If you’ve been following the verbal sparring between Apple and China Mobile’s vocal CEO Wang Jianzhou, PhoneMag has an incredibly detailed analysis of the current battle for what could potentially be the iPhone’s biggest market.ÂÂÂ
“There is more than $115 million US Dollars at stake for Apple in China. [T]he competitors at the table are deadly serious. And they should be. They have turf to protect. Nokia, for one, sold more than 50 million mobile handsets in China during the first 3 quarters of 2007. Research in Motion (RIM) is another key player. RIM recently signed a deal with China Mobile to distribute their Blackberry 8700 smart-phone. RIM has bet big on the China market” Dan Butterfield, PhoneMag
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Written by Chris Davies on December 19th, 2007 with no comments.
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Even though most say the iPhone is a failure of a device and quit possibly a runner up for worst product of the year, it still continues to get noticed by top media as quite possibly the best. Consumer Reports January 2008 edition points out that the iPhone has outperformed it’s smartphone competitors in many different aspects.ÂÂÂ
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Written by Ken Allen on December 19th, 2007 with no comments.
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While the iPhone’s EDGE capabilities appear to be slow, it’s rendering of web pages makes up for difference in speed between EDGE and 3G. Here is a video of the iPhone on EDGE, and a Nokia E61i on 3G. You can clearly see that both of their loading bars end at around the same time, with the iPhone finishing before the E61i loading eBay. If the iPhone had 3G, it would blow all other 3G devices away in website loading times.
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Written by Ken Allen on December 11th, 2007 with no comments.
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Yes, it’s true, the total market share internet usage by the iPhone is a massive 0.09%. This is a stat taken out of how much the internet is used by the iPhone, and all other devices/operating systems. Compared to it’s competition, it had a fairly good rating over Windows CE which brought in an impressive 0.06%, and the Sidekick with a mere 0.02%.
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Written by Ken Allen on December 3rd, 2007 with no comments.
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Straight in line with all other stores on Black Friday, Macmall will be giving up to 22% off on select Apple products including Notebooks, iMacs, Mac Pro’s, Mac Mini’s, and the full range of iPod’s on Thursday the 22nd (Thanksgiving) and Friday the 23rd. There doesn’t appear to be any discounts on iPhone’s though. A sale of 22% off could mean some major savings on notebooks or other Apple computers.
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Written by Ken Allen on November 22nd, 2007 with no comments.
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