Apple today announced that they have sold 2 million iPads in just 59 days. Recent milestones are 300k units during day one, and 1 million units in 28 days. Amazing that they have continued with the same pace throughout the whole time it’s been available.
“Customers around the world are experiencing the magic of iPad, and seem to be loving it as much as we do,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO.
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With only one week to go until the WWDC ’10 kicks off on June 7th, I decided to put together a list of what Apple is rumored to bring on board the next generation iPhone.
The name for this device will most probably be iPhone 4G, since it is the fourth generation iPhone. The first gen iPhone was called 2G, second gen 3G, third gen 3GS and now the fourth generation most probably 4G. Another suggestion for a name is iPhone HD, because it is rumored to come with a HD screen.
A list of what is rumored or confirmed for the next generation iPhone.
Steve Jobs told reporters after the iPhone leak that we still haven’t seen a thing, and that we will not be disappointed with what is still to come. We sure will know more next week’s Tuesday when WWDC kicks off, and Job’s is said to announce the iPhone 4G/HD.
Finally, Skype 2.0 was today released with the added support of VoIP calls over 3G! Calls will be free until at least end of August 2010, after which there will be a small monthly fee to use this feature. Head over to the App Store and download/upgrade to Skype 2.0!
Upgrades / improvements include:
This new iPhone leak comes from the Czech Republic, and reveals the resolution of the next-gen iPhone. Guys from superiphone.cz has gotten their hands on the next iPhone, and actually put it under a microscope to count the pixels. They found out that the iPhone 4G/HD has a IPS panel, and will have a 960×640 resolution. This is the highest resolution on current phones, and four times the pixels of the iPhone 3GS. Current iPhones sport a resolution of 480×320.
It has long been rumored that the iPhone 4G/HD will not come with an AMOLED screen, simply because there isn’t big enough factories to produce the sheer amount of screens Apple needs when they come out with a new product. WWDC starts in little over a week, so stay tuned :)
Gartner today said that they estimate Nokia to have sold below 100,000 units of the Nokia N900 since its launch five months ago. Nokia’s previous top selling phone has been the N95, that was released in 2006.
Nokia sold below 50,000 N900s in January-March, while the iPhone has sold 8.75 million units during the same time.
A take from Reuters article:
The sales of less than 100,000 N900s compares with sales of 8.75 million iPhones in January-March alone.
The N900, which went on sale last November, is Nokia’s first phone running the Linux Maemo operating system, which analysts see as a key for Nokia to regain ground in the coming years.
In February this year Nokia unveiled a plan to merge Maemo with Intel’s Moblin operating system.
Nokia sold 50,000 N900s in the last quarter of 2009, and quarterly sales fell in January-March, Gartner statistics showed. Gartner does not track phone sales per model, but as the N900 is the only phone using Maemo, the statistics for operating systems show sales for the model.
Read More: Reuters
Admob released the new statistics for April 2010, and it shows that the iPhone OS outnumbers Android OS by 3.5 to 1 on a worldwide basis.
Highlights of AdMob Mobile Metrics for April 2010.
- The majority of unique iPhone OS devices were located in North America (49%) and Western Europe (28%). The top five countries with the most unique iPhone OS devices in April 2010 were the United States (44%), United Kingdom (9%), France (6%), Canada (5%) and Japan (4%).
- 75% of unique Android devices were located in North America in April 2010, followed by Asia (12%) and Western Europe (11%). The United States had the most unique Android OS devices (75%), followed by China (8%), the UK (3%), France (2%) and Germany (2%).
- In the US there was a 2 to 1 ratio of iPhone OS devices to Android OS devices. Worldwide the ratio of iPhone OS devices to Android devices was 3.5 to 1.
- In AdMob’s network there were 8.7 million unique Android OS devices and 10.7 million unique iPhones in the United States in April 2010. When non-phone devices running the iPhone OS – the iPod touch and iPad – are included the number of unique devices jumps to 18.3 million in the US.
- In AdMob’s network there were 11.6 million unique Android OS devices and 27.4 million unique iPhones worldwide in April 2010. When non-phone devices running the iPhone OS – the iPod touch and iPad – are included the number of unique devices jumps to 40.8 million worldwide.
- 2 new Android devices, the Sony Ericsson X10i and HTC Desire, entered the top 10 smartphones in the United Kingdom in April 2010.
- AdMob overall worldwide traffic for April 2010 increased 8% month over month to 18.0 billion.
Microsoft sure is aiming high with their Windows Phone 7 OS, that is if you believe expected sales numbers during year 2011.
Microsoft yesterday told at the ReMIX event in France that they will sell 30 million WP7 units before the end of 2011. By comparison, Apple has sold 51+ million iPhones in three years. But, Apple’s strategy is a little bit different when they only target one device at a time, and Microsoft again will fight this with a full front battle with many devices.
Guess they could do this, and I will be one of those 30 million buyers :)
Well this one didn’t comes as a shocker, but Microsoft just confirmed via their official Twitter account that Steve Ballmer will not attend WWDC 2010.
The rumor that started earlier today told that Steve Ballmer would announce Mac/iPad/iPhone development support in Visual Studio 2010. Good idea, but now when you think about it’s quite insane.
