It’s designed for the third world but Vodaphone 150 is exciting no matter where you live. It’s no iPhone – people won’t be using it to upload videos to Youtube or check in with Foursquare – but it does have the things that really matter to people trying to improve their lives in developing nations. [...]
Nielsen just released a few of their top tens of ‘09 on their blog. It should be interesting to compare these to 2010 at the end of this year year – I personally think Android will be much more prominent among devices. Not necessarily the Nexus 1 but who knows? At this point, I want [...]
It’s a phone AND it’s a compact. The Glamphone, designed by Elle Publications and Alcatel has an idle screen that turns into a mirror. How fabulous. And yet kind of tacky. Maybe they’re on to something though – I’ve lost countless compacts but never once have I lost a phone. $199.00 is a little steep [...]
This is cobbled together from several recent sources but should give you a good idea of the current US market.
Here’s the handset market share. As always, you can’t help but be shocked at how little iPhone actually owns.
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These have been floating around for months but I get these two questions almost everyday so here you go:
This one is kind of misleading – it’s top phones in circulation as opposed to phones being used to access the web. I still haven’t seen that data available – the carrier know but they’d need to [...]
One of the biggest problems faced by consumers in emerging markets – where we expect to see the mobile usage escalate the most – is access to power sources. After all, what good is that nifty new Nokia if you have no outlet to plug it in to? Enter the innovators at Digicel who debuted [...]
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