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Apple's iPhone 'dead in the water'? Really?

A second look at the claim that Apple's four-year conquest of the mobile market is adrift

Business Insider's Henry Blodget may come to regret -- if he doesn't already -- using the phrase "dead in the water" to describe the performance of Apple's (AAPL) iPhone in a comScore market share survey that seemed to show, as Blodget's headline put it, that "Android is destroying everyone."

The comScore survey to which Blodget was MORE

Android leads industry to larger screen smartphones

According to NPD, a quarter of all smarphones are now four inches and above.

A report today from NPD shows that the face of the smartphone industry is changing, for the bigger.  "The explosion in Web and video content available for smartphones has caused consumers to rethink their phones' sizes," said Ross Rubin, executive director of industry analysis for NPD. "Larger displays offer a richer media experience, as well as a MORE

J.D. Power: iPhone is tops for 5th time

Two Android phone makers lose ground in the most recent consumer satisfaction survey

The iPhone's dominance of J.D. Power's semi-annual consumer satisfaction surveys has become so routine that the venerable marketing company's press release Thursday buried the news after six paragraphs about how owners who use their phones for Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and the like are measurably happier with their smartphones than those who don't.

What struck me was not how many MORE

Today in Tech: iPhone 5 buzz, IBM's Watson on Jeopardy

A curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.

The first (of three) days of Jeopardy featuring the IBM supercomputer Watson as a contestant ended in a tie. Watson and competitor Brad Rutter wrapped up the evening with $5,000 each on the scoreboard, while Ken Jennings, who had bested Watson in the much-publicized practice match, ended up with $2,000. (AllThingsD) AOL CEO Tim Armstrong invested more than $10 million in MORE

Today in Tech: Microsoft's exec shake-up, Groupon's Tibet ad

A curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is planning even more executive management changes at the Redmond-based software giant to add senior product executives with an engineering background and with experience executing product plans. So far, four top execs have left the company since May, including 23- year company veteran Bob Muglia. (Bloomberg Businessweek)
After temporarily halting shipments of its Sandy MORE

Sprint announces HTC EVO Shift 4G

Rumored for weeks, Sprint finally announced its newest Android flagship phone from HTC today.

Wirefly does a great overview of the EVO Shift here (I have yet to lay my hands on one):

For my money, I like the Samsung Epic 4G hardware better (once it gets its Android 2.2 update).  The Sprint Epic 4G has a bigger five row keyboard (with hardware menu keys), bigger better screen and front facing camera and MORE

Secret to Android's success: Free Droid phones?

Arguably the best Android phone available has gone to free with a two year contract.  Why?

If you head over to Amazon from now until Nov. 22, you can pick up a Droid X phone for free if you sign up for a two year contract.  In fact all of Verizon's (VZ) Droids, including the just announced Droid Pro are free. The fact that arguably the best Android phones in the U.S. MORE

Missing: 77 million mobile phones

Gartner's and IDC's sales estimates don't always agree, but this is absurd.

Much was made Wednesday in Gartner's latest Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales report, and in subsequent news coverage, of the sudden surge in the sales of so-called "white box" mobile phones in the third quarter of 2010.

According to Gartner, these unbranded phones are being snapped up in such huge numbers in Asia and elsewhere that the major manufacturers have started MORE

A tale of two Android phones: T-Mobile MyTouch 4G and Virgin Intercept

The carrier makes all the difference.

I received two separate Android phones this week to evaluate and I thought it would be interesting to put them up against one another even though they are aimed at different audiences.  The MyTouch4G from T-Mobile is an HTC phone running Android 2.2 with a nice candy bar form factor 3.7 inch screen, front-facing camera with a zippy processor and a strong metal shell (that also brings MORE

Mobile phones: Who's up, who's down and who's moving sideways

Three years of pitched battle for share and profit reduced to a set of vectors

Asymco's Horace Dediu is a master of the art of turning bland data into eye-opening visualizations.

His latest, posted Tuesday afternoon, starts with two sets of data in two points of time -- market share and share of profit in 2007 and 2010 -- for eight vendors in the mobile phone space, from Apple (AAPL), the smallest MORE