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World Smartphone Market Grows Despite Economy
Behind Nokia was RIM, with 19 percent of the market and 8.2 million units shipped. Apple, HTC and Samsung each had less than eight percent of the market. Another factor increasing shipments was a lowering of prices. Apple dropped the price of its iPhone to $199.
Verizon's Buzz for Motorola's Droid Fizzles at Day's End
The device is equipped with a 3.7-inch-high and 854-pixel-wide screen, features voice-activated search, the ability to toggle between applications, a thin QWERTY keyboard, a five-megapixel camera, a 16GB memory card, and turn-by-turn directions with the Google Maps Navigation be...
Motorola, Carriers Have High Hopes for Droid's Launch
Still, HTC has been mired in the No. 4 global smartphone sales slot behind Apple for more than a year and competition in their core space is increasing, Milanesi observed. "If they want to grow share, they need to appeal to a wider consumer segment than they have been...
Yesterday
Motorola's Droid May Appeal To BlackBerry Users
Early reviews are favorable but not over the moon. Writing in The New York Times, gadget reviewer David Pogue said, "The Droid wins on phone network, customizability, GPS navigation, speaker, physical keyboard, removable battery, and openness (free operating system, mostly uncenso...
Wednesday, Nov 4
AT&T Sues Verizon To Stop 'Misleading' Map Ads
Verizon and AT&T have been in a tug of war for customers since AT&T became the exclusive wireless carrier for Apple's iPhone. AT&T took some of Verizon's market share after the iPhone launch. From June through August 2008, 30 percent of U.S. customers who bought Apple's iPhone s...
Augmented Reality Goes Mobile
It was the shake heard 'round the world. On Aug. 27, 2009, uberblogger Robert Scoble uncovered a hidden software feature buried within an iPhone application that provides access to Yelp.com reviews. The secret, it turns out, was that users needed to shake the phone to activate the capabilit...
Tuesday, Aug 11
Review: Navigon App for iPhone Hits Bumps
Many applications on the iPhone take advantage of knowing where you are. But despite GPS (and other location-based technologies), it's only relatively recently that apps have appeared on the iPhone that promise to turn it into a true car navigation system. Meaning turn-by-turn directi...
