A recent study made by market research firm Interpret reveals that Palm Pre has a pretty impressive mindshare, second only to the iPhone 3GS. The report bears the name of “Signature Smartphones: Gaining Mindshare in Order to Gain Market Share” and you can check out the statistics below if you don’t believe us.
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A Chinese forum member from here claims that the iPhone 3GS is capable of playing both 720p and 1080p video, encoded with H.264. The only problem is that Apple artificially limited playback resolution to 640 x 480 pixels. Do we really need such playback quality on the go and are you up to sacrifice the handset’s battery life for better resolution?
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The Italian folks of HD Blog have managed to compare the displays of the most important smartphones on the market, with an emphasis on Samsung devices and also included the iPhone 3GS in the comparison. You can see all of the handsets in the image below and the video comparison is available after the break:
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EISA (European Imaging and Sound Association) has just announced its 2009-2010 awards for mobile phones and “green” technology. The surprise and most important award was the “European Smartphone of the year”, that was received by the iPhone 3GS, for its user-friendliness, sleek UI and evolution from the 3G model.
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Could the surveys get any stranger? A recent ChangeWave Research study performed together with RBS Capital shows that 99% of iPhone 3GS owners are happy with their device. Of these, 82% are “very satisfied” by their devices and the strange part comes into play when we realize that the AT&T network is the most often mentioned dislike.
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Talk about iPhone killers… and no, this is not HTC’s latest handset, but a man, in flesh and bones, who hates the handset so bad that he wants to end its puny little life. This is the iPhone 3GS that’s getting the punishment, shot 4 times and then burned to a little pile of ashes, as you can see in the video below:
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PSP who? Seriously, the PSP and DS are so dead, now that the iPhone supports so many games, emulators and ports from other platforms. Also, it has the accessories it needs to mimic the control system of a console. What more do you need? The iJoyPad controller, maybe?
iJoyPad is an external controller, that you can check out in the picture above and...
The iPhone 3GS is surely a hot item to purchase, but HTC Hero might just be the best phone of 2009, so who takes the crown? Phone Dog has a 3 part video duel of the two smartphones, revealing which handset rules and which… rules less:
As most of you might have guessed, the Hero has the upper hand in this fight, although the iPhone’s App...
As if you didn’t know, we’re in the midst of an economic depression, so it shouldn’t surprise us to find out that in some countries, like Romania (Eastern Europe), the iPhone 3GS launch had very poor attendance. In fact, there was only one Apple fan(boy) in front of the store for 5 hours and about 20 people present at launch time.
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AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson has admitted yesterday that the iPhone’s exclusivity on AT&T is not something that will last forever, considering the constant negotiations and rumours regarding Apple’s possible switch to another carrier. Meanwhile, iPhone users have a reason to rejoice: Google Latitude has just hit the App Store.
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