Archive for the ‘Digital Lifestyle’ Category
Monday, September 22nd, 2008
The news of the day is that SanDisk has just launched SlotMusic. The memory chip maker will distribute music from the four major labels on microSD cards. Music tracks will be encoded in MP3 at 320Kbps, DRM-free and pre-loaded on a 1GB microSD card that will sell for $7-$10.
Blogs unanimously ...
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Monday, September 15th, 2008
Gartner published a few days ago their assessment of the Smartphone market in Q2 2008. These are the highlights by handset maker:
Smartphone market grew 15.7% compared to last year.
Nokia remains the number one vendor, but it is losing market share from 50.8% in 2007 to 47.5% in 2008.
RIM is the ...
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Thursday, September 4th, 2008
TechCruch and GigaOm both commented the Symbian quarterly results. Both blogs compared Nokia's OS to iPhone and reached two opposite conclusions.
Facts by GigaOm:
Symbian shipped 19.5 Million units in Q2, 5% year-on-year growth.
iPhone shipped 0.77 Million units of its 2G model in Q2, a 166% year-on year growth, considering iPhone only sold ...
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
After a long summer break, welcome to the new season of tech-talk.biz
It has been two months with big sport events as the UEFA EURO Cup and the Beijing Olympics, covered for the first time not only on TV but also on Internet and mobile phones. And competition has not been ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Nokia announced today a bid to acquire 100% of Symbian. Nokia already owns 48% of the shares, and would purchase the remaining shares for 264 million euro, from their current Symbian partners Sony Ericsson, Telefonaktiebolaget, LM Ericsson, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Siemens International Holding and Samsung Electronics.
Even though it may seem ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
"It is the usability, stupid."
In essence, Nokia keeps developing mobile phones, when younger generations do not care about a phone but about communications in an ample sense (IM, Facebook, web, etc) and multimedia (music, music , music, clips and music). And they do not want multimedia to be a poor ...
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
The iPhone Revolution goes on, only faster.
No more “wait for 3G” effect. Half the price. Going truly global to 70 countries. Built-in Wifi and GPS. Do not be surprised when Apple double their forecast and sell 20 million units in 2008.
Apple wants to achieve full dominance of the mobile phone. ...
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Rumors confirmed. Apple announced the iPhone 3G. It will be available in 22 countries on 11 July and more than 70 countries by the end of the year. In US, the 8GB version will cost $199 and the 16GB only $299. Both have built-in GPS.
The entire keynote of Steve Jobs ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
TechCrunch echoes the rumor of an iPhone at $199, as it did one month ago, although this time saying it is a baseless rumor from reputated BSter Kevin Rose.
The $199 iPhone subsidized by AT&T is an old speculation.
And why not? Apple could well launch the 3G iPhone at $399 and ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Nokia must be getting more and more worried.
Apple, a new entrant in the market, has stolen from Nokia the top position for high-end phones in consumers minds. The revolutionary iPhone might not have yet a market share comparable to Nokia, but it is definitively the phone we all dream of. ...
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