for the U.S. phone market released a few days ago. While they didn’t present any startling, unexpected trend (Android,
grew; BlackBerry, Windows fell), a bit of number crunching by Horace Dediu reveals an interesting fact.
The smartphone market grew by 0.6% in a period of three months ending November 2011, which means 1.4 million Americans bought a smartphone for the first time. This growth, however, is unusually low, slightly more than half (more…)

RunKeeper – the must-have fitness app that makes it easy to track, measure and improve your fitness has just received a major upgrade.
The latest version of RunKeeper gets new features such as auto pause and heart rate zones. It also improves overall tracking performance and stability.
No more stopping and starting RunKeeper every time you hit a traffic light or stop to tie your shoe! Just turn on Auto Pause and RunKeeper will automatically pause (more…)

Based on the latest survey by market research firm – ChangeWave Research,
users are observing fewer dropped calls than AT&T’s iPhone 4 users.
was launched in February provides some interesting statistics. The sample size of the survey was about 4,068 consumers.
As you can see below, the percentage of dropped calls experienced by Verizon iPhone 4 users is only 1.8% compared to 4.8% experienced by AT&T iPhone 4 users.
In March 2011, the percentage (more…)

In what could be seen as further testimony to these rumors, folks at iLounge have noted that Apple has made a subtle change in the newly released beta version of
” term.
users might have also noticed this change. It is not clear if the decision has been taken to reflect potential new partnerships that Apple may forge in the future or is merely a move to do away with the Google branding on iPhone 's mobile Safari web browser. As you may know, (more…)

According to the report, the issue was first taken up with AT&T, and he was told that things were perfect from their end and it was probably a problem with his handset. The Apple Genius Bar at the SoHo Apple retail store who later tested his iPhone to find a drop call rate of 22% told him that this was pretty above average since the average drop call rate in the New York City area was close to 30%. Here is the complete transcript of their report
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