| HTC smartphones more searched for than Apple iPhones Posted: 28 Nov 2010 04:02 AM PST Posted by Richard Wordsworth on Sun 28 Nov 2010 Apple's iPhone 4 toppled from the top spot of UK smartphones. Apple's position at the top of the smartphone pile may be in doubt, according to a survey by UK mobile site goodmobilephones.co.uk. A month long survey of customer searches revealed that Apple's iPhone 4 came a paltry sixth in the top ten list of handsets searched for, losing out to - count 'em - three competing handsets from Apple arch-nemesis HTC.
Taking the top spots in the survey with a hat trick for HTC were the HTC Wildfire, HTC Desire and HTC Desire HD. These were followed by the Samsung Galaxy S and Nokia's 12MP-photo-snapping N8. Bringing up the rear in the site's top ten were the BlackBerry Curve 8520, the Samsung Tocco Lite, the BlackBerry Torch and the Sony Xperia X10.
So, what went wrong? According to Mark Owen, goodmobilephones' managing director, it's the price that's putting people off, along with a lack of incentivising from Apple to pick their products over the competitors.
Apple's iPhone 4 took the top spot in T3's top smartphones running order after its release back in June, as well as bagging Commuter Gadget of the Year at this year's T3 Gadget Awards (but what do we know?).
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| Google Chrome Netbooks on the way Posted: 28 Nov 2010 02:52 AM PST Posted by Richard Wordsworth on Sun 28 Nov 2010 Google HQ working with two prototype Chrome netbooks? Google are apparently one step closer to launching their much-rumoured own-brand range of netbooks, with two codenames for suspected testing units leaking onto the internet.
The Google netbooks will reportedly be built by a third party, much in the same way as the Google Nexus One, but what's really set online tongues a-wagging is the bundled Google Chrome OS. Google had previously been testing the Chrome operating system on Asus, Dell and Lenovo computers, but the appearance of Chrome bug reports of two new machines - codenamed Mario and Andretti - suggests Google have at least two models of what will soon be the the actual Chrome netbooks prototyped and in the hands of testers.
The Chrome operating system will be free, linux-based and open source, and is thought to be online-only, making heavy use of web-based applications and the cloud. When can we expect to see a Chrome-book in the flesh? Apparently not until early next year, although Google has vowed that the OS will be released by year's end.
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