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Hee, I am going to go check out the Froyo update on my Nexus One now.

…hmmm, maybe because it is selling for $1,024 in a country where the average annual HHI is US $1,396? Oh and  it doesn’t have WiFi either but at that price I think that’s the least of their problems.Baffling move on the part of China Unicom.

This is really, really hard to wrap your mind around if you’ve been watching the mobile industry the past few years but it seems that iPhone has beat out Nokia in global sales. According to Strategy Analytics Apple became the most popular handset in the world in Q3 ‘09 with 1.6 billion in revenue to [...]

Well according to RBC Capital markets anyway.  I have to admit though that I find this questionable.

Take these recent stats from comScore (to which I’m going to assign a little more credibility than RBC). According to them there are 32 million smartphones in the US and only 6.6 million of them are iPhones. Which is [...]

125,00 developers. 50 million iPhone and iPod Touch combined. And 2 billion downloads – 1 billion of those in the last four month. It took them almost 1 year to get to 1 billion and only four months to get to two. Supposedly a ratio of 75% free to 25% paid but I think [...]

I am on the fence about AT&T’s Seth the Blogger guy approach – I think he’s trying too hard to emulate the Mac dude. Or AT&T is trying too hard to be Apple. Or whatever. In any case I think saying they are solely responsible for the smartphone revolution is a bit of a stretch. [...]

… at Digiday Mobile last week here in NYC. In case you don’t have time to watch this three minute documentary here are the basics: they text a lot, look at their phone (usually iPhone) a lot and don’t like intrusive advertising. Funny ads are good. They don’t make many actual calls. And they think [...]

They’ve designed it specifically for iPhone. Sign of the times…

…according to a recent report from Net Applications
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