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iPhone Tops Windows Mobile Share; MS Releases iPhone App

Posted by kdawson on from the late-to-the-party-but-getting-ahead dept.

walterbyrd notes that new data from Gartner indicates that the successful launch of the iPhone 3G was enough to push iPhone market share over that of Windows Mobile devices — the entire range of them. And reader Spy Hunter writes: "Seadragon Mobile is Microsoft's first iPhone application. Seadragon is a technology for streaming zoomable user interfaces, and this iPhone incarnation allows viewing huge collections of gigapixel-sized images over WiFi or 3G. If you don't have an iPhone, you can also try Seadragon in your browser via Seadragon Ajax."

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  1. Re:Innovation pays by Achromatic1978 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If anyone else had had all of it in one place and implemented it properly they would be where Apple is you idiot.

    You mean selling a third the smartphones Nokia^H^H^H^H^H Apple is? Cool!

    Let's see, Nokia N95, out in March 07, versus iPhone v1, released June 07. N95? Missing touch screen, missing hi-res display. iPhone? Missing: 3G (added a year later). Still missing: real GPS, MMS, 5mp camera, optical zoom for same, video calling, integrated VoIP, PTT, TV Out, stereo Bluetooth audio, hardware OpenGL 3D acceleration. You mean all these kind of things?

    And it's always just so cute to see iPhone users raving about their accelerometers (funny, the N95 has that), Bluetooth 2.0 (same), and things like that.