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Thursday, July 3, 2008
On your next cell phone: How much will you spend
All you fence sitters, are you ready to take sides?
A report on mobile devices by ABI Research, the Oyster Bay, N.Y.-based technology market research outfit, said that ownership of mid-range cell phones, the ones that most of us own, will be overtaken by 2013 by either high-end or low-cost devices.
Wireless manufacturers are offering not only greater functionality but phones that are becoming easier to use. And carriers want cell phone subscribers to buy smartphones because the service plans tend to be more expensive. For example, the upcoming iPhone 3G service plan starts at $69.99 a month. Midrange-phone plans start at $39.99.
The low-end market is being driven by growth overseas in Brazil, China and India, although if this recession gets worse, we all may be looking to scale down.
So which way will you go: Higher or lower?
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After further review, IBM still tops in server revenue
Hewlett-Packard’s reign as king of server mountain didn’t last very long.
Gartner said today that it revised its closely watched estimates of server revenue and put IBM back atop the pile for the first quarter of 2008.
The technology-research firm’s initial report had credited H-P with $4.0 billion in server revenue, compared with IBM’s $3.9 billion. It was the first time H-P had taken the top spot.
While the revised report keeps IBM at $3.9 billion for the first quarter, it drops H-P to $3.8 billion. That gives IBM 29.4 percent of worldwide server revenue and H-P 28.3 percent. Dell remains third with 12.3 percent of worldwide server revenue.
Gartner analyst Jeffrey Hewitt said the firm revised its figures based on “updated guidance and additional analysis of the data.”
