There's more than one way to sell a sexy smartphone

• If an iPhone wannabe lands on Easter, does it make a splash?

  With the world's mobile phone market at stake, what were Nokia and Microsoft thinking? 

  On Monday morning, the day after the U.S. launch of the Lumia 900 -- the device with which Nokia (NOK) and Microsoft (MSFT) hope to challenge Apple's (AAPL) and Google (GOOG) Android's growing dominance of the global smartphone market -- I searched the Internet for photographs or videos of customers lining up to buy it.

  I needn't have MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 9, 2012 7:19 AM ET
  Posted in: Android, Apple, AT&T, Easter, Google, iPhone, Lumia 900, Microsoft, New York Times, Nick Binton, Nicki Minaj, Nokia, Times Square

• How many iPhone app developers can Microsoft buy?

  The secret to populating an unpopular smartphone platform: cash incentives

  A nice piece of reporting by Jenna Wortham and Nick Wingfield landed on the front page of the New York Times Business section Friday morning, two days before the launch of the Nokia Lumia 900.

  When free phones and promises of prime real estate on the Windows Phone app store wasn't enough to get reluctant developers to write software for the new MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 6, 2012 7:41 AM ET
  Posted in: Amazon Kindle, Angry Birds, Apple, Cheezburger, Foursquare, Fruit Ninjas, Google, Lumia 900, Microsoft, Mobile, Nokia, Windows Phone, YouTube