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Rich Carriers Got Richer in Q3
The rich mobile carriers got a little richer in the third quarter, as the nation’s top two operators increased their leads over the rest of the field. Verizon Wireless added a million subscribers and posted revenue of $15.8 billion, up 24.4 percent year-over-year, while AT&T reported...
Yesterday
Predictably, Google Exec Smacks Apple with Android Talk
Mario Queiroz, VP Production Management for Google Android, talked about Android and its competition, the iPhone, in an interview with FOX Business Network’s Liz Claman. Queiroz touts his company’s approach to form partnerships and alliances with carriers and handset makers as a bet...
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...
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, Oct 6
AT&T to Allow VoIP Calls Over 3G Network; Skype Fans Rejoice
All of us at Skype applaud today’s announcement by AT&T (in an FCC filing to be published shortly) that it’ll open up its 3G network to Internet calling applications such as Skype. It’s the right step for AT&T, Apple, millions of mobile Skype users and the Internet itself.
Google Links Up With Verizon to Fight Apple
Also, how might this tie into the $1.3 billion in investment funds aimed at driving both devices and applications on Verizon’s network? That’s a lot of money, and spending that much on applications would be pretty difficult. However if that’s going toward device development, things may g...
Monday, Oct 5
Adobe’s Open Screen Project: Bigger Than the iPhone
The lack of support for Flash has been a substantial problem on the mobile web, where browsers and transcoding technologies have had to strip out Flash-based applications entirely as they format web content for handsets, delivering an inferior experience for mobile users. So Adobe las...
Why Vonage Mobile Is Too Little, Too Late
“Our new mobile app is an important step in establishing Vonage as a software technology company that enables high-quality voice and messaging across any device in any location, providing great value over any broadband network,” said Marc Lefar, CEO of Vonage, in a press release. Despi...
Tuesday, Sep 29
Surprise! iPhone Users Love Their Phones, Hate Their Network
There is clear differentiation between the newer smartphones (iPhone, Android, and Pre) and the older smartphones. Older phones offer prospective buyers the nuts and bolts — e-mail, calendar, and perhaps web browsing — but little else. Applications, mostly an afterthought for older s...
Sunday, Sep 27
2 Billion iPhone Apps Downloaded, Apple Says
Apple said there are more than 85,000 apps available to the more than 50 million iPhone and iPod touch owners worldwide and over 125,000 developers in Apple’s iPhone Developer Program. As for downloads, it took nine months for Apple to hit the first billion. On April 24, 2009, there were 35,...
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...
