2009 summer would be specially remembered as the season of smartphone. Come June there would be avalance of smartphones coming from renown phone makers. It's going to be a tough competition for the makers and for consumers there would be some confusion deciding what to purchase.
Some of the notable names and their expected launch dates are:
Palm Pre: The killer phone that runs on a new operating system WebOS, which also has been considered as iPhone killer would start selling from June 6. This comes ahead of the expected new iPhone launch.
Apple's iPhone(s): The launch of the new iPhone is expected during Read More...
Back in July, 2008 when the iPhone 3G was launched, Steve Jobs said that "software" is what makes the iPhone stand out from other smartphones. No one has any issue with this statement. However, it doesn't mean that the iPhone is a real "Jesus" phone as some bloggers prefer to call with no issues. The dos and don'ts in place while using the iPhone has made many iPhone lovers sick and tired. The latest move from Apple to make jailbreaking the device as illegal has invoked anger not only with users but with other competitors too. The battle would go Read More...
Is the iPhone a smart gaming device? You bet so. InfromationWeek report provides some numbers in this context (Citing a ComScore report):
ComScore said. Overall, 32.4% of iPhone users have downloaded a game, compared with a market average of 3.8%.
And this has pushed the overall preference of smartphone users towards using their devices as gaming consoles by quite a few notches. The InformationWeek has some other numbers to hit you as well:
1. Downloading of mobile games has grown by 17% this year
2. At least one game has been downloaded by 8.5 million people, which roughly comes to about 3.8% Read More...
With all the whiz, bang, pop and shining shimmer that come with 10,000 apps and nearly 2500 games at the App Store, the iPhone has emerged as a serious player in the world gaming. So much so that it has started drawing comparisons with specialized and established handheld gaming devices.
It is true that the App Store has been flooded with free and low-priced games and their popularity and sheer number have already posed some serious challenges for the Sony PSP and the Nintendo. But does that really mean the iPhone is already a serious challenger for these established empires in Read More...
Even with recession threatening to turn into a depression, Apple Inc’s march towards glory and super-wealth shows no signs of slowing down. And all that, courtesy to the iPhone.
According to the Gartner Research’s Smartphone sales report, the smash hit iPhone has propelled Apple’s worldwide smartphone market share to 327.5%.
This also comes in the wake of a global slowdown in the smartphone market space. Globally, Smartphone Sales Reached Its Lowest Growth Rate With 11.5 Per Cent Increase in Third Quarter of 2008
This also puts the iPhone over all at number 3, behind Nokia's Symbian and RIM's Blackberry.
The one to lose out? Read More...
How long will it take for other competitors to come up with something very near to Apple's iPhone? What are the necessary steps to be taken to outshine the iPhone? Here we have some strategies straight from the desk of Nokia. Nokia has come up with a plan to tie up with Microsoft to fight the Smartphone battle and Microsoft reportedly has agreed to give whatever is needed to see the iPhone replaced by what is supposed to come out of this Micro-Nokia union.
Microsoft has agreed to provide Zune software to Nokia to produce something that is innovative and unique Read More...
It’s just one of those days where I keep running into satire—and it’s so annoyingly subtle that I’m not even sure it’s there. I just wrote about Apple’s “miserable weekend sales” in “Apple hatred at its worst!,” and now here’s another one.
Chris Green at ITPro claims that Microsoft is planning a Zune-based smartphone. This is what he says:
…such a device is in the works, which is great news as it would easily provide respectable competition to Apple’s iPhone.
All the components are in place – Windows Mobile as the underlying OS, the Zune user interface for the front-end, tweaked and extended…
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According to IDC, RIM has surged ahead while Apple has lost some of its market share. On the face of it, this looks like a comeback from RIM, but there are other factors that explain this.
RIM has been in the SmartPhone business for some ten years. In that time, they perfected the push email technology, created the handheld devices that used the technology, popularized the QWERTY keyboard, and also convinced users that this is what smartphones were supposed to be. No less (well, maybe at times) and certainly no more.
Apple has taken exactly one year (still a few days to go, actually) to Read More...
The new report says iPhone sales dropped from 26.7% to 19.2% in the last quarter. Does this mean people don’t like the iPhone anymore? Not really. iPhone has been out of stock in most places, and in short supply elsewhere—after all, everyone is waiting for the launch of the long awaited 3G iPhone.
Even with the drop in sale, iPhone races to the second place. Mind you, iPhone is just a year old phone, and considering how strikingly different iPhone is from all exiting phones, it is incredible that so many people have taken to it in a short time. Blackberry Read More...
