Google Nexus One sales figures are sub-par
March 16, 2010
Statistics, and damned statistics! Well, these figures don't lie when it comes to the number of Google Nexus One handsets being sold all through the first 74 days of its life in the market. After all, when you compared the Motorola DROID and iPhone, their respective first 74 days resulted in 1.05 million units as well as around 1 million units, while the Nexus one touched slightly more than 10% of those figures at a mere 135,000 Nexus Ones moving into the pockets of consumers. Hopefully with the impending roll out on Verizon Wireless and Vodafone in the coming months, the figures might just bump up.
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iPad pre-order rate cools down
March 15, 2010
After what seemed to be a hyped up pre-order session, it looks as though the iPad has slowed down tremendously to settle for just 30,000 pre-orders on a typical weekday, with 15,000 each day on weekends. Do you think that that will see Apple move 1 million iPads by the moment it enters into the second week of its availability? Only date will tell, but we do know that many webmasters are busy readying an iPad-ready website format to take advantage of that new page view source.
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PrestigeHD Supreme Rose Edition
March 11, 2010
If you love all things luxurious in your home, next you might want to consider the PrestigeHD Supreme Rose Edition, a creation of Stuart Hughes who seems to have an eye for the most expensive consumer electronics devices at home. The PrestigeHD Supreme Rose Edition is no joke when you think about its price - it is going for £1.5 million for a 55" display, where the outer chassis is cased with 28 kilograms of solid 18ct rose gold. Along its gilded frame lies 72 brilliant round cut 1ct whether flawless diamonds coupled with sunstone and amethyst. There is a slightly more affordable version in the design of the PrestigeHD Supreme Edition, but it will still be out of reach of the ordinary Joe with a £1 million price tag.
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Foxconn Suppliers Refute iPad Shortage Prediction
March 3, 2010
While analyst Peter Misek claims that part shortages will aftermath in delays in the shipping of Apple’s soon to be released iPad, Foxconn’s component suppliers have refuted that claim stating that their supplies are on schedule, and Foxconn should be able to ship 600,000-700,000 iPads in March, and hit the 1 million mark in April. There wasn’t an official comment from Foxconn itself, so it looks like we’ll have to see how supplies are on the actual day of launch to see which side has got it right. According to earlier reports, the iPad will be going on sale around March 26th, with a 6pm day plus mentioned.
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AT&T sells 3.1 million iPhones, Google VoIP app hits iPhone, iStunt game free today
January 28, 2010
AT&T is gaining a bit on Verizon thanks to the iPhone. Last quarter AT&T sold 3.1 million iPhones and now has 85.1 million total subscribers.
Apple may have denied the Google Voice App for the iPhone, but Google has a workaround in place. The search giant has made a GV Web App that works with HTML5 mobile handsets including the iPhone.
If you are looking for a new free game app for your iPhone today, the game iStunt is available for free. The app is only free for today though so hop by and get it now.
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Just 20K Nexus Ones Sold?
January 13, 2010
Some analysts are suggesting that Google might have sold “just” 20,000 Nexus One phones that week, since the phone became available. Despite all the buzz that led up to the phone, it seems that the phone has only sold about a tenth of the Motorola Droid’s number, and of course, much less than the 1 million iPhone 3GS units sold during its launch. Speculation is going around that that is due to Google’s business model, and plus partnership with T-Mobile, which is only the 4th largest US carrier. With Google looking to offer a CDMA version from Verizon, and a European version on Vodafone, hopefully Google will be able to hit the 5-6 million unit prediction by earlier analysts. Did you buy a Nexus One?
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iPhone Buzz Year in Review 2009
December 31, 2009
It's hard to believe that another year has come and gone, but here we sit at the start of 2010 and a new decade. Let's look back at some of the most interesting and crucial news items concerning the iPhone that we reported that year.
We learned last January that Skype was working on its own iPhone app, little did we know at the moment how expanded it would be before we saw the app in person. Apple plus allowed third party browsers into the App store for the first duration early that year.
We first heard that Apple might let iPhone apps run in the background early in 2009. that was one of the iPhones biggest lost features according to many. February brought early grumblings that we might see a new iPhone in the summer. Early expectations were for several models, which turned out to be false.
Adobe announced early in 2009 that it was working on Flash for the iPhone. We all got excited at that, unfortunately flash is still not here. O2 announced in February that it has sold 1 million iPhones in the UK. Its success proved the iPhone was a global phenomenon.
Australian Jeweler Peter Aloisson went nuts in March and designed an iPhone selling for $2.5 million. The thing was covered in gold and diamonds. We heard in March that the new iPhone 3.0 OS would add MMS and cut and paste to the iPhone. Those things were sorely lost on the iPhone to start with.
Later in March the cut and paste features along with other nice additions in OS 3.0 went official. The first word of the iPhone 3G selling without a contract came in March with a whopping price of $499-$599 depending on the model.
Apple announced in April that almost a billion apps had been downloaded from the App Store. That was just the start for the app store in 2009. Apple placed an order in April for 32GB chips foreshadowing the new iPhone 3GS models.
We started to prepare out grumblings in April that Verizon might get its own LTE version of the iPhone in 2010. We still don’t know whether that will happen or not. TomTom unveiled the first full PND software and hardware system for the iPhone in June. The system turned the iPhone into a serious PND device with all the features you expect.
We learned in June that Steve Jobs was coming back to Apple after being away for health reasons since January. Jobs survived pancreatic cancer. The iPhone 3GS was fond to vastly outperform the iPhone 3G in 3D performance in June when benchmarked. We love us some iPhone 3GS around here.
In July Apple announced that 1.5 billion downloads had been made from the App store. That was another half a billion downloads compared to the numbers early in 2009. iPhone sales boomed in 2009 with the release of figures in July showing that sales had grown 626% year by year. Apple and AT&T landed in hot water with the FCC by the rejection of the Google Voice app from the App Store. The case brought to light the practices of those at Apple who wield the ban hammer for apps.
In August we learned that Apple owned 13.7% of the global smartphone market. That percentage continues to grow today with the iPhone rapidly moving up in popularity. AT&T was sued that year for lack of MMS on the iPhone. The feature was added in the 3.0 update but AT&T didn’t activate the feature considering of the drain it would place on its often shoddy network.
There you have a sampling of the most critical iPhone news items of 2009. Happy New Year and we look forward to reporting more iPhone news in 2010!
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