TS2R Wireless News from Wireless and Mobile News
Full news stories today reported new Droid 3/Droid Bionic tests/rumors, $50 prepaid GoPhone unlimited plans, and Verizon 4G LTE metros. Sprint will start selling the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 on June 24 and started selling the HTC EVO 3D to Sprint Premier members today.
Here's the news that is too short to report:
Foursquare Tops 10 Million - Foursquare now has over 10 million members with 4.7 million check-ins in the U.S. The top most popular chains are Old Navy, Bank of America, 7-Eleven, Home Depot and Target. There were 1,061 birth announcements.
Fewer Android OSes - Android market share dropped slightly according to Needham senior analyst Charlie Wolf. Android's U.S. smartphone market share dropped from 52.4 percent in the December 2010 quarter to 49.5 percent in March 2011, due to the introduction of the iPhone 4 to Verizon customers.
Seesmic to Stop Seizing BlackBerry IM - Effective June 30th, Seesmic will discontinue support for BlackBerry in order to focus development efforts on its most popular mobile platforms: Android, iOS and Windows Phone 7.
IM Triples - Juniper Research forecasts that the number of mobile IM (Instant
Messaging) users will exceed 1.3 billion by 2016. This tripling of users
from last year will be driven by the arrival of new services, such as
Apple's iMessage, and the continued growth of existing services, such as
AOL's AIM, Blackberry Messenger, Microsoft's Windows Live, Skype and
Yahoo! Messenger.