Convertcast Episode 117 LAME Sunday May 6, 2012 MISC  The Kindle Fire is no longer on fire...sales share drops to 4% Draw Something loses 5M daily users (15M down to 10M) in 30 days.  Are people getting bored with it or is it Zynga? eye controlled user interface coming, among others in windows 8, google glasess, etc, Eurotrash company from Sweden works on it: http://www.tobii.com/ - not science fiction! How many times does your cell phone ring before it goes to voicemail? Why do the carriers now allow consumers to control this? iDrive - http://t.co/61UzR50k 5 GB free for starters,...


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No, I am not joking, real iPad app from real Nokia: (more...)


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Nokia is currently still the biggest cellphone vendor in the world, considering units sold and including non-smartphones like their S40 feature phones that are popular in India and South America (revenue-wise Samsung and Apple are bigger thanks to fat margins in smartphone area) And after the failure of their own operating systems (Symbian, Meego) Nokia decided to switch to Windows Phone from Microsoft. A Nokia phone powered by Windows Phone? Really? Yes, really, dude: In the middle of November 2011 in Europe and in 2012 in USA the first Nokia smartphones powered by Windows Phone are going...


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We are now on the verge of the 3rd major phase of smartphone wars. Episode 3 if you like, or as I like to call it, Smartphone War 3. Let's take a short look back and let's predict what will be going on in smartphones in the next few years - after all how well one can predict is a primary measure of intelligence. Smartphone War 1 Before Smartphone War 1 started, Nokia-controlled Symbian (a mobile OS that originated from British EPOC mobile OS for PDAs) had the dominant market share. And as you can see from this graph, Microsoft's mobile operating system had a comfortable second or third...


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For the first time, Windows Phone can compete with Android and become a true smartphone (previously it was merely a lame feature phone) with Windows Phone Mango. Previously I have reviewed pre-mango Windows Phone 7 and now I am reviewing Mango itself! Mango is Windows Phone 7.5 where OS version is 7.10 to make things even more confusing (when developing apps for Mango developers must choose "7.10" and pre-Mango 7.0): The Mango update came to users via Zune software running on PC - such clone of iTunes - and users who didn't get it (because it was rolled out in waves) could enforce installation...


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Convertcast Episode 70 Feb. 15, 2011 It's that time of year - now that Verizon iPhone is a reality, it's time to start speculating what Apple has in store for us * An iPhone with 4 inch screen? Like? Dislike? A keyboard? Are you smoking crack? * iPhone Nano? Who would this market to? Speculation of no storage but cloud access. What? Let us know when you can access the cloud from everywhere! * Apple to make Mobile Me a free service? Will it include the ability to store multimedia or just be a transport to your local media stored on your desktop? Apple introduces new Subscription...


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Convertcast episode 24 with guest Andy from Mobile Tech Addicts iPhone in the UK - unlock (!!) iPhone in China LTE Carriercentric US vs the rest of the world The mythical Apple tablet/slate/slab/thingamajiggie Palm Pre flashing Nokia and mobile phones vs pets Battery life Android Andy recommends following Mosspuppet on Twitter Follow Andy on MTA, and the MTA podcast, as well as on twitter. Jerry's new Internet Marketing Thoughts blog Add the ConvertCast Twibbon to your Twitter avatar! Follow Jerry on Twitter Follow Alli on Twitter Call the Just Another Geek Site Google...


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Personal and business phones iPhone and Blackberry AT&T 850 spectrum Jerry mentions that he jailbroke yesterday Mickey compares smartphone operating systems Symbian quirks and software Keyboard? We don' need no steenkin' keyboard! Jerry casually brings up jailbreak again (Quelle surprise!) Backgrounder Slingbox What's that? Did Jerry just mention jailbreak again? Ring Central vs. Google Voice vs. Phone Fusion The perfect device: 1. QWERTY from a 8900 BB Curve 2. Camera from M-95 3. Size and weight of the Curve A. Ease of use from iPhone B....


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