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By: Who Came Up With The Name Superphone? Not Google

Who Came Up With The Name Superphone? Not Google — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:02:23 +0000

[...] John even walked through some specifications for what adds up to be a superphone. Today at MobileBeat, Samsung’s chief strategy officer, Omar Khan, offered up his specs for a superphone – they mirrored a list of John’s specifications. The irony is, that at the time he wrote the column and used the term superphone, SanGiovanni took a lot of flack from our readers in the comments section. Since then we have used the phrase superphone as a way to describe the newer web-centric phones in pieces such as The Summer of Superphone. [...]

By: The Recipe for a Successful Smartphone Is Getting Bland

The Recipe for a Successful Smartphone Is Getting Bland — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 00:01:47 +0000

[...] but the upcoming Motorola Droid X that appears on Verizon’s site has me a little bored with the current wave of “superphones,” as Om likes to call them. That’s not a knock against the new Droid specifically — the [...]

By: Sprint Adding WiMAX Runways For HTC Supersonic Flight? – jkOnTheRun

Sprint Adding WiMAX Runways For HTC Supersonic Flight? – jkOnTheRun — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:47:02 +0000

[...] involved that I hadn’t thought about — what about the activities we’ll do on the superphones of tomorrow? Handset capabilities continue to leap forward and it’s safe to say that they are [...]

By: Stop Cramming the Mobile Web Into the PC Box – GigaOM

Stop Cramming the Mobile Web Into the PC Box – GigaOM — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:49:10 +0000

[...] and future devices like the iPad about content consumption, tomorrow’s smartphones — or superphones — will be about both, and may even do both equally [...]

By: Let’s Just Skip To The Super-Duper-Phone | Channel321

Let’s Just Skip To The Super-Duper-Phone | Channel321 — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:38:06 +0000

[...] One as the first “superphone,” a term not previously widely used (of note – GigaOm has a reference to the term last [...]

By: Let?s Just Skip To The Super-Duper-Phone

Let?s Just Skip To The Super-Duper-Phone — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 10:12:35 +0000

[...] the first “superphone,” a term not previously widely used (of note – GigaOm has a reference to the term last [...]

By: Let’s Just Skip To The Super-Duper-Phone | Technology News Videos And Resources

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:59:05 +0000

[...] the first “superphone,” a term not previously widely used (of note – GigaOm has a reference to the term last [...]

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Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:22:42 +0000

[...] the first “superphone,” a term not previously widely used (of note – GigaOm has a reference to the term last [...]

By: Let’s Just Skip To The Super-Duper-Phone

Let’s Just Skip To The Super-Duper-Phone — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:09:42 +0000

[...] the first “superphone,” a term not previously widely used (of note – GigaOm has a reference to the term last [...]

By: Mobile Data and the Need for Metering – GigaOM

Mobile Data and the Need for Metering – GigaOM — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:03:02 +0000

[...] dramatic surge in mobile data usage will continue to ramp up quickly as Android gains traction and superphones become more commonplace. Among carriers, the rich are getting richer thanks to that uptake, but [...]

By: Why Early 2010 Will Be Critical for Palm – GigaOM

Why Early 2010 Will Be Critical for Palm – GigaOM — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:24:03 +0000

[...] Why Early 2010 Will Be Critical for Palm By Colin Gibbs Dec. 28, 2009, 8:23am No Comments 0 0 0 0 Palm Pre owners got a bonus gift this holiday season with today’s release of webOS 1.3.5, which promises improved battery life and more usable storage for app installation, among other things. The move makes good on Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein’s recent promise to upgrade the company’s mobile operating system, and it follows the release earlier this month of the Ares SDK, a web-based tool for developers looking to build on the platform. But the struggling manufacturer will need more than just an OS makeover and improved developer tools if it’s to compete in the era of the superphone. [...]

By: iPhone Sales: Now Bigger Than Ever

iPhone Sales: Now Bigger Than Ever — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:28:44 +0000

[...] a whole new crop of what The Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg calls super smart phones (I prefer the simpler super phones) come to the market. Motorola’s CLIQ, an Android-based device that launched at our Mobilize [...]

By: Why Nokia’s Service Efforts Have Fallen Flat

Why Nokia’s Service Efforts Have Fallen Flat — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:40:18 +0000

[...] facelift and learn to play nice with carriers, Nokia will become a force to be reckoned with in the era of the superphone. If not, it will be just another phone maker — one that continues to lose ground to Apple and [...]

By: SmartPhones Sales Up, Startup Funding Down

SmartPhones Sales Up, Startup Funding Down — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 06:28:14 +0000

[...] Om Malik | Sunday, August 2, 2009 | 11:27 PM PT | 0 comments The booming sales of smart phones such as the iPhone and the growing popularity of the mobile app stores has prompted a renaissance [...]

By: Our Great Internet Addiction…

Our Great Internet Addiction… — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:52:02 +0000

[...] bet now that we have superphones such as Apple’s iPhone or T-Mobile’s MyTouch and Palm Pre, we will be even more connected. I wonder when in the [...]

By: The HTC Hero Will Make you finally excited about Android | My Philly Network

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:23:35 +0000

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