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Articles tagged with: Blackberry and Apple Iphone
Vonage releases calling app for iPhone, BlackBerry
Vonage Holdings, a pioneer in Internet-based home phone service, is launching applications for the iPhone and BlackBerry that undercut the international calling rates of major wireless carriers. more
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iPhone, Android, and Palm Pre Beat BlackBerry in Customer Satisfaction Study
Smartphones with consumer-oriented functionality score best in a customer satisfaction study released today from CFI Group. A new generation of smartphone, lead by Apple's iPhone and including Google's Android and Palm Pre, is bringing in a new customer audience no longer dominated by business users. The CFI Group Smartphone Satisfaction Study, based on surveys of more than 1,000 smartphone users, also finds little relationship between smartphone satisfaction and satisfaction with the provider. Moreover, exclusivity contracts may have drawbacks for carriers if they invite customers drawn to the device and not the provider. more
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40% of Existing Smartphone Owners Consider Switching to the iPhone
Four out of ten blackberry and other smartphone users would switch to Apple's iPhone, as their next smartphone purchase, according to a recent survey conducted by Crowd Science. On the other hand, only 14% of non-blackberry smartphone users would switch to a blackberry for their next purchase. Meanwhile, a vast majority of iPhone users (82%) are loyal to the iPhone brand. more
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Palm Pre Aims at the iPhone, Preliminary Cost Analysis Reveals
Palm is aiming high with its new Pre, a smart phone that rival's Apple's iPhone in terms of slickness - and in terms of hardware features - according to a virtual teardown conducted by iSuppli. more
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Study Finds Disconnect Between Smartphone Adoption and Ability to Manage Mobile Devices
The mobile device automation vendor, Zenprise has published the findings of an Osterman Research study which found that most enterprise IT departments are not equipped to handle the rapid increase in smartphone adoption. Of those surveyed, only two in five expressed confidence that all elements of their mobile messaging platform are fully protected against downtime. more
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Consumer Demand Steady for iPhone, BlackBerry - But What About the Palm Pre?
In recent years, ChangeWave consumer surveys have chronicled a seismic shift to smart phones, with Apple and Research In Motion locked in a two-horse race while most of their competitors have been caught in a downward spiral. more
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Qualcomm Chips Powering the BlackBerry Storm Smartphone
It isn't a shock that the new blackberry Storm smart phone from Research in Motion (RIM) offers features comparable to Apple's iPhone 3G - including the use of a touchscreen - a first for a RIM product. However, the Storm brings some interesting developments on the inside, such as the inclusion of a Qualcomm baseband chip, according to a teardown conducted by iSuppli. more
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Top-10 Selling Mobile Phones in January
The Swedish manufacturer of carrying cases for portable electronics, Krusell, releases its "Top 10"-list for January 2009. The list is based on number of pieces of model specific mobile and smart phone cases ordered from Krusell during January 2009. Krusell's list is unique due to the fact that it reflects the sales of phones on six continents and in more than 50 countries around the globe.
- (1) Samsung SGH-i900/i910 Omnia
- (-) HTC Touch HD
- (9) Nokia E51
- (-) blackberry Storm
- (2) Nokia 6300
- (5) Nokia 3109
- (7) Sony Ericsson X1 Xperia
- (8) Nokia E71
- (-) Nokia 6220
- (10) HTC Diamond
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GPS-Enabled Handsets Expected to Bypass the Economic Downturn
Shipments of GPS-enabled mobile phones will hit a speed-bump in 2009, but will still manage to post year-to-year unit growth through the current economic downturn, according to a new market study by ABI Research. While global handset shipments are expected to drop by 4-5% in 2009, GPS-enabled phones will climb to 240 million units, an increase of 6.4% over 2008. more
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BlackBerry, iPhone Battle Raging On
Research In Motion and Apple continue to dominate the consumer smart phone market, according to the latest ChangeWave survey. The survey shows Apple enjoying another good quarter in the aftermath of its 3G iPhone release. more
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