iPhone

According to the independent website analytics company StatCounter, Apple had a nice 25.86 percent of mobile Internet usage in January 2013. Although that was a decline of 2.81 percent compared to the same month in 2012, Nokia’s share in the same period fell from 37.67 percent to 22.15 percent, a significant decline.

Chris Santacroce was paragliding Thursday in Draper near Lone Peak when his iPhone slipped out of his pocket and fell some 2000 feet to the ground.

He didn’t even know it. “I land and I’m checking my pockets. It’s not there,” he said.

Tough iPhone.

Well there’s something the iPhone doesn’t do.

I made fun of BlackBerry and its co-CEOs for quite some time. While I had good reason to do it, I wasn’t against a BlackBerry comeback. However, with the launch behind us, I don’t think they did enough to get themselves off the ropes. […]

Stephen talks about iPhone, Android, Samsung, BlackBerry 10 and Windows. It’s a great article.

Brian X. Chen:

Jeffrey Paul, a data security consultant, on Friday published a blog post pointing out a security flaw in Path for iPhone users. If a user posts a photo inside Path and writes a caption, the app can still share the city or other general location where the photo was taken — even if a user has turned off location sharing for Path in the iPhone’s privacy settings.

Oopsie.

We estimate Apple shipped 17.7 million mobile phones for a record 34 percent share of the United States market in the fourth quarter of 2012. This was up sharply from 12.8 million units shipped and 25 percent share in Q4 2011. Apple has become the number one mobile phone vendor by volume in the United States for the first time ever. Apple’s success has been driven by its popular ecosystem of iPhones and App Store, generous carrier subsidies, and extensive marketing around the new iPhone 5 model. Samsung shipped 16.8 million mobile phones in the United States, for 32 percent share, during Q4 2012. This was a good performance from Samsung, as its market share rose 5 points from 27 percent a year earlier, but it was not enough to hold off a surging Apple. Samsung had been the number one mobile phone vendor in the US since 2008, and it will surely be keen to recapture that title in 2013 by launching improved new models such as the rumored Galaxy S4.

Interesting speculation from Marco Arment. I have to admit that these larger screen devices are selling better than what I would have ever guessed.

From the folks at iStockphoto.

iPhone users pay more to use their devices than Android users, according to a new report.

Legal protections for U.S. customers who unlock their own cell phones expired last weekend. But what does that actually mean? EFF takes a look.

It’ll soon be illegal to unlock your US cell phone without the carrier’s permission. Does it matter, and how does it change things?

Tim Cook revealed that Apple is more than doubling the number of LTE-capable iPhone service providers worldwide starting next week.

The iPhone led US smartphone sales for the quarter ending December 23rd, according to a new report.

Firefox OS’s first phone is coming in February.

Samsung has fun at Blackberry and Apple’s expense in a new TV ad.