Moore’s iPhone News Reader - Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Using Safari on iPod touch and iPhone With Websites Containing Frames
German iPhone Sales Slump To 700 A Day
Has The iPhone Jumped The Shark?
iPhone for China and Alaska
ree unlock GUI - now finally released!
Young, Poor Prefer Cell Phones To Landlines In U.S.
Nintendo Wii and Apple iPhone Rank as the Leading Gadgets This Christmas Across Europe Based on Online Search Frequency
Using Safari on iPod touch and iPhone With Websites Containing Frames
A new Apple Knowledge Base article says:
Some webpages are organized into frames, where each frame displays a different web document. You can use Safari to browse and scroll through web pages containing frames by using two fingers simultaneously. When you use one finger to flick or drag up or down, you are scrolling through the web page. When you use two fingers to flick or drag up or down, you are scrolling through the frame.
Note: On a computer you will be able to scroll through such frames using a scroll bar.
For more information, visit:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307063
German iPhone Sales Slump To 700 A Day
myitablet.com's Chris Davies reports:
In a bizarre coincidence, the German iPhone sold by T-Mobile has today been named one of "the most sought after items" for the holiday period, as well as a potential dud. Market research firm comScore uses online search frequencies to guesstimate consumer demand, with the iPhone coming in third in the German sector; however, sales of the handset have been revealed by Financial Times Deutschland at a shocking 700 per day in the country, compared to T-Mobile's healthy estimates of 10,000 per day.
German sales altogether have been comparatively weak...
InformationWeek's Eric Zeman places much of the blame on the absence of an EDGE data network in German territory, however. Although the country is well served with super-high speed UMTS/WCDMA 3G, iPhone users are forced to rely on GPRS in the absence of the 2.5G connection Apple saddled the handset with.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.myitablet.com/german-iphone-sales-slump-to-700-a-day-101842.php
Has The iPhone Jumped The Shark?
InformationWeek's Stephen Wellman says:
While Apple's iPhone this year captured the imagination of the U.S. market and spurred a global diagoue about the future of smartphones, it's not taking Europe by fire in the sales department. In fact, if my colleague Eric Zeman is right, the iPhone could be a flop in Germany. What gives?
At this point there are several good explanations for the iPhone's lack of luster on the other side of the pond.....
But, I wonder if the real reason the iPhone is flopping in Europe is that the iPhone has simply jumped the shark.
For the full commentary visit here:
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/12/has_the_iphone.html
iPhone for China and Alaska
Macworld UK's Jonny Evans reports:
Apple has... raised the bar on iPhone sales. Customers in Europe and the US can now pick up five iPhones in a single purchase, not two as has been made available so far.
Some reports claim 18 per cent of iPhones sold in the US have not been registered with AT&T.....
Meanwhile plans to introduce iPhone into new territories continue, with weekend reports claiming Apple has reached a deal with Chinese mobile phone retailer, D.Phone...
And in Alaska, a recent AT&T purchase of incumbent mobile network op, Dobson Communications, means users there will be able to pick up an iPhone from 9 December.
To read more, click here.
http://www.macworld.co.uk/business/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=19898
ree unlock GUI - now finally released!
Hachintosh reports:
Today is the day! We just fixed up our issues with the toolchain and are pround to announce the GUI version as the latest greatest opensource tool.
Download:
http://www.deadbeef.cn/files/anySIM.zip
PXL Package:
http://iphone.exploit.org/pxl/anySIM-1.01.pxl
Mirror:
http://www.weputit.com/files/iphone/anySIM.zip
http://iphone.doggunn.com/anySIM.zip
Just install this application on your phone and run it from Springboard. Enjoy!
For more information, visit:
http://www.hackint0sh.org/forum/showthread.php?t=6827%22
Young, Poor Prefer Cell Phones To Landlines In U.S.
The Associated Press reports:
More than one in eight households have cell phones but lack traditional landline telephones, according to a federal study released Monday that tracks the country's growing dependence on wireless phones....
The report released Monday showed that for the first half of 2007, 14 percent of households had cell phone service but no landline telephones. That was less than 1 percentage point over the second half of 2006 - not a statistically significant difference....
The federal data showed once again that young, poor, male and Hispanic people are likelier to have only wireless telephone service....
About one in five poor people have only cell phones, about double the percentage for those who are not poor.
[Editor's note: I'm among the group that has only a landline, although I would expect that here in Canada, where cellphone service rates are punishingly high, the proportional size of that cohort is a lot higher than the 24 percent in the U.S. I resist any service commodity that keeps the meter running, although I do have a long distance plan that's so cheap that it's hardly an issue.]
For the full AP report click here.
Nintendo Wii and Apple iPhone Rank as the Leading Gadgets This Christmas Across Europe Based on Online Search Frequency
[ Press Release ]
comScore reports the frequency of online searches for popular gadgets
comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released the results of a study of the frequency of online search inquiries for the most popular gadgets in the U.K., France and Germany this Christmas. The products studied were twenty different models of gadgets from the game console, mobile phone, and portable music player segments. The study covers the early stages of the Christmas shopping season during the first three weeks of November.
Cross-Country Popularity
Across the U.K., France and Germany the most popular gadget was the Nintendo Wii, with an average of 4.9 million weekly searches. The second most searched for gadget was the Apple iPod with 3.5 million searches. Rounding out the top five were the Nintendo DS Lite, the Sony Playstation PSP, and the Apple iPhone.
Bob Ivins, comScore EVP of European Markets said, "We know that music players, game consoles, and mobile phones are very popular with consumers this year. The interesting aspect of this study is identifying which products are generating the most consumer searches, which can provide retailers and manufacturers with important insight into the underlying consumer demand for each specific product."
Average Weekly Searches for a Selection of the Most Popular Gadgets This Christmas(i) Combined Searches from the U.K., France & Germany(ii) Source: comScore World Metrix Average Number of Product Weekly Searches(i) Nintendo Wii 4,903,013 Apple iPod 3,506,858 Nintendo DS Lite 3,283,749 Playstation PSP 1,928,463 Apple iPhone 1,706,504 (i) For the three week period Oct 29 - November 18 (ii) Total U.K., French & German Internet Audiences, Age 15+, Home & Work Locations. Excludes traffic from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs
The U.K.'s Most Popular Gadgets This Christmas
Nintendo Wii was the most searched for gadget in the U.K., averaging 3.7 weekly million searches during the first three weeks of November. Other game consoles generating great interest were the Nintendo DS Lite, the Microsoft Xbox 360, the Sony Playstation PSP, and the Sony Playstation 3.
The Apple iPod was the third most searched for item in the comScore U.K. list with nearly 1.7 million average weekly searches during the first three weeks of November. The Apple iPod Nano received an average of another 287,000 searches each week.
The most popular mobile phone was the Apple iPhone - leaping onto the list following its November 9 release in the U.K., and generating 707,000 weekly searches. Two other phones, the Nokia N95 and Samsung U600 rounded out the list, albeit with substantially lower numbers of searches.
Average Weekly Searches for a Selection of the Most Popular Gadgets This Christmas(i) U.K. Source: comScore World Metrix Average Number of Product Weekly Searches(ii) Nintendo Wii 3,758,069 Nintendo DS Lite 1,921,762 Apple iPod 1,650,100 Xbox 360 918,805 Apple iPhone 706,734 Playstation PSP 583,394 Apple iPod Nano 286,825 Playstation 3 241,703 Nokia N95 237,924 Samsung U600 165,032 (i) For the three week period October 29 - November 18 (ii) Total U.K. Internet Audience, Age 15+, Home & Work Locations. Excludes traffic from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs
France's Most Popular Gadgets This Christmas
In France, the most searched for gadget online from those selected for the study was the PlayStation PSP, which averaged 781,000 searches per week. It was followed by the Apple iPod with 663,000, and the Nintendo DS Lite with 609,000.
The Apple iPhone averaged 303,000 searches per week during the November shopping period. It was joined by two other handsets, the Nokia N95 and the Samsung U600, which averaged 107,000 and 102,000 searches per week respectively.
Average Weekly Searches for a Selection of the Most Popular Gadgets This Christmas(i) France Source: comScore World Metrix Average Number of Product Weekly Searches(ii) Playstation PSP 780,833 Apple iPod 663,342 Nintendo DS Lite 608,705 Nintendo Wii 556,885 Apple iPhone 302,743 Xbox 360 282,905 Nokia N95 107,451 Samsung U600 102,023 Apple iPod Nano 87,236 Playstation 3 80,700 (i) For the three week period October 29 - November 18 (ii) Total French. Internet Audience, Age 15+, Home & Work Locations. Excludes traffic from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs
Germany's Most Popular Gadgets This Christmas
The Apple iPod was by far the most searched for gadget in Germany in the first three weeks of November, with an average of 1.2 million searches a week. As was the case in the U.K. and France, the Nintendo DS Lite, the company's latest handheld console, was also popular, with 753,000 searches per week.
Following the November 9 release of the Apple iPhone in Germany, online searches made for the handset increased 495 percent from the October level to 697,000 average weekly searches in November. The recently released Nokia N95 phone also proved popular with 341,000 searches per week.
Average Weekly Searches for a Selection of the Most Popular Gadgets This Christmas(i) Germany Source: comScore World Metrix Average Number of Product Weekly Searches(ii) Apple iPod 1,193,417 Nintendo DS Lite 753,282 Apple iPhone 697,027 Nintendo Wii 588,059 Playstation PSP 564,237 Nokia N95 340,606 Apple iPod Touch 298,681 Apple iPod Nano 246,232 Xbox 360 221,635 Playstation 2 195,970 (i) For the three week period October 29 - November 18 (ii) Total German Internet Audience, Age 15+, Home & Work Locations. Excludes traffic from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs
Methodology
The twenty different models of gadgets from the game console, mobile phone, and portable music player segments that were analysed in the study were: Apple iPhone, Apple iPod, Apple iPod Nano, Apple iPod Touch, Barbie Girls MP3 Player, Creative Zen, HTC Touch Dual, LG Prada, Nintendo DS Lite, Nintendo Wii, Nokia N81, Nokia N95, Playstation 2, Playstation 3, Playstation PSP, Sagem RG512, Samsung U600, Sony Ericsson K810i, Sony Ericsson W880I, Xbox 360.
comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR) is a global leader in measuring the digital world. This capability is based on a massive, global cross-section of more than 2 million consumers who have given comScore permission to confidentially capture their browsing and transaction behavior, including online and offline purchasing. comScore panelists also participate in survey research that captures and integrates their attitudes and intentions. Through its proprietary technology, comScore measures what matters across a broad spectrum of behavior and attitudes. comScore analysts apply this deep knowledge of customers and competitors to help clients design powerful marketing strategies and tactics that deliver superior ROI. comScore services are used by more than 800 clients, including global leaders such as AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo!, BBC, Carat, Cyworld, Deutsche Bank, France Telecom, Best Buy, The Newspaper Association of America, Financial Times, ESPN, Fox Sports, Nestle, Starcom, Universal McCann, the United States Postal Service, Verizon, ViaMichelin, Merck and Expedia. For more information, visit: http://www.comscore.com
Charles W. Moore
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