Slim is Unclear on the Concept.
Posted on 12/26/2009 8:41:46 AM PST by STONEWALLS
"BOSTON (TheStreet) -- Smartphone makers upped the ante this year with sleeker designs, better touch screens and new applications. Consumers, chanting "I want one too," responded with open wallets. ....smartphones were the fastest-growing segment of this year's mobile phone market, with sales rising from more than 318 million units in the fourth quarter of 2008 to 411 million last quarter. The struggle for smartphone dominance escalated just as rapidly, as Nokia(NOK Quote) and its Symbian OS phones watched their market dominance wither. Nokia's share plunged from 47% at the end of last year to 39% last quarter. Meanwhile, Research In Motion's(RIMM Quote) BlackBerry products held 20% of the market all year, but heard Apple's(AAPL Quote) footsteps as the iPhone's share went from 11% to 17%.
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Crackberry !!
When they come out with one that screens calls and deals with them appropriately, then they can call it a smartphone.
“Mr. Smith is in a “meeting”, Mrs. Smith”
“Mr.smith has to “work late”, Mrs. Smith”
“Mr Smith has to “go out of town for the weekend”, Mrs. Smith”
(wink, wink)
:-))
I love my crackberry!
I’ve had a Dell Axim x51v for five years now. I’m on my fifth battery, sixth case, and have wanted to stop carrying around a PDA and a cell phone for a while, but offerings in a cell phone package have always been less than what I have. A full color 640x480 display, with removable storage and easy swap batteries. Were it not for being able to easily tether the cell phone to the PDA, I’m sure it would have hit eBay by now.
And admittedly, it’s fun sometimes to be at the coffee shop or at the airport and watch iEnvy when people notice that I’m watching full video on my PDA, or browsing the web faster than they can.
My netbook somewhat replaced the PDA at times, but for me, it’s just a wee bit too large to haul around all the time. Yeah, I know, smaller than a book, but still, I wanted a cell phone that could do everything I could five years ago, and up till now, I’ve still been disappointed at the marketplace.
I’ve finally got hope though - the specs for the Nexus One from Google are quickly being leaked, and it looks like I can finally have my cake and eat it too. We’ll see when it gets closer to launch date what the price is, and what the contract reads. But it still bothers me that smartphone technology took this long to come back to the level that PDAs had so long ago.
The artical is mistitled
It merely discusses the best “Availlable in the US Smartphones”.
The US has been behind in cell technologyfor a decade now and the gap between the capabilities we can buy and what is offered in Asia is widening rapidly.
Yep - my Storm 2 rocks. Finally, the convergence of business-oriented PDA and phone I’d been waiting for.
Slim is Unclear on the Concept.
I’ve considered upgrading from my curve to storm 2 but I like my buttons.
Now I'm not sure I could do business without it. Funny thing is the poorest functioning part of it is the phone. The web browser and email client both scream but I've had more dropped calls in 3 months on the I-phone than I did in 6 years on US Cellular.
Oh well. Maybe when AT&T gets 4G up it'll be better.
Merry Christmas!
I use the Verizon Network here in the US, but the phone has a SIM card slot that is easy to unlock (just call Verizon) and when I'm overseas I can use my overseas SIM cards. No longer have to juggle my US phone/PDA and a second phone for talking - one phone can control/contain all my contacts.
Definitely does everything your Axim 51v does, and of course can tether to a laptop. Heck, I run WMWiFiRouter on mine and it becomes a WiFi hotspot with two screen clicks. It is my sole access to the Internet; right now it's my WiFi router at the house, sitting in my office as I'm typing on my laptop in the living room.
HTC TouchFlo 3D is a great UI for the phone, but I got hooked on SPB's Mobile Shell a year ago and still use it. Amazingly customizable UI manager, great tools built-in, makes the phone easier to use and configure than the iPhone.
And it still has the ability to natively edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files - it is Windows Mobile, after all! I even played with the TV out (optional $20 cable) - I can show my 640x480 movies on any TV, and even display PowerPoint presentations from my phone. VERY slick, very cool!
And yes, it does play audio files - the 16 GB microSD card I have installed right now has about 1200 songs, a dozen movies, and 60 eBooks (which read very nicely on the big, bright screen).
I have a friend like that, who just got his first smartphone.
I keep asking him when he’s going to get it surgically attached!
STONEWALLS wrote:
...once a week I go to lunch with a group of 4-5 guys...one of them fiddles with his smart phone the whole time...it’s not like he’s in the midst of a family emergency or anything important...he’s an IT information junkie....if he keeps it up, I won’t eat with him any more...
My company just upgraded me to Blackberry Bold 9700. It’s excellent.
I don’t even own a computer. LOL.. I freep on my crackberry.
I will obtain a smart phone when it can make coffee.
i got the HTC G1 about a month ago and love it, touch screen and full keyboard, does everything, only issue just waiting for a java app
i mean flash app not java
Are those new Motorola Druid phones any good?
The new LG Expo is supreme. $199 at ATT
This is the phone with the optional projector. Forget the projector — the phone is wonderful.
It has a fingerprint sensor that locks the phone, so if you leave your phone somewhere, all of the data is locked.
VERY VERY COOL.
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