04/26/2011
All Things Digital
The mercurial U.S. smartphone market has a new favorite and it’s not the iPhone.
It’s Android, which is now the leading smartphone OS in the States in market share, according to a survey released this morning by Nielsen.
As of March 2011, 37 percent of smartphone users own an Android device, said Nielsen–significantly [...]
2/14/2011
Wall Street Journal – San Francisco Bureau
Apple Inc. is working on the first of a new line of less-expensive iPhones and an overhaul of software services for the devices, people familiar with the matter said, moving to accelerate sales of its smartphones amid growing competition.
One of the people, who saw a prototype of the [...]
02/04/2011
Bloomberg News
Verizon Wireless stopped orders for the iPhone after selling through its initial inventory.
Verizon Wireless, the biggest U.S. wireless carrier, sold through its initial inventory of Apple Inc. iPhones in less than a day after starting to offer the device to its current customers.
The preorders were halted at 8:10 p.m. New York time yesterday, [...]
01/14/2011
Computerworld
Apple has redesigned the iPhone 4’s antennas for Verizon, perhaps to foil the “death grip” problem that roiled AT&T customers last summer, an expert said today.
“They’ve moved things around, and my guess is that they went to a dual antenna,” said Spencer Webb, an antenna engineer with nearly a dozen patents to his credit, [...]
01/14/2011
Business Insider – Online, The
Google’s Android platform is most often compared to Apple’s iPhone, because they’re the two most advanced smartphone platforms, belong to the two giants of Silicon Valley, and because they compete over consumer mindshare, developer mindshare, and bragging rights.
But if you look at the data, it’s not the iPhone that has [...]
01/13/2011
PC Magazine
Verizon Wireless has strengthened its 3G network in the New York metro area, perhaps anticipating an influx of new 3G subscribers following its iPhone 4 announcement yesterday.
Today, Verizon flipped the switch on 16 new cell towers around the state, including New York City, Palisades, Yonkers, Medford, and a dozen other sites.
For the [...]
01/12/2011
San Diego Union-Tribune
After months of speculation, Verizon Wireless said Tuesday that it will make Apple’s wildly popular iPhone available on its cellular network.
The announcement, which has been widely anticipated because of problems with AT&T’s network, is also good news for Qualcomm. Analysts believe the San Diego wireless giant will be the supplier of radio [...]
01/10/2011
Wall Street Journal
Apple Inc. watchers are already doing rough calculations and think Verizon Wireless could generate sales of millions of iPhones this year.
Verizon has invited reporters to a press event where it is expected the wireless carrier will announce it will carry the iPhone. At the Consumer Electronics Show, conference goers weighed in on [...]
11/18/2010
PC Magazine
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak thinks Android will eventually beat the iPhone as a mobile-phone platform in much the same way Windows computers squeezed Apple’s market share in the PC market, he said in an interview with a Dutch newspaper.
In an interview with De Telegraaf reporter Alfred Monterie, Wozniak said that Android will become [...]
10/14/2010
TMCnet.com
Oct 13, 2010 (San Jose Mercury News – McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) — BEIJING, China — The store clerk polished the iPhone 4 as though it were a diamond. Then he reverentially handed it to Liu Jia.
“You have to have it. It’s like religion,” said Liu, a 29-year-old public relations manager. “I don’t [...]
