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POPSWhy We Write About The iPhone (And Android) UK tech site Silicon.com nicely explicates the media obsession with Apple's iPhone and Google's Android. In short: they are shaking up the wireless market and embody important trends for the industry's future.
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POPSFuture iPhone To Get Hardware Keyboard? So reports The Register, which says Apple is shopping around prototypes to carriers. Other touchscreen phones, like the HTC Touch Dual, already sport such a feature. In somewhat related news, the upcoming touchscreen BlackBerry--scheduled to launch in September, possibly--is rumored to have a higher resolution screen than the iPhone. I know, the iPhone's appeal is the user experience, not its technical specifications. But still interesting.
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POPSBlackBerry Profits From iPhone Hype Hitwise says so many iPhone stories mentioned iPhone alternatives, such as the BlackBerry Bold, that rival handsets benefited (at least in numbers of Web searches).
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POPSFree, 1 Euro iPhones No Great Bargain Some of the new European iPhone deals (in the UK and Germany) look good, especially compared to the U.S. iPhone price of $199. But they tend to carry higher monthly fees, making them pricier in the end. Fortune computes the costs (click through for larger view.)
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POPSThink Before You Poke Debrett's, the UK's "modern authority on all matters etiquette, taste and achievement," has issued advice on how to behave on social networking sites. Obvious, yes, but also sensible.
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POPSBlackBerrys Have The Coolest Code Names Tech blog Boy Genius Report has uncovered three more BlackBerrys in development, code named Seawolf, Javelin and Aurora. A couple other BlackBerry devices included in BGR's post--Meteor, Storm and Kickstart--have already been leaked or appear to be discontinued. It's too early to tell whether these phones will actually come to market under these names, but it's definitely fun to contemplate a phone called Seawolf.
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POPSSamsung Unveils Another iPhone Competitor In an interesting choice of timing, Samsung unveiled this slick touchscreen phone Monday morning, just before Apple's debut of the 3G iPhone. Also interesting: Samsung already has an iPhone competitor--its Instinct, which will launch on Sprint on June 20. The two phones could be part of a broader global strategy, with the Omnia targeting Asia and Europe.
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POPSGoogle Shows Off Near-Final Android Software Today's demo was the most comprehensive yet from Google, giving a good sense of what Android's software will look like when it debuts later this year. A shot of the Android home screen is to the right. No sign of Android phones, though.
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POPSAT&T CFO: New iPhone Price Still Secret Or maybe it really hasn't been determined yet. There have been lots of rumors that At&T will apply carrier subsidies to the 3G iPhone. Given the secrecy surrounding Apple product launches, though, it's no surprise that Lindner didn't address that.
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POPSCool video: 20 years of cellphones in 3 minutes A fun morphing video that covers the history of cellphones and touches on the industry's future. Trivia includes the first cellphone to have a "vibrate" function (Motorola's StarTAC) and the first phone to feature a camera (a Sharp model for the Japanese market). Click through for the video--for some reason, it wouldn't embed in the clip.
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POPSMotorola Loses Second CTO In 6 Months More work for Motorola's executive recruitment committee--Moto's still searching for a CEO for its handset division. Padmasree Warrior, the previous CTO, left in December and is now at Cisco.
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POPSAT&T, Blackstone Eyeing Huawei Phone Unit It's not surprising that private equity firms are interested in Huawei's cellphone unit. But a bid from an operator like AT&T, Verizon or Vodafone would point up how competitive the wireless industry is getting--enough that carriers want their own phones.
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POPSAT&T + Verizon Split Most-Wanted BlackBerrys AT&T has first dibs on the new, speedy (3G) BlackBerry Bold, officially announced yesterday. But it looks like Verizon (and European parent company Vodafone) have rights to the Thunder, a touchscreen BlackBerry set to launch in Q3. Which trumps which? The real iPhone killer looks to be the Thunder...
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POPSBlackBerry Mates With Razr, Spawns A Flip BlackBerrys have never come in "flip" or "clamshell" form. Before the end of the year, apparently, they will--unless this is a big hoax. According to Boy Genius Report (a blog as fun as its name) RIM is planning a flip phone called the Kickstart--yes, along with a 3rd generation BlackBerry and a touchscreen BlackBerry. Buying patterns show that Americans greatly prefer clamshell phones to candybar or block-shaped handsets. But will they go for this one? Like the BlackBerry Pearl, this model squishes two letters on each key--a feature BlackBerry diehards abhor.
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POPSPhotos of Latest BlackBerry Leaked Meet the BlackBerry 9000, which promises faster Web surfing than my lookalike 8820 and will probably launch in August. A touchscreen "Apple Killer" BlackBerry is also in the works.
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POPSTexting Lingo Seeping Into Schoolwork Horrifying. But inevitable? The Berkeley prof quoted in the NYT story predicts that capitalization will disappear. Yahoo's Jerry Yang is ahead of the curve--scroll down for real-life examples.
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POPSGoogle, Microsoft, China Mobile Top Brands Other tech firms in the top 20 included Microsoft, IBM, Apple, Nokia.,Vodafone and HP. Why China Mobile? The company has more subscribers than the U.S. has people (nearly 400 million). Authoring firm Millward Brown noted that Chinese firms performed strongly this year, aided by continued growth in emerging markets.
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POPSGoogle's Android Attracts 1,788 Developers For an idea of what you'll get to play with on your Google Android phone when they debut this fall or winter, check out what developers have submitted in the first round of Google's $10 million Android Developer Challenge: games, social-networking apps, productivity programs.
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POPSMySpace To Battle Cyworld in Korea As an extremely wired and tech-savvy society that is resistant to outside brands, South Korea always poses an interesting quandary for tech companies. MySpace says it's done its homework, but Cyworld, a homegrown social networking site, has a lot of heft--one in three Koreans are members.
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POPSRampant iPhone Rumors Spark iFatigue The onslaught of speculative news about the "supergadget" is frustrating consumers, says the Sunday Mail in Australia, where the iPhone is rumored to be released in late June. The iFatigue-resistant can read on (in the clip) for Fortune's round-up of recent iPhone rumors.
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POPSiPhone: Now In Glossy Black? The upcoming iPhone redesign will swap its metallic finish for this lacquered look, says iPodObserver. It could cut down on the fingerprint smudge factor, too.
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POPSNo Firefox For iPhone The iPhone's current platform, says Mozilla, is too restrictive to make the match work. Open access should help Firefox uptake on other platforms/networks, though.
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POPSHow To Build An Android-Themed PC Inspired by the (admittedly very cute) logo for Google's Android mobile operating system, an engineer crafted an Android-themed PC. On Saturday, he sold it on eBay for $187.50--a bargain given the long process, detailed in 18 steps on his blog.
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POPSCool Spectrum Maps Show Who Won What These cellular maps are the best method I've come across for explaining who won what type of spectrum--and how much--in the FCC's 700 MHz wireless spectrum auction. Note the patchwork of winners in the A and B blocks--a huge contrast to the C and E blocks, which were swept by Verizon and Dish Network (i.e. EchoStar), respectively.
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POPSMotorola Axes Two More Executives New CEO Greg Brown has been cleaning house since January. The latest casualties: the company's treasurer and its head of mobile devices for the Europe, Middle East and Africa.
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POPSFirst iPhone SDK Application? On Saturday, a mere two days after the release of the iPhone SDK, The Unofficial Apple Weblog announced the first 3rd party developer (SDK) app -- a ToDo program. Needless to say, getting a useful app out this quickly bodes well for Apple and its 10 million sales goal for the iPhone.
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POPSiPhone Applications Wish List As the iPhone SDK approaches this Thursday, lists are emerging of applications people would like developers to build. Macworld came up with 25. Three -- the most- wanted three -- got cut off in my clip: Document Editor, AIM Client and To-Do/Task Manager.
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