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When Samsung abutting the Open Handset Alliance, action and apprehension engulfed the adaptable world. With industry arch adaptable phones such as the Samsung Instinct and Samsung Omnia already on the market, expectations soared. The belief can assuredly end: on April 27th, 2009 the Samsung i7500 was clearly appear as the company's aboriginal Android Phone.

From sexy, glassy accouterments to absurd specs and absorption to detail, the Samsung i7500 has it all. Sporting a 3.2" AMOLED screen, 5 megapixel camera with flash, Wi-Fi, GPS and 40GB of absolute accumulator (internal/external) there isn't abundant added a adaptable lover could want... but Samsung included added anyways.

The Samsung i7500 is the aboriginal anytime Android Buzz to bedrock a 3.5mm headphone jack, so those 40GB of accumulator are abiding to accumulate your music library advantageous and rotating. Don't anguish about all that multimedia clarification your concoction because the 1500 mAh array included with the i7500 has added abstract than any added Android Buzz to date. This buzz has all the arrangement of a multimedia monster!

Words don't do amends to Samsung's AMOLED awning but if you had to try, bright, active and all about attractive would appear to mind. The bright clear appearance not alone makes day to day use of the i7500 added agreeable but it enhances the ball amount of videos, amateur and more.

The Samsung i7500 comes preloaded with Google's apartment of applications and casework such as Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Google Calendar, Google Talk, Google Latitude and more! And of course, you can acquisition all the amateur and apps you wish on Android Market.

What may be a lot of absorbing is Samsung's adeptness to backpack this absurd ability into such a baby frame... the i7500 is alone 11.9mm thick. The Samsung i7500 is accessible in Europe and internationally now!

The year 2011 was momentous for several startup companies that aloft huge sums by traveling public, such as Zynga, LinkedIn, and Groupon. But abounding added notable startups  some of them well-funded had a abundant worse year and bankrupt down.

Solar-panel maker Solyndra may be the accomplished contour startup abortion of the year. The aggregation filed for defalcation in September afterwards accepting $535 actor in accommodation guarantees from the government. The abeyance became an embarrassment for the Obama administration, as the admiral fabricated a accessible actualization there and the aggregation was the aboriginal renewable-energy aggregation to acquire a accommodation beneath the federal bang program.

3-wheeled, 2-person electric car by Aptera Motors.

Another broadly appear blow was Aptera Motors, an electric-car aggregation based in Carlsbad, Calif. The aggregation was apparently best accepted for its affected two-person 2e car that counterbalanced on three wheels. It bankrupt down in aboriginal December, and aggregation leaders destroyed the 2e models.

"This is a difficult time for anybody affiliated with our aggregation because we acquire never been afterpiece to acumen our vision," said Paul Wilbur, Aptera's CEO. "Unfortunately, though, we are out of resources."

Here are some added startups that fell abbreviate of acumen their dreams:

Foodme launched in 2010 with allotment from IdeaLab with the abstraction of brokering deals amid diners and restaurants. The account started in Pasadena with affairs to aggrandize to Los Angeles and beyond, but it bankrupt in June 2011. The aggregation is one of abounding civic and bounded Groupon-like sites that shut down, including CityDeals.com, Citycents.com in Baltimore, and LocoLocal, based in Cambridge, Mass.

Goodmail Systems developed an email acceptance arrangement that abounding ample companies adopted, including Time Inc., Stubhub, and Overstock. The company, based in Mountain View, Calif., aswell aloft about $45 actor in adventure capital, but bankrupt in aboriginal 2011 afterwards a accessible accretion fell through.

Beluga, a startup that innovated on accumulation messaging technology, was bought by Facebook in bounce of 2011 and again shuttered by mid-December. The appliance was replaced by Facebook Messenger.

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Collecta, a real-time seek engine, bankrupt in aboriginal 2011 afterwards adopting $5 actor endure year. A bulletin on the company's website says that engineers are "researching applications" for its technology. Thus the startup's abeyance may be temporary, as the founders told Mashable they are alive on new ideas.

The animation of entrepreneurs like Collecta's founders may actuate added companies to acceleration from the ashes of "failures" cited above.

"Most of these startups were founded on agitating ideas, and abounding had abundant business models to match," said Alexandra Levit, columnist of Blind Spots: The 10 Business Myths You Can't Afford to Believe on Your New Path to Success. "But the actuality charcoal that the majority of startups abort in the aboriginal few years."

She added that anybody who wants to alpha a business should put in "a amazing bulk of forethought," decidedly on these four questions:

What charge am I addressing?

Do I acquire the abilities sets to cull it off?

Do I acquire the financing?

How altered is my abstraction from what's already out there?

She concluded, "And you acquire to acquire that there is a assertive bulk of luck involved, or getting in the appropriate abode at the appropriate time."

SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - To accept what ails BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd in the U.S. market, just ask eBay Inc Arch Executive John Donahoe.

The world's bigger online bargain website had about a hundred engineers developing new iterations of eBay's arcade app for Apple Inc's iPhone a few months ago, and addition hundred engineers alive on Google Inc's Android adaptable platform.

EBay even had 50 humans developing apps for Microsoft's Windows phones, but the e-commerce behemothic alone had "one or two" alive on RIM's BlackBerry, according to Donahoe.

"I still use the BlackBerry, but it's not the a lot of developer-friendly platform," he told a accumulation of arch technology admiral at an accident at Stanford University in June, if the accountable of RIM came up.

By aboriginal November, it seemed Donahoe wasn't even application his BlackBerry abundant any more. If he met with reporters to allocution about affairs for the anniversary arcade season, the CEO aerated out his iPhone to appearance how eBay's apps ran on the device. If Reuters asked Donahue about his BlackBerry, he said he still had it but didn't bother to accompany it into the room.

Such belief are frequently begin a part of RIM's once-loyal accumulated and customer customers, who are deserting the Canadian aggregation afterwards it has struggled to accumulate up with competitors' innovations.

RIM on Thursday acquaint a acutely lower annual profit, offered a afflictive anticipation for BlackBerry shipments this anniversary season, and delayed the accession of new phones application a make-or-break operating arrangement in development, QNX.

"It's arresting because I haven't heard annihilation acceptable from them in a continued time," said adept BlackBerry user Kevin Nichols, the arch of KLN Consulting Group, who was searching at Android and Windows phones at a Sprint Nextel Corp abundance in city San Francisco on Friday.

"They charge to appear out with new articles soon, contrarily it looks like RIM may become the next Palm," he said, in advertence to the collapse of the smartphone avant-garde Palm Inc. Nichols abandoned the latest BlackBerry Torch in a affectation case nearby, adage the accessory wasn't "new enough" for him to upgrade.

Even on Wall Street, area users already joked about their addiction to their "crackberries," adherence is waning.

"The QNX adjournment is a concern," said Rob Romero, arch of barrier armamentarium close Connective Capital. "Consumers like new articles and vendors wish something new to advertise in their stores."

The arch technology administrator of a Connecticut-based barrier armamentarium said that if a top barrier armamentarium administrator wants to use an iPhone instead of a BlackBerry they can now switch, even admitting he prefers RIM security. "When they say I wish an iPhone or an iPad configured, they get it," said the CTO, who beneath to be identified.

RIM shares fell 11 percent on Nasdaq on Friday and hit their everyman akin in about eight years.

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Research close Strategy Analytics anticipation RIM's allotment of the U.S. smartphone bazaar to abatement to 12 percent this year, a aciculate bead from 2007, if RIM had a 44 percent share. By comparison, Apple, which just started affairs smartphones in 2007, is accepted to grab a 24 percent U.S. bazaar allotment this year.

To be sure, BlackBerry still has its defenders. Robert Laikin, CEO of cellphone benefactor Brightpoint, said that RIM represents amid 5 percent to 10 percent of the 110 actor phones his aggregation handles globally every year.

"I still accept a BlackBerry. If I allocution to my accompany who are business professionals, a lot of of them still accept a BlackBerry. Some of them accept bought an added accessory too," he told Reuters.

"All manufacturers I've formed with in the endure 25 years accept artefact delays. What RIM is traveling through isn't different," he said. "I accept RIM will survive because their artefact is actual sticky."

There are still abounding companies who adopt their advisers use BlackBerrys because they feel that RIM offers the best aegis appearance to assure accumulated data. But these action barter are shrinking, analysts said.

Gary Curtis, arch technology architect at all-around technology consulting behemothic Accenture, acicular to improvements in aegis from Apple and Google adaptable software in contempo years.

"Choice and leveling of the arena acreage is the axiological enabling agency for companies getting able to say to employees, use the accessory you like," he said. "It's not a abrupt blitz ... but they're aperture the aperture to added accessories and humans accomplish their own choices."

Interviews with added consumers at buzz food on Friday illustrated why the above breastwork of accumulated acute phones faces boxy competition.

"I'm a BlackBerry user but my aggregation makes me use it," said a client alleged John who was arena with a BlackBerry Torch at an AT&T abundance in San Francisco. He beneath to accord his endure name.

"Anyone who is anyone at my aggregation has an iPhone, but they accomplish us use BlackBerry still," he added. "I anticipate I ability breach abundance and buy an iPhone. The blow awning on this Torch works appealing well, but the iPhone is just easier to use."

A Sprint abundance administrator said BlackBerry phones would advertise bigger if they had added apps. But some app developers aren't absorbed in the BlackBerry platform, partly because the technology is difficult to plan with.

"Of the companies that angle to us, I can't anticipate of any that are starting out by developing an app for the BlackBerry," said Theresia Gouw Ranzetta of adventure basic close Accel Partners, which invests in adaptable app developers.

Hotel Tonight, a start-up backed by Accel's Ranzetta, has developed apps for the iPhone, Android phones and an HTML5 adaptation for its last-minute auberge booking service.

"Will they accomplish a committed BlackBerry app? Not on the roadmap," she said.

(Reporting by Alistair Barr in San Francisco and Sinead Carew in New York; Editing by Tiffany Wu, Gary Hill)

In 2011, technology able the masses with the abracadabra of the billow and 4G as far as the eye can see, but the year wasn't afterwards its disappointments. In fact, this year's tech altitude bore attestant to some failures of absolutely ballsy proportion: From barrage letdowns to billion dollar bungles, actuality are our picks for the better technology fails of 2011.

Well over a year afterwards the absolution of the aboriginal iPad, not a individual aggregation has managed to accomplish a cavity in Apple's strangehold on the book market. When it debuted at CES at the alpha of 2011, the Motorola Xoom looked to avowal all the accouterment of a able iPad rival: the glassy new Android book operating system, affluence of ability beneath the hood...what could go wrong? But a few abbreviate months later, the Xoom and added ambitious acknowledged slates like the bulk of Galaxy Tabs accept all blurred together. There is still hardly a individual acute acumen to buy a book that isn't cut from Apple's bolt and the admission of the iPad 2 in March was just addition attach in the casket of Android latecomers the bazaar over.

Hey, bethink the Facebook redesign? The one that was appear to the Facebook-loving association aback in September? We almost do either: The world's a lot of visited amusing arrangement has been bent up in a cloister action over the rights to the name of its amount new feature: the Timeline. We don't affliction what Facebook calls it, but the aggregation absolutely let the cat out of the bag way too aboriginal on this one. After amalgam the Ticker, its arguable real-time scrolling sidebar, our contour pages attending as addled as ever. And now that Timelines are assuredly rolling out, Facebook will face a bifold backlash: not alone will the users who've been searching advanced to the photo-centric redesign be put off by the apocryphal start, but the blow will be affronted all over afresh if things about-face about in a above way on the amusing network.

While it's no bomb if it comes to sales figures, the iPhone 4S charcoal one of 2011's bigger customer letdowns. Earlier this year, Apple's iPad 2 upped its prececessor's address considerably, slimming the aboriginal slate down while dispatch it up but it's boxy to not be aghast by the iconic company's a lot of contempo handset. Apple's newest abundance of the iPhone is absolutely annihilation to apprehend at  it's still one of the fastest, best-looking smartphones on the block  but it's no iPhone 5. After spending the bigger allotment of the year salivating over a reinvented iPhone with a beyond screen, a thinner profile, and added untold Apple-flavored wonders, Apple aficionados were presented with the iPhone 4S  a nominal advancement over the antecedent archetypal that accustomed the now much-parodied Siri app as its capital affairs point. While Siri is a able (if at times conceivably too capable) basic companion, 2011 is still an off-year if it comes to the world's must-have gadget. Patience is a virtue, and all eyes are on 2012's iPhone to up the ante.

If any one artefact has ridden the accepted rollercoaster this year, it's HP's tablet, the TouchPad. Afterwards affairs Palm in 2010, HP bet the acreage on its new calendar of adaptable accessories active on Palm's well-loved webOS platform: the able Pre 3 smartphone, the mini Veer, and the TouchPad HP's somewhat accurate acknowledgment to the iPad. The aggregation was so assured in its adaptable action that it even insisted that every new HP computer would appear with a adaptation of the adaptable software next year  a appealing outrageously advancing move, because that HP cranks out added PCs than any added aggregation in the world.

Things were searching ablaze for webOS, but afterwards a simple ages of blah sales, HP beatific its almost month-old book to the decollate and bargain prices badly abundant to arouse customer absorption in the bootless product. Afterwards throwing abroad $1.2 billion in accepting webOS, HP ultimately handed the software over to the masses as an accessible antecedent activity  and that's just the latest aberration on what ability be 2011's a lot of blighted gadget.

After about a year on the market, you'd be harder apprenticed to acquisition anyone with Microsoft's new smartphone software in their pocket. A blah admission alone angry into a yet added black tenure: By the third division of 2011, Microsoft allowable a bare 2.7% of the smartphone software ecosystem. The accretion giant's ample assets haven't been abundant to accommodate a acute another to the iPhone or the actual army of Android accessories bottleneck carrier shelves. While the new adaptable OS appropriately veered off from the aisle of Microsoft's endure adaptable software with a active new attending and a scattering of beginning ideas, Windows Phone 7 continues to be too little, too late.

The approaching ability be now, but you'd hardly apperceive it by demography a blink in the boilerplate active room. At the outset, 2011 looked like it ability be the angled point for 3D  afterwards blockbuster hits like Tron afflicted up accepted absorption in the third dimension, it alone follows that consumers would wish to tote that tech home with them, right? Wrong. Blame top prices, headaches, or cool accessories, but at the end of 2011, absorption about 3D television hovers about the aforementioned flatline as it did a year ago. And it isn't just television: Nintendo's 3DS handheld gaming animate abstemious even some admired abstract with an added band of (literal) depth, but sales didn't even activate to access the projected 16 actor units the console's abstracted architect advised to move by the year's end.