Extreme SmartPhone

- Marin Perez, InformationWeek
November 25, 2008 02:30 PM



Apple's iPhone 3G is generally considered the best browsing experience on a smartphone, as consumers appear to love the ability to zoom and scroll with their fingers on the mobile Safari browser.
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By DAVID POGUE
Published: November 26, 2008

(R.I.M.), the company that brought us the BlackBerry, has been on a roll lately. For a couple of years now, it’s delivered a series of gorgeous, functional, supremely reliable smartphones that, to this day, outsell even the much-adored iPhone.
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Apple’s iPhone 3G, which went on sale in July, displaced Motorola’s Razr as the most purchased handset among consumers in Q3, according to data from NPD.

Motorola’s Razr, first introduced in 2004, has been the No. 1 ranked handset for 12 straight quarters. According to NPD, the Razr V3 fell to second place behind the iPhone 3G. RIM BlackBerry Curve was third; LG Rumor was fourth; and the LG enV2 came in fifth.
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Dan Moren, Macworld.com

Those looking to manage their media from their portable device have a new ally in the form of the latest update to iPhone app i. TV from the company of the same name. Chief among the improvements to the new version, 1.1, is the ability to link the program to a Netflix account.
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There's no denying that Apple's iPhone has been on a roll since it was introduced. The App Store has been, for the most part, a huge success with customers, the touchscreen was innovative and user-friendly, and going 3G with Wi-Fi was a stroke of genius.
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If you need to track the whereabouts of your coworkers, or to give them your precise location, try using the free GPS tracking service by InstaMapper (you still need to pay for mobile data charges though).

You can install the free InstaMapper client software on your iPhone, Android phone and BlackBerry phone (some models only). When you run the InstaMapper client on your phone, it sends your GPS location periodically to InstaMapper's server via 3G or WiFi. Your coworkers will be able to log in to InstaMapper's password-protected website and see your present location as well as your movement trail on a Google Map.
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By Jai C.S. TMCnet Contributing Editor,VOXOFON, a Houston-based provider of Internet telephony services, announced on Monday that their roaming and international calling service on mobile phones using the new Android platform will be available from Android (News - Alert) Market.
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WEBWIRE – Tuesday, November 11, 2008Mobile Billing and Payments Services Provider Brings Digital Commerce Solutions to Booming Application Development Space

Seattle, WA – November 11, 2008 – Today Billing Revolution, a mobile billing and credit card payment services company, announced its “single-click” mobile credit card checkout tool-box designed specifically for Android, BlackBerry, and iPhone application developers, as well as mobile marketing agencies and publishers launching branded applications. The turnkey credit card billing service allows developers to easily add on-the-go purchase capabilities to their existing mobile applications, allowing developers to sell products and services within these applications while introducing new revenue-generating opportunities.
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Symbian OS from Symbian Ltd. (57.1% Market Share Sales Q2 2008 [13])
Symbian has the largest share in most markets worldwide, but lags behind other companies in the relatively small but highly visible North American market.[14] This matches the success of its largest shareholder[15] and customer, Nokia, in all markets except Japan. Nokia itself enjoys 52.9% of the smartphone market.[16] In Japan Symbian is strong due to a relationship with NTT DoCoMo, with only one of the 44 Symbian handsets released in Japan coming from Nokia.[17] It is used by many major handset manufacturers, including BenQ, LG, Motorola, Samsung, and Sony Ericsson.[18] Various implementations of user interfaces on top of Symbian (most notable being UIQ and Nokia's own S60) are incompatible, which along with the requirement that applications running on mobile phones be signed [19] is hindering the potential for a truly widely accepted mobile application platform. It has received some adverse press attention due to virus threats (actually trojan horses).[20]
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