When you look at the latest, greatest devices from Apple, Samsung, Motorola and the like all day, it can be easy to forget that not everyone out there is sporting a smartphone. But feature phone users have thoughts and feelings that need to be tweeted at all times, too. It’s a good thing then, that [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Apple’
Twitter makes its mobile site more feature phone friendly
Posted: 7th May 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: Apple, Email, Engadget, Feature Phone, Fit, Handsets, Low Bandwidth, Mobile Phone, Moniker, Motorola, Nbsp, Phone Users, Samsung, Smartphone, Thoughts And Feelings, Twitter, Uniform Experience
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Color announces Verizon partnership, preaches the dream of streaming HD
Posted: 7th May 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: Apple, Break, Carrier, Ces, Engadget, Exclusivity, Founder Bill, Frame Rate, Functionality, Hd, Including Sound, Nbsp, Nguyen, Partnership, Streaming Service, Subscribers, Technology, Verizon, Wilderness, Zippy
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Color founder Bill Nguyen describes the startup’s early life as being “in the wilderness,” a state, he adds, that can also be used to describe past projects he’s helmed (a point we can’t exactly argue). Of course, Lala finally found its way — eventually being scooped up by Apple. And now Color, an app that’s [...]
Nielsen: Over 50 percent of US mobile users own smartphones, Android and iPhone sitting pretty
Posted: 7th May 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: Android, Apple, Blackberry, Cellphone, Email, Engadget, Hasn, Heap, Iphone, Lead, Milestone, Mobile 1, Mobile Users, Nbsp, Nielsen, Platforms, Rim, Samsung, Smartphone, Windows Phone
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Smartphones crossed an important milestone in March, based on Nielsen’s estimates. Just over half of cellphone owners in the US — 50.4 percent, to be exact — had a smartphone of some kind, making dumbphones the minority for the first time. The smartphone tale of the tape shows that the OS split has largely tapered [...]
Apple gives MobileMe holdouts an olive branch, extends 20GB iCloud offer to September
Posted: 6th May 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: Apple, Breathing Room, Engadget, Fear, Holdouts, Iweb, Leap, Mobileme, Nbsp, Olive Branch, Snow Leopard, Sting, Storage, Sun, Transition
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Still skittish about jumping from MobileMe to iCloud, even after Apple promised you a free copy of Snow Leopard to ease the pain? Have no fear: Apple has quietly extended its offer to upgrade those paying for 20GB of MobileMe space to a matching amount on iCloud the next time they renew. You now have [...]
Sprint CEO takes pay cut as investors voice concern about cost of iPhone deal
Posted: 5th May 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: 5 Million, Apple, Ceo Pay, Dan Hesse, Dividends, First Quarter, Gesture, Investors, Iphone, Iphones, Nbsp, Nextel, Reuters, Sprint Nextel, Subscriber Growth, Subsidy, Target, Voice Concern, Wallet
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Sprint Nextel’s $15.5 billion gamble on Apple’s iPhone will apparently lighten CEO Dan Hesse’s proverbial wallet by $3.25 million this year. That’s how much compensation Hesse agreed to give back to help placate investors unhappy about the high cost of the company’s iPhone deal. Securing the iPhone has already paid dividends for Sprint in terms [...]
Visualized: Apple and Samsung occupy the 99 percent… of phone profits
Posted: 4th May 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: Albatross, Apple, Engadget, Feature Phone, Fri, Graphs, Horace, Htc, Losses, Maven, Mobile Phone, Motorola, Motorola Nokia, Nbsp, Profits, Rim, Samsung, Samsung Phone, Sony Ericsson, Spoils
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Financial maven and maker of beautiful graphs Horace Deidu has found that between the top eight mobile phone vendors, Apple and Samsung share 99 percent of the total spoils. Of RIM, LG, Sony (Ericsson), Motorola, Nokia and HTC, only the latter made a profit — claiming that left over one percent. The remaining six all [...]
iPhone 4 named latest recipient of untethered iOS 5.1 jailbreak, exploit remains MIA
Posted: 4th May 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: Apple, Cat And Mouse, Cat And Mouse Game, Cult Of Mac, Engadget, Exploits, Ipad, Iphone, Mass Consumption, Mia, Naughty, Nbsp, Recipient, Tweet, Untethered
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Apple’s not gonna like this one, but news of the perpetual cat-and-mouse game between it and the hacking community continues with the announcement of an untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.1, which is now alive and kicking on the iPhone 4. The good news went out in the form of a tweet from pod2g, and while [...]
Android Is Either “Winning” Because Apple Is Letting It, Or Losing
Posted: 3rd May 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: Apple, David Beach, Food Chain, Iphone, Midst, S Market, Shitstorm, Smartphone, Surveys
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In September 2010, I wrote a post that ignited an absolute shitstorm around these parts. “Shitstorm” in this case meaning a post with a thousand comments, the majority of which were spewed up by rabid Android fanatics. The title of that post: Is Android Surging Only Because Apple Is Letting It? At the time, we [...]
Windows Phone Developer Summit coming June 20th, makes for one busy month
Posted: 3rd May 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: Apollo, Apple, Developer Opportunities, Developers, Engadget, Google, Meetup, Metro, Microsoft, Mystery, Nbsp, Platform Capabilities, Prospects, San Francisco, Scheduling, Summit, Tango, Windows Developer, Windows Phone, Wwdc
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Just in case June wasn’t busy enough for mobile app developers, between Apple’s WWDC and Google I/O, Microsoft has thrown its hat into the ring. It’s scheduling a Windows Phone Developer Summit in San Francisco for June 20th and 21st, just a week before Google’s meetup. Details are scant in the notice Engadget received, although [...]
comScore: Android tips the 51% mark in US share, iPhone nips its heels with 31%
Posted: 1st May 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: 1 Million, Apple, Blackberry, Comscore, Engadget, Fortunes, Four Points, Google, Iphone, Iphones, Market Share, Motorola, Nbsp, Nips, No Doubt, Rim, Samsung, Smartphone, Smartphones, Tally
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The March smartphone market share tally for the US is in from comScore, and it paints a familiar picture that’s rosy for Apple, Google and Samsung, but not so flush-cheeked for everyone else. Android is still tops and jumped almost four points to 51 percent of new American buyers. Apple’s still riding high after shipping [...]