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B12K : The Google Nexus One
Jan 21st
Google has decided to launch its own Smartphone. Called Nexus One, presented by the Californian giant of the Internet. This “smartphone” features a high resolution screen of 3.7 inches (9.4 centimeters), a processor running at 1 GHz and a camera of 5 megapixels.
Manufactured by The Taiwanese HTC, it can be purchased directly on the U.S. site of Google (no subscription with an operator) for 529 dollars or 179 dollars with a two-year contract with T-Mobile USA.
Until now, Google had limited itself to providing a free operating system for mobile phones manufacturers, commonly known as Android. A year after its launch it has achieved a great breakthrough, with approximately 3.5% market share. The Google executives had repeatedly that they didn’t want to sell a phone directly .so why have they crossed this boundaries today?
The dazzling success of the iPhone is for something . Two and a half years after its launch, the multimedia phone from Apple has already sold over 30 million copies and is almost one quarter of the total revenues of the brand. Apple has also succeeded with the iPhone, to finally take off the use of mobile Internet, these online services which are accessed from a phone even while moving. Thanks to the “AppStore”, a virtual store accessible by a click, which offers more than 100 000 online services, free or paid, developed by third party publishers (games, news, etc..).
However, the Apple platform owns everything : the computer group controls everything, from the design of the device to its operating system, through the payment system and the contents of the AppStore.
For Google, the main goal this is not to let Apple continue to gain ground in mobile Internet because, if as analysts predict, in few years there will be more connections to the Internet via a mobile than via a computer the stakes are enormous.
The Nexus One should help Google to better promote its Internet services on mobile. The search engine, of course, which ensures its dominance in the world of Internet (over 65% market share), its email service (Gmail), Mapping (Maps), its digital library, etc. . Without that the access to these services is controlled by Apple.
Will The Nexus One be the next “iPhone killer”? Not at that stage, according to experts, who hail its technical performance (the speed of its processor, the quality of the screen) but didn’t find anything revolutionary.
B12K : BlackBerry 1st in The US .
Aug 10th
You said fashion? BlackBerry is the ultimate trendy thing you must have I case you claim yourself as being a fashion victim. From paris to Tokyo via Ibiza all our favorite stars affirm being addicted “of course with pride” to these little gems of technology.
Whether it’s a PEARL a 8800 or a CURVEthe blackberries have easily found their place in trendy night parties in the pockets of politic leaders and in the handbags of the most beautiful girls on the planet.
Jay-Z has one , Rihanna , has one too , Lindsay Lohan has one too , Paris Hilton loves it, even barack obama leads the world with a blackberry
According to IDC, 4 of 10 best-selling smartphones in the U.S. are BlackBerries . But the competitors are unceasingly doing their best to gain some more shares.
The BlackBerry is clinging to its throne , According to IDC, the terminal remains the star’s best-selling smartphone in the country in the 2nd quarter.
At the highest spot of the podium we found the Curve (all versions), then Pearl on the 3rd place , the 5th place to Bold and the 6th for Storm.
But this dominance seems weakened since the growing number of competitors.
Thus, the iPhone 3G S which is on the market only since few months (and only available in one operator) is on the second place in this ranking.Its predecessor, the 3G iPhone is 4th.
The HTC is also monopolizing this classification with the 7th place for the G1, the 9th place for the Touch Pro and the 10th for the Touch Diamond.
The presence of Android on the market may well rise in power since Google announced that coming versions of its OS will particularly target professionals which means that BlackBerry is clearly its target ,Another surprise of this classification, is the 8th place of the Palm Pre that has just been released , which confirms the success of this smartphone. Another big threat to RIM …
Finally Here’s a summary of the IDC classification (the 10 best-selling smartphones in the U.S.)
- BlackBerry Curve
- iPhone 3GS
- BlackBerry Pearl
- iPhone 3G
- BlackBerry Bold
- BlackBerry Storm
- HTC Dream
- Palm Pre
- HTC Touch Pro
- HTC Touch Diamond
B12k : What’s Twitter ?
Aug 4th
I don’t know if you have also been able to notice that , but since few months now everyone talks about a new thing called Twitter , a bit like when I first heard about Msn or more recently Facebook , I wanted to know what was that thing called twitter and here is what I found :
let’s first define twitter :
Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging tool which allows users to send free (maximum 140 characters) messages, called tweets via Internet, instant messaging or SMS.
Twitter has emerged from nowhere to invade our digital lives. Between the desktop and mobile phones, borders have fallen since Twitter can be used from everywhere.
it is also nice to Twitter from his iPhone or Blackberry as from your laptop or desktop. 
 This micro-blogging tool has become so popular in the United States that the brands have started to really take seriously this unique tool.
In europe, Twitter remains a territory of geeks, but there is no doubt that the public will adhere to the phenomenon soon.
Celebrities have began to come through it, engaging themselves in a childish competition to see who’s the the one that will garner the most followers (members that follow your Twitter profile).
Initially, the tool was designed to enable your network of family and friends know what you are doing at any time,and this by reading your tweets it would be then possible to read that I had a coffee with jenna this morning, then I wrote a post for my new blog then that my boss yelled at me at 10 o’clock … . The original concept seems totally futile, but when people know that Obama, Shaquille O’Neal, Britney Spears and countless other celebrities Tweet , they join the system without hesitation .
the surge of the “popular and trendy” micro-blogging tool Twitter , marketers of all backgrounds are beginning to develop strategies to bring their brands to the human side
This strategy, intelligent or subtle depending on its perspective, is booming in the United States and will soon expand throughout the world.