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smart phone comparison chart EA and Glu Report Mobile Game Sales Results

smart phone comparison chart Two of the biggest mobile game developers in the world, Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS) and Glu Mobile (NASDAQ: GLUU) announced quarterly results this week.

While EA's overall business continues to struggle, mobile was a bright spot with the company reporting that their mobile revenues were up 24% year-over-year to $189 million. For the fiscal fourth quarter, EA Mobile recorded $48 million in revenues, up 14% year-over-year.

Glu reported revenues of $20.8 million, compared to $20.6 million in the first quarter of 2008 which represents less than a 1% increase year over year.

If I was a Glu shareholder I'd be pretty disappointed with Glu's results. Although EA is a bigger company , the mobile games business is growing fairly rapidly (see post coming soon) and Glu should be growing at a similar pace to EA.

If you read Glu's full release and if you've been following the company over the last year, a lot of their lack of growth is due to the fact that Glu was very late to the iPhone party. They've started to ramp up lately with a number of high quality releases on that platform including the very fun Glyder title, but it's clear that they've still got a lot of work to do to get their business to take off further.

EA, on the other hand, was early to the iPhone an their games have done very well. Just in the past couple weeks, EA announced five new iPhone titles and executives said they expect to introduce 30 games for the iPhone this year.

One Thing I Wouldn't Do for a Palm Pre

The much hyped Palm Pre is just days away from release and things are getting downright weird. Check out the picture of this nut who got a huge Palm Pre tattoo on his arm in order to win a free device.

PreCentral.net is running the campaign.

Personally, I'm going to wait until the next version of the Pre to get my tattoo.

Chile: Nokia Lumia 800 disponible a finales de febrero

Hace algún tiempo, cuando estuvimos en el Microsoft Tech Days realizado en Chile, conversamos con gente de la filial local de Nokia que nos contaba que el teléfono estrella de la finlandesa llegaría al mercado local a tiempo para el regreso a clases, con una mayor posibilidad de poder estar en condiciones de ir a comprarlo en algún momento indeterminado del comienzo de marzo.

Sin embargo, chequeando diversas fuentes hemos podido determinar que el teléfono estará disponible en puntos de venta de las tres operadoras más importantes del país dentro de la última semana de febrero. Por supuesto, esto será así si es que no existe ningún contratiempo, aunque no debería haber alguno pues los equipos ya se encuentran homologados en todas las telcos que compraron el unibody de Nokia.

El Lumia 800, presentado en el marco de Nokia World en octubre pasado, tiene un procesador de 1.4 GHz de sólo un núcleo, una pantalla AMOLED de 3.7 pulgadas, 16 GB de memoria interna, 512 MB de RAM, cámara de 8 MP con lente Carl Zeiss, conectividad HSPA+, radio FM, GPS, bluetooth, salida de video hacia TV y Wi-Fi. Todo esto alimentado por Windows Phone Mango.

Interesting iPhone Data from Nielsen

Consumer research firm, The Nielsen Company, released some interesting data on the iPhone this week. The study found:

- As of April 2009, there are 6.4 million active iPhone users in the U.S., up from 2.1 million a year prior.

- 37% watch video on their phone (6x as likely as the typical subscriber).

- There are roughly as many iPhone users 55 and older as there are 13-24. (see chart)

- 98% of iPhone users use the data features of their phone, services that should improve with the enhanced speed promised by the iPhone 3G S.

- 88% use the Internet (4x as likely as the typical subscriber).

- 75% download apps (5x as likely as the typical subscriber).

- 72% use location based services (7x as likely as the typical subscriber).

None of this data is overly surprising but it is good news for all of us in the mobile data market as more and more consumers will be buying iPhones (and other smartphones) so overall usage of applications, mobile web, mcommerce, etc. is about to explode.

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After the potentially path breaking over clocking of the HTC Thunderbolt to 1.8GHz, another major barrier has been breached with the same person over clocking the device to 2GHz, 2.01 to be exact.

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It was recently revealed that after about 5 monthes of AT&T and T-Mobile phones running the OS, its market share has grown to almost 2%.