PocketNow had shared a video few weeks back where they compared iPhone and Android 2.2. This time PocketNow has set up a browser test between the iPhone, Android 2.2, and a Windows Phone 7. The Windows Phone 7’s browser looks interesting this time with lot more feature. Lets check this video:
Android has finally taken the lead in the US and has beaten iPhone in terms of new smartphone customers reach in the US. Macrumors covered this report by Nielsen which released data on smartphone usage in the U.S., revealing that Google’s Android platform has outpaced the iPhone among new smartphone customers for the first half of 2010. The news comes as a marked reversal from the second half of 2009, when the iPhone topped Android 34% to 6% market share among new smartphone customers.
While the iPhone has been the headline grabber over the last few years in the smartphone market, Google’s Android OS has shown the most significant expansion in market share among current subscribers. Android’s rise is even more noticeable among new smartphone subscribers in the last six months where Android has nosed past Apple’s iOS in the last quarter to grab a 27% share of those recent smartphone subscribers.
Apple seems to have changed the face of handset market in just 3 years. iPhones profits are now bigger than the total handset profits from HTC, Sony Ericsson, RIM, Motorola and Nokia combined. CRAZY right? In just 3 years Apple came from nowhere and changed the face of smartphone for ever. Apple continues to destroy the competition, profit wise with a mere 3% marketshare. Check this chart comparing the total handset industry profits since 2005 captured by:
1) Apple (light blue), and
2) Everyone else (RIM, Nokia, HTC, Sony Ericsson, etc.)
Apple will generate 2X as much handset profit as the rest of the industry combined this year DESPITE SELLING ONLY 3% OF THE HANDSETS BY UNIT VOLUME. WOW!!!!
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This insider news was offered by DigiTimes and covered by Macrumors yesterday. In an interesting Q&A with one of Apples research analysts, DigiTimes shared few undisclosed details about the development of the iPhone 4G which is expected to be introduced on 7th June at WWDC. Over to Macrumors:
One of the most interesting tidbits included in the report is a claim that Apple had a second next-generation iPhone under development that more closely resembles the iPhone 3GS, a phone which Apple has been keeping in reserve in case unforeseen difficulties with the more significantly redesigned versions seen floating around in prototypes forced Apple to fall back to manufacturing processes with which it is already familiar.
The leaked iPhone 4G had a tag that said “N90,” which is the internal development codename for the iPhone 4G, and very few people outside the company knew about it prior to the leak.
On a side note, Apple initiated the iPhone 4G project at the end of 2008. According to our sources, Apple actually has another product codenamed N91 for the project, which offers less change from previous iPhones compared with the N90. It’s a parallel product to back up the N90 in case there are major delays due to significant modifications in casing, display resolution, digital camera support and so forth.
In fact, it seems possible that there may even have been a third version of the next-generation iPhone floating around Apple’s labs, as details found in the iPhone SDK 3.2 back in February revealed a device, presumed to be an iPhone, carrying an “N89″ internal model number. The iPhone 3GS carries internal model number “N88″.
This is interesting – A study of 4,000 Brits placed the iPhone ahead of things like the car, camera and flushing toilet in the list of 100 most important inventions. Edible Apple dug this interesting article about 100 greatest inventions of all times.
While the wheel came top – followed by the aeroplane, the lightbulb and the worldwide web in fourth – the iPhone figured surprisingly high. In fact, the Steve Jobs special came in as the eighth most important invention in the world, just behind computers, the telephone and Penicillin.
“It’s amazing to see how much the iPhone is valued, sitting alongside inventions such as Penicillin in people’s perceptions and being declared a more important invention than miracle gadgets of their own time, such as the compass.”
Smartphones have surged by 50% globally from a year ago. It grew from 35.9 million units in the year ago quarter to 54 million units in the first quarter of 2010, the strongest growth rate in several years, reports AppleInsider. MarketWatch said smartphones now make up 18% of all mobile phone sales. And Apple’s iPhone is growing exponentially in these positive conditions:
Apple’s growth in the first quarter made it the number one mobile vendor among all US phone makers. Globally, Apple reached a record high of 3% global market share among all mobile phone makers.
BGR has found something real interesting this time as well. These guys have been digging into the iPad’s OS 3.2 for possible hints about the new iPhone that might be out this July. And here is what they have found:
While today marks the first day the Apple iPad went on sale, it also gives us a glimpse into the upcoming stuff from Cupertino. One of our connects has been digging around the iPad filesystem and found references to the following:
iPhone3,2
iPhone3,3
iPod4,1
iProd2,1
The first two, iPhones, the second is an iPod touch, and the last? A major revision to the Apple iPad. As if things couldn’t get more exciting…
Please reveal some more interesting insights BGR )
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