Comment on The Future of Cheap Androids Begins Now by tom

a couple things: the US desperately needs virgin mobile style pricing on an operator with SIM cards. in most countries prepaid and SIM card swapping go hand in hand. or at least virgin mobile should start accepting used sprint phone on their network. the closest that we have here is simple mobile(a t-mobile MVNO) with a $60 unlimited everything, but we really need something like the virgin mobile $25 deal. now for the killer apps on this thing. VOIP over 3G to add unlimited voice. and since i bet a lot of the people buying this phone have limited home access to the internet the other killer app is tethering. lately i have been running a phone flashing business converting verizon and sprint phones to cricket and metroPCS. one thing that i can tell you is that on cricket the demand for tethering on android phones is absolutely enormous, in fact in a lot of the small cricket dealers this has become the main selling point and is often the only reason for the customer switching from a basic or feature phone. also for now it is the only way to get unlimited internet over cellular since the dedicated USB dongles and MiFi's are sold as metered buckets, but not the phone data plans.

Comment on The Future of Cheap Androids Begins Now by tom

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Report: Nearly Twice As Many Androids Shipped Last Quarter As iPhones

In a report that is raising eyebrows this morning, UK-based market research firm Canalys estimates that total shipments of Android phones in the U.S. during the third quarter were nearly twice as large as iPhone shipments. Out of 20.9 million smartphones shipped in the U.S., about 44 percent, or 9.1 million, are running the Android OS. Apple, shipped an estimated 5.5 million phones, or 26 percent of the total. Apple ships only one phone, the iPhone. And it became the single largest smartphone in the U.S., surpassing all Blackberry phones combined (with RIM shipping an estimated 5.1 million phones, or 24 percent). Apple's market share in the U.S. jumped 4.5 percent from the second quarter, but the collective share of all the Android handsets now on the market jumped by nearly 10 percent (from 34 percent).

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Comment on Android Still on Top; Now Crushing BlackBerry by LG Optimus and the Rise of the Cheap Androids!: Tech News «

[...] That’s a potential issue for companies that have traditionally owned the feature phone market in countries around the globe. Google’s Android platform is making the move down into lower priced devices and if it can offer the smartphone experience at a feature phone price, its rising dominance as a platform will simply accelerate even faster. [...]

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