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2008 Smartphone Market Share »

How do you choose which iPhone Killers you buy? It will most likely depend on what you will use your phone for. Some people use it mainly for personal use such as voice and texting, while other rely on it for day to day business and e-mail. It seems for business users, the clear choice [...]

TFT vs. AMOLED »

You may wonder why I give such high regards for many of the Samsung’s latest iPhone Killers that have AMOLED instead of TFT used on all other phones. It’s really hard to explain it until you see the difference for youself.
I found the next best thing. A video showing the difference. This is on a [...]

LG and Samsung sold 20M touchscreen phones each »

In the last 2 years, these 2 Korean phone manufacturers have each sold more than 20M touchscreen phones worldwide. It just goes to show how popular touchscreen phones not named “iPhone” are and it will only get better with different companies coming up with different features, not found in iPhones, added to their iPhone Killers.

US Carrier Data Plan Compared »

Here are the costs of using the data service with your iPhone Killers on US carriers. They are very similar and all have that magic 5GB limit as the data service is still very expensive compared to just voice. Hopefully with next generation data service technology (4G, LTE), it will become faster and cheaper.

Update: As [...]

What is the best selling smartphone in US? »

According to a market research company, NPD, it’s not the iPhone as many people thought.
Here are the rankings for the Q1 in US in terms of sales.
#1: Blackberry Curve
#2: Apple iPhone 3G
#3: Blackberry Storm
#4: Blackberry Pearl
#5: T-Mobile G1

The Truth about Cell Phone Rebates »

Top 10 Selling Phones in March 2009 »

(1) Samsung SGH-i900/i910 Omnia
(7) Nokia 3109
(3) Nokia 6300
(2) HTC Touch HD
(8) Nokia E71
(4) Nokia E51
(10) Nokia 3120
(8) Nokia 5800
(5) Blackberry Storm
(-) Samsung M8800

() = Last month’s position.
Source: Krusell, the Swedish manufacturer of carrying cases for portable electronics.

Quick Survey – What are your top 3 iPhone Killers? »

Just wanted to do a quick survey on what our visitors’ top 3 iPhone Killers are.
For me,
#1 – HTC G1
#2 – Blackberry Storm
#3 – LG Renoir
If we get enough votes, we’ll do a compilation to see which one got the most votes. #1 gets 5 points, #2 gets 3 points, and #3 gets 1 point.
Correction: [...]