Comments on: Gartner Reports Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales for 2009
"The mobile devices market finished on a very positive note, driven by growth in smartphones and low-end devices," said Carolina Milanesi, research director at Gartner. "Smartphone sales to end users continued their strong growth in the fourth quarter of 2009, totaling 53.8 million units, up 41.1 per cent from the same period in 2008. In 2009, smartphone sales reached 172.4 million units, a 23.8 per cent increase from 2008. In 2009, smartphone-focused vendors like Apple and Research In Motion (RIM) successfully captured market share from other larger device producers, controlling 14.4 and 19.9 per cent of the worldwide smartphone market, respectively."
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Google's Nexus One coming to Verizon on March 23?
Google's Nexus One coming to Verizon on March 23
http://www.neowin.net/news/google039s-nexus-one-coming-to-verizon-on-march-23
Google Nexus One Vs. iPhone 3GS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuVyExV8SYo
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512MB RAM
4GB Micro SD Card (Expandable to 32 GB)
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Palm Cut To SELL Because RIM, Apple, Google Are Kicking Its Butt
Palm Cut To SELL Because RIM, Apple, And Google Are Kicking Its Butt
Dan Frommer | Feb. 23, 2010, 11:29 AM
It's looking ugly at Palm, whose new smartphones at Verizon Wireless -- the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus -- are off to a slow start. Shares are down 5% today after getting downgraded by Bank of America/Merrill Lynch and MacQuarie Research.
As MarketWatch reports:
* "Palm was cut to an underperform -- or sell -- rating by Bank of America/Merrill Lynch. In a note to clients, analyst Vivek Arya said the company's newest webOS phones have seen 'sluggish' sales since the Verizon sales began."
* "In another report, Phil Cusick of MacQuarie Research cut his rating on the stock to neutral, or hold. Cusick also cited 'weak sell-though' at Verizon , and noted that interest from other carriers such as AT&T is weak."
The main problem for Palm is that the smartphone market has become a platform game, which means there are only going to be 2 or 3 big winners. So far, in the U.S. at least, RIM's BlackBerry and Apple's iPhone are the top 2, and Google's Android is making a strong push to be no. 3, with increasing support from all four major U.S. wireless carriers.
While Palm has a technically impressive platform, there's a lot more factors than technical quality in who will win: It also includes carrier distribution, hardware design, marketing, app quantity and quality, commerce, entertainment and media services, etc. And so far, Palm is not making it happen.
http://www.businessinsider.com/palm-cut-to-sell-because-rim-apple-and-google-are-kicking-its-butt-2010-2