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Apple smartphone growth puts competition in the shade

May 3, 2010

Canalys has released its smartphone market share figures for Q1 2010, and the big winners are undoubtedly Apple, HTC and Motorola, all of which posted treble-digit growth in unit shipments compared to the equivalent quarter of 2009. To put that into a little context: Apple’s worldwide market share increased by 4.4%. This increase is almost [...]

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Is crapware invading Android?

March 15, 2010
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One of the things that fascinates me about the way that the smartphone market is developing is whether it is following a similar path to the PC market. It’s easy to see the conflict between Apple and Google, for example, as a re-run of Apple versus Microsoft – and draw the conclusion that the end [...]

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HTC Bravo head-to-head with Google Nexus One?

February 8, 2010
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When I predicted that Google wouldn’t launch its own phone, one of the reasons I believed it was unlikely was that everything pointed to it being a rebadged HTC Bravo (otherwise known as the HTC Passion). While I was wrong about Google launching its own phone, I was right about the rebadge job – and [...]

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Google finds out retailing is harder than it looks

January 11, 2010

It looks like Google is finding out that being a retailer selling hardware is a bit harder than it looks: “Google is being inundated with complaints about its Nexus One phone. The touchscreen smartphone was launched on 5 January and can be bought direct from Google and used on almost any phone network. But confusion [...]

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Idiot post of the day (The Return of TechCrunch edition)

January 6, 2010

OK, I wasn’t going to do this. Even I had got bored. But MG Siegler’s post on how “Apple and Google just tag teamed the US Carriers” is just breathtakingly stupid. MG, I know that you’re desperate to justify your earlier breathless hyping of the Nexus One, but seriously – contradicting yourself in the same [...]

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Why the Google Phone will not be released to the public

December 12, 2009

Image via CrunchBase The hype machine is in overdrive. Google has confirmed that it has issued special Android-running “dogfood” phones to some of its employees, and every tech blog is speculating about when this will be released to the public and how it’s going to change the world. I’m willing to bet that Google will [...]

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TechCrunch hypes the Google Phone, contradicts itself repeatedly

December 12, 2009

TechCrunch‘s coverage of the so-called “Google Phone” really is turning into something of a joke. Today, it’s probably reached a new low. First up, Erick Schonfeld claims that current “reports” confirm their own original excitable post, quoting this bit: “There won’t be any negotiation or compromise over the phone’s design of features – Google is [...]

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3′s Spotify/Android deal could be a game-changer

October 19, 2009

Image via CrunchBase Quick heads up on this, and I’ll probably write more later, but 3 is apparently going to do a bundle of the HTC Hero Android phone (widely-regarded as the best of the current crop) with a premium Spotify account for the two year lifetime of the contract. And, by strange coincidence, it’s [...]

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