Apple shipped 24.89 million iPhone units in 2009, making it the top shipped smartphone for the year.
The numbers come from industry group Gartner, which showed off smartphone market share.
Phones with the Symbian OS remained on top with 80.88 million units shipped, with RIM second at 34.35 million smartphones shipped for the year. Finishing off the list are Windows Mobile, Linux, Android, and WebOS.
Percentage-wise, Symbian controlled 46.9 percent, RIM followed at 19.9 percent, Apple with 14.4 percent, WinMo at 8.7 percent, Linux at 4.7 percent, Android at 3.9 percent and WebOS at 0.7 percent.
Overall, 1.211 billion phones were shipped in 2009, down from 1.222 billion in 2008.
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Facebook has announced today that they have signed a deal with McAfee that will give all 350 million members a free six-month license for Internet security software.
“Now, if your computer is infected, you will be asked to run a scan … and clean it before accessing Facebook,” added Facebook project manager Jake Brill. “We’re not aware of another free Internet service that takes this much responsibility for helping people keep their accounts secure.”
After the six months, you will have to pay to continue using the license, but McAfee says the fee will be cheaper than the annual subscription price for the software in stores.
The software will run on Windows PCs only, with no expected Mac OS X or Linux deal coming anytime soon.
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Dell has unveiled their latest ultraportable notebook today, the Vostro V13, which should cost one-third the price of the competing Macbook Air and one quarter the price of the Adamo XPS.
Thinner than the Air at .65-inches thick, has a 13.3-inch display and will weigh only 3.5 pounds. Base configuration includes a webcam, ExpressCard slot, 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and a Celeron processor for $449 USD. However, you will only get Ubuntu Linux as an operating system with the base configuration, as well as 2GB DDR3 RAM and a 5400RPM 250GB HDD.
For $600 the configuration adds Windows 7 Home Premium, a Core 2 Duo ULV processor and larger, faster HDD.
The included six-cell battery gives an estimated 5 hour battery life.
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