Apple takes nearly one-third U.S. smartphone marketshare, tops Samsung

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  • Reply 61 of 68
    mcrsmcrs Posts: 172member


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    They are the venerable but dumb albeit power stingy Nokia 1100, 250 million sold, and I betcha some people are still using it. It just runs and runs and runs...


     


    A little tidbits: 


     


    The Nokia 1100 was designed at Nokia Design Center in California, by the Bulgarian-American designer Miki Mehandjiysky.


     


    Nokia's one billionth phone sold was a Nokia 1100 purchased in Nigeria in 2005.


     


    The basic Nokia 1100 consumes only a fraction of the power in its battery and therefore lasts for up to 400 hours between charges.



    In early 2009 it was in the news due to a firmware flaw in a batch of phones that were manufactured in a plant in Bochum, Germany.The phone could supposedly be programmed to receive messages directed to a different phone number, thus receiving sensitive bank or other data. This flaw was brought to authorities' attention after some phones were sold for over US$32,000. There is only one source, a volunteer association using the name Ultrascan, that all these articles fall back to. A proof of concept or any other evidence for its claims was never published. [Source: Wikipedia]


     


    And, those were the days...


     


     


     


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    Originally Posted by Fairthrope View Post


    Which one? The one with b&w screen, radio and a torchlight?


     


    I have it with me Samsung 1080e, has a colour screen but probably the same thing.


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  • Reply 62 of 68

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    Originally Posted by tribalogical View Post


     


    Absolute hogwash…  "lost its touch"… "cocky, lazy, stagnant"…  why, because it doesn't have a '4.8" slab screen' on a mobile phone?



    Screen size is one reason. Apple does not offer consumer a choice of screen sizes. Apple does not listen to consumer needs.  Apple tells you what you need: 3.5" (and then Apple says the 10" tablet it's all you need, everything else is unusable). That's cocky.


     


    In the mean time Android vendors sell millions of 4.5-5.3" phones and 7" tablets.


     


    "Stagnant, lazy": Apple is always behind in latest technologies. I have already mentioned them: AMOLED, LTE, OS features, etc.


     


     


     


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    Originally Posted by tribalogical View Post


     


    And the kicker, 'a good toy phone'



     


     


    Again, no USB storage, no SD cards, no removable batteries, limited multitasking, very limited customization. Nice icons though and shiny glass body. Good basic phone for kids.


     


     


     


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    Originally Posted by tribalogical View Post


    it's the top selling phone of ALL TIME…


     



     


     


    Sure, and the BigMac is the top selling hamburger "of ALL TIME". Does it make the best hamburger? What about the top selling desktop OS "of ALL TIME"? Is the Windows the best OS ever? 

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  • Reply 63 of 68
    sockrolidsockrolid Posts: 2,789member


    So, Apple and Samsung are doing very well.  No surprise there.


     


    But let's take a look at the world's #2 Android smartphone manufacturer: HTC.  (1.)


    You'd think that the world's second-best Android handset maker would be basking in the Samsung Android halo.


    And you'd be wrong.


     


    Q2 results:


    * Revenue down 26.8% year over year


    * Profits down 58% year over year ($585 million in the year-ago quarter, $248 million this year) (2.)


    * Third consecutive quarter in which profits declined


     


    Q3 guidance:


    * Revenue down 41% to 48% from the year-ago quarter


     


    And what about the latest, greatest HTC One series of smartphones?  Are they the key to HTC's recovery?


    Nope.  AT&T just cut retail prices by up to 50%.


     


    (1. Not sure if HTC is still the #2 Android handset maker.  Especially after last quarter's terrible results.)


    (2. Microsoft and Nokia would kill to get this level of profit from Windows Phone / Lumia.)

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  • Reply 64 of 68
    icoco3icoco3 Posts: 1,474member

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by mcrs View Post


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    They are the venerable but dumb albeit power stingy Nokia 1100, 250 million sold, and I betcha some people are still using it. It just runs and runs and runs...


     


    A little tidbits: 


     


    The Nokia 1100 was designed at Nokia Design Center in California, by the Bulgarian-American designer Miki Mehandjiysky.


     


    Nokia's one billionth phone sold was a Nokia 1100 purchased in Nigeria in 2005.


     


    The basic Nokia 1100 consumes only a fraction of the power in its battery and therefore lasts for up to 400 hours between charges.


     


     



     


    ...and my wife HATED that phone!!  Worst phone she ever had and it wouldn't answer when she pressed the buttons (got for FREE in February 2008).  In July 2010 she got an iPhone 3GS and has been happy ever since (and still doesn't check her email or know why the alarm does not go off....hehe)

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  • Reply 65 of 68

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    Originally Posted by 69ergoo View Post


    Hey, Korean media will be very, very sad to hear this news. They have been really busy kissing Samsung's ass the whole year.


    They are going to have hard time swallowing this. I can't wait to see how they are going to report after Samsung loses the trial in California. :)



    http://newyork.newsday.com/business/technology/apple-iphone-sales-drop-as-samsung-extends-google-android-domination-1.3893581


     


    Yeah.  Not really.

     

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  • Reply 66 of 68
    macrulezmacrulez Posts: 2,455member


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  • Reply 67 of 68
    tooltalktooltalk Posts: 766member

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    Originally Posted by piot View Post


    Yes, now you're getting there Tool.


     


    Still not correct though!  Samsung's smartphone subscriber share for Q2 2011 was 10% not 8%. And 17.5% for Q2 2012.


     


    Thanks for playing.



     


     


    hardly anything to cry about.    That's still 75% vs. Apple's ~25% gain.


     


    anytime

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  • Reply 68 of 68
    tallest skiltallest skil Posts: 43,388member


    Originally Posted by muppetry View Post

    I think you may be in the wrong thread.


     


    He's on the wrong website.

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