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Apple iPad 2 vs. Motorola Xoom

Manoj Jasra — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:30:50 +0000

With the release of the iPad 2 today, the Silicon Alley Insider chart of the day was very timely comparing the Motorola Xoom vs. iPad 2. In many areas both tablets are very comparable, however the iPad 2 is lighter, thinner and currently less expensive.

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Mobile Web Made Huge Gains In 2009

Manoj Jasra — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:30:03 +0000

Quantcast has just released their 2009 Mobile Web Trends Report. The report highlights overall growth trends, market share of web consumption across device manufacturers, operating systems and browsers, and provides a review of the top gifted devices of the 2009 holiday season based on post-holiday web-consumption increases. In addition, the report sheds light on anticipated 2010 developments in the mobile arena

Highlights

North American mobile web share up 110% in 2009 (Dec ’09 vs. Dec ’08)

Global mobile web consumption share up 148% in 2009

Apple continues to dominate, though market share has declined as increased competition emerges

Android supports over 12% of North American mobile web pageviews, overtaking RIM’s Blackberry

Motorola’s Android based Droid is the most impressive market entry since the iPhone and is largely responsible for a 10x improvement in Motorola’s North American mobile web share

Apple, Nintendo, Motorola and HTC saw the largest ‘stocking stuffer’ bounce this past holiday season, and

Pre-launch web visibility points to a wide variety of new devices from Motorola, HTC, Blackberry and others in 2010

Quantcast Mobile Report1

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BlackBerry Now The Third Most Popular Mobile Web Browser

Manoj Jasra — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:30:00 +0000

According to statistics released by Bango Inc, BlackBerry is now the third most popular mobile phone for browsing the web in the USA, accounting for 14% of all mobile traffic. BlackBerry is also placed fifth in the UK and worldwide, above all Apple iPhones, with Nokia remaining the overall global leader with over 36% of traffic seen.

Once seen as only for business with their slick functionality and features, BlackBerry devices are increasingly becoming the preferred handset for consumers wanting to browse the internet from their phone. The BlackBerry 8330 Curve now accounts for over 28% of BlackBerrys browsing the web.

Bango has published a white paper called Increasing your slice of the BlackBerry pie, which explains the challenges and opportunities that BlackBerry now presents to businesses. A copy can be downloaded from http://bango.com/blackberrywp.

Bango data collected across many millions of users accessing the internet from mobile devices also revealed that the BlackBerry user base is much more likely to use Wi-Fi as a connection method where available. Some of the newer BlackBerry devices have a Wi-Fi connectivity capability which makes it easy to locate Wi-Fi hotspots and connect “off-net”. By default, BlackBerry devices will connect by the RIM proprietary data gateway but can operate in either mode when the web browser is launched. This makes it very challenging for brands and content providers to accurately identify BlackBerry users for tracking, CRM, sales and marketing campaign purposes.

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New Palm Pre Comes Packed With Smart Phone Goodies

Manoj Jasra — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:30:28 +0000

The Google Mobile blog confirmed last week that the new Palm Pre will come standard with numerous Google Apps such as Search, Maps and YouTube.

Palm is calling its operating system webOS for good reason — all applications running on webOS leverage a WebKit-based rendering engine for content, which made it easy to port Google Maps to the platform.

Palm Pre also includes a YouTube application that Palm built using Palm’s Native application MoJo SDK, and much like a web app, it uses HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

If your query doesn’t match any contact info or the name of an application on your phone, you’ll be prompted to search either the web with Google, local places on Google Maps, articles on Wikipedia, or Twitter.

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