include the Apple (Nasdaq:AAPL-Free Report), AT&T (NYSE:T-Free Report), T-Mobile (NYSE:TMUS-Free Report), Best Buy (NYSE:BBY-Free Report) and Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT-Free Report).
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Here are highlights from Tuesday's Analyst Blog:
Apple's New Phones Seeing Blockbuster Response
As anticipated, Apple's (Nasdaq:AAPL-Free Report) two new iPhones received blockbuster response from customers. Per Apple, four million orders were placed in the first 24 hours for iPhone 6 and the bigger-size 6 plus, which crushed all previous records.
Apple unveiled the two new iPhones at an event on Sep 9, 2014 and started taking pre-orders from Sep 12. The company announced that the demand for both the iPhones exceeded current availability. Hence, some pre-order customers may have to wait till October to receive the devices.
Apple will ship the two devices at Apple retail stores beginning Sep 19. Carriers and Apple partners — AT&T (NYSE:T-Free Report), T-Mobile (NYSE:TMUS-Free Report) and others — and authorized retailers — Best Buy (NYSE:BBY-Free Report), Target and Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT-Free Report) — will also start selling the devices on the same day.
Along with the United States, Apple will release iPhone 6 and 6 plus in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Puerto Rico, Singapore and the United Kingdom on Sep 19. The devices will be made available to 20 more countries on Sep 26.
We believe that the overwhelming response from users reflects pent-up demand for the bigger screen iPhone. iPhone 6 has a screen size of 4.7" while iPhone 6 plus boasts a phablet-like screen size of 5.5''. Apple's older iPhone 5S has a screen size of 4".
Apart from a bigger screen size, iPhone 6 offers higher resolution (1334x750 pixels), new Retina HD display, faster CPU clock speed (2x1.4 GHz), more battery power (1810 mAh), more internal storage (128 GB version available for the first time) and substantially better video recording quality (1080x60 fps).
The new iPhone 6 comes with near-field communication (NFC) technology, runs on new 64-bit A8 chip and include Apple's new iOS 8 mobile operating system. The availability of NFC in iPhone 6 will enable customers to use Apple Pay, scheduled to be introduced this October.
However, iSight camera (8-megapixel) and front-facing camera (1.2-megapixel) remained almost similar to iPhone 5S with minor changes. Apple did not offer any new upgrade for its Touch ID fingerprint sensor. The highly-anticipated Sapphire glass was also not used in the iPhones.
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