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Thursday 02 June 2011

WTF?! Selling A Kidney To Buy An iPad 2? [ 02-06-2011 20:16 ]

Author: Irina Turina Source: BGR Translation by: Paul Smith

The iPad 2 is a desirable device, I understand that. As such people are willing to make sacrafices to obtain one. I understand that too. However ... selling a kidney for one? I do not understand that!

That is exactly what one 17 year old Chinese Apple fan did as he was otherwise unable to afford buying an iPad 2. The teenager told the Shanghai Daily newspaper "I wanted to buy an iPad 2 but could not afford it. A broker contacted me on the Internet and said he could help me sell one kidney for 20,000 yuan". 20,000 yuan is approximately $3,400 in case you wondered.

The surgery was carried out at a hospital, but the hospital wasn't qualified to carry out the operation. When the teenager's parents found out what had happened they contacted the police, but they have been unable to trace the broker who organised the procedure.

For his part the teenager says that he regrets his decision.

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Analysts Forecast Increased iPhone 4 Shipments/iPhone 5 September Launch [ 02-06-2011 20:02 ]

Author: Serge Novikov Source: BGR Translation by: Paul Smith

Ticonderoga Securities, an analyst firm, have being saying good things about iPhone 4 shipments this month. Demand for the white iPhone 4 is expected to drive demand for the device, which should see quarter on quarter shipments rise. This is in contrast to previous expectations from Ticonderoga, which forecast a 15% drop compared with quarter two.

Of course part of the reason for increased demand will have something to do with the anticipation that there will be no new iPhone this summer. Traditionally that has led to a dip in demand as customers wait for the new version to be released. Ticonderoga say that their analysis shows manufacturing of components for the next iPhone will begin next month, which would indicate a September launch. That all ties in with the current rumour mill, which has consistently placed the iPhone 5 release some time in the later part of the year, possibly very late summer/early autumn.

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Introducing The Xperia Mini Pro [ 02-06-2011 19:57 ]

Author: Serge Novikov Source: Sony Ericsson Translation by: Paul Smith

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BlackBerry Takes 42% Of Canadian Market [ 02-06-2011 19:50 ]

Author: Irina Turina Source: ComScore Translation by: Paul Smith

When you say BlackBerry these days the first thing that comes to mind for many is a company struggling to stay relevant in the modern smartphone game. In many major markets RIM has seen their market share eroded as customers increasingly turn to Android and iOS as well as the up and coming Windows Phone. One market that is resolutely standing firm in the BlackBerry camp though is RIM's home ground of Canada.

ComScore are reporting that RIM has managed to grab a 42% share of the Canadian smartphone market with next best Apple trailing at 31%. Android barely scrapes above single digits with 12% and Windows Mobile has just 5.1%. Another interesting figure is that Canadian smartphone penetration is at 32.8%, which is in fact a higher rate than found in America, Japan, France or Germany.

These are great figures for RIM of course, but then Canada is a relatively small amrket in global terms and to be blunt Canada is not where RIM needs to be grabbing market share. Just next door sits the U.S., which is increasingly jumping onboard with Android rather than BlackBerry.

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The Decision To Drop MeeGo [ 02-06-2011 19:39 ]

Author: Irina Turina Source: Bloomberg Translation by: Paul Smith

One of the biggest mobile stories of 2011, hell of the decade, will be the decision by Nokia partner up with Microsoft to use Windows Phone as their smartphone platform of choice. It was a big decision to be sure, but an equally big decision was to effectively abandon MeeGo, Nokia's own platform and something many in the company had become attached to and saw as the way forward for the Finnish manufacturer.

Bloomberg Businessweek have published an account of this decision and it makes for fascinating reading. The decision centres around a meeting on 3rd January this year between Stephen Elop and Nokia's Chief Development Officer Kai Oistamo. Kai let it be known that he had concerns over the ability of MeeGo to challenge either Android or iOS and so the two men began interviewing two dozen 'influential employees' at Nokia to get their take on MeeGo.

The Bloomberg account of that process is below:

Before the first interview, Elop drew out what he knew about the plans for MeeGo on a whiteboard, with a different color marker for the products being developed, their target date for introduction, and the current levels of bugs in each product. Soon the whiteboard was filled with color, and the news was not good: At its current pace, Nokia was on track to introduce only three MeeGo-driven models before 2014-far too slow to keep the company in the game. Elop tried to call Oistämö, but his phone battery was dead. "He must have been trying an Android phone that day," says Elop. When they finally spoke late on Jan. 4, "It was truly an oh-s--t moment-and really, really painful to realize where we were," says Oistämö. Months later, Oistämö still struggles to hold back tears. "MeeGo had been the collective hope of the company," he says, "and we'd come to the conclusion that the emperor had no clothes. It's not a nice thing.

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