Lots of talks are doing rounds about the upsurge of mobile market, especially the iPhone market. It was dusk of June 29th. The year was 2008. A new phone was to be launched in an already flooded phone market. The world was watching. Hype was created a lot before the launch. Competitors were all too concerned and were watching the developments with rapt attention. It was 6:00 PM, and here happened the unprecedented, unfathomable phenomena in the history of mobile sales. Let us dive deeper.

Apple said they’d like to sell 10-million (10,000,000!!!!) iPhones by the end of 2008; remember this number is roughly one-percent of the cell phone market. Some skeptics laughed at the idea. On the other end of spectrum, there was a section of people who were optimistic to sell double or triple the number.

Such optimism was not misplaced. Since people have seen Mr. Steve Jobs performing exceptionally well over a considerable length of time with his other products in the same segment. Apple iPhone users report the highest overall satisfaction scores among major Smartphone manufacturers. So much so that even 33% of females have caressed for this fascinating instrument.

One of sources from Cingular (Now AT&T), the iPhone’s preferred cell phone carrier had said each retail store would have about 200 iPhones to sell on opening night. Remember it was June 29th, & the countdown began after 6:00 PM.

Assume that to be true. There’s about 1,850 AT&T retail stores, and about 150 Apple Stores in the US, so, around 2,000 outlets total. That makes for an opening night sale of about 400,000 iPhones. Nielsen Mobile estimates that there are 2.3 million US mobile subscribers using an iPhone.

Has any cell phone carrier ever sold that many phones in a day? Like it or don’t, that’s around staggering $200-million in sales, NOT including the AT&T service contract, which, at a meager $50 a month, could add another $1,200 total revenue per iPhone sold. That’s almost another $500-million in sales.
By any cell phone or cell phone carrier’s historical numbers, and by most standards, those are history making numbers. That’s for the first night, not the rest of the year.

It would be highly fool of us if we stay oblivious to the happenings in this sector of economy. We have to watch carefully each and every thing that deals with iPhone and its ancillary products. Lets gear up!

We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons. It means we are misallocating the precious resources at our disposal. Right things, if not done at right times might not end up being as fruitful as someone contemplated it to be. One such technology is mobile technology. Mobile communication is growing in leaps and bounds regardless of system of governance. Only last year 1.7 billion people consumed premium data services and content on mobile.

The average response time for an email is 24 hours but for an SMS text message is 5 minutes. This is the single biggest technology advantage that the Obama campaign had over McCain for example in the 2008 elections.

In Japan, all websites are formatted for small screen access. The vast majority of email use in Japan is mobile phone based email (similar to a Blackberry experience). The funny thing is, if you ask a Japanese average consumer. if they would like to use email on a PC, they will look at you with mild amazement, and say that they weren't aware that you could do email also on a PC (and they may ask a follow-up, why would they want to, why would a PC based email be better than what they already have on their phone.

Switzerland based Rinspeed is a car maker whose owners must be big Bond fans. They earlier released a car that could not only float like a boat (many cars have done that) but was also able to dive - like Bond's Lotus Esprite (also seen in Spy Who Loved Me). This is called imaginative manufacturing.

76% of the mobile phone users who are active users of SMS text messaging - 3 billion people on the planet already are active users of SMS text messaging, Think! that is 2.5 times bigger number than the total number of email users.

Here is another example. In 1997 Bond drove a big BMW that had the remote control drive ability, via an Ericsson Smartphone. Now we are a little over a decade after that point, and there is a prototype car that is entirely controlled by a Smartphone. Can you believe it? For people in 1997, it was a fantasy. While the iPhone with the Rinspeed needs to be plugged in, this is also no big jump to turn that into Bluetooth capable and offer the driver the chance to do remote control things with his car too. Now it is only a matter of time.

Most of the times we hold ourselves back due to criticism by others, but we could all take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism. If it did then there would be no season at all, at any time!!!!

A child earns in a month more than an average American think to earn in a year. Sir Issac Newton used to say ‘Catch ‘em Young’. The distinguished person of his stature was a visionary. Today we cannot agree more with him. We have seen prodigies performing like professionals. In fact some of the technologies are made keeping these kids on top of the mind. But naturally, Apple- the Leader- never lags behind.

While most children of his age play or watch football, or indulge in video gaming or sketch on paper with crayons, here was a nine-year old Lim Ding Wen from Singapore. He had a canvas but a radically different one from his friends’. It is his iPhone.

Lim, who is in fourth grade, writes applications for Apple's popular iPhone. It’s a credit to both the kid and Apple. His latest, a painting program called Doodle Kids, has been downloaded over 4,000 times from Apple's iTunes store in two weeks, the New Paper reported.
The program that this prodigy has designed lets iPhone users draw with their fingers!!! It’s fun, isn’t it? Just by touching the iPhone's touchscreen and then clear the screen by shaking the phone! Can you believe this?

When asked what prompted him the most. "I wrote the program for my younger sisters, who like to draw," Lim said. His sisters are aged 3 and 5. It shows his smartness to use his skills for leveraging market as well.

As they say ‘dictionary is the only place where success comes before work’. Lim learnt as many as six programming languages at an age of his. Lim started using the computer at the age of 2. He has since successfully completed about 20 programming projects of various scales.

His father happens to be one of the who’s who of iPhone application. His father, Lim Thye Chean, a chief technology officer at a local technology firm, also writes iPhone applications.

"Every evening we check the statistics emailed to us (by iTunes) to see who has more downloads," the older Lim said.

The boy, who enjoys reading books on programing, is in the process of writing another iPhone application -- a science fiction game called "Invader Wars."

It is not that geniuses are born in fact geniuses are made!!!!!!

Only a year ago, if you ask anyone ‘where he accesses news from’, the probable answers would be TV, Radio or Internet. Besides the majority of those accessing news and information would report that they did so only a few times in the month; so over the small period of just one year, we have witnessed mobile Internet access become a part of the daily media diet of a hugely growing number of people.

The number of people using mobile devices to access the Internet more than doubled from January 2008 to January 2009, according to comScore, a provider of Internet tracking. Internet users have been using smartphones for personal use and to conduct business, similar to the way they would use a laptop or home computer. But the convenience of carrying mobile is way better than laptop leave alone desktops. Nowadays business is done at the speed of the light and nobody is ready to wait for years to receive feedback. Mobile internet is an efficient mode to increase the speed of communication.

Researchers predicts that there will be more growth next year as mobile content offerings continue to expand and as more consumers learn to use the mobile Internet. Furthermore, devices are becoming more sophisticated and less expensive, and data plans are being packaged and priced more attractively to allure new customer into their fold.

Last January, of the 63.2 million people who used their mobile device to access information, 22.4 million, or 35 percent of mobile-device users, did it on a daily basis; more than double last year's 10.8 million people.

At the beginning of this year, 22.3 million people accessed news and other content using a downloaded application. One of the most popular downloaded applications was maps, with an 8.2 million users.

In January, device users not only used mobile phones to search for directions, but 14.1 million also conducted searches for content and 32.4 million used SMS to access news and information.

Let us measure where we stand on this whole picture. Are we ready to leverage the benefits ?

Fashion and functionality are two mutually exclusive words. And so females- who are-as per popular perception- more inclined to fashion- than functionalities. But the iPhone has done the trick for the gender. It has provided the best functionalities without compromising the awesome look.

In act iPhones are better suited to females for females are better at multi-tasking unlike men. Along with unlimited access to some very useful ready to use information are all the more handy for females to give justice to their chores.

In the month of November 2008, Australian mobile phone companies confirmed more women than men were buying Apple's fancy iPhone. The reasons are there for everyone to see. Apple has invested efforts by keeping in mind females and it has been paying it off so far.

In Australia, Vodafone's general manager for Victoria and Tasmania, Paul Guerra, said the company hadn't researched why women had turned out to be much more receptive to the iPhone than men, despite early assumptions it would appeal more to men. It's a great-looking device the female customer is comfortable using and displaying.

Apple announced fourth-quarter (ending September 27) profits of $1.14 billion helped along substantially by global sales of more than 6,892,000 iPhones.

"Apple just reported one of the best quarters in its history, with a spectacular performance by the iPhone," Apple CEO Steve Jobs said. Even time tested RIM phones were left behind in terms of sales during the period. "We sold more phones than RIM." (RIM manufactures the popular Blackberry phones.) Says jubilant Mr. Jobs.

A reliable industry source speculates that up to 200,000 Australians have opted for iPhones to other smartphones since the 3G version hit the market in July ‘08. CBD-based financial consultant Fiona Brown, 25, bought her iPhone 3G the day it arrived in Melbourne.

"It's hot, it's a cute little phone - I've converted so many girls into getting them," Ms Brown said.

"It saves so much space in your handbag." She adds.

Another woman Amanda Miller, 34, who herself is a Malvern small business operator and mother of three, said an iPhone was like a computer in her handbag.

"That's very useful for a busy mum juggling kids, work and running the house.

''It's much lighter than carrying around a laptop."

And before concluding I cannot forget Jess Pryles, 28, owner of Sugadeaux Cupcakes at South Yarra, who wanted an iPhone so much so that she bought one from New York in April.