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Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Americans Continue to Ditch Landlines in Favors of Mobile Services
More and more Americans are shifting away from landlines to cell phones. The annual wireless communication report, published by the Federal Communications Commission, has confirmed this trend by revealing that nearly 90 percent of all U.S. residents now use mobile service, and almost one out of every four households has no landline phones at all.
After breaking down the figures by age demographic, the FCC found out that the number of people dropping landlines are more prominent in certain age groups than others: Among young adults aged 25 to 29, over 50 percent rely solely on their cellular devices nowadays.
The shift from fixed lines to cell phones does not bode well for landline-only companies, but for big wireless providers, this is in fact a welcome changeover. For instance, AT&T and Verizon Wireless, offering both landline and wireless services, are cashing in on consumers' rising demand on mobile data service. According to the report, while the monthly average revenue on voice service per user across the industry has declined from $47 in 2004 to $33 in 2009, data charge has surged from $1.55 to $12 over the same period. Of 308 million people living in the country in 2009, 55.8 million – an adoption rate of 18 percent – have subscribed to a data plan.
In addition to data services, the usage of text messages has also surged in the U.S. In 2009, the number of messages sent by the average user each month was 488, a huge increase from 2006 when it was merely 69.
When it comes to overall profitability, in late 2009, Verizon led the wireless industry with a 45 percent of EBITDA margins, followed closely by AT&T with 40.7 percent. MetroPCS and T-Mobile, the third and the fourth, both enjoyed relatively steady profit margins in the past few years. However, the rest of the pack, including Leap Wireless, U.S. Cellular and Sprint Nextel, witnessed slumps over the period.
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Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Motorola XPRT – An Enterprise-class World Phone for Sprint
The XPRT has a slate form factor boasting a four-row QWERTY keyboard and a 3.1-inch HVGA touchscreen display with pinch to zoom. It weighs 5.1 ounces and measures 4.74" high by 2.4" wide by 0.51" deep, which feels sturdy in hands and is still compact enough for slipping into your pants pocket. Running on Android 2.2 (Froyo) integrated with MOTOBLUR, the device offers a customizable home screen where you can add widgets, and view news feeds, updates and messages from various social media sites.
The XPRT provides an array of corporate-level security features right out of the box. Apart from 256-bit AES data encryption and multi-headed VPN, you also get remote data wipe and password recovering functions on both the phone and memory card. They help you ensure that all sensitive company information remains confidential.
The business-ready phone excels in the communication and connectivity aspects as well. Mobile email allows access to both personal and corporate e-mail with support for Microsoft Exchange and POP3/IMAP accounts. Other enhanced features like full messaging capability (SMS, MMS and IM), HTML Web browsing with Adobe Flash 10, QuickOffice Mobile Suite and 3G mobile hotspot functionality are also onboard.
The XPRT does not disappoint in the multimedia side either. With the integrated 5-megapixel digital camera with dual LED and auto focus, you can snap photos as well as capture DVD-quality videos while on the go. Like other Android phones, the smartphone boasts music and video players with support for multiple formats. Moreover, you can stream media content to other DLNA devices using the DLNA connectivity.
As you would expect, the smartphone is pre-installed with a full set of the usual Google applications, including Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Contact Sync, Google Latitude, Google Maps with Street View and Navigation, Google Search, Google Talk, YouTube and so on.
In addition to 2GB of internal memory, the phone has a microSD card slot for storage expansion up to 32GB. It also comes loaded with stereo Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS, a 3.5mm headphone jack, an accelerometer, eCompass, a proximity sensor and a light sensor, among other common smartphone features.
To conclude, the Motorola XPRT is an intuitive smartphone equipped with plenty of enhanced productivity and security features that business users will appreciate. If you are a Sprint customer looking for an alternative to BlackBerry devices, this would be a great choice.
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