Monday, November 23rd, 2009
While AT&T is holding its grip over the Apple iPhone the US, in order to earn more and more cash, in Europe things are starting to look up, as far as sales are concerned, mostly due to the end of exclusivities. It’s pretty logical, considering that more carriers selling a phone means a higher profit.
We’re talking about the UK and France, where the iPhone is sold via multiple carriers and channels. This move has managed to boost Apple’s value market share to 32%, thanks to the widening of the distribution, according to research from Bernstein. This percentage went up from 21% in just 3 months, a very strong performance, even for Europe.
Also, Apple’s increased share means that BlackBerries are not that popular anymore. For example, in France alone 600,000 iPhones were sold during Q3 2009. Will the guys of Cupertino ever quit the deal with AT&T and start making bigger bucks in the US?
[via Engadget]
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Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
A brand new UK study has shown that women spend no less than 4.75 years on their mobile phone, making or receiving an average of 288,000 calls in their lifetime. This amounts to 42,000 hours, which is more than the 28,500 hours of chatter that the men do throughout their live. This is the equivalent of 3.25 years and 277,000 calls.
The research was done for mobile phone recycler phonepiggybank.com and also showed that British women spend approximately 14 hours, 16 minutes a week chatting on their mobile or landline. Moving on to the funnier side of the statistics, we learn that one in five women has admitted leaving saucy or disturbing messages on a wrong number. Oops?
[via economictimes.indiatimes.com]
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
The Don Juan of mobile phones, BlackBerry Storm did better than its touchscreen brother, Android G1. Analytics firm, Hitwise, compared the number of searches for the term “BlackBerry Storm” with those for “G1” and declared a winner.
As a result, nearly four times more people are interested in finding out more details about BlackBerry’s first touchscreen handset that about a phone using Google’s open platform. Moreover, this research showed that many people prefer referring to the G1 as the “Google phone”, which might not come as a pleasant surprise to T-Mobile, its carrier in the US.
The research also showed that some people are unaware of the fact that BlackBerry Storm and BlackBerry Thunder are the same device, since they continue to search for results on the older title of the handset as well.
[via: techradar]
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