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iPhone out sold by Android

Matt Thomas — Tue, 11 May 2010 13:53:57 +0000

A surprising new report from analysts NDP has revealed that smartphones using Google’s Android as their operating system are now outselling Apple’s ever popular iPhone.

The report revealed that Android powered devices were accounting for 28% of the market, a shocking 7% higher than the iPhone’s still respectable 21%.

Both however, are lagging behind Research In Motion (RIM) who continue to lead the market with a 36% share for their Blackberry operating system.

The rapid growth of Android has been largely attributed to the aggressive marketing of US company Verizon Wireless who are one the biggest mobile network operators in the United States.

Their ‘buy one get one’ deals have been exceedingly popular over recent months and if this current growth rare is anything to go by Android may well overtake Blackberry as the market leaders by the end of the year.

Although Google’s phone is doing extremely well as it rapidly gains a high market share the company has backtracked a little over its seemingly aggressive approach.

A fortnight ago Google announced that Verizon would not be joining its web based Nexus One store and hat Vodafone would now only be allowed to sell the phone in their retail stores.

After this, Spring, another popular mobile network in the US announced that they were no longer going to join the online handset stores in offering their service with the new Google phone.

Without Sprint and Verizon it does not look as though Google’s dream of a super-phone is about to come true anytime soon.

Google will continue to sell their original GSM mobile phone from their online store but this may be the last we see of the Android phone.

Obama unwilling to relinquish Blackberry

Matt Thomas — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:15:43 +0000

With the SmartPhone war growing more brutal, companies are looking for anything they can to get an edge on their opponents through good publicity. In this respect, Blackberry received an unexpected shot in the arm this week after it emerged that president elect, Barack Obama wishes to retain his Blackberry once in office. The president to be has had a long-standing love affair with the device and was often spotted using one during the campaign.

As well as manna from marketing heaven for RIM (Research in Motion), the makers of the Blackberry, this issue is of some genuine importance. Communications from presidents can be subpoenaed by courts and congress under public records laws. For this reason, previous presidents have chosen not to use Blackberrys or any other personal phones, doing all their communication and organisation through armies of assistants. They’ve also traditionally shunned email – something else Obama intends to change.

Obama maintains that he only wants the phone so that he can keep in touch with old friends outside the administration and Washington. That may well be true, although the device may still end up being subject to the Presidential Records Act.

Reports indicate that despite all this and much advice to the contrary, Obama is determined to keep the phone.

RIM must be rubbing their hands with glee.

Blackberry launch their answer to the iPhone

Admin — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:46:48 +0000

With the popularity of the iPhone and the G1 Android phone on the rise, Blackberry has released its long expected answer, Blackberry Storm. Storm is a device that allows users to do more social things like listen to music, access MySpace or Facebook, and take photos. The device has one big innovation, in what the company refer to as a ‘clickable touch-screen,’ a screen that compresses when you tap it, in order to mimic the feeling of a real keyboard.

The Storm is being widely perceived as an attempt to move into the consumer market that to this point RIM, the makers of the Blackberry have pretty much ignored. The company launched its first mainstream TV campaign this year and seem intent on building market share in the face of unprecedented competition.

Despite impressive sales figures for the iPhone, Blackberry have little immediate cause to be worried. They still dominate the work market by a long way, with a huge number of businesses supplying their employees with Blackberrys to increase productivity and enable them to work remotely.

However, in the fast moving SmartPhone market it’s not a good idea to stand still, RIM are doing the right thing by expanding, especially considering early reports of the iPhone being adopted as a business tool by a small but influential group of companies.