Sep 04

PS3 and Xbox 360 hardware sales jump last week amid price cuts, both beat Wii for once

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PS3 and Xbox 360 hardware sales jump last week amid price cuts, both beat Wii for once

If you’re sick of hearing your grandmother brag about how popular her chosen console is while she rocks your world in Wii Sports Bowling yet again, maybe this news will finally shut her up. Last week, thanks to a flurry of price cuts and slimming waistlines, the other two players in the console war saw significant sales boosts. Xbox 360 numbers jumped 32 percent over the week before and the PS3 was up an impressive 104 percent. That puts all three consoles neck-and-neck for the American weekly sales lead, each one close enough to 75,000 units that the margin of error more than covers the lot. But, since both price cuts officially went into effect part-way through that week, we’re expecting even bigger surges ahead — and even bigger drops from the Nintendo’s offering as we get further and further away from the release of Wii Sports Resort, seemingly the last game worth playing on the thing.

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PS3 and Xbox 360 hardware sales jump last week amid price cuts, both beat Wii for once originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sep 03

Walkman outsells iPod in Japan for first time in four years… but iPhone sales don’t count

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As with most accomplishments these days, we can’t help but place a rather large asterisk next to Sony’s award for managing to outsell the iPod lineup with its Walkman. According to Tokyo-based research firm BCN Inc., for the week ending August 30th, the Walkman series had a 43 percent share of the personal music player market versus 42.1 percent for iPods, marking the first time in four years that Sony’s managed to get the upper hand. Got that? Good, now for a major caveat. For whatever reason, iPhones aren’t considered part of the iPod line, meaning people who want the luxuries of the iPod touch and a wireless data plan aren’t included in the survey. That’s quite an omission — the iPhone 3GS is currently the best-selling phone in Japan, after all — and we gotta imagine it’d be more than enough to tilt the data in Apple’s favor, even if you threw in Sony Ericsson’s Walkman phones for good measure. But hey, it’s still a feat in its own right, and Sony might as well celebrate while it lasts — something tells us the gang in Cupertino has something up their sleeve soon.

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Walkman outsells iPod in Japan for first time in four years… but iPhone sales don’t count originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Aug 31

Netbook sales growth doubles laptops in Q2 ’09

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While it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise given the fairly steady growth netbooks have seen since their inception as a product category, it’s still pretty notable that they’ve apparently now managed to nearly double traditional laptops in sales growth during the second quarter of this year. That word comes from market research firm DisplaySearch, which found that netbook shipments grew an impressive 40% compared to the same quarter last year, as opposed to 22% for plain old laptops. As excitingly illustrated in the chart above, however, that still leaves netbooks (or “mini-notes”) well behind laptops in terms of total shipments, although that seems almost certain to narrow considerably in the months and years ahead — at least until the line between netbooks and laptops becomes so blurred that we just start calling everything “laptops” again.

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Netbook sales growth doubles laptops in Q2 ’09 originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Aug 19

NPD finds featurephones account for 72% of new handset sales in the US

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Smartphone sales may be growing at a steady rate these days but, if NPD’s latest numbers are any indication, it looks like they still have quite a ways to go before they become the norm among cellphone users. As the market research group found during its latest survey, less expensive featurephones accounted for an impressive 72% of all new handset sales in the US during the second quarter of the year, which is only a 5% drop even in the face of a 47% jump in smartphone sales (to 28% market share) over the same quarter last year — a 14% jump in overall handset sales accounts for some of that discrepancy. According to NPD’s numbers, the LG enV2 (pictured above) and Samsung Rant were among the best selling featurephones during the quarter, while the iPhone 3G and Blackberry Curve were the best selling smartphones. Other interesting tidbits include the fact that the average selling price for a phone rose 4% over the year to $87, and that WiFi capability is now found on 20% of new handsets, while 26% of new phones have touchscreens (compared to 35% with QWERTY keyboards).

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NPD finds featurephones account for 72% of new handset sales in the US originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:53:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Aug 17

Plucky little iPhone 3GS confounds expectations, tops Japanese sales for July

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Well, look at that: The iPhone 3GS 32GB was the best-selling phone in Japan for the month of July, according to a survey being reported by a number of sites, including Electronista and Mainichi Daily News. Not bad for a handset that doesn’t even support 1seg TV, huh? Trailing behind the aforementioned handset at number nine (and the only other American model to make the top ten) is a little something called the iPhone 3GS 16GB. Of course, the mobile market in Japan features plenty of virtually identical phones that manufacturers assign different model numbers to, depending on carrier — so we’re going to take this with a grain of salt. But still, we have to wonder what, exactly, to attribute Apple’s new found Japanese popularity to. Maybe it’s because they got the phone a mere month after the Stateside 3GS launch, while the hype machine was still in motion? Or maybe someone juked the stats? We can’t be sure just yet, but we do have the top ten for you — in handy list form — after the break.

[Via Electronista]

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Plucky little iPhone 3GS confounds expectations, tops Japanese sales for July originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Aug 17

Research finds iPhone hurting operators, Boy George unavailable for comment

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We’ve long since known that Apple (as opposed to AT&T) was getting the better end of the pair’s exclusive partnership here in America, but new research from Strand Consult has found that the situation is fairly similar all around the globe. According to the report, nary a single telecom operator it studied had seen a boost in market share, revenue or earnings as a result of introducing the iPhone, and some carriers even issued profit warnings due to the heavily subsidized handset. The study goes on to shed pity on firms like SingTel and TeliaSonera, both of which are purportedly seeing margins and ARPU (average revenues per subscriber) sink due to Apple’s darling joining the fray. But really, we can’t help but express our doubts about the all encompassing, almost sensationalized nature of this; we’ve watched AT&T’s profits soar ever since it snagged the iPhone, and considering that every iPhone buyer also coughs up a significant monthly fee for a data plan, we can’t imagine revenues tanking that severely. Or, you know, maybe we’re all just getting a really good deal on our bloated iPhone plans.

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Aug 13

Best Buy Kiosks Display In-Store Prices Disclosure

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This article was written on September 26, 2007 by CyberNet.

If you’ve been into a Best Buy store over the last several months, you may have noticed a disclosure displayed across their Kiosks warning that what’s displayed are in-store prices which could be different from Internet prices. The addition of this banner across the screen was likely a direct result of a lawsuit that was filed back in May accusing Best Buy of deceiving their customers with a bait-and-switch scheme using their in-store Intranet. They adamantly denied the accusation, but at that point, many people didn’t trust them anymore.

Below you’ll see what the banner looks like. It simply states “This kiosk displays in-store prices- which may differ from national Internet prices. Promotions can differ between stores and Internet.  See your sales associate if you have questions.” What it doesn’t say though, is if they’ll honor the prices in-store that are advertised online, or if this disclosure now prevents them from price matching?

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As a side note, while I was visiting the Best Buy website, I noticed in big print that there was an error in their most recent weekly ad for a Panasonic TV. On the front cover, they showed that the 50″ Panasonic Plasma TV was on sale for $1799 before $90 savings when they really meant to advertise the smaller 42″ Panasonic TV at that price. Considering that the 50″ Panasonic TV that they advertised is regularly priced at $2,799, that would have been quite the deal! To make up for their mistake, they’re offering a $100 instant rebate on all of their plasma TV’s this week.

Source: The Consumerist

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Aug 13

HTC reportedly moves a million Magic smartphones, boogies down at midnight

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These days, the whole “I shipped a million!” claim is becoming more and more common, but it’s still worth pointing out that HTC has managed to move a whole bundle of its Android-based myTouch 3G (or Magic, as it were) since debuting in April. Or, that’s the story, anyway. According to a dangerously brief blurb over at Digitimes, the outfit’s head honcho quipped that the Magic has “surpassed one million units,” and he also noted that it would begin to focus more on the mid-range market as opposed to always dealing devices at the high-end. So, raise your glass high for this one folks, and let the countdown to a million Hero handsets begin while you’re at it.

[Via InformationWeek]

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Aug 12

Court injunction puts sales of RealDVD on ice, hopes and dreams in purgatory

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Something tells us Kaleidescape has a man (or woman, to be fair) on the inside, else United States District Court Judge Marilyn Patel is just downright trifilin’. In every visible way, RealNetworks’ proposed RealDVD player was exactly what Kaleidescape was, but for people with annual salaries far less than $9,854,392,220. Regardless of our opinion, a preliminary injunction has just been passed down from The Almighty in the robe, which blocks the sale of the RealDVD software here in the US. The six major movie studies filed the suit last September, alleging that it “illegally violated their right to restrict the use of their movies in digital form.” Evidently those that matter agree. A RealNetworks spokesperson took the time to vent their feelings on the whole ordeal, and since we know you’re curious, we’ve pasted it below for your convenience.

We are disappointed that a preliminary injunction has been placed on the sale of RealDVD. We have just received the Judge’s detailed ruling and are reviewing it. After we have done so fully, we’ll determine our course of action and will have more to say at that time.

[Via Electronista]

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Aug 03

HTC sees revenue falling due to “delays in product launches”

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HTC’s been on somewhat of a hot streak here lately, but word on the street has it that the aforesaid outfit may not be able to ship all of its forthcoming handsets on time. A new Wall Street Journal report on falling revenue in the HTC camp notes that an undisclosed amount of delays, a larger-than-anticipated drop in contract orders and lower-than-expected sales in China could lead to drooping income in the short term, and some analysts are pointing out that the company’s average selling price per phone is sliding due to looming Android competition from the likes of Motorola and Sony Ericsson. Aside from the Touch Pro2 that’ll probably never, ever land on Sprint, HTC has about a gazillion other rumored handsets on the horizon, but it’s hard to know for sure which “product launches” are expected to be stalled. So, is HTC secretly retooling a smattering of its handsets in order to stay one step ahead of SE and Moto? Or are old fashioned supply chain inefficiencies to blame?

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