Monday: May 10, 2010
Android manages to outsell the iPhone in smartphone sales for the first time.Verizon (30%), T-Mobile (17%) and Sprint (15%) make up the bulk of the rest of the market. The numbers may also reflect the late lifecycle of the iPhone 3GS compared to the newer android devices. Apple is also widely expected to revise the iPhone in the next month.
Monday: February 1, 2010
AT&T decides that pouring another two billion dollars into their mobile network is worth it.AT&T plans to spend between $18 billion and $19 billion in 2010 upgrading its wireless and backhaul networks to handle the onslaught of new traffic. This is roughly $2 billion more than the company had invested in the previous year.
Monday: December 14, 2009
Google working on a new Android phone to sell directly to consumers.Apparently Google has been prepping a phone of their own for use with their very own network for quite some time. I can't imagine other carriers being too thrilled about these rumors.
Tuesday: September 8, 2009
An informative writeup on what the world was like before Apple introduced the iPhone.This list too could go on. But it’s sobering to remember that a single device by a company with zero experience in the industry and against all odds caused such a tidal wave of change.
Monday: June 22, 2009
FCC decides to look into the whole mobile phone / exclusive carrier business.Paul Roth, AT&T’s president of retail sales, defended the practice to lawmakers, saying that the deals drive innovation by guaranteeing device makers that enough will be purchased to make innovation worthwhile.