Nokia has just launched the 5800 XpressMusic and it’s a lot like the iPhone. As Nokia’s first mass-market device with a touch screen, the 5800 is being positioned as a lifestyle device for music, just like Apple iPhone. The touch interface is designed to have shortcuts from the homescreen to menu items such as calendar, [...]
October 3rd, 2008 | rp | Comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "iphone"
Blackberry joins forces with Microsoft and TiVo
Research in Motion, the company behind the popular blackberry line of phones, has announced that it will be partnering with Microsoft and TiVo to further enhance it’s mobile services offerings. With the iPhone taking the smartphone market by storm, RIM is rumored to be working on it’s iPhone competitor, a touch screen Blackberry. Meanwhile it’s [...]
September 12th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
Blackberry Partners Fund opens up Developer Challenge
We had previosuly covered the launch of the Blackberry partners fund, a $150 million fund with investments from Research In Motion, the RBC and Thomson Reuters aimed at supporting developers of applications running primarily on RIM’s Blackberry phones.
The fund website recently went live and now the fund has announced the developer challenge for BlackBerry® Developers [...]
iPhone on sale at Best Buy starting Sept. 7
The iPhone will be available at almost 970 Best Buy stores all over the US starting September 7, 2008. As the first 3rd party retailer of the iPhone 3G (still to be sold only with the AT&T plan and contract) Best Buy has scored something of a victory.
However, the economics of this deal are still [...]
August 12th, 2008 | qpeg | Comments | Continued
myFUNAMBOL, a free MobileMe alternative
Apple’s $99 a year MobileMe service was launched in WWDC in June this year. It is a new Internet service that delivers push email, push contacts and push calendars from the service in the “cloud” to native applications on iPhone™, iPod® touch, Macs and PCs.
Apple, however has had its share of troubles with the service [...]
MediaTemple’s iPhone AccountCenter: An industry first
(mt) Media Temple, a web hosting and online services company is the industry first to release a free web hosting control panel for all (mt) customers that use iPhones and it is slick.
After seeing an iPhone in action, I was inspired. So I posed a challenge to create a mobile AccountCenter and the team worked [...]
August 9th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
Ngmoco gets money from Kliener’s iFund
Game publisher Ngmoco Inc. has raised an undisclosed Series A round from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Maples Investments as it readies to release new games on Apple’s App Store, where iPhone users shop for new features.
CEO Neil Young is a former executive from Electronic Arts, where he oversaw the development of several hit [...]
Usage for Mobile GPS surges 82% in the US, iPhone users top the list
For the 3 months ending May 2008, consumers using GPS devices on the go through their mobile phones surged 82% compared to 3 months ending May 2007. The results were reported by M:Metrics, a subsidiary of comScore. According to the study, the iPhone is the leading device used to access maps in the United States, [...]
July 27th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
Apple shares tank after hours despite strong Q3
Apple’s stock got hammered after hours despite a strong quarter and significant growth in Mac computer sales. The company today announced financial results for its fiscal 2008 third quarter ended June 28, 2008. The Company posted revenue of $7.46 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.07 billion, or $1.19 per diluted share. Revenues and EPS [...]
July 21st, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued1 million iPhone 3G’s sold in 3 days!
Apple® today announced it sold its one millionth iPhone™ 3G on Sunday, just three days after its launch on Friday, July 11. iPhone 3G is now available in 21 countries—Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and the US—and will [...]
July 14th, 2008 | rp | Comments | ContinuedThe cost of owning the iPhone 3G - iExpensive!
With all the fanfare surrounding the iPhone 3G, its time we took a look at what it is going to cost to own one. ATT has announced special pricing plans for the iPhone and the much touted “twice faster at half the price” from Steve Job’s WWDC 2008 announcement is sadly only true for customers [...]
July 13th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
iPhone 3G Buzz
Are you waiting for iPhone 3G? I certainly am. And the buzz is on as we are just 1 day away from the most talked about phone in recent times.
iPhone 3G lines being in New York on JULY 7th. That’s FIVE days before the launch.
Part of the queue in New York is made up of [...]
July 10th, 2008 | supa | Comments | ContinuedHow many Smartphone buyers want iPhone 3G?
With iPhone 3G release just over a week away, a majority of smartphone buyers are waiting for buying an iPhone 3G. According to data released this week from RBC Capital Markets, 56% of customers planning to get a smartphone in the next 90 days want to have iPhone 3G. RIM’s Blackberry bold is distant second [...]
July 3rd, 2008 | supa | Comments | ContinuedRIM reports Q1 FY09 revenues, stock tanks after hours
Blackberry maker Research In Motion ( RIM ) reported earnings for first quarter of FY09. Revenue for the quarter was $2.24 billion, up 107% from $1.08 billion in the same quarter of last year.
During the quarter, RIM shipped approximately 5.4 million devices. Approximately 2.3 million net new BlackBerry® subscriber accounts were added in the quarter. [...]
5 App Ideas for iPhone 3G
So iPhone 3G is 3 weeks away and you are planning to make a super awesome iPhone app that you would like to sell in Apple stores, thanks to 70-30 profit sharing. Here are some of the ideas that would help me if you do implement them. Also, make sure I get a free copy.
iPhone [...]
June 24th, 2008 | supa | Comments | Continued
Nokia purchases all of Symbian, creates Symbian Foundation for royalty free OS
Nokia has announced today that it has offered a cash offer to acquire all of Symbian Limited that Nokia does not already own, at a price of EUR 3.647 per share. The net cash outlay from Nokia to purchase the approximately 52% of Symbian Limited shares it does not already own will be approximately EUR [...]
June 24th, 2008 | rp | Comments | ContinuedWSJ reports Android delay, Google disagrees
According to WSJ, Google’s Android plateform for mobile phones won’t have a working handset until the 4th quarter. According to the report “some cellular carriers and makers of programs that work with Android are struggling to meet that schedule, people familiar with the situation say. T-Mobile USA expects to deliver an Android-powered phone in the [...]
June 23rd, 2008 | supa | Comments | Continued
Sprint announces Samsung Instinct (iPhone competitor) for $129.99
Sprint has announced today that the Samsung Instinct will be available on its network starting June 20th and will retail for $129.99 for a 2 year contract after a $100 mail-in rebate.
Instinct is Samsung’s answer to the iPhone and will finally be available after significant delays from its original launch plans a year ago. Unfortunately [...]
iPhone 3G ($199 and up), MobileMe announced at WWDC
Steve Jobs delivered his Keynote today at the Apple WWDC 2008. Eagerly anticipated were details on Apple’s 3G phone and Apple provided attendees with a glimpse of things to come.
“Just one year after launching the iPhone, we’re launching the new iPhone 3G that is twice as fast at half the price,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s [...]
SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone
Sling Media is going to introduce its popular SlingPlayer for iPhone and iPod Touch at Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s conference on Monday. SlingPlayer, currently available for Mac, PC, and mobile platforms including Palm, Windows Mobile, and Symbian, connects those devices with Sling’s Slingbox hardware so that the devices can display live or prerecorded TV across [...]
June 9th, 2008 | supa | Comments | Continued
Apple WWDC 2008 begins tomorrow
Apple WWDC will begin tomorrow with over 150 lab sessions covering a myriad of developer technologies for the iPhone and Max OS X. The charismatic Steve Jobs will deliver the Keynote at Moscone Center, San Francisco , as developers and the tech community eagerly awaits announcements from apple. Speculations are rife over announcements about the [...]
June 8th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
iPhone Earth from Earthscape
The Google Earth Blog reports about an iPhone earth application that a Colarado boulder company, Earthscape, is working on . The application uses the iPhone accelerometers to allow one to tilt and rotate the views by tilting the iPhone. The application is under development using the Apple iPhone SDK.
The company is also building a virtual [...]
May 26th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
More Orange for the iPhone
In a short press release, Orange today announced a new agreement with Apple to bring the iPhone to Orange customers in Austria, Belgium, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Jordan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland and Orange’s African markets later this year.
Apple has so far struck exclusive deals for the iPhone with AT&T Inc. in the United [...]
Blackberry Partners Fund announced
It is rumored ( VentureBeat) that Research In Motion, the RBC and Thomson Reuters have invested in a $150 million venture investment fund, called the BlackBerry Partners Fund, to support developers of applications running primarily on RIM’s Blackberry phones. The BlackBerry Partners Fund website is alive but appears to be still under construction.
As per [...]
Orb enables live TV on iPhone
Orb networks announced the availability of streaming TV to the iPhone. Previously Orb enabled live streaming of TV from users’ homes to almost any mobile phone with a streaming player and a web browser. To get around the iPhone’s extreme limitations on supported video formats, Orb created a special application, OrbLive, to [...]
May 9th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
Apple Q2 net profit up 36%, margins decline
Apple computers announced it’s earnings for Q2 FY08. The Company posted revenue of $7.51 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.05 billion, or $1.16 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $5.26 billion and net quarterly profit of $770 million, or $.87 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter.
Among it’s top 3 businesses
Apple [...]
April 23rd, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
