May 20th, 2008
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Remember back in the day where the gadget to have for everyone that was anyone was a Palm Pilot? It’s hard to believe that devices from Palm once held the rock star status that is today reserved only for the BlackBerry and the iPhone.
Palm was so big that Palm Pilot almost became a generic term kind of like Xerox. It really didn’t matter what type of PDA you had, most people referred to it as a Palm Pilot.
It is kind of sad seeing where Palm has fallen to. 10 years ago they were on top of the world. Today their stock has been downgraded to sell and is sitting at $5.76. Research in Motion, on the other hand, moved into the top 5 of wireless handset manufacturers and opened up today at $137.50.
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Written by Robb Dunewood on May 20th, 2008 with 4 comments.
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Most Americans buy new mobile phones because they want a new one, not because something was wrong with the last one so it would make sense that in a down economy, mobile phone sales would be down as well. This isn’t the case for smartphones, however.
Smartphones saw a 10% increase in sales over the same period last year and account for 17% of the total market. This trend is due partly to the success of the BlackBerry. BlackBerry maker Research in Motion has moved into the top 5 for handset manufacturers moving Sanyo out of the the fifth spot with about 5% of the market.
Written by Robb Dunewood on May 20th, 2008 with 1 comment.
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Have you heard of One Laptop Per Child, the program that is trying to put a inexpensive laptop in the hands children in developing countries? Well, what do you think about the same type of program but instead of laptops you give children BlackBerrys? Paul lamb feels that the One Laptop Per Child effort may be too late and believes that One BlackBerry Per Child may be the way to go.
The developing world has been swept up in the mobile voice revolution, which has far outpaced the spread of desktop and laptop computers. Global mobile phone users number nearly 3 billion, and 1.3 billion of those users are able to access the Internet using their handheld devices. That compares with roughly 1.1 billion desktop users with Web access worldwide.
A cheap phone with Web access and locally relevant applications may be a better driver for bringing the developing world online. Phones are much simpler to use, allow people to leverage voice as a preferred means of communication and are certainly easier and safer to carry.
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Written by Robb Dunewood on May 20th, 2008 with 3 comments.
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