Motorola Droid’s 100K First Weekend

Bloomberg is reporting that the Motorola Droid didn’t do too badly during its launching weekend. The “iPhone killer” with Android 2.0 OS and real GPS and turn-by-turn voice navigation may have sold as many as 100,000 units. That’s only a tenth of the iPhone sales two years ago when the first-gen Apple phone came out, [...]

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1 Million iPhone 3Gs Sold and a Ton of Third-Party Apps

Apple, Inc announced today July 14th that 3 days after iPhone 3G’s release, already a million units have flown off the shelf. This is just the first leg of the release. France will follow on July 17th and the rest of the world later this year. “iPhone 3G had a stunning opening weekend,” said Steve Jobs, [...]

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Nand Prices Fall, iPod and iPhone Prices Next?

  It was a long time ago when the NAND Flash shortage was threatening not only to bring up the prices of portable gadgets but to shorten the supply altogether. That is now over as Flash prices has dropped significantly this weekend. DRAMeXchange estimates a 73 per cent drop since August of last year. The price drop [...]

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PlayStation Portable Slim is the new iPhone of Japan

The Sony PSP is hot, hot, hot in Japan. After beating the 3,000 yen cheaper DS for the first time in recent memory, the PSP Lite (now with TV and now with “Final Fantasy 7: Crisis Core”), PSP Lite & Slim rounded up four days in retail stores with over a quarter of a million [...]

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270,000 iPhones in 30 Hours, For Real

AT&T’s reported conversion on the iPhone has pretty much debunked the 500k hyped-up sales on iPhone’s first weekend. AT&T’s 146k figure, however, leaves a lot of people scratching their heads. Surely a lot more iPhones were sold before the end of June or on its first 30 hours since it was launched at 6PM [...]

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Star-Crossed: iPhone and Zune Hit A Million Each

If you believe in fate, destiny and all that, then you might have realized by now that Steve Jobs and Bill Gates - or at least their businesses, are star-crossed. Microsoft is on the verge of making its first million sales of its Zune player. On the Apple side, the iPhone, on its first week [...]

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