911 system getting a makeover

The long served public safety system deserves a makeover. Texting in emergency situations may look dumb at first glance, but there are situations (one can't speak during hostage situations) where people can take advantage of the technology. The first responders always try to seek as much information as possible, Can Gen Y provide this info via the Text platform? May be. In my opinion the traditional voice calling still be the major first responder platform upgraded with add-ons like texting, live video sharing, sensor based emergency detection (vehicle collisions). With respective funding, the governments always pass the cost to the public via the operators. The people never opposed emergency taxes tag along with their monthly phone bill, no wonder the landlines so far are surviving based on 911 features. Hopefully gen Y can help defines the new system.

iPhone user spend more on credit card and give less to operator

PageOnce inc, compared credit card bills to the phone the user using. Comparing credit card bills to the phone the user using may not give direct correlation, but it is an interesting and unique observation. The results are obvious that the iphone users are big spenders with an average monthly bill of $6872 followed by blackberry, android and windows mobile. It seems there is 35% difference spending between windows mobile user and iphone user. But when it comes to people spending on monthly phone bill, People with windows mobile phone spent on an average $205 compared to $164 by an iphone user. The report does not show breakdown of phone bill, but it is evident that all you can eat plan may be the reason for lower phone bill. The fact that the purchases from iTunes are not considered in the monthly bill may be causing the difference here. It is also clear that apple is grabbing mobile services business from premium customers through their iTunes.

Android handsets out sell Apple IPhone nearly 2 to 1 in 3Q

The Smartphone growth is skyrocketing in US with iPhone4 being the top model consumers purchased in this quarter. But the overall market favored Android with 44% of market share. Apple's iOS devices sales in steady, RIM lost most of the market share to Android. The new release of Blackberry torch did not do much help to RIM. The next battle among these players would be the tablet market. Apple is in forefront with their iPads capturing 95% of market share and Both RIM and Android based tablets sales may increase this during the holiday season. Juniper Research projected the number of annual shipments for tablet devices to reach 81 million by 2015, which leaves a room for market of 75M devices by 2015. On the other hand, Windows Phone 7 who is late in the game got good reviews from industry. They may not dent the US market in 2011 but we cannot underestimate software giant like Microsoft.