Sony is soon to announce that it will be challenging Apple’s new IPad. The revival product will have all the capabilities of a netbook, a Sony Reader and a PSP, the company’s handheld gaming device.
Sony will also be making a new smartphone. The phone will contain Sony Ericsson mobile technology and capable of playing PSP games – to compete against the iPhone. Both devices are expected to work with Sony Online Services, an online store due to launch in March and sell music, movies, books, and other downloadable applications for mobile products.
Both these products will be launch sometime in 2010.
In a huge move, Verizon announced that it was adding Skype available to its 90 million wireless user. Those with smartphones and the right data plan can now make unlimited calls to hundreds of millions of Skype user worldwide, beginning next month (March).
These calls will go over Verizon’s network, not using cellphone plan minutes. Minutes would be deducted to use Skype to call regular phone numbers in the US.
It was reported that iphone now has a market share of about 16.4% of the market. Depending on who you list to that is either a good thing or a bad thing. Some argue that Iphone is continuing to grab more market share. Other believe that their growth is decreasing and slowing down.
In the next few months we will have a better idea where Apple’s Iphone is headed.
The cell phone wars are heating up. This time for the good of the consumer. Verizon is lowering its unlimited wireless individual plan from $99 a month to $69. AT&T is going to follow suit and lower its prices as well.
What remains to be seen is if Sprint will join in. I care since I have a sprint phone and would love to see their prices reduce for a family plan or individual plan.
The word is that none of the companies plan to lower this family plan rates. Let see what shakes up in the next few weeks.
Last night, BlackBery users in North American expereince one of the longerst BlackBerry outages in recent years. If you were one of the unlucky people who experienced this outage you were not alone.
Message delivery was delayed or intermittent during the service interruption. Phone service and SMS services on BlackBerry smartphones were unaffected. Root cause is currently under review, but based on preliminary analysis, it currently appears that the issue stemmed from a flaw in two recently released versions of BlackBerry Messenger (versions 5.0.0.55 and 5.0.0.56) that caused an unanticipated database issue within the BlackBerry infrastructure.
This was the second outage in with a week. For a company know for providing a reliable phone, this news is a bite of a concern to me since I depend on my BlackBerry for my business and work emails. RIM (Research In Development), the company that makes the BlackBerry prides itself on near perfect uptime statistics voes to correct the problem. Hopefully they get it right. Because it really sucks when I lose my ability to text, check my emails and surf the web with my phone.
Apple is AT&T ’s knight in sinny armor. After being rated as the worse wireless carrier in the 2009 year, and then losing their legal battles with Verizon Wireless over television commercial ads, AT&T needed some good news.
The good news came in the form of Apple. Apple has launched a serious of commercial touting not just the iPhone but also AT&T’s ability to handle both voice calls and data at the same time.
In one of the spots, the voiceover says: “Say you’re on a call, and your friend wants to know…” (cue the friend) “…what time’s the movie?” The finger taps up movie showtimes on the screen, and the voice returns: “You can tell him … all without ever leaving the call.”
In another example from the second ad: “Say you’re on a call with a client, and he asks…” (here’s the client) “Did you get my e-mail?” The finger taps to open the message, and the voiceover says, “You can say, yep, got it right here.”
After a few more examples comes the capper: “Can your phone and your network do that?” Cue the Apple and AT&T logos.
It will be interesting to see if these ads help AT&T’s imagine at all. Cause at the end of the day, its going to be the services that are provided and not the quality of the television commercials.
According to the wireless industry, in the past six months, Americans have sent an estimated 740 billion text messages, which comes out to 4.1 billion each day. That averages out to 11.7 text a day for every man, women, and child in the US.
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March 8, 2010 12:40 am | 
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