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40% Of BlackBerry Users Want Their Next Smartphone To Be An iPhone

March 16, 2010

According to a the second semi-annual smartphone brand loyalty survey by Crowd Science, 40% of BlackBerry users want their next smartphone to be an iPhone.  The BlackBerry may be on top when it comes smartphone market share, but, when 2 of 5 BlackBerry users want to switch to Research in Motion’s primary competition’s device, the [...]

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Android And BlackBerry Web Share Up In February… iPhone, Not So Much

March 2, 2010

According to data just released by analytics firm Quantcast, Android and BlackBerry mobile web consumption in the month of February was up while that of the iPhone was down slightly.
Android’s share of North American mobile web consumption was up 8.3% from January 2010, to 15.2% of total mobile web consumption for the month of February. [...]

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Android Catching Up To iPhone On Number Of Monthly App Downloads

March 1, 2010

When it comes to the mobile app downloads Android users are catching up to iPhone users. In recent report from AdMob, downloads from over 900 smartphone users were tracked and it turns out that Android users download 8.7 applications per month trailing iPhone users by just 0.1 downloads per month.
The iPod Touch has [...]

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Apple’s App Store Accounts For 99.4% Of Mobile App Downloads In 2010. There’s A Huge Opportunity For Everyone Else

January 19, 2010

What Apple has been able to do with the App Store, even if you believe the numbers are fudged, is truly astonishing.  Apple claims that they recently eclipsed the 3 billion download mark and it only took them roughly 18 months to do so.  Market research firm, Gartner, says that 2.5 billion apps were downloaded [...]

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Google’s Got A Plan For Overcoming Android’s App Storage Limit… Does RIM Have One For BlackBerry?

January 6, 2010

I read an interesting post over on Engadget Mobile today about how Google has a plan to overcome Android’s 256 MB application storage limit.  BlackBerry users are all too familiar with having virtually unlimited storage for media on removable micro SD cards but very little memory, 128 MB or less on most BlackBerry devices, to [...]

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Google Announces Android Press Gathering On Jan 5th

December 29, 2009

Google has announced a press conference and demonstration, they are calling it an Android press gathering, one week from today on Jan. 5th.
With the launch of the first Android-powered device just over a year ago, we’ve seen how a powerful, open platform can spur mobile product innovation. And this is just the beginning of what’s [...]

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Should RIM Be Worried About Android? Investors Certainly Appear To Be

November 2, 2009

If you go back to the the latter part of September, Research in Motion’s stock price (ticker RIMM) was over $88 per share.  At the time of this posting the price is down below $56.  A Large chunk of this decline was because of poorer than expected Q2 fiscal 2010 earnings where the stock price [...]

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Should Google And RIM Collaborate On A Next-Gen Android Powered BlackBerry?

May 28, 2009

I just read an interesting post over on ZDNet how a Google Android powered BlackBerry would be the ‘Perfect Storm‘, pun intended.  I’ve actually thought for a while that RIM should create a device that runs Android.

A “Perfect Storm”: The Linux-based Android OS, and tight integration with Google’s web services, running on  BlackBerry hardware and [...]

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Should We Start A New Blog On Android?

December 22, 2008

It seems like over the passed couple of months I had a bit of a facination with with Android.  I haven’t gone out and bought a T-Mobile G1 or anything, although I am thinking about it…  I am intrigued, however, with the thought of a viable open source mobile operating system that looks like it [...]

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