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Apple Q1 Earnings Seen Boosted By New iPhones, iPads

Wall Street expects Apple (AAPL) to return to earnings growth with its December-quarter results, due out after the market close Monday. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters are forecasting Apple to earn $14.09 a share, up 2% from the year-earlier period. Apple has posted four straight quarters of declining earnings per share on a year-over-year basis. Apple is seen posting sales of $57.46 billion, up 5%. Holiday sales of the company’s new iPhones

Sorry about those ‘unapologetically plastic’ iPhones

It turns out that people weren’t as excited about plastic iPhones as Apple thought they’d be. Apple reportedly is ending its venture into colorful plastic smartphones with the iPhone 5C, introduced just last September. Apple will ditch the plastic handsets when it unveils its larger screen, next-generation iPhones in the second half of the year, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday . Apple (AAPL) unveiled the iPhone 5C on Sept. 10 when it also debuted its flagship iPhone 5S, which has an anodized aluminum body with glass inlays. The 5C comes in five bright candy colors: blue, green, pink, yellow and white. But the iPhone 5C got off on the wrong foot because many people wrongly expected it to be the company’s entry into cheaper smartphones. Instead it is a midrange device, planned as a replacement for the year-old iPhone 5. The C in the iPhone 5C name stands for “color,” …

Apple Making iPhones With Larger Screens: Report

Apple’s (AAPL) next iteration of the iPhone will have a larger screen, according to a report. The Cupertino, Calif., company is planning to release two new smartphones, each touting screens bigger than 4.5 inches, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing unnamed sources. Apple usually introduces its new smartphone lines in the fall, and industry observers have long expected that larger-screen iPhones would be coming. One new iPhone version is said