Archive for August, 2010

Available since last Friday (June 04), the HTC EVO 4G is by far the best smartphone Sprint has had, so it is not surprising that many customers want.

Initially, Sprint announced that "the total number of 4G EVO HTC devices sold on the day of release was three times the number of pre Samsung Instinct and Palm devices sold during its first three days on the market combined."

However, estimates of the company were wrong. A press release has been updated on the website of Sprint, to correct the error. As a result, the launch of HTC 4G EVO sale days were actually "six times higher than the day of the launch of Samsung Instinct and nearly double the sales on Palm Pre-launch." Sure, it still sold over Sprint EVO launch day, although the carrier is shy to provide exact sales figures – it is estimated that around 200,000 units were sold during the weekends.

As the desire and HTC HTC Verizon Awesome Droid, the EVO 4G is quite difficult to find at the moment (it is sold online) – which means HTC and Sprint did not expect that demand for the handset to be as high.

The EVO 4G is currently offered by Sprint for only $ 199.99 on contract – a price that has become a standard for high-end smartphones in the U.S. (the Apple iPhone 16 GB 4 AT & T will sell for $ 199.99, too).

When U.S. Cellular Samsung r880 Acclaim announced, nobody knew what the receiver would be well. A few weeks later, Google introduced the phone during their I / O conference, although without showing its QWERTY sliding keyboard.

Fortunately, thanks to Samsung, we can now see the keyboard Acclaim – and is quite interesting, with four keys on the left side painted in the color of the direction buttons, apparently for reasons related to gambling.

QWERTY keyboard also has the function of Acclaim Android 2.1, a 3.2 inch touchscreen HVGA, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Google services, 3MP camera and slot for memory expansion. As you can see, the phone is not totally like Samsung S Galaxy, but users of messaging-room on a budget should probably perfect.

Mobile USA (which also launched the HTC Desire later this year) said earlier that the acclamation of Samsung will be available from July. The price of the phone is not known at this time.

Via Engadget

The reception issues on iPhone 4, and advice on how “to carry it the correct way”, has become the joke of the week around internet.

Almost every competitor with  a grudge against iPhone needed to chime in with their very own version of “you can hold our device anyway you like and it still works” quip.

Looks like Apple is feeling the warmth, and now they decided to deal with  issue head on. Their conclusions?

Reception on iPhone 4 is only fine. Every phone gets weaker reception, when you hold it the certain way  But we had a wrong formula to calculate the variety of bars indicating signal strengths. we actually used this faulty formula for the last 2 years, in iPhone 3G and threeGs too. we are engaged on a brand new formula for a better firmware update. As soon because it’s out, the issues will depart and you’ll have the ability to hold your iPhone anyway you want… If there’s enough signal, that is…

Here’s the relevant a part of the clicking release:

Upon investigation, we were stunned in finding that the formula we use to calculate what number of bars of signal strength to display is completely wrong. Our formula, in lots of instances, mistakenly displays 2 more bars than it’s going to for a given signal strength. as an example, we sometimes display 4 bars once we should be displaying as few as 2 bars. Users observing a drop of several bars once they grip their iPhone in a definite way are obviously in a neighborhood with very weak signal strength, however they don’t understand it because we’re erroneously displaying 4 or 5 bars. Their big drop in bars is because their high bars were never real in the 1st place.

To fix this, we’re adopting AT&T’s recently recommended formula for calculating what number of bars to display for a given signal strength. the genuine signal strength remains a similar, but the iPhone’s bars will report it much more accurately, providing users a miles better indication of the reception they’re going to get in a given area. we are also making bars 1, 2 and 3 a piece taller so that they shall be easier to work out.

It actually correlates quite well with the detailed analysis of iPhone 4 reception issues the AnandTech did.

But it still doesn’t address the the issue of the shortcoming of insulating coating on external antenna, that is the first cause of the difficulty, and why bumper cases fix the problem at the moment.

Let’s hope Apple at least quietly adds a thin insulator layer within the next iPhone 4 production runs.

The Samsung T479 Gravity 3, which will be launched by T-Mobile USA on 23 June (at the same time with gravity and T Smile Samsung), has made another appearance, this time at an official-looking photos.

Samsung Gravity 3 is an entry-level slider with an alphanumeric keyboard and a full QWERTY keyboard. It is obviously aimed at teenagers and that many users of text, with a QVGA screen, 3G, integration of social networks, email, full HTML browser, Bluetooth 2.1 and 2MP camera.

Severity 3 will have two color versions (running and Indian), replacing the Samsung Gravity 2, currently offered by T-Mobile for $ 49.99 on contract.

Another Samsung device to be launched by T-Mobile USA soon (in July, perhaps) is the S Galaxy – the world's first Android smart phones have a touch screen AMOLED Super.

Through the signal from cell phone

A lot of folk needs to be tired by now from these kinds of iPhone is coming to Verizon rumors. in spite of everything, Verizon iPhone has been rumored to happen for several years now,  and nothing ever came out of it.

Sorry, can’t assist you to.  CDMA iPhone 4 on Verizon rumors, will only get more loud and frequent within the following couple of months.

And this is, because, IMHO, this time they’re true.

I remember similar rumor fest raging about Apple’s iPad.The darn device was mentioned and predicted for years, but never released. ranging from last summer, and going into the autumn, the crescendo of rumors about iPad’s imminent arrival reached  unbelievable levels. per week brought claim from someone, who talked to someone, who knew something about Apple’s tablet device.

Well, I see something similar playing out now about iPhone 4 for Verizon. With the newest Bloomerg report, citing “2 people familiar with the plans” of iPhone 4 January launch on Verizon, adding to the noise.

And the  signs that AT&T is loosing it’s iPhone exclusivity this year, are pretty clear by now.

First, there are those extremely generous iPhone 4 upgrade subsidy extensions, where AT&T is allowing free upgrades months before current customer  contract runs out. the one cause of AT&T to try this, and lose money within the process, is the desire to fasten-in current iPhone customers into 2 year contracts, before they choose to go in different places.

Then there’s the actual fact that, by now, almost everyone who desired to get iPhone  on AT&T, already got one. to restore the U.S iPhone growth, Apple now must look to other carriers.

The first sign of that was Apple’s Q2 financial results, that showed a transparent slowdown in iPhone U.S. sales growth, Now, after a mega successful iPhone 4 launch, we get analyst estimates, that 77% of iPhone 4s went to upgrades, which confirms that future iPhone growth possibilities on AT&T are extremely limited.

I don’t know when it’s happening exactly, for Holiday season, as some say. Or next January, as Bloomberg reports now, but, IMHO, iPhone on Verizon is imminent within next 6-yr.