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Apple has no doubt, become the king of iPhones. Although there are many other phones having similar functionality of the multitouch smartphone, such as the Palm Pre and the Motorola Droid, but Apple has unstoppably ruled over all of them up until now.

A recent statement from an analyst firm, Strategy Analytics has authorized this, saying that Apple is now the single most profitable phone maker in the United States.

Although Apple’s iPhone series only encompasses a 2.5 percent market share, and there are just two iPhone models in the market currently, it is estimated that Apple has generated a profit of $1.6 billion through its smartphone division.

The other big giant in the mobile market, Nokia, on the other hand only generated $1.1 billion profit in the same period, even though it has a much larger market share, which is nearly 40%.

The main reason behind this large difference in profits is that nokia still has to release a smart phone, strong enough to take over the iPhone. Nokia has mainly emphasized on low to mid-range regular mobile phones, with none of the advanced functionality of Apple’s iPhone. Although nokia sells a lot of these, but a lot of profit cannot be earned from them.

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written by Duy Phong \\ tags: Android, App, Apple, Application, Free, Iphone, Itouch, Mac, OS

Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG), Boingo Wireless, Airport Marketing Income, Advanced Wireless Group and several other wireless companies are partnering to set up free Wi-Fi in airports as a holiday gift. If and when this project does come into fruition, it will further enhance Google’s motto “Don’t Be Evil.” I know a lot of people that will appreciate this gift especially those who get stuck in long lay overs.

“We’re very happy to extend our Holiday Wi-Fi gift to the millions of people who will spend time in airports over the next few months,” stated Google VP of Search Products and User Experience Marissa Mayer. “We know that this is a very hectic travel season for people, and we hope that free Wi-Fi will make both traveling and connecting with friends and family a little bit easier.”

Below is a list of airports that are participating in the Google airport WiFi initiative:
* Austin (AUS)
* Baltimore (BWI)
* Billings (BIL)
* Boston (BOS)
* Bozeman (BZN)
* Buffalo (BUF)
* Burbank (BUR)
* Central Wisconsin (CWA)
* Charlotte (CLT)
* Des Moines (DSM)
* El Paso (ELP)
* Fort Lauderdale (FLL)
* Fort Myers/SW (RSW)
* Greensboro (GSO)
* Houston (HOU)
* Houston Bush (IAH)
* Indianapolis (IND)
* Jacksonville (JAX)
* Kalamazoo (AZO)
* Las Vegas (LAS)
* Louisville (SDF)
* Madison (MSN)
* Memphis (MEM)
* Miami (MIA)
* Milwaukee (MKE)
* Monterey (MRY)
* Nashville (BNA)
* Newport News (PHF)
* Norfolk (ORF)
* Oklahoma City (OKC)
* Omaha (OMA)
* Orlando (MCO)
* Panama City (PFN)
* Pittsburgh (PIT)
* Portland (PWM)
* Sacramento (SMF)
* San Antonio (SAT)
* San Diego (SAN)
* San Jose (SJC)
* Seattle (SEA) — rolling out this month
* South Bend (SBN)
* Spokane (GEG)
* St. Louis (STL)
* State College (SCE)
* Toledo (TOL)
* Traverse City (TVC)
* West Palm Beach (PBI)

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written by Duy Phong \\ tags: App, Free, Google, OS

Broadpoint AmTech Inc. analyst Mark McKechnie estimated that 100,000 Verizon Droid mobile phones were sold over the weekend. In terms of specifications the Verizon Droid was intended to challenge the iPhone. The iPhone remains as king when it comes to selling the most number of units on an opening weekend, but clearly the Droid has made an impact on mobile phone competition. At least more so than the Palm Pre when comparing opening weekend unit sales.

When the original iPhone first launched, it sold about 270,000 units on the opening weekend. However the original iPhone had a much higher cost. And then iPhone 3G and iPhone 3G S had about 1 million units sold on their respective opening weekends, thus creating the benchmark that many other mobile companies are striving for. The Palm Pre sold about 50,000 units on their opening weekend which was a record sales day for Sprint. If the Verizon Droid did end up selling 100,000 units in the opening weekend, then that means that about 50% of the company’s inventory has been bought.

What does this mean for the telecommunications market in general? What this means is that the iPhone has a small rival which may just help Verizon retain some of their customers from switching to AT&T. The Android Market will see an increase in sales too. It will be a fraction of the sales that Apple makes on the iTunes App Store, but we will definitely start hearing some developer success stories about how much they made from the Android Market in the near future.

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written by Duy Phong \\ tags: 3G, Android, App, Apple, Iphone, ITunes, OS

This Chinese kid bought a stun gun on Mop.com and decided to see what would happen if he used it on himself while holding . It supposedly was powered by 5 million volts. Supposedly this kid was unconscious for 6 hours according to another post he made on Mop.com. Many YouTube users believe he is faking it because when you are electrocuted, usually you do not pass out and it is difficult to pull away from the electricity. What are your thoughts? Real or fake? This video is quickly rising on the view count of YouTube.

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written by Duy Phong \\ tags: App, Application, OS

Samsung Electronics will quit using Symbian in favor of their own in-house open operating system according to SVP Don Joo Lee. Samsung plans to continue using the Windows Mobile and Android operating systems too. This year Samsung shipped roughly 200 million mobile devices. This number is expected to increase by 10-20% in 2010.

Bada will support applications made by developers using Samsung’s software development kit. “Bada” means ocean in Korean. While details about a Bada application store has not been fleshed out, we do know that Samsung plans to integrate the Bada store will be integrated with their European app store.

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written by Duy Phong \\ tags: Android, App, Application