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Interesting times we live in...
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Posted: 2009-08-17 23:52:47
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@ gola:
Yoh, they don't build 'em like they used to, hey?
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Posted: 2009-08-18 00:11:01
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woah! Now id be worried if i lived in the neighbouring apartment buildings.
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Posted: 2009-08-18 14:34:47
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Apple's iPhone parade continues...
Taken from The Register:
'Japan's top-selling mobile: iPhone 3GS
Apple cracks 'difficult' market?
The iPhone 3GS was the top-selling mobile phone in Japan last month, figures from market watcher GfK show.
The Japanese mobile market is very different from those in the West. Over there, mobile net access has long been taken for granted, local phone makers are favoured and Japanese definitions of what makes a good handset don't match up with Westerners' ideas.
The list of top-ten phones contains only one brand we over here would consider major: Sony Ericsson. Nokia, Samsung, Motorola, LG and HTC don't make the list at all.
So it's a testament to the iPhone UI that Japanese buyers lifted it above popular offerings from Sharp, Panasonic, NEC and Casio.
The best-selling phone was the 32GB 3GS - the 16GB model came in ninth place. GfK said the 3GS sold twice as quickly as the 3G did last year.
Still, July was the 3GS' launch month and may have coincided with a general downturn in Japanese handset sales. Further months figures will be required to see whether Apple's success was a one-off or is a sign that it has become a major player in Japan.'
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Posted: 2009-08-18 20:02:19
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More Apple iPhone achievements, this time dethroning RIM from their no.2 smartphone spot in Europe:
Also from The Register:
'Apple second only to Nokia in Euro smartphone biz
Wins big globally
Apple has overtaken Research in Motion in the race to be Europe's top smartphone seller, figures from market watcher Canalys show.
During Q2, Apple shifted 1.9m iPhones in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, up from 200,000 in Q2 2008. That took its market share from 1.3 per cent to 13.6 per cent, enough to put it just ahead of Rim, which came out of Q2 2009 with a share of 10.3 per cent.
Rim sold 1.4m BlackBerries in the quarter, up from 900,000 a year ago, still big growth in anyone's book.
Both firms have a way to go to challenge Nokia, which sold 8.9m smartphones in EMEA last quarter for a market share of 64 per cent. But the Finnish phone giant's share is being eroded: it was down 7.2 percentage points between Q2 2009 and Q2 2008, when it sold 9m smartphones. The bulk of Rim and Apple gains came at the expense of other firms.
In North America, Rim was ahead of Apple with a 52 per cent share to the iPhone's 23.3 per cent. HTC made a small third-place showing with a share of just 5.6 per cent. It and everyone else saw its share decline - Apple and Rim both commanded a greater share of the market than they did a year ago.
Nokia, absent from the North America top three, lead the pack in Asia Pacific with a 59.7 per cent share of the market, up from 50.6 per cent in the year-ago quarter. Second- and third-placed Sharp and Fujitsu both saw sales and share dip.
Worldwide, Nokia, RIM and Apple took the top three slots in Q2, achieving smartphone market shares of 44.3, 20.9 and 13.7 per cent, respectively. Nokia's share was down year on year, from 45.5 per cent, while the other two companies enjoyed increased market share, from 16.7 per cent (Rim) and 2.1 per cent (Apple).
The success seen by Apple and Rim pushed Windows Mobile's share of the smartphone operating system market below ten per cent for the first time in ages, falling from 14.3 per cent to just nine per cent of the market. Symbian, the market leader, saw its share slip from 58.2 per cent to 50.3 per cent.
Google's Android took 2.8 per cent, up from zero a year ago, but not enough to pass the 'others' category, on 3.3 per cent. It almost certainly will do so in the coming quarters, we say.'
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Posted: 2009-08-18 20:06:40
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On 2009-08-18 00:11:01, amawanqa wrote:
@ gola:
Yoh, they don't build 'em like they used to, hey?
Ya, they don't build them like this any more
Impressive stats there, wouldn't mind an iphone either, as a 3rd phone of course
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Posted: 2009-08-18 21:09:04
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Ja Wangs.The iPhone just keeps on impressing.I can understand why when you see some of the games and apps available for it.Sift through the crap and you eventually find some killer stuff.An interesting development is the introduction of a DJ or two working with developers and releasing high quality mind blowing apps for making your own tunes.Its the stuff youd only expect to see on your PC. Then you got your guitar,piano,synth,musical instrument apps that when connected to external speakers can be a hell of alot of fun when played with another iPhone user.Your networking apps like Facebook and two handfuls of Twitter clients are topnotch compared to what is available to the S60 community,bar v5 5800 ect And remember there are only the 1st edition,3G and 3GS out there.3 models taking on the giants Nokia and RIM in the smartphone arena.If this is what is capable at the moment I shiver in anticipation with what is to come in the iPhones next generation or two generations from now.Play with one exstensibly (preferably Jailbroken) for a month or two and you'll be repeating my sentiments.
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Posted: 2009-08-19 09:36:14
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Wangs go to YouTube and check out what people are doing with those iPhone guitar apps.There's a bloke who plays Metallicas Nothing Else Matters and nails it.Very impressive.Another guy does the intro to GnRs Sweet Child of Mine and it sounds sweet.Also seeing iBands and a group of people making music on two iPhones and a Nintendo DS was quite funny.Also wanna download an app called 4 Track and do some basic external recordings via my microphone.Music fun fun fun!
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Posted: 2009-08-19 12:09:03
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^ sponsored by Apple.
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Posted: 2009-08-19 15:07:56
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^ Sponsored by Nokia
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Posted: 2009-08-19 15:37:01
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