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Location, Location, Location: SimpleGeo, Twitter, Flook
What’s interesting is that Flook comes from two Symbian founders, Roger Nolan and Jane Sales. Said Nolan on a call from London today, “Apple seemed to just do all the things that Symbian and Nokia should have done for a long time.” So he and Sales (they’re married) along with two other co-foun...
Pandora: 24% Of Our Users Signed Up on a Mobile Phone
Fully half of the company’s first-time users are now signing up via mobile devices, he told me, and since Pandora arrived on the iPhone in July 2008, 9 million people have created new accounts on smartphones, including iPhones, BlackBerrys, Palm and Android phones. That’s 24 percent of P...
Like AT&T, O2 Pays the Price for Heavy iPhone Usage
Like AT&T, O2 has drawn criticism regarding its network performance as smartphone usage increases. The increased traffic is directly attributable to the iPhone 3G S and the Palm Pre, which are the best-selling devices on its network, CTO Derek McManus said in a release:
The Trouble With iPhones
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The Trouble With iPhones
The iPhone has not only changed the way people consume data on their mobile phones — thanks to its touchscreen, and the myriad of apps that make grabbing such info from the web on a small device easy — it’s changed assumptions as to which devices [...]
Tuesday, Nov 17
Adobe Flashes Its Mobile Cards With New Releases
While Apple’s iPhone was once again conspicuously absent from Adobe’s announcement, Adobe has consistently said it has a working relationship with the Cupertino company and would like to bring Flash to the iPhone. (Both of Adobe’s new beta releases support multi-touch input.)
Monday, Nov 16
iPhone to Be China’s Top-Selling Smartphone? Really?
“We’re very confident about the market position of the iPhone,” Bloomberg quotes Chang as saying. The report also quotes IDC analyst Aloysius Choong, who said that “Unicom must lower its prices if it wants to access the mass market for the iPhone.”
How Many Droids Has Motorola Sold?
Flurry monitors about 10,000 apps across iPhone and Android and claims that it tracks apps on approximately two out of three unique iPhone and Android handsets. To estimate first week sales totals for the myTouch 3G, Droid and iPhone 3GS, Flurry detected new handsets within its system, a...
Wednesday, Nov 11
Verizon to Launch an iPhone Next Year?
Northeast Securities’ note jibes with a new report from OTR Global via AppleInsider, which claims that Apple plans to roll out a hybrid iPhone — enabling the Cupertino company to sell a single global handset “to all carriers” — by the third quarter of next year. Similar to Northeast Securi...
Google CEO Schmidt: Why We Bought AdMob
With the acquisition of AdMob, Google now has access to usage data of many of the most popular mobile apps–especially the apps in the iTunes App Store. For iPhones. If Google is taking on Apple for mobile OS market share, they just scored a huge competitive advantage. Google will know more det...
Sunday, Nov 8
Nimbuzz Takes on Skype with New Calling Out Service
There are a few things I don’t like about this client: if you leave the notifications on, the client will run down your battery and leave the phone pretty useless. If you are using it on an iPhone, then you have to use the WiFi connection, which makes me a tad upset because you can make Skype call...
Tuesday, Nov 3
What Are the Downsides to Droid?
Accessing the Droid’s built-in support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync will cost users an additional $15 a month. (UPDATE: Gearlog is reporting that this isn’t true; according to the post, the additional $15 fee is for business account holders, not Exchange access.) While the charge...
Sony Ericsson’s New Android Phone Is Sleek, But Has a Hole
Sony Ericsson today announced its Xperia X10 smartphone, based on Android, which features a customized software layer called UX built on top of the open-source operating system. It’s the first of a family of smartphones that the company plans to deliver in the first half of next year, and...
Sunday, Nov 1
The Next Hot e-Reader: The iPhone
Yesterday at the urging of a friend, I ordered “Your Brain at Work” by David Rock on my iPod touch via the Amazon Kindle app. In doing so, I became one of many people who are helping the iPhone become more than just a phone. It’s latest role: e-reader. Book-related apps saw an upsurge in launches i...
Friday, Oct 30
For the iPhone in China, Freedom Is the Great Wall
As has always been true — from the birth of the personal computer to the success of the iPhone — great applications help ensure the success of hardware technologies. In the U.S. market and elsewhere, great applications are driving the iPhone’s rapidly increasing adoption. For censorship re...
Wednesday, Oct 28
The Droid Has Landed…Unboxed! Plus a Few Facts
They found a way to fit a slide-out keyboard into a phone that was only 1.5 millimeters thicker than the iPhone. And they used a 3.7-inch touchscreen, noticeably bigger than the 3.5-inch screen on the iPhone. To take advantage of the higher resolution of that screen, Motorola, working with Goo...
Tuesday, Oct 27
Do Opera Mini Stats Tell the Whole Mobile Web Story?
Mini is a great alternative for feature phones and other handsets with inferior embedded browsers, but as AdMob pointed out again last month, iPhones and other high-tech smartphones with advanced browsers are driving a huge amount of traffic on the mobile web. Opera is running neck-and...
Monday, Oct 19
Opinion: With N900, Nokia Still Not Close to The iPhone
Hardware: Why I wasn’t surprised The device has all the modern hardware trappings: WiFi, 3G, GPS and lots of storage. These are table stakes for any modern smart phone, so these features aren’t really much of a surprise. Software: Why I was surprised
The Droid Phone Gets Marketing — But Is That Enough to Combat the iPhone?
Let’s not forget the enormity of the iPhone’s momentum, though. Apple said this afternoon that it sold 7.4 million iPhones in its most recent fiscal quarter, 7 percent more than the same three-month period a year earlier and 43 percent more on a sequential basis. To win against the iPhone,...
What New Product Will Apple Release in 2010?
And of course, iPod sales continue their slow decline — Apple sold 10.2 million iPods in the most recent three-month period, down 8 percent from the same quarter a year earlier and 7 percent from its fiscal 2009 third quarter. Back in June of 2008, I read the handwriting on the wall by saying st...
Saturday, Oct 17
Coming Soon: a Mozilla App for the iPhone
Now I am kinda intrigued about this new application and most importantly wondering if Apple is going to approve it. The iPhone maker has been pretty hostile towards anyone making apps that compete with what Apple thinks is the core functionality of its phone. And 330 million people know tha...
Friday, Oct 16
Survey Says: PCMag’s Readers Crown the iPhone King, Despite Quibbles
Despite rumblings from some iPhone users about how Apple’s exclusive contract with AT&T as service provider for the iPhone should end, respondents in PCMag.com’s 2009 Cell Phone Service & Reliability study have crowned it king of the mobile market.
Thursday, Oct 15
iPhone Sales: Now Bigger Than Ever
With Apple opting for polygamy in its choice of iPhone carriers, the company has a chance to increase its market share even further. With China and India as new market opportunities for lower-cost versions of the iPhone, Apple could become a dominant superphone market force. The thriving...
Friday, Oct 9
Why the End of AT&T’s iPhone Exclusivity Would Be Good for Apple
AT&T’s exclusive deal with Apple as the U.S. carrier for the iPhone expires next year, and there are signs that the arrangement between the two companies will then end. Such a move would bode very well indeed for the entire Apple ecosystem, from iPhone users to application developers. Ap...
Thursday, Oct 8
For Mobile Music-As-a-Service, How Soon Is Now?
Rhapsody, the music subscription service, says its free iPhone application has been downloaded more than 330,000 times since its launch Sept. 9, making it the No. 2 music app in the iTunes store. But while that’s an enthusiastic display of interest in a fairly moribund music rental model se...
Tuesday, Sep 23
Live from the Google Phone Announcement
SIM-locked? Will be SIM-locked to T-Mobile as it rolls out. Will it get unlocked like iPhone? No guarantees. Won’t say the word iPhone (”the device you mentioned”) Bluetooth? Supports headsets. We’ll get to A2DP. Supports iTunes? Yes but not DRM content.
Thursday, Sep 18
The Carrier Panel: Strategies To Keep Mobile Data Growing
Russ, Sprint: Carriers may not be the best ones to ID an applications space. Frank, O2: We have operations internationally, so if someone gave me a mass-market handset that made the Internet relevant for everyone across our group that would be sweet. I need a new user interface.
Sunday, Dec 17
Forget iPhone, Think Google Phone
Google Phone, if you think about it is a reasonable speculation. Google has been aggressive in developing location based services, has amp-ed up its local search and mapping services. In addition, it has also been mobilizing its applications such as GTalk and GMail. YouTube, the video arm...
