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BlackBerry stops iPhone’s ascension in the United States

Published on: 18th March, 2010

Research in Motion’s BlackBerry line succeeded to hold off Apple to reach the top place for United States smartphone market share at the beginning of this year. According to comScore data, the BlackBerry line only grew slightly but remained to exactly 43 percent of the industry. Apple reached a milestone and now it has more [...]

Owners of iPhone most eager to recommend their phones

Published on: 2nd March, 2010

It seems iPhone and iPod owners are the most inclined to recommend their devices to friends, as latest researches reveal. A high number of iPhone users, about 91 percent, and 88 percent of iPod touch owners would gladly tell their friends to buy such devices, as January information says. At the same time, only 84 [...]

Palm has cut guidance due to unexpected slow sales

Published on: 2nd March, 2010

Palm has cut its guidance for the current quarter and expects to have between $285 million and $310 million in revenue. The company directly incriminates the “slower than expected” take up of the Pixi, the Pre and their Plus equivalents. It is also a fact that carriers have ordered fewer devices and occasionally delayed receiving [...]

MOTOROI to be sold as Droid tablet in the United States in March

Published on: 25th January, 2010

The just-launched MOTOROI is the origin of what will become the Droid tablet in the United States, according to senior VP Bae Joon-dong from SK Telecom.
The phone lacks a keyboard but it is expected to be in many ways superior to the Droid with its 8-megapixel camera and support for 720-pixel video playback through its [...]

Motorola’s Droid more expensive to make than iPhone and Nexus One

Published on: 19th January, 2010

Some cost analysis reveals that the Motorola Droid is one of the most costly smartphones to produce among the latest devices currently available on the market. The materials cost for the Android handset is $179.11 and the assembly cost is $8.64, with a total of $187.75. Compared to the 16GB iPhone 3GS costs $178.96 and [...]

Android trying to catch up to iPhone

Published on: 12th January, 2010

A recent ChangeWave study reveals that smartphone buyers prefer Android phones as much as they prefer iPhones. The November launch of the Motorola Droid has lead to an increased demand in the United States for Android devices, from six percent in September to 21 percent in December, i.e. 15 percent in 90 days. The need [...]

Super Bowl commercials for the Droid?

Published on: 23rd December, 2009

Motorola is supposed to run a Super Bowl commercial dedicated to the Droid, that it has already bought, according to some leaks. The ad in question, although not confirmed yet, would run on the company’s flagship, the Droid, probably the most heavily promoted handset. We have to remember the campaign with numerous ads from Verizon, [...]

Time Magazine: Motorola Droid is 2009’s best gadget

Published on: 22nd December, 2009

There have been lots of iPhone competitors, most of which have gone as they have been launched. There have been made efforts in order to surpass Apples mobile device. Some examples can be BlackBerry Storm and the Palm Pre, but these can’t be compared to the best competitor, which seems to be the Motorola Droid. [...]

Motorola’s MT710 to be sold in China

Published on: 13th December, 2009

Motorola will officially begin to sell in China, this month, its MT710 Zhiling smartphone under the China Mobile Ophone brand. The handset is similar to what is known in North America as the Android-powered Droid. The Chinese Motorola version will not use stock Android, but will use instead a proprietary version of the open source [...]

Droid in front of iPhone in Time’s Gadget of the Year contest

Published on: 11th December, 2009

Motorola Droid’s first place in the Time’s Gadget of the Year contest was not a major surprise. The Android-based handset won the contest for having a large 3.7-inch touchscreen and a hardware QWERTY keyboard and also for sporting free turn-by-turn GPS using Google Maps Navigation. The iPhone 3GS, ranked fourth, has earned this position thanks [...]

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