iPHONE 4 vs Other High End phones Accidental Damage %

According to a report by SquareTrade (a company that sells extended warranties), the iPhone 4 is the phone least likely to fail in the first year but is the THE MOST likely to break due to accidental damage.

The year long study looked at 50,000 warranty replacements. The iPhone 4 had the fewest malfunctions not due to accidental damage while Motorola and HTC Android phones tied for second. Blackberry phones failed 6.3% of the time in their first year of use, putting them near the bottom of the list.

More stats:

• The iPhone 3GS is THE LEAST likely to fail, with BlackBerry not far behind

• Motorola, HTC, and the iPhone 4 failed slightly more often, but none are projected to exceed an overall failure rate of 16%

• The aggregated group of other smart phones had the highest incidence of failure–17% in the first year-making them 44% more likely to fail than the iPhone 3GS

As for breakage, the iPhone 4 is king of the heap with 9.4% shattering in the first year while the Blackberry devices had an accidental damage rate of 6.7%, the lowest. Clearly if they stuck an iPhone inside a Blackberry you’d have the ultimate gorilla phone. Who’s with me?
Love my iPHONE.

Microsoft has confirmed that its new Windows Phone 7 goes on sale today, and the company is very eager to see how its highly publicized smartphone software stands up against the competition. And competition it has plenty off, between the iPhone, the many BlackBerrys and Google's extremely popular Android operating system, Microsoft has its work cut out for itself, to say the least.

But Microsoft may have underestimated something and that something is a very important detail, and it has to do with mobile apps developers.

Developers write mobile applications when there are a number of devices sold, but devices are sold when there are a lot of apps sold. So Microsoft could be facing a bit of a Catch 22 situation with its Windows Phone 7.

Microsoft's apps marketplace currently has a little more than about 1,000 apps, give or take. But that's very tiny compared to the 100,000 apps on Google's Android marketplace and over 250,000 on Apple's App Store.

Good luck to Windows Phone 7.

Movistar has obtained a concession to operate a public telecommunications network nationwide, to offer pay television and satellite data services.

This came as part of the decision of the Ministry of Communications and Transport (SCT) to deal with 18 issues in telecommunications. It awarded 10 grants of public telecommunications networks, 8 to provide pay television services to benefit communities in the states of Baja California, Chiapas, Estado de México, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Michoacán, Querétaro and Veracruz, and one more satellite data services at national level and an additional allowance with basic telephony services and the provision of long distance capacity to cover people in Aguascalientes, Jalisco and Guanajuato.

Moreover, modified 7 concession titles, among which are authorizations to provide additional services in towns of the State of Mexico, Queretaro and Tamaulipas. Lastly, awarded frequency bands for official use to the National Institute of Historical Studies of Revolutions in Mexico, a body within the Ministry of Education.

Movistar is moving in the rigth direction, unstoppable.

The Director of Regulatory Matters of Oi, Paulo Mattos, anticipated that the company will present a remedy against the decision of Agencia Nacional de Telecomunicaciones, ANATEL (Telecom Regulator) to set conditions on Portugal Telecom (PT) entry to Oi's shareholding, after the company pays its debts to funds such as FISTEL (Telecom Auditing Fund) and fines imposed on the last years.

The executive acknowledged that today, Oi holds a total of 92 processes totaling fines for US$73.2 million and that is explained by the fact that there is a business decision to appeal any sanction exceeding the US$590,000.