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Saturday, January 28, 2012

Flygrip Will Ease Your One Handed Fears

Posted by Jeff Campbell in "Apple iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad" @ 03:00 AM

http://www.ubergizmo.com/2012/01/fl...e-handed-usage/

"So you're walking with your iPhone in one hand, and a Starbucks latte in the other, and granted it is possible to use the iPhone in one hand, it could prove to be "fatal" since one hand tends to offer less support compared to two, and we all know that heart wrenching feeling when your brand new gadget slips out of your hand and onto the hard pavement."

Basically very simple, as all this does is attach to the iPhone case or the iPhone itself and you slide your fingers in and can start using your iPhone one handed without fear of dropping it. I can also be attached to the back of your iPad, or any other tablet for that matter. As you can see from the photos, it doesn't have to be an Apple product to work. Three sizes (small, medium and large) depending on the finger size and you can get them for $29.95 USD each from the Flygrip store located here. That seems a bit spendy to me, and I think I would rather just spend that on a better case. What are your thoughts?


Saturday, April 30, 2011

Win an LG Quantum Windows Phone 7

Posted by Jason Dunn in "Windows Phone Events" @ 10:00 AM

Just a quick reminder that we're running a free phone give-away: there's an unlocked LG Quantum up for grabs. It's fast and easy to enter; all you need is a YouTube account. Check out this post for more details.


Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Apple Share of the Profit Pie? 39%

Posted by Jeff Campbell in "Apple News" @ 11:22 AM

http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/arti...mobile_profits/

"Apple sold a tiny percentage of mobile handsets during the first half of 2010, but the company managed to rake in the lion's share of the industry's profits, according to Canaccord Genuity analyst T. Michael Walkley. In a research note obtained by The Mac Observer initiating coverage of Apple, Mr. Walkley said that Apple sold 2.8% of all mobile handsets, but claimed 39% of manufacturing profits."

I guess it isn't too surprising, given that Apple doesn't get into the "buy one, get one free" that has flooded the market with Android as well as other types of phones. One interesting note about this is that Apple sold 17 million handsets during this period, while Nokia, Samsung and LG combined sold over 400 million units. All those units sold versus the relatively low number that Apple sold in comparison, and they only earned 32% of the profits. Quite a shocker when you put it that way. While this isn't so good for consumers that want an iPhone, it certainly is great for anyone that is a stockholder of Apple. That and the fact that Apple had another record day yesterday, high of $283.77 USD, up $0.54 USD.

UPDATE: And today another record, up $3.98 USD to $287.75 USD via MacDaily News.


Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Apple and RIM Continue to Kick Butt

Posted by Vincent Ferrari in "Apple iPhone & iPod Touch" @ 11:00 AM

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/0...dustry-profits/

"When you look at sales of the iPhone or Blackberry as a percentage of total cell phone sales, they are still a tiny smidgen of the one billion phones estimated to be sold this year. But when you look at what really matters-their share of revenues or operating profits-the picture looks a lot different. Deutsche Bank analyst Brian Modoff calculated the share of operating profits going to each major mobile handset manufacturer and came up with the eye-opening chart above. It shows Apple (pink) and RIM (turquoise) increasingly taking a disproportionate share of industry profits, mostly at the expense of Nokia's diminishing handset operating profits (blue)."

Jeez... It really is a two-pony race at this point. Interestingly enough, HTC isn't included on the list, so I have to wonder just how accurate it is seeing as HTC makes pretty much every Windows Mobile phone on the market. More analysis over at Tech Crunch if this sort of thing does it for you.


Thursday, November 20, 2008

Gizmodo Rounds Up Mobile Browsers

Posted by Vincent Ferrari in "Apple iPhone & iPod Touch" @ 12:00 PM

http://gizmodo.com/5090988/mobile-b...er-the-real-web

"Before 2007, using the internet on your phone would make you want to kill yourself, if you were dumb enough to believe the crap splattered across that tiny screen even was the "internet." But the combination of increased bandwidth and better mobile software means that more phones really are promising to deliver the real internet, in living color. We tested eight different browsers, and while some put smiles on our faces, others proved that rendering HTML correctly is a far cry from actually giving you an awesome web experience. And what about 3G vs. Wi-Fi? Everything the carriers have told you is a lie. This is the true state of mobile web."

The two winners, and it's absolutely no surprise, are the iPhone and the T-Mobile G1. Both run variants of WebKit. Both have excellent speed, great usability, and a rendering engine that gets pages right consistently, and that's why they won. Having used a lot of the browsers listed in the test, I can say that Gizmodo nailed this one. In many ways, the mobile web has a long way to go, but it's getting way better. Honestly, the only part that surprised me was that the BlackBerry browser, as awful and horrible as it is, did as well as it did.


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