The Apple App Store juggernaut continues. Today, Apple took out a full page ad in the print edition of Wall Street Journal to blow its horn that its App Store now has 10,000 applications and that iPhone users have so far downloaded 300 million applications from the store. That’s an amazing record considering that the App […]
Unless you’ve just come in from another planet, you know that Microsoft’s Zune digital music player is a disaster. We’ve long believed that only schmucks and trash lovers buy Zune. Serious music lovers have already purchased Apple’s iPod, which is available in different models and is also part of the popular iPhone. In the latest move […]
Research in Motion’s new touchscreen Blackberry Storm smartphone will be available for sale starting November 21 from Verizon Wireless for $199 (after a $50 mail-in rebate and a two-year contract). Landfall on Nov.21 Voice and data plans for the Blackberry Storm start at $80. For a device without Wi-Fi connectivity, the price is not attractive
Apple’s hot iPhone 3G is now the most popular mobile phone in the U.S., according to market researcher NPD. iPhone 3G pipped Motorola’s RAZR (the top-seller for the past 12 quarters) to take the No-1 spot in the third quarter. Since the iPhone debuted about 17 months ago, sales of the smartphone have been on […]
Forget Google’s G1. The hot new smartphone to watch out for – and one that could threaten iPhone’s glorious run – is the soon-to-be-launched Blackberry Storm. Although much ink and web space has been devoted to Google’s Android operating system based cell phones like the G1 from T-Mobile, the more likely challenge to the iPhone […]
Nokia has released its N96 multimedia phone in the U.S. market and priced it at a whopping $900 (yes, that is nine hundred dollars). And this overpriced device does not even have a touchscreen interface like the iPhone. As far as we can tell no cell phone operator is subsidizing the N96 in the U.S. […]