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Category Archives: Smartphone

Who is really the most popular mobile handset in the world?

Nokia Lumia 900

Nokia Lumia 900

No propaganda. No advertiser infused fake numbers. It’s Nokia. Then Samsung. Then everyone else.

Apple is not in the discussion. Nor is Android. Nor is BlackBerry.

Here are the numbers:

  1. Nokia – 417.1M sold in 2011.
  2. Samsung – 327.4M sold in 2011.
  3. Apple – 93.0M sold in 2011.

This is exactly why I tell my friends that I’m excited about Nokia coming to T-Mobile in the United States. The Nokia running Windows Mobile 8 or Windows Mobile 9 will be the smartphone that gets me away from BlackBerry.

* source: Strategy Analytics

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Christmas Day was Huge for iOS & Android New Activations

It looks like Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android mobile operating systems were the big winners on Christmas Day this year with almost 7 million new activations.

iOS & Android activations

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Have an extra $7k Lying Around for a TAG Heuer Smartphone?

TAG Heuer Link Smartphone

TAG Heuer smartphoneStep right up and enter the weird, wacky world of… luxury phones. The TAG Heuer Link Smartphone (€4,700; roughly $6,800) is the latest in a long line of insane handsets, using watch-worthy construction and materials like stainless steel, gold, diamonds, black PVD, titanium, rubber, calfskin and carbon leather, alligator, and lizard to augment its fairly pedestrian feature set that includes an 800×480, 3.5-inch screen, a five megapixel camera, GSM 3G, Bluetooth, aGPS, Wi-Fi, WAPI, and the “avant-garde” Android 2.2 operating system. Right.

Original article is here.

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BlackBerry Desktop Software Getting Ready for the BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet

This notice automatically popped up on my desktop today. It looks like RIM is getting ready for some PlayBook action. I like their agressiveness with distributing the peripheral software to the masses before the hardware arrives. Some companies should take note of this!

BlackBerry Desktop Software

BlackBerry Desktop Software
Update to 6.0.2.42 (Bundle 43)

What’s new in this release?

BlackBerry Desktop Software 6.0.2 provides support for the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. You can also set some software preferences when you first connect your device. More details at http://www.blackberry.com/desktop/docs/.

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What do you know about the Dell Streak 7 tablet?

Dell Streak 7Rumors are that T-mobile will launch the Dell Streak 7 on January 19th, 2011. Any thoughts out there on DELL’s tablet?

I’ve done a bit of research on the BlackBerry Playbook and, as much as I am a BlackBerry evangelist, I’m not a fan. It’s not a BlackBerry running the RIM operating system. The BlackBerry Playbook is some other device with the BlackBerry name attached to it that doesn’ t look or function like my beloved BlackBerry smartphone.

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