Thought Garage

When it comes to web surfing there is no other device like iPhone. Nokia fans and Blackberry folks are very reluctant to accept that iPhone from a computer company beat the mobile phone companies flat out. But they all know iPhone has really done it. Data from search engines only confirms it. On Christmas, traffic to Google from iPhones surged, surpassing incoming traffic from any other type of mobile device, according to internal Google data made available to The New York Times. A few days later, iPhone traffic to Google fell below that of devices powered by the Nokia-backed Symbian operating system but remained higher than traffic from any other type of cellphone. The data is striking because the iPhone, an Apple product, accounts for just 2 percent of smartphones worldwide , according to IDC, a market research firm. Phones powered by Symbian make up 63 percent of the worldwide smartphone market, while those powered by Microsoft’s Windows Mobile have 11 percent and ...

With so many Camera Phones in the market, how do you find the best Camera Phone? You can read reviews, ratings and blogs that all talk about and discuss about them. But here is another interesting and reliable source of information to find out the best one. Based on how many people are actually using them and what is the quality of pictures taken. While every camera boasts of excellent quality, you can validate the quality of those photos yourself, only by looking at the quality of pictures taken by them. Flickr is one of the top Photo sharing sites where millions of individual users across the world upload their photos to share. Flickr offers a popularity page where it shows how its users are taking pictures (Camera Makes, Models etc). They report the popularity trends over a period of time as well. Let us see, how camera phones fare recently. Here is the recent trend chart for photos taken on mobile phones.   Flickr: Camera Finder Well. Now you know. Here are the Top 5 ...