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Canalys, Symbian: Apple iPhone Already Leads Windows Mobile in US Market Share, Q3 2007



Full read here: Canalys, Symbian: Apple iPhone Already Leads Windows Mobile in US Market Share, Q3 2007 — RoughlyDrafted Magazine

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islbook

I tested i-phone but have got window mobile PDA. PDA has a lot of better features than i-phone because of wifi, programs compabilities, which is useful for travellers. I used to travel around with this pda to access internet via wifi (free of charge). It is my point.

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Foxrac

Excuse me, iPhone does have WiFi built-in and a lot of applications, such as play some programs via online, iPhone has everything to do as PDA with Windows.

iPhone is part of PDA with multi-touch.

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purplecatty

What about typing response on iPhone? Some people are fast typist??

Catty

Foxrac

You will get used with it, it's new technology.

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XBGMER

Blackberry is still leader over iphone!

Banjo

I don't think you realize the significance of the impact. iPhone hasn't been out for even a year and already it has sold 4 million units.

That's quite impressive for a new product in its first year.

starrygaze

iTune and iPhone are still the best to choose and Apple announced last month that more closed caption and subtities will be expanding this year. It is great to read closed caption on iPhone movies. that LCD is 166 PPI is readable.

iPhone's safari 100 percent web standard browser. Blackberry is compromise browser.

You can't argue about Mac OS X under the hood of iPhone. None of anothers have good operating system.

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Foxrac

Well, if some people don't like iPhone due preference reason, if they prefer BB or Windows then that's fine with them.

For me, I would goes with BB or iPhone, if iPhone don't offers data only by June 2008 then I will get BB.

Spend large amount of money on voice plan isn't for me, even no reason.

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starrygaze

If you might wait for next generation of iPhone and AT&T if suppport iPhone plan. You will afford to buy new iPhone after blackberry user? I m going for it next week and will keep my sidekick both. Hope I can afford both. Because it has great features like closed caption and web browser.

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PowerON

i would wait until it double the amount of memory, and I except for iChat add in. then it rocks my world.

$59.99 isn't bad to me. 450 minutes and unlimited data and 200 SMS. no sweat, I could use my e-mail with IMAP mail.

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Foxrac

I don't want twice of them at time, I just wait more to make sure, plus I don't want spend alot of bucks to kill contract.

I guess that you got better job and can afford more.

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sequoias

He's right.

It's in Apple's website article.

iPhone finishes a strong second in Q4 phone sales
“Even after being on the market for less than half a year,” reports Nancy Gohring (IDG News Service), “more iPhones sold in the fourth quarter than Windows Mobile phones in the U.S., according to research from Canalys.” The research suggest that “iPhone had 28 percent of the U.S. converged-device market in the fourth quarter of 2007” with Research in Motion coming in with 41% and Windows Mobile phones with a 21% share. [Feb 06, 2008]

RIM still leads at 41 percent marketshare and iPhone comes in 2nd, but moving up very fast. It's already ahead of Windows Mobile phones.

TechBill

iPhone is so popular and sold so many in short time because iPod is very popular item and now people like the idea having phone and ipod together in 1 device.

So iPhone is hot item now since iPod is already a hot item and both in 1 make it hotter item.

It not really because of the "cool graphics" on iPhone. Even Windows Mobile can have same "cool graphics" like the iPhone.

I have a CIngular 8525 which I already installed and customized software that it almost look and feel like an iPhone. I prefer WM becasue of customiation and avaibialty of third party software for it. I also like the high speed 3G phone network and to be able to connect it to my laptop.


Here a video of Tytn II (Same hardware as AT&T Tilt) with Windows Moibile 6 that is customized with software to look and handle like iPhone. My 8525 almost look like it too. Many of the software are free to download and few only cost 5-10 dollar to add.

YouTube - HTC Tytn II with look & Feel of Touch Flo


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starrygaze

Hey I m gonna head knuckle you all! Here is latest news..

Apple's iPhone gaining ground on RIM's BlackBerry


February 16, 2008
THE CANADIAN PRESS
MONTREAL

The BlackBerry mobile communications device is hard to beat in the corporate world, where it got its start, but it's expected have a tougher time winning the hearts of consumers who are being wooed by Apple's iPhone and other smartphones.

While there's an opportunity for BlackBerry maker Research In Motion to fill a void in Canada while the iPhone isn't yet available, Apple's phone is a real threat, says tech analyst Jesse Hirsh.

He adds the BlackBerry is still cool but it's no longer "uber-cool."

"Technology fetishists are discarding their BlackBerrys and they all drive to the States and buy an iPhone and look on the Internet for how to hack into them and they are all running iPhones,'' said Hirsh, who runs a tech advice website.

The consumer marketplace is "incredibly competitive'' and if the BlackBerry doesn't live up to its brand's billing, consumers will make the switch to other smart phones, he said.

Hirsh also said the Apple's touch-screen technology is pushing ahead of the BlackBerry's trackwheel and the more innovative trackball on the consumer-oriented Pearl smartphone and some newer models of the BlackBerry, which revolutionized wireless e-mail with features such as a full QWERTY-style keyboard for rapid two-thumbed typing.

"Research In Motion -- they have absolutely been threatened by the iPhone and the design revolution that the iPhone has introduced in both the touchscreen and the way that the device is used,'' Hirsh said.

Alan Sawyer, who runs Two Solitudes Consulting, said consumers may just shrug off the BlackBerry's capacity for providing e-mail security.

That is, however, a key selling point for many business customers and especially for the U.S. defence establishment and police forces that are major users of the Canadian-invented devices.

"You will never see, in my opinion, Research In Motion get the sort of market share in the consumer world that it has traditionally been able to garner in the corporate world,'' said Sawyer, a media strategist in Toronto.

It won't even be close to RIM's corporate dominance, especially if the iPhone becomes available in Canada, Sawyer said.

"That's going to take a big chunk of that share probably,'' he said, but added the BlackBerry Pearl model does put RIM on a competitive footing with the iPhone and other smartphones.

Smartphones are wireless phones that allow users to make calls, send e-mails and surf the Internet, for example. They also have keyboards for inputting text but are generally more limited than the BlackBerrys.

The Pearl, first introduced in September 2006, was the first RIM product to include consumer-friendly features such as a camera and MP3 player. It came out about half a year before Apple's iPhone became available in the United States.

A recent upgrade to the BlackBerry wireless system appears to have been the cause of a three-hour service disruption on Monday that affected millions of users in North America.

Research In Motion, based in Waterloo, has said the routine upgrade was part of its efforts to increase system capacity for increased growth.

"They probably still have one of the most, if not the most secure way of getting e-mail around when it's working,'' Sawyer said.

"On the corporate side, I think there will be slow erosion of the market share, but the market (size) is going to keep growing.''

For consumers, Hirsh said Internet search engine Google has introduced a mobile phone and many cellphone makers including Nokia and Samsung also offer smartphones, and some of them are cheaper.

Japan's HTC offers handsets that look and act like BlackBerrys that use Windows Mobile software, he said.

"Nokia is the world's largest mobile company. They dominate Europe, Asia and the African markets. They have devices that I feel are far superior to BlackBerrys.''

Tech expert Elias Makos believes the BlackBerry is still dominant in the business world because computer technicians are reluctant to abandon them and RIM's system.

"I really don't think that RIM has shown anything that's going to lead me to believe they're going to be a success in the consumer market,'' said Makos, a technical instructor at Concordia University's journalism department.

Makos said RIM will have to make some improvements to win big among consumers.

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XBGMER

Yes true. I honestly tell you, I really prefer to choice ipod touch over iphone. I dont know why. ipod touch look more plain and simple, no need phone add up there. so dvd movie can add ipod touch as storage movies for travel or something than carrying protable dvd player, you know what i mean?

Sequoias, thank you for legit!