Posts tagged with 'iphone'
iPhone users are happier. Their phones are smarter. And BlackBerry users have a serious case of iPhone envy.
Research firm Crowd Science learned, in a survey conducted over the past month that iPhone have a satisfaction score of 73% with their devices, compared wtih Blackberry owners (52%) and other smartphone users (41%). Even more iPhone owners say they're loyal to the brand (82%).
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by Rebecca Lieb
23 June 2009 17:06pm
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Taptu is an alternative search engine that has just been released as an iPhone app, though it has a version that can be used on any mobile browser.
What Taptu does is to return results from mobile friendly websites. Some websites can be a pain to use on the iPhone, so a dedicated search engine for mobile sites is a good idea. I've been trying it out...
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by Graham Charlton
18 June 2009 12:28pm
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All too eager to get cut and paste and a few other new features on my iPhone, I downloaded the latest 3.0 upgrade from iTunes not long after it was released.
However, after something like an hour of waiting, and just as the download was about to be completed, I get an error message on iTunes, and my iPhone screen looked like this:
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by Graham Charlton
18 June 2009 10:26am
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I've just downloaded the newly released Tweetdeck for iPhone, which contains all the features of the desktop version, currently the best way to organise your Twitter activity.
Having used Twitterific for mobile tweeting before, I have been using Tweetie lately, but will Tweetdeck for iPhone convince me to abandon it?
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by Graham Charlton
17 June 2009 10:52am
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It's currently covering just the Queens area of New York, but Burger King has started to trial a mobile commerce app for the iPhone, as a way of maximising orders.
Customers can use the app to order and pay for their meals and skip queues at their local Burger King. I've been pretending to be in Queens so I can try the app out....
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by Graham Charlton
16 June 2009 09:29am
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While mobile commerce is still in its infancy in the US, and even more so in the UK, there are signs that users are coming round to the idea, with 71% saying they feel it is safe to make a purchase on their mobiles.
An eMarketer round up of recent mobile commerce stats also reveals some interesting information about the kinds of products people want to buy from their phones.
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by Graham Charlton
10 June 2009 12:03pm
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The new iPhone will be released on June 19th, and while data upgrades, new features and lower costs makes the product attractive to new users, current iPhone owners may experience sticker shock when they try to upgrade on June 19th.
AT&T customers purchasing an iPhone for the first time will be able to get a 16 or 32GB phone for $199 or $299. But many customers in the middle of their AT&T contracts for first or second generation models will have to spend $399 and $499 to upgrade.
The price increase has already gotten a negative response from many vocal iPhone owners. The Washington Post called the new iPhone a “sucker’s bet” yesterday, while CNNMoney is waiting until Christmas to get one, and TechCrunch thinks it's a "very questionable upgrade."
Angering early adopters may not work out for AT&T longterm — AT&T's exclusive contract with Apple could expire as soon as next year —
but in light of its unusual relationship with Apple and the cost of
supporting the network-sucking smartphones, it looks as if AT&T is focusing on growing the iPhone user base at the cost of customer loyalty.
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by Meghan Keane
09 June 2009 20:04pm
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Apple fans are eagerly anticipating the release of the new iPhone on July 5, and it looks like advertisers will have a reason to get excited as well. Mobile ad platform AdMob has announced three new types of ad units. Each come with social, search
and rich media features, and will be available in July.
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by Meghan Keane
04 June 2009 20:33pm
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Sky News launched an iPhone app this week, which provides the latest headlines, as well as encouraging users to send in their own reports and images.
The app, which is currently top of the free download charts in the App Store, also has a strong focus on video content. I've been seeing how it compares to rival ITN's version.
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by Graham Charlton
03 June 2009 10:25am
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Research in Motion has had a major hurdle in the way of selling its smartphones over the past few years: it's called the iPhone. The Blackberry may have sold 6.7 million smartphones in the third quarter of last year, but that was a record quarter, and Apple shipped 6.9 million iPhones in the first quarter of its existence.
The other problem is that the iPhone has incredibly high user participation rates online. There are many more conversations about the iPhone happening on the web than the iPhone, which RIM is tring to fix.
As the Blackberry maker learned last year, 76% of consumers don’t think companies tell the truth in advertising, while 78% trust the recommendation of other consumers. According to Brian Wallace, Director of Global Digital Marketing for RIM, money spent on advertising and an appealing website was effectively wasted: “we were where our customers were not.”
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by Meghan Keane
02 June 2009 20:34pm
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