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I'm on Sprint and don't really run into issues very often.

I think iphone will go extinct within 2 shopping season.  There is no way they can keep up.





http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2010/5/26/android-sells-1002c000-smartphones-per-day2c-what-does-that-mean.aspx



So how near is RIM, the world's second largest smartphone maker? Its getting interesting here - RIM's latest quarterly sales were measured at 10.6 million by the analysts [we await newer numbers from RIM which reports in a cycle one month off from the normal quarterly calendar cycle] but yes, RIM's current sales is at the level of 42 million per year. Or the daily rate? RIM's daily rate in 1Q was 116,000 smartphones per day. How close is Android? Android reported in 1Q, that it was selling 65,000 handsets per day, or about 24 million per year. In just one quarter, Android family has grown unit sales 54% [compare with RIM who grew 4% or Apple who grew 1% from the previous quarter]. This is amazing growth rate. Its very likely that Android smartphones will pass RIM in quarterly sales during 3Q, even if RIM picks up speed and Android slows down considerably. The difference in growth rates is that immense right now. 



Oh, and its totally certain, Apple cannot recapture third place from Android during 3Q. Apple needs to abandon its one new smartphone model per year strategy. Android has already 61 phone models in the market - out of 21 manufacturers it means that on average each rival maker offers 3 Android models. So think just playing the averages, go to an average country, to an average carrier and find that LG offers 3 Android models, Motorola offers 3 Android models, Samsung offers 3 Android models, SonyEricsson offers 3 Android models, ZTE offers 3 Android models - these are all dumbphone handset manufacturers who produce more dumbphones than Apple total sales. Then in the best case, that carrier is an authorized iPhone dealer who offers one iPhoen model that is less than a year old [the 3GS] plus another iPhone [3G] which is almost two years old by now. And in the worst case that carrier does not support Apple, but does offer these 15 Android smartphone models many of which look to the average un-infromed customer remarkably similar to an iPhone [and usually even cost less].

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Samsung are pushing Bada (their own OS/platform) - http://www.bada.com (their older model smartphones used WinMo 6 I think)

SE are pushing Android (their older model smartphones used WinMo 6)

Motorola are pushing Android (the "DROID" anyone?)

Symbian only recently went open source (the first fully open source release was Feb 2010), but by then it had lost momentum to Android and a lot of manufacturers have moved away, so yeah it looks to be pretty much Nokia only at this point. It may still be used on some "dumb" smartphones though I suppose.

Unless Nokia pull out an amazing smartphone soon, people will start moving further and further away from them in the developed nations. Nokia did have by far the best OS on old "dumb" phones or feature phones, and that is what gave them much of their market share - anyone could pick up a Nokia phone and just make and call or text or play snake and that was great. They haven't been leading for a while now though - I just hope Symbian 3 is all it is supposed to be (but worryingly the reviews so far have not been so positive).

...and who the hell are Pantech?

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It's recession, even bad news is sparse these days.

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 VS, iphone... uhhh, look at the cute tiny iphone...



(Iphone G4 is officially dated already, because of the processor. And snapgradon dual core is already out, so apple is 2 generation behind by now.)

whatever happens to wimax anyway? I thought by now I would be able to rig my own wimax antenna and get rid of phone company. Is there any reason why for densely populated area, people can't build their own simple "mesh" 4G antennas?



(Googling my own question)



http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-Huron-River-To-Boast-Kilmer-Peak-WiMAX-Adapter-142650.shtml



Though the platform is still in development, quite a bit of information has surfaced, recently, on the Intel Huron River. This platform is meant to power the next generation of Intel-based laptops and, thus, strives to be both as power efficient and feature packed as possible. Intel, of course, like any other hardware developer, would like to keep things under wraps for as long as possible. Nevertheless, nothing can escape the vigilant gaze of market watchers for long. The last report about this technology revolved around the fact that the integrated graphics core within the Sandy Bridge CPUs would be capable of playing Blu-ray Stereoscopic 3D media and HDMI 1.4. Now, the folks over at Fudzilla managed to uncover another interesting fact, this time with regard to wireless connectivity. Currently, only a limited number of high-end Calpella-based notebooks feature support for WiMAX. Said machines have this ability thanks to the Kilmer Peal 2x2 AGN adapters. The Huron River, as end-users know, will replace the Calpella platform, which means that the aspect of wireless connectivity should improve as well. Sure enough, the report states that the Centrino Advanced N + WiMAX 6250 Kilmer Peak adapter will supposedly be available on most, if not all, new notebooks starting next year. It is interesting to note that, while on the rise, WiMAX is not exactly expected to overly grow even in 2011, which means that Kilmer Peak may be slightly ahead of its time. The CPUs at the heart of the Huron River, the aforementioned Sandy Bridge, will be monolithic chips, with a unified core that includes both computing and graphics components. They will be based on the 32nm manufacturing process. Intel will also reportedly bring out a number of Centrino adapters with Bluetooth and WiFi support for other market segments.  

Posted by: Hawk - Lost In Space Do you know of any other indie music blog forums

 

I have no idea. You can always turn your blog into a gateway to such forum. a lot of work, but could be fun.



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About apple.  Is it me or that company is an absolute bubble right now? Their market share is a joke. They are not going to stay on top of phone market forever. Phone market is even deadlier game than PC. The turn around is 6 months. And they are already behind 2 generation.





What they gonna do after iTune sale is going flat? iTV?





http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=225402010

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lol.



The damned thing is calling the mothership.



Stoobalou writes with a story that got started earlier this month when iPhone users in the US and the UK noticed that their phones seemed to be sending large data bursts via 3G overnight. (Providers are ending unlimited contracts, so iPhone users are paying more attention to how much data they are using.) The discussions began on MacOSRumors and an Apple discussion forum. Thing.co.uk makes this guess as to what is going on, but doesn't offer much in the way of substantiation: "The simple fact of the matter is — as far as we can tell — that the iPhone's push notifications and other small transfers of data are totted up throughout the day and the total for all of those notifications is added up after dark and sent to your airtime provider while your phone is sleeping. If these tiny amounts of data were individually listed your bill would probably be the size of a telephone directory. The reason it is using the 3G network rather than Wi-Fi is that all iPhones up to and including the 3Gs turn off Wi-Fi push functionality while the phone is in sleep mode, in order to preserve battery life. The iPhone 4, incidentally, has better power management so will not need to do this."



http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/06/18/152254/Sleeping-iPhones-Send-Phantom-Data

Meanwhile, I think the new iPhone has more ram or memory (can't remember) than the iPad? Don't know why they skimped on some ipad memory... but obviously, no one cares! ;)

Anroid won. time to start thinking about shorting moto and appl.. heh.



Every dinky one button freebie phone will  be android by next new year.



http://www.pcworld.com/article/200970/cheap_chipsets_for_google_android_smartphones_due_out_in_q3.html

Taiwanese chipset developer MediaTek will start rolling out low-cost chipsets designed for handsets that use Google's Android mobile software in the third quarter of this year, promising to drive down the cost of such handsets in China.

MediaTek holds the lion's share of the market for mobile phone chips in China through its focus on low-cost chips and partnerships with dozens of small mobile phone makers throughout the nation. The development of a chipset specifically for Android could unleash hundreds of new smartphone designs in China. MediaTek has worked with Chinese handset makers for years, providing the chips and other hardware, while the handset makers focus on the external design of the phones and handset sales.

A MediaTek representative confirmed the new time frame on Tuesday. Previously, the company had simply said "in the second half of this year."

The deal with Google is similar to one with Microsoft announced early this year, though the Microsoft pact combines MediaTek chips and hardware with Microsoft's Windows Mobile software. The goal for both initiatives is the same, to put thousands of new, low-cost smartphones on the market in places such as China and India.

This thing is huge... (first kyochera android)

I still don't get how Nokia leads in smartphone marketshare - I don't know a single person with one!
They make great feature phones and "dumb" phones, but smartphones? really?

I always thought Nokia is either another swedish furniture company or a weird japanese electronic toy outfit. They are not even finnish gadget maker you think it is, mind you. They are a giant conglomerate, old school. Thinks Siemens, BAe, or GE. Cold war era nuclear power controller and stuff.   Nevermind the cooler kids like Apple or Sony, even HP has hipper beginning than nokia.



but cool name anyway.



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anyway. Android, need to clean up its pedigree as well. heh.

but I wouldn't worry too much tho' . Soon people will make their own handphone while giving the middle finger to the big telco. The next snapdragon version is so powerful, people probably will rip apart the useless crud and turn it into fully functioning wireless networking handheld computer in no time.

whew, Apple engineering is really third rate. Still overheating battery? They will never survive in a big trade war.  (eg. Obama did try to find 'flaw' on Prius to thump down Japan runaway hybrid strength. But it turns out the software was made by greenhill (think F-35 fighter) so blaming software flaw is out of the question. On top of that Prius is the top selling hybrid in Japan without flaw. exact same everything.)  If Japan retaliates, Apple is going broke getting sued from their third biggest market.





http://www.physorg.com/news200387461.html



After prodding from the Japanese government, Apple Inc. will post prominent notices on its website warning some iPod Nano music players in Japan may overheat.

  
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Image is an Engadget mock-up of what Sony's PSP-Go Phone may look like. Credit: Engadget

Sources have it that Sony Ericsson is hard at work developing a PSP Go-like phone running on Android 3.0 platform. According to Engadget the phone targets gaming fans and resembles somewhere between a Samsung Captivate and the PSP Go.

The slider phone will have a touchscreen that will be between 3.7 and 4.1 inches with WVGA resolution or better and a landscape slide out game control panel. In place of the joystick the device will have long touch pad for analog controls along with the standard PSP buttons. The device will be running a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU and have a custom skin overlay on Android 3.0.

 

http://www.physorg.com/news201175168.html