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  • Apparently, this is the Droid you are looking for

    Apparently, this is the Droid you are looking for

    Posted on November 10, 2009 | No Comments
    Good news for Motorola and Verizon, it looks like the Droid is a hit. The new phone is certainly living up to the hype, and seems to be the breakaway hit of this holiday season. Reports from retails so far have been positive, with the initial stock of 200,000 phones selling rather quickly, however not [...]

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  • Anxious Sprint users ordering HTC Hero now through telesales

    Anxious Sprint users ordering HTC Hero now through telesales

    Posted on October 8, 2009 | No Comments

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    Too impatient to wait for October 11th to arrive? Yeah, we feel you. If you're up with killing a few minutes and dealing with what may end up being four or five CSRs, word on the street has it that the Android-powered Hero can be ordered this very moment via Sprint telesales. A number of members over at Sprint Users have had success in getting the phone headed their way, and one even mentioned that his SERO plan was set to remain firmly in place even with this new phone on the bill. Let us know if you stumble across similar luck in comments below, won't you?

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  • PS3 Slim doing pretty well: Sales up 300 percent

    PS3 Slim doing pretty well: Sales up 300 percent

    Posted on September 11, 2009 | No Comments
    Well look at that: not only is the PS3 Slim a big success over in Japan but it's also doing pretty damn well here in the U.S. Sales were up some 300 percent in at Sony's “top retailers,” comparing the the week it launched to the previous week.

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  • To call the PS3 Slim anything but a huge success would be disingenuous

    To call the PS3 Slim anything but a huge success would be disingenuous

    Posted on September 7, 2009 | No Comments
    Oh, if only Sony had somehow released the PS3 Slim back in November, 2006, how different things would be! The sales reports are staring to trickle in from Japan, and Sony sold some 150,000 during the first three days of availability. That represents the system's best showing ever.

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  • Samsung has sold 5 million of these so far – can you name it?

    Samsung has sold 5 million of these so far – can you name it?

    Posted on August 27, 2009 | No Comments
    Take a look over at that phone to the left. Can you name it? Yes, yes - it's obviously a Samsung. But can you name the model? We haven't covered this phone much here at MobileCrunch; no mobile blog outside of the Samsung-specific blogs have, really. But that hasn't kept it from being a raging success. Samsung announced this morning that this phone - which, by the way, is the ....

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  • Now that he’s talking… Here’s 6 Questions Apple’s Phil Schiller should answer

    Now that he’s talking… Here’s 6 Questions Apple’s Phil Schiller should answer

    Posted on August 12, 2009 | No Comments
    So, apparently, Apple’s Phil Schiller is starting to talk about Apple’s missteps. After months of silence, one of Apple’s top executives (and possibly the most public-facing one next to Jobs) has started to reach out to the tech community to help explain Apple’s numerous, absurdly embarrassing blunders. Some may be satisfied with Schiller slowly sending [...]

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  • AT&T’s Q2 Earnings: Millions of iPhones sold, Billions of dollars made

    AT&T’s Q2 Earnings: Millions of iPhones sold, Billions of dollars made

    Posted on July 23, 2009 | No Comments
    AT&Ts Second Quarter Earnings are up. There’s not much to be said here beyond what the numbers clearly show: AT&T is doing well (though profits dropped about 16% from the same quarter last year), largely on the success of the iPhone. On to the facts: 2.4 million iPhones were activated in the last quarter, with the iPhone [...]

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  • The iPhone’s Competitors Have A Big Problem: Their Games Stink

    The iPhone’s Competitors Have A Big Problem: Their Games Stink

    Posted on July 23, 2009 | No Comments
    It's no secret that gaming on the iPhone has been one of the main keys to the App Store's success. You know it, I know it, and so you have to believe that all the competitors know it too. And yet, their actions would seem to suggest that they don't know it. Because they keep building devices, operating systems and app stores to compete with the iPhone, that simply can't hold a candle to the iPhone when it comes to gaming. At the Casual Connect conference in Seattle today, some numbers were thrown out there, talking about just how big gaming is now on the iPhone. Of the nearly 70,000 apps in the App Store, some 20% are games. Yes, that means there are between 10,000 and 15,000 apps that are games, just for the iPhone alone. To put that in perspective, that is more than the total number of apps that all of the App Store's big competitors (Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store, Palm's App Catalog, BlackBerry's App World) have — combined.

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  • Video: Japan gets a ramen noodle robot

    Video: Japan gets a ramen noodle robot

    Posted on July 6, 2009 | No Comments
    Japan is known as the country of robots, and lately, robot engineers in this country seems to be obsessed with the idea of replacing human cooks and chefs. Following inventions like the sushi or pancake-making robot, it's now time to replace ramen cooks (ramen is a famous Japanese noodle dish). The coolest thing about the ramen robot that's currently working in a restaurant in Yamanashi prefecture (west of Tokyo) is that it's made by the owner of that place. Yoshihira Uchida (who studied electronics in university) says he invested five years and $200,000 in the robot.

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  • Who knew? MagicJack is flying off the shelves

    Who knew? MagicJack is flying off the shelves

    Posted on June 28, 2009 | No Comments
    More proof (see: the Perfect Pushup and the Snuggie.) that having a quirky, on-all-the-time commercial is a step in the right direction toward Big Success. MagicJack is selling something at the rate of 9,000 to 10,000 units per day, making its parent company, YMax Communications, some $100 million this year alone. But, in this age of Skype, who's buying this thing?

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