Is There Android In My Future?
So, Cellular South announced yesterday that it would be offering an unspecific Android handset by the end of the year, which didn’t surprise me since they’ve been running a “design an Android app” contest for the past few weeks. (Full disclosure: Cellular South recently became an advertiser with the JFP, so I follow them even more closely than I did a few weeks ago when they were just our main mobile carrier. Mostly, though, I like shiny things.)
Since I find my Blackberry dull and lifeless — which is true of pretty much any mobile phone I carry for more than six months — I’m stoked about this. I’ve been surfing on and off for days looking for clues as to which handset we (er…they) might be getting. (Whether or not “we” get one or not is gonna be up to upgrade pricing.)
My first inclination was to believe that the LG Spyder2 840 that Cellular South also recently pre-announced might be that Android handset, although I based that belief on (a.) the coincidence of its timing with the Android App contest, (b.) its similarity in appearance to the T-Mobile G1 and (c.) the use of the term “GSensor” in the features description, noting that the GSensor will offer an “excellent game and Web experience” and that sounds faintly, well, like the “Google” version of the accelerometer in the iPhone and others.
My subsequent surfing has not borne this theory out — it seems that no other mobile watchers I’ve found have tried to make that connection and there’s the suggestion that the LG 840 is an update of the LG 830, which was pulled somewhat early by carriers after lackluster reviews.
Also, GSensor seems to be a common name for an accelerometer, which makes so much sense that I probably should go ahead and edit that last paragraph and not tell anyone I thought it had something to do with the Google. I’d now revise my guess and assert that the “g” has something to do with “gravity.” Duh.
Apple Posts ‘Best Non-Holiday Quarter Ever’
Don’t tell Apple there’s a recession on. With the launch of the iPhone 3Gs as part of its mix this quarter, the company reporting revenues of $8.34 billion, with a net quarterly profit of $1.43 billion. That’s compared to a year-ago quarter of $7.46b and $1.07b respectively.
(Microsoft in the year-ago quarter did $15.84b and $5.68b. Just FYI.)
Mac sales increased 4 percent over the year-ago quarter with Mac portables up 13 percent of year-over-year.
The 10.2 million iPods sold was a decline of 7 percent, which might give some cause for concern. Fortunately that concern is mitigated somewhat by the fact that iPhones sales increased 626 percent in unit growth over the year-ago quarter. 
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