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Customers lined up outside Verizon stores all over Washington, DC today. One of the FierceMarkets team was able to snap a few shots of the lines on his way to work. Verizon's Storm Center website was also reporting lines elsewhere in DC. After months of waiting, Verizon Wireless has finally released...
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RIM's recently released Blackberry Storm is a device that tries to outdo Apple's iPhone by including a beefed-up OS, polishing up the interface and marrying it to a really fast 3G network (instead of AT&T's pokey 3G network.) The device even has visual voice mail, and a cut-and-paste...
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While watching the flash videos for the Pomegranate, I was skeptical–wondering if this was a joke or not. Upon further navigation through the website (which is ultimately an intricate ad for Nova Scotia), I realized that the most advanced phones that we have today are still Blackberries, iPhones...
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Filed under: Apple, iPhone, BlackBerry, Mobile, News, Smartphone, projector, cameraphone, apps, G1, voice translation, pomegranate
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November 7th - November 13th Contents 1 Geek Thoughts 2 This Week on Geek 3 Geek.com Web Picks 4 Don’t Forget About This 5 Featured Free Downloads 1 Geek Thoughts — A touch screen that clicks Research in Motion helped create the connectivity addiction that we all suffer from these days. While...
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MobileCrunch is reporting that:
The iPhone is twice as reliable as the Blackberry after one year of ownership, a new study by SquareTrade finds.
Wow. I was a Treo user for years (WinMo and Palm OS) so I know the issues these devices can have in terms of reliability– first hand. Having used the...
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When it comes to charging for mobile apps, payments usually have to go through either the carriers or one of the emerging mobile app platforms such as Apple or Google’s Android. The problem with charging for an iPhone app through iTunes is that Apple takes 30 percent. A startup called Billing Revolution...
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Man, not only is the iPhone beating BlackBerry in sales and customer satisfaction, but the latest study from SquareTrade is showing that BlackBerrys malfunction about twice as much as an iPhone. Ouch. The survey gathered results from 15,000 handsets over the course of a year, which showed that 11.2%...
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The latest numbers released by Canalys indicates that once again Nokia has kept the top sport in regards to smartphone shipments for the third quarter of this year. Of course, that’s probably not a news bulletin considering Nokia’s dominance of the mobile phone market in general. What is...
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The iPhone is twice as reliable as the Blackberry after one year of ownership, a new study by SquareTrade finds. SquareTrade, which sells extra warranties for cell phones and other devices, looked at the failure rates of 15,000 phones covered under its plans. The malfunction rate for iPhones after one...
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Filed under: RIM , Palm OS , Windows Mobile , Apple So apparently Apple knew what it was talking about after all. Research firm Canalys says that Apple stole the rug out from underneath RIM in the third quarter to become the world's number two pusher of smartphones, taking a hearty 17.3 percent market...
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FierceWireless compiled this guide to holiday handsets that U.S. operators will be featuring during the upcoming buying season. In the second of this two-part series, we look the high-end handsets. FierceWireless contacted the major operators and compiled this list of holiday handsets with details about...
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This week’s Around SPE is sponsored by the Android Central Store, where you can find a full complement of accessories for the T-Mobile G1 including headset adapters, body skins, and screen protectors. What’s the big news in the Smartphone world this week? It’s a mix, really. Android’s...