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Why the Palm Pre won’t challenge the iPhone
The Palm Pre created a huge splash when it was unveiled at CES earlier this year. At last, people thought, a worthy competitor to the iPhone was upon us. The Pre, of course, is scheduled for a release sometime in the second quarter of ’09. This means a late June launch at the latest, and […]
Continue reading...Why Bono left Apple for RIM
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Blame it on a slow newsday, but a recent article in TheGlobalMail sheds some light on why former Apple posterboy Bono all of a sudden started showing up with BlackBerry’s in tow. According to the article, the U2 frontman told Toronto-based DJ Alan Cross a little bit about some new initiatives underway betweenn RIM and […]
Continue reading...Thursday Evening Link Roundup
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Palm Pre not going to be sold at Best Buy? – PreCentral (Palm is bleeding money, and they desperately need the Pre to be a runaway hit. Palm should do everything it can to get it into as many retail locations as possible, Sprint be damned!) John Carmack on porting Wolfenstein over to the iPhone […]
Continue reading...BlackBerry App Store expected to launch on April 1
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Unless its some sort of lame April Fools joke, BusinessWeek is reporting that RIM’s attempt at an app store will go “live” on April 1. On Apr. 1, Mike Lazaridis, co-CEO of Research in Motion, is expected to take the stage at the wireless industry’s annual trade show in Las Vegas and open the virtual […]
Continue reading...iPhone marketshare doubled in Q4 2008
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
New data released by Gartner shows that the smartphone marketshare of the iPhone increased by 111% from Q4 2007 to Q4 2008. Other manufacturers such as RIM and Samsung also experienced impressive growth over the past year. Meanwhile, Nokia’s share of smartphone sales dipped by nearly 17% over the same quarter a year-agoo. Ars Technica […]
Continue reading...No 99-cent apps will be allowed on RIM’s new online store for BlackBerry devices
Thursday, March 5, 2009
With app stores seemingly emerging from every which way, RIM was able to snag the name “BlackBerry App World” before someone else stole the ‘world’ moniker. App World almost sounds like the equivalent of Disney World, only geared for young nerd instead. BlackBerry’s new online app store was originally scheduled to go live on Wednesday […]
Continue reading...iPhone reaches 1% market share in worldwide cellphone market
Sunday, February 1, 2009
When Steve Jobs first introduced the iPhone in 2007, he pointed out that the market for cellphones worldwide was far greater than the market for any other type of consumer electronic device. Apple’s goal with the iPhone, Jobs went on to say, was to achieve a 1% market share in the cellphone market in 2008. […]
Continue reading...Smartphones: The Race to 1 Million Sold
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Engadget posted this graphic earlier today encapsulating how fast each particular smartphone was able to sell 1 million units. Verizon has been trumping up the 1 million units sold figure all week for the BlackBerry Storm, but this chart helps put things into perspective. It took the Storm over 2 months to sell 1 million […]
Continue reading...iPhone and iPod Touch web marketshare surges
Saturday, January 10, 2009
New data released by AdMob shows that the number of people using an iPhone or iPod Touch to connect to the internet is growing at an impressive rate. AdMob, which runs an ad network for mobile websites, compiled the following data in December 2008. Smartphones Worldwide Worldwide, the #1 source of smartphone web requests to […]
Continue reading...Why developers prefer the iPhone, and why Android and RIM face an uphill battle
Thursday, November 27, 2008
I came across this quote from Cosential that captures the essence of why many developers are starting to prefer coding for the iPhone. “In learning about development for the Blackbery platforms, we have to create a build for each phone and each network. As a developer, I just can’t afford it. Most of my customers […]
Continue reading...iPhone now the second most popular corporate smartphone
Friday, November 21, 2008
Fresh on the heels of the BlackBerry Storm’s impending release, a new report from ChangeWave Research shows that the iPhone is slowly but steadily picking up market share amongst corporate smartphone users. But RIM shouldn’t be as worried as Palm. The majority of market share snagged from Apple appears to have been taken away from […]
Continue reading...BlackBerry Storm Reviews: The consensus? Good, not great.
Thursday, November 20, 2008
With the BlackBerry Storm scheduled to hit US stores this Friday, the reviews have started trickling in. Silicon Alley Insider reviews the phone and reports that while it’s a pretty good and solid phone, it still lacks the polish of the iPhone. SAI liked the clickable keyboard, but found the lack of WiFi and a […]
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009
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