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During this year’s Macworld Steve Jobs announced that Apple has sold more than 4 million iPhones since its launch. Despite owning only 2 percent of the smart-phone market and less than 1 percent of the overall mobile-phone market, iPhone still manages to keep up its reputation as the main shaker.
As the New York Times reports, Google announced that it received more traffic from iPhones this Christmas than from any other mobile device. One of the main reasons why iPhone users have been visiting the web so often could be the fact that software developers are still limited to creating Web-based applications. Will that change when Apple will introduce it’s iPhone SDK in February and native applications will be able to run on it without the user having to hack the device?
Apple has not revealed, however, how many iPhone users have bought music using iPhone’s iTunes interface. As we learn from other sources this has not appeared to be iPhone users’ favourite activity. A recent M:Metrics study, for example, shows that 20 percent of mobile phone users internationally listen to music on their mobile devices. However, most of them gets their music from other sources than a mobile music service like iTunes. They prefer to download their tunes from their computers’ archives or other sources.
Music industry is keeping an eye open on the iPhone. Music labels are concerned with the fact that more and more mobile phone users are sharing music files or obtaining them without using official music services. Their income from the carrier deals may be seriously reduced if more mobile devices become more open-access like iPhone. The executive of one of the labels has put it this way: “As more phones become Wi-Fi-enabled, the need to go through official pipes to pay the piper is not always going to be there.”
Some companies like Alltel for example are already offering services that allow customers to stream and download digital-rights-management-free digital music files from their home computer to their mobile phone from anywhere in the operator’s service area.
Thanks to: Reuters/Billboard
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Lee Williams, Senior Nokia VP, during S60 introduction in London described the way Nokia’s new handset will work as: “… this being so much more then about an orientation and double taps, and even more then a Wii gaming type of options…”.
Unwiredview.com reports on Nokia Touch User Interface patent, filed in June 2007, about six months after Apple introduced the iPhone, but one month before it was launched. Nokia seems to have found a way to go around Apple’s patents, moreover, it looks like its engineers have developed a user interface that might be beyond iPhone touch-screen capabilities.
Nokia’s answer on Apple capacitive multi-touch display is Active Matrix LCD with Integrated Optical Touch Screen. It’s AMLCD technology is based on touchscreen that is able to recognize multi-touch gestures. The device has optical sensors embedded throughout the display. The sensors can identify fingers placed on the screen and record their movements.
These recorded movements are then translated into control gestures using pattern recognition methods. Various one, two or multiple finger gestures can be then used to control different functions of the handset. That is how Nokia has interpreted and extended Apple’s multi-touch display idea.
What seems to be more interesting tough, is what Nokia’s engineers have made to take it further. They devised a user interface, that can track and recognize hand and finger movements in three dimensional space. That is possible thanks to the use of Ultrasonic Transducers (USTs), arranged around the perimeter of the display.
Ultrasonic transducers emit ultrasonic sound waves that are distributed through air. When such wave meets a finger on its path the signal is reflected back and detected by the transducer. And so by making definite gestures the user operate different applications. That 3D tracking can also be used for entering text through a virtual keyboard.
The big question is what Apple’s engineers have in stock for iPhone v2.0.
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Yet more from CES 2008: electronics manufacturer iRiver presented its iRiver GSM Phone that looks like a pretty bad iPhone clone.
The iRiver GSM Phone (which doesn’t have an official name yet) will be sold unlocked, it will be powered by a Linux based operating system, and like the iPhone will have no keys, making use of a 3-inch, 480×272 touchscreen display.
According to reports the phone will have 4GB of memory, Adobe Flash support, a GPS feature, mobile TV, 2MP camera with camcorder, and music/video players with Rhapsody music support.
It’s also known that unlike the iPhone the phone will work on 3G networks. “It would be ridiculous for the phone to be 2G or 2.5G at this time,” stated iRiver representative Owen Kwon. And it should be cheaper than the iPhone, which is quite obvious from its looks.
Thanks: PC Mag
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According to a leaked Vodafone 2008 roadmap that recently surfaced online, Canadian handsets manufacturer Research In Motion has plans to launch a new model of its BlackBerry line of PDA/mobiles that will mimic some of iPhone’s design decisions.
According to the document the new BlackBerry handset will keep its traditional look and will include a keyboard and smaller than iPhone’s screen, but will now make use of iPhone’s black and steel colors.
The new BlackBerry like the iPhone will offer Wi-Fi and unlike the iPhone will also offer GPS. The leaked document designates this new product as “BlackBerry’s new flagship device targeted at senior execs.”
Vodafone spokesperson Ben Taylor confirmed authenticity of the leaked document, however saying that “It was an early draft of a road map for 2008. So some of the details will have changed.”
Spokesperson for RIM declined to comment on this information.
Thanks: Toronto Star
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Although it’s been long rumored that Microsoft is working on a “ZunePhone” iPhone killer, outgoing Microsoft chairman Bill Gates stated that it’s not so.
In an interview with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung published on Wednesday he is quoted as saying “No, we won’t do that [release an iPhone competitor]. In the so-called smart phone business we will concentrate solely on software with our Windows Mobile program.”
“We have partnerships with a lot of device manufacturers from Samsung to Motorola and this variety brings us significantly more than if we would make our own mobile phone,” he explained Microsoft’s point of view.
At the same time, in his last Sunday address at the CES 2008 he announced a “digital decade” of telephones, televisions and cars that respond to voice and touch. “This is the area that people underestimate the most,” he said.
And it’s worth noting that only a year ago Bill Gates was of completely other opinion towards touch screen powered devices. When asked whether he would buy an iPhone during an interview he responded “Well, of course, I’m the wrong person to ask. I like to dial numbers with one hand, and maybe I’m the only one. The phone space is where we think software will be the critical element. If there’s anything good about the iPhone, it’s software.” (story).
Thanks: Reuters and Times Online.
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