Nine ways of looking at a Google phone
The long-rumored gPhone has surfaced, but no one can agree about what it means
Google (GOOG) announced on its mobile blog Saturday what dozens of staffers had already leaked: the company has given employees around the world free handsets running its Android mobile operating system. The idea, according to the official report, is to have Google's...
The great iPhone death watch
What critics were saying about Steve Jobs' smartphone in the months before it launched
Three years ago, when it became clear that Apple (AAPL) was about to unveil some kind of mobile phone, critics began to weigh in on its chances of success. AAPLinvestor's Terry Gregory, building on a list of skeptical quotes begun by MacDailyNews,...
Verizon's ad spending: $100 per Droid?
Going after AT&T's network and Apple's iPhone could prove an expensive proposition
Broadpoint AmTech analyst Mark McKechnie's estimate that Motorola (MOT) sold 100,000 Droid smartphones last weekend has been getting a lot of attention, although nobody's quite sure what to make of it. McKechnie called the number "encouraging." Nielsen's Roger Entner found it "a little troubling." IDC's...
Droid vs. iPhone: The reviews are in
Motorola and Verizon invited comparisons, and that's what they got
The Droid lands in stores Friday, and on Thursday the heavyweight reviewers — which is to say the Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg and the New York Times' David Pogue — weighed in.
Given that Motorola (MOT) and Verizon (VZ) pitched the Droid in its first TV...
The man who put the 'i' in iMac
Meet the creative director who named a generation of Apple products
The TBWA\Chiat\Day creative team was horrified in 1998 when Steve Jobs pulled back a cloth and revealed the bulbous teardrop that came to be known as the Bondi-Blue iMac.
But then Jobs wasn't so crazy at first about the name they proposed for it.
No one had...
The Droid vs. the iPhone: Let's count the apps
Apple has 93,000 to Android's 11,300. But how many applications do you really need?
In the flurry of quickie reviews that appeared overnight after Wednesday's unveiling of Motorola's (MOT) Droid — Google (GOOG) and Verizon's (VZ) latest answer to Apple's (AAPL) iPhone — little has been said about how the two platforms stack up in terms...
AT&T Mobility is nipping at Verizon's heels
Verizon Wireless' subscriber rolls are growing, but not as fast as AT&T's
In the quarterly report that Verizon (VZ) issued Monday, the number that's getting the most attention is 1.2 million.
That's how many new wireless subscribers Verizon added over the past three months. And it's being compared unfavorably with the 2 million that AT&T Mobility (T)...
The Droid: Serious iPhone competition
Just in time to rain on Apple's (AAPL) 2009 earnings report, a prime-time TV ad and a series of well-timed leaks have put the spotlight on Motorola's (MOT) Droid — a yet-unreleased smartphone that is being described by sources who have played with a prototype as the iPhone's first serious competitor.
The ad, which premiered Saturday...
Apple, Palm seen cutting into BlackBerry sales
Growing competition from new smartphones carved into Research in Motion’s (RIMM) June sales, according to a report to clients issued Wednesday by Piper Jaffray’s T. Michael Walkley.
RIM’s BlackBerry still has a huge market share — nearly 20% of the worldwide smartphone market, second only to Nokia (NOK), according to Gartner — but Walkley’s retail checks...
iPhone share of U.S. smartphone traffic hits 69%
See the blue slice in the pie chart at right? It represents the iPhone’s share of U.S. smartphone traffic on the network maintained by AdMob, one of the companies that run those little ads that appear on the screen of your mobile phone.
We’ve been watching that slice grow over the past few months. In February...
