Mobile OS Shootout

By SRASC at 19 March, 2009, 7:28 pm

As soon as Apple rolled out its preview of iPhone OS 3.0, the comparisons to existing (and forthcoming) mobile OSs started flying. While the major update isn’t exactly a done deal, it’s pretty far along, and we’ve been able to glean quite a bit from our time with the developer beta we’ve been checking out. iPhone [...]

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Apple iPhone controls over 66% of all mobile web use

By SRASC at 2 March, 2009, 11:26 am

In its first detailed look at web market share for cellphones, a research firm has found that Apple’s iPhone represents a staggering 66.61 percent of mobile traffic while its competitors have only just gained a foothold.
Net Applications’ February results show the iPhone operating system having managed over nine times the usage of its next smartphone competitor, [...]

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iPhone “miles ahead” of competing app stores | Report

By SRASC at 2 March, 2009, 11:07 am

A report on mobile applications sales ranked Apple’s iPhone App Store “miles ahead of the competition” as the leading software marketplace, based on timeliness to market, the ability to attract developers, and the “number, variety and appeal of applications available.”
Store wars
Global Intelligence Alliance Group (GIA) ranked Apple’s software sales through iTunes in comparison with Google’s existing [...]

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RBC Compares iPhone’s Competitors

By SRASC at 22 February, 2009, 7:54 pm

With Apple’s influence hanging over the Mobile World Congress event this week, the Royal Bank of Canada has released a comprehensive comparison chart of eight contenders that threaten to steal some of the iPhone’s customers.
Though the firm still sees the iPhone as solidly superior to its competition, analyst Mike Abramsky told clients he’s still concerned [...]

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First Acer and Now Dell may enter smartphone arena as early as next month

By SRASC at 30 January, 2009, 4:39 pm

Seems that another computer manufacturer has decided to take the lead that Apple has made with the jump to smartphone manufacturing. (Acer being the other)
The Wall Street Journal is weighing in on Dell’s rumored smartphone offering, adding further weight to rumors predicting the PC maker will enter the arena to take on Apple’s iPhone.
Citing sources [...]

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Mobile Spy for iPhone

By SRASC at 18 December, 2008, 1:04 am

Retina-X Studios announced today the immediate availability of Mobile Spy for the Apple iPhone. Using this groundbreaking iPhone spy technology, users can silently monitor incoming and outgoing text messages (SMS) and call information of children or employees - even if activity logs are erased. Mobile Spy had already been available for Windows Mobile and Symbian [...]

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