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Translating Samsung's attempt to discredit iPhone 4S
Following is a translation of Samsung's distributed talking points about the iPhone 4S compared to their Galaxy series of phones.
the AT&T version of the Samsung Galaxy S II has 42% more screen area and Sprint / T-Mobile versions of Galaxy S II have 58% more screen area than the iPhone 4S.
Ignore that screen sizes are all over the place, and rest assured the Galaxy is huge. Hope you have big pockets. And hands.
The Galaxy S II HSPA+ network speeds are at least 50% faster with AT&T 21 MBPS and three times faster with T-Mobile’s 42 MBPS than the iPhone 4S’s 14 MBPS HSPA network.
Our theoretical you-will-never-see-them speeds are faster than their theoretical you-will-never-see-them speeds.
Galaxy S II continues to have the thinnest smartphone design
We're huge, but a millimeter thinner.
Open Ecosystem – Consumers can use the Galaxy S II to buy music from Amazon, Rhapsody, or a variety of other music services, as well as multiple cloud music services supported such as Amazon, Google Music and multiple video chat clients available for use including Google Chat and Skype. The Samsung Galaxy S II is not limited to a single manufacturer’s storefront or app store.
The iPhone uses the #1 music store in the world, Galaxy doesn't.
In short, until we add a cheap Siri knockoff and a few other features for which we'll kipe Apple's icon designs, just ignore the iPhone 4S.
Yes, this is the man I'll listen to about the future of the PC
Michael Dell in an interview Sunday took a stance that there was no such thing as a post-PC era. In spite of struggling PC sales, he argued to the FT that the PC industry was still growing… Smartphones and tablets weren't "necessarily" replacing PCs, and long-term forecasts suggested that would stay the case for years to come, he said.
via Electronista
Google and Motorola's Patents [UPDATED]
The problem, of course, is that if Motorola had a savior set of patents, it wouldn’t have been one of the first targets of Microsoft. And if Motorola’s patent portfolio were really that dangerous, Apple would have settled quickly, not dragged out patent countersuits of its own. Apple settled with Nokia pretty quickly…
Everyone's talking about the number of patents (17,000, with more in review), but not about what they cover. I suspect few of Motorola's patents relate to modern smartphone technology or UI because Motorola hasn't been making them for long, and they use Android.
If Motorola's patents haven't worried Microsoft or Apple up to now, it doesn't change much that they're now in Google's possession.
[UPDATE:] This post today re-iterates my point:
Motorola Mobility's portfolio has failed to deter, and it has so far failed to make any meaningful headway in litigation. Motorola Mobility is on the losing track against the very two companies Google says those patents will provide protection from.
Ladies, get in line for Bliss…
Known so far as the Bliss, it would be targeted at women in their 20s and 30s and would have both hardware and software shaped around stereotypes of what women want.
Surely a green "calming color" and calorie-counter app are all it would take to sway women to make this their phone of choice? They don't want to mess with all those "manly" technical details, right?
Ugh! This is a rumor, and seems so ridiculous I hope it's only that. Still, I know what it's like to be the target of stupid gender-specific stereotypes, so anything's possible.
Smartphone OS Upgrades: iPhone's "can" vs. Android's "can't"
TechCrunch's post shows a huge discrepancy of smartphones running the latest versions of Android vs. iOS. The numbers will surprise no one that follows mobile tech, but I believe there's a larger point that doesn't even need a chart to make. What should be discussed is how many phones it's even possible to upgrade. That's the real story.
It's well known (if not well reported) that upgrading an Android device is hit or miss. It could be because of the carrier, or the manufacturer, or a combination of both. One thing's certain: Google has no control over the process for any phones other than their own Nexus-branded models, and there's only two of those.
Recently, Computerworld examined carrier and manufacturer "trust" in terms of upgrading Android phones, and the conclusions are dismal. For manufacturers, HTC took top honors:
50 percent of its Android phones having been bumped to Froyo within 2010. Its average upgrade time is also relatively impressive, at 56 days.
Only half their phones were upgraded, but other manufacturers were worse.
Meanwhile, for carriers Verizon took the crown:
A third of the carrier's qualifying Android phones received Froyo within the software's first six months on the market. On average, it took Big Red 58 days to get those updates delivered.
Only a third of the eligible phones are upgraded, yet it's King among carriers.
If you had an HTC phone on Verizon, you had about a 17% chance (one-third of 50%) of upgrading to Froyo last year. And that was your best shot since other manufacturer/carrier combinations were worse.
For the iPhone things are easier. Put simply, 100% of current and -1 generation phones are eligible for upgrades. Apple has even made upgrades available for -2 generation phones, though some features are not available.
It's not just that these iPhones are eligible, but that the carriers have no involvement in the actual upgrade. Just connect the iPhone to iTunes and let it upgrade. That's it. Further, the upgrades are available on the day a new OS is released, not two months later, which is the best Android's manufacturers/carriers can manage.
The mobile market tends to treat their devices as semi-disposable, so it may be unrealistic to discuss models over two years old, but in Android's case "old" models aren't needed to skew the numbers. There are models only five or six months old seemingly "abandoned". This makes Apple's major upgrade to each generation of iPhone, twice, all the more impressive.
HTC's New Handset Looks a Lot Like Motorola's New Tablet
So little originality.
Garmin exits smartphone business, no one notices
In the company's Q3 2010 earnings, [Garmin] confirmed that it is "winding down" its smartphone efforts
Their smartphone efforts never really wound up, did they?
asymco on what you have to believe for an Android dominated future
Possibly Horace Dediu's best analysis yet. Great read on why it's too early to claim Android, iOS, or any other mobile platform will dominate the smartphone future.
