Windows Phone 7′s Marketplace grows faster than Android did at launch, doesn’t mean much
An analyst note released by research firm IDC yesterday points out that in the nearly two months since Windows Phone 7's retail release, the Windows Marketplace has swelled to 4,000 applications -- a number that the Android Market took five months to reach. That's impressive, no doubt, and the analyst behind the numbers notes that he "would not be surprised if Microsoft had the third largest app portfolio in the industry by the middle of next year." Now granted, hitting number three would take very little effort on Microsoft's part -- they'd just have to beat webOS, BlackBerry OS, and Symbian, none of which have sparked iOS- or Android-like levels of developer interest. So beyond that, what does the growth mean?
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: apps, doubt, engadget, launch, microsoft, numbers, windows, windowsmarketplace, windowsphone7, wp7
ComScore: Android grows, iPhone stagnates, everyone else loses in US smartphone market share
This is getting to be something of a familiar story . ComScore's latest smartphone ownership figures for the US, spanning the quarter between July and September this year, show Android continuing to gain ground on its contemporaries with 44 percent growth of its share of smartphone subscribers -- to the detriment of almost everyone else in the market. Only Apple's iOS manages to maintain its slice of the pie constant (an iPhone 4-fueled improvement on last quarter, when it too was losing out to the Android juggernaut), as BlackBerry OS and Windows Mobile take the brunt of the losses
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: almost-everyone, brunt, comscore, comscoremobilens, familiar-story, market, mobile, mobilens, numbers, slice, windows-mobile
Android Market surpasses 100,000 apps: can’t stop, won’t stop growing
Ah, there we go. Right around three months after we falsely suspected that El Goog had crossed the 100,000 mark in its Android Market, the company itself has today confirmed the passing of that line via Twitter
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: app, apple, application, brothers, entry, goog, googleandroid, months, numbers, sheer, step, stop-growing, three-months, twitter
Samsung Transform, first hands-on!
Worried that the Samsung Transform would be a slatephone? Don't be -- it's more of a miniature Epic 4G .
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: buzzy, cameras, chat, fancy-functions, Hinge, much-the-same, numbers, samsung transform, samsungtransform, smartphone, sprint, streaming, transform, vibrator
Spreadtrum technology enables three SIM cards in one phone, jetsetters rejoice
You know that dual-SIM handset you picked up last year to make those frequent jaunts between Belgium and Luxembourg so much easier? Might as well throw The Netherlands in there to complete the Benelux triangle, as Spreadtrum has just announced a new single chip that enables support for three SIM cards within a single handset
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: belgium, benelux, cards, double-agents, dual, engadget, handset, luxembourg, numbers, phone, result, Sim, triplesim
Another HTC HD7 leak: mid-October looks like a go, price is €559 without contract
We're getting very used to spotting the as-yet-unannounced Windows Phone 7-powered HD7 embedded in tables of serial numbers and release dates, and while, you know, a picture would be nice , it's good to see that it still exists in the world of carrier databases. WMPoweruser.com has a leaked O2 Germany lineup courtesy of a tipster, and that chart names an HTC HD7 for the 42nd week of the year, which lines up nicely with that original October 18 rumor we heard for O2 in the UK
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: dates, decision-making, hd7, htc, htc hd7, leak, numbers, release, rumor, still-exists, windows, windows-phone
Motorola Droid Pro, Droid 2 World Edition, and MZ600 ‘tablet’ leak for Verizon
Hey guess what, Verizon loves Android and Motorola, and the hit-making trio seem to be up to their old tricks with a bevy of new phones spotted by a Boy Genius Report tipster in Verizon Wireless' systems. The serial numbers and hints of product names help flesh out and clarify a rumor Boy Genius was peddling a week ago , with the super specced Droid Pro and what looks to be a secondary version of the Droid 2 "World Edition" apparently slated for those international-friendly GSM+CDMA chipsets (like Verizon's Storm before them), while a third MZ600 "tablet" device is also in the works.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: droid pro, hit-making-trio, names, numbers, serial, slate, the-slate-style, tipster, verizon, World Edition
Gartner and IDC agree: the Android invasion’s accelerating around the world
Last quarter we reported on some pretty stellar growth numbers for Android in the global smartphone marketplace. Back then, Google's OS had a 9.6 percent slice of the pie, but today that's ballooned to a robust 17.2 percent, meaning that in terms of end-user sales over the last three months, Android has nearly matched RIM's BlackBerry sales
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: apple, BlackBerry, engadget, figures, motorola, numbers, q22010, slice, symbian
BlackBerry users running out of loyalty: 50 percent plan to defect to iPhone or Android
Nielsen has its own angle on the smartphone numbers game out today, and the results vaguely resemble the numbers from Canalys . Perhaps more interesting than the ever present market share tug-of-war (Nielsen pegs Google, RIM, and Apple at 27 percent, 33 percent, and 23 percent in sales to new smartphone subscribers, respectively) a note on brand loyalty turns out ugly for BlackBerry: while 89 percent of iPhone owners plan on getting another iPhone, and 71 percent of Android buyers plan to re-up, only 42 percent of BlackBerry owners plan to stick around
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: BlackBerry, blackberry 6, blackberry6, engadget, game-out-today, numbers, planning, result, rim, the-smartphone
Canadian iPhone 4 launch details emerge: Rogers offers 6GB for $30, iPad sharing for $20 (update: Bell’s iPad deal cheaper)
The iPhone 4 may be launching on all the major Canadian carriers tomorrow , but we're only just now starting to get the actual details on what they'll be offering. Rogers is the first out of the gate and, for a change, it looks like folks in the US may just be a tad jealous of their northern neighbors
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: bell, between-the-two, dataplan, entry, existing, ipad sharing, ipadsharing, iphone 4, iphone4, iphone4launch, launch, northern, numbers, posted-as-more, shopping