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Consumers may love the iPhone, but carriers hate it
Ever wonder why when you walk into a carrier store, they always subtly (or in some cases, not so subtly) try to push you toward buying an Android device? The reason is because even though Apple requires a grandiose display of the iPhone, carriers make much more money off of Android phones. Carriers pay Apple the subsidy that is able to keep the iPhone down to its $199 price point even after cramming in loads of new features in every release. For Apple, this is good. For consumers, this is … Read more
George Tinari
Love your new Android phone? You won’t for long
Flash back to 2009: You just bought a brand new Motorola Droid, the first phone to run Android 2.0 and one of the very first Android handsets to successfully compete with the iPhone. Your friend, however, decided to buy a recently released iPhone 3GS. Now jump ahead to the present: You and your friend still own those same phones, but which one out of the two feels like a worthless piece of crap? The Motorola Droid. This is the case with many Android and BlackBerry devices — they lose their … Read more
George Tinari
Motorola: Hardware causes late Android updates, not custom UIs
When it comes to explaining the cause of Android fragmentation; we’ve heard it all … or so we thought. Recently, Motorola senior vice president Christy Wyatt voiced her thoughts on the company’s current struggles on delivering new versions of the Android OS to customers, such as Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. To no one’s surprise, Wyatt mentioned how time-consuming it is to integrate a new version of Android into Motorola’s platform. If you read deep into the words: “integrate” and “time-consuming” you instantly think about a software related issue, right? … Read more
Charles West
Halliburton dumps BlackBerry, starts distributing iPhones to workers
One of the world’s largest oilfield companies, Halliburton, publicly acknowledged its decision to stop giving workers BlackBerrys and start equipping them with iPhones. This is a gigantic blow to Research in Motion because the BlackBerry has for a very long time been widely considered the best phone for enterprise users. Halliburton obviously disagrees and so will many other companies if RIM doesn’t step its game up in time. Spokesperson for Halliburton, Tara Mullee Agard, said to Reuters in an email, “We are making this transition in order to better support our … Read more
George Tinari
Samsung squashes hopes of Galaxy S III debuting at March 22 event
Contrary to the wishful thinking of many, Samsung confirmed it will not introduce the Galaxy S III smartphone at its March 22nd event in France. The vendor announced plans to hold a special event yesterday and it immediately sparked rumors for an unveiling of the Galaxy S II successor. Instead, a spokesperson for Samsung told The Next Web that the event will just be a regular day of talking about the company’s current line of products. How fun. Last week, Samsung also shot down rumors of a Galaxy S III debut … Read more
George Tinari
Samsung used low-cost LTE chip in the Galaxy Nexus
Samsung in an Apple-like way has cut its cost for components, with the installation of a cheaper LTE baseband chip that went into the Verizon Galaxy Nexus. This dirty little secret was exposed when the wildly popular phone was stripped down to its innards, revealing the newer chip. The new chip has the same high-speed data performance as the older version. Now what’s the big deal, you ask? Well, the newer LTE chip inside the Galaxy Nexus is substantially cheaper than the previous version, as the latest model is estimated to cost half as … Read more
Charles West
Study: Women dig gadgets too
There’s a common stereotype that men are far more interested in the latest gadgets than women are. There’s perhaps no better example of this than Motorola’s marketing strategy for the Droid line of smartphones: keep it cool, badass and overly aggressive. A study entitled Women in CE from the Consumer Electronics Association, however, is finding that more and more women are expressing a fondness for technology than ever before. Eight in ten women now say they have an interest in consumer electronics and 41 percent of them indicated they were “very … Read more
George Tinari
How’s that ‘big and bulky’ strategy working out for HTC?
CFO of HTC Winston Yung admitted the company “dropped the ball” in 2011 and its high-end devices are not selling as well as expected. This is due mostly to HTC’s hardware being substantially thicker than the competition and often having poor battery life. “While short term performance may not meet the results as expected, we have gained further experience and advancement in the areas of brand management and product innovation,” CEO Peter Chou stated in a press release. “These fundamental strengths and the groundwork we have laid will take us … Read more
George Tinari
More smartphones were shipped than PCs last year
Canalys research firm issued a report today that makes us all think back to our very first time getting a blue screen of death on a PC. According to combined statistics from 2011, manufacturers shipped more smartphones than computers in 2011 – 488 million smartphones hit shelves last year, while only 414.6 million PCs did. Though tablets were supposed to reign in the “post-PC” era, the PC numbers do factor in tablet shipments. “Smart phone shipments overtaking those of client PCs should be seen as a significant milestone,” VP and … Read more
George Tinari
Nokia Lumia 900 pre-orders start at Microsoft
The highly anticipated Nokia Lumia 900 is now available for pre-order at Microsoft retail stores — all fifteen of them! Microsoft confirmed you can pre-order one of these devices for $25. That’s nice, but there’s still no release date or full price tag. Rumor has it the phone will launch on March 18th for a very aggressive $99 with a two-year contract on AT&T, but there’s no official word just yet. Once consumers realized Nokia made a winner in the Lumia 800 overseas, an imminent American counterpart only made sense … Read more
George Tinari
Apple climbs past LG to become the world’s #3 phone manufacturer
IDC, a technology research firm, released statistics today on the data it gathered on mobile phone sales in Q4 2011. According to the numbers, Apple is now the third largest phone manufacturer in the world by shipments, surpassing LG. Apple’s record-breaking iPhone sales last quarter skyrocketed the company into an easy third place, claiming 8.7 percent market share. Nokia and Samsung still hold their respective positions as the top phone manufacturers by a long shot. Last quarter, Nokia shipped 113.5 million mobile phones and Samsung shipped 97.6 million. After that, … Read more