DailyTech - IPhone Grabs 16.6% of Global Smartphone Market:

…in less than two years.
quote Steve B.:
I’d prefer to have our software in 60% or 70% or 80% of them, than I would to have 2% or 3%, which is what Apple might get.

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BlackBerry Storm review - Engadget:
Going into this review, we really wanted to love this phone. On paper it sounds like the perfect antidote to our gripes about the iPhone, and in some ways it lives up to those promises — but more often than not while using the Storm, we felt let down or frustrated. [...]

So, iPhone OS has been updated to 2.2, and along with it came some changes in the Safari UI.
Am I the only one to find the new dual-field address bar rather inelegant?

Of course, it makes some sense in that it more closely resemble the UI of the desktop Safari, and it seems lots of people [...]

Daring Fireball: More Notes on Notes:
What many Apple apps do is take a screenshot of the current display when you quit, and overwrite the default.png file inside the application bundle with that screenshot. Then when next you launch that app, you immediately see the entire contents of the screen from when you previously quit — [...]

You may remember a post on this very blog a while ago, where Walt Mossberg earned the dubious honour of a “Spot the idiot” entry. Basically he was blasting the phone for the whole review, then concluding it was a good phone. Go figure.
Well, looks like maybe Google is shipping some powerful recreative drugs with [...]

Google’s G1: First Impressions | Walt Mossberg | Mossblog | AllThingsD:
Google’s G1: First Impressions
So, The Moss got his hands on a preview unit of the Google/HTC “G1″ phone, based on Google’s Android, planned for release sometime in October.
And what does he have to say about it? Let’s find out…
It will be sold in the U.S. [...]

What’s with the funny title, since I haven’t been posting here in two years, you ask ?
Well, I’m referring to Japanese language support on the iPhone.
Back in the days of iPhone OS 1.1.4 (in Japan, available on the iPod Touch), the only way to input Japanese text was through the qwerty keypad interface, which was [...]

Here’s a killer comparative test: BBB vs iPhone in WiFi web browsing test…

At one point the guy doing the video commentary says that the BBB’s browser is better at telling you what it is doing, downloading script, image, percentage of the page loaded… Yes, they HAD to put these sorts of indications in, so [...]