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Is the iPhone 4 micro SIM really “not compatible” with iPad?

June 16, 2010

According to T3, the iPhone 4 micro SIM is “not compatible” with iPad, dashing the hopes of those who want swap SIMs around: “The plan, had this not been the case, would have been to buy a 3G iPad but not pay for any data, then simply insert your iPhone SIM into the tablet to [...]

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On AT&T’s new charges for data

June 3, 2010

I think my position is summed up very well by a comment from Nic Wise to a hysterical post by Jeff Jarvis: “While this is going to effect the digerati, 79.75 million of the 80 millions iPhone users in the US will never notice. Except the smaller bill.” As is usually the case, the digerati [...]

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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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No, app developers aren’t “switching” from iPhone to Android

March 23, 2010

Learning to write link baiting headlines is a very good method of learning how to spot them. And I expect that the latest AdMob report on mobile application development will draw a few linkbaiting headlines, such as MobileMarketingWatch’s “AdMob: 70% Of iPhone Developers Switching To Android“. It’s good link bait, but it’s simply not true. [...]

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Is crapware invading Android?

March 15, 2010

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

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

January 6, 2010

Sadly, because I generally enjoy his writing, it’s from Robert Cringely: “iPhone and Android will be here for the long haul with the question being which of Symbian, Palm, Windows Mobile, or Blackberry will die?” Answer: None of them. There are more than 1.25 billion phones sold every year. Even a 1% market share would [...]

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Google’s “business strategy” versus Apple’s actual, real business

January 5, 2010

If you ever wanted to read something which almost perfectly encapsulates the utter lack of business reality endemic in new media, Kim-Mai Cutler’s post on the Nexus One is it. In particular, this sentence: “Overall, incrementalism seems to be working for Google. A couple stats released today bear out evidence of that success.” Success? What [...]

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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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