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This Week in Smartphone Schadenfreude, August 23th Edition

By Rene Ritchie, Sunday, Aug 24, 2008 a 10:15 pm

Not evil twin to theiPhoneBlog.com Week in Review, not an invasion by Fake Steve, This Week in Smart Phone Schadenfreude brings you all the feel-better news you need about the smartphone world outside Apple’s current media dominator. (Who knew there was such a world? We were just as surprised! Inelegant, interface challenged, keyboardy, crashy, single-touchy place — best not to linger…). Join us as we mock review the big news from last week at our sister sites. Everybody loves sibling rivalry!

This week: A day late but sadly no jokes short, Boldly browsing, unboxings galore, big love from HTC, who does Rubenstein really work for, and ZOMG! a new Android beta!

This Week in Smartphone Schadenfreude, August 16th Edition

By Rene Ritchie, Sunday, Aug 17, 2008 a 8:32 am

This week: All Bold all the time, spy pics, HTC gets red, and happy five-oh!

This Week in Smartphone Schadenfreude, August 9th Edition

By Rene Ritchie, Saturday, Aug 9, 2008 a 2:55 pm

This week: Pearl gets kicked, ZuneNokia cometh, Android isn't late (again!) and... a Centro clone?!

This Week in Smartphone Schadenfreude, August 2nd Edition

By Rene Ritchie, Saturday, Aug 2, 2008 a 3:42 pm

This week: Bold, Bull. Bull, Bold. WinMob Can't Count to 20, and Colligan Loves the iPhone

This Week in Smartphone Schadenfreude, July 26th Edition

By Rene Ritchie, Saturday, Jul 26, 2008 a 11:55 am

This week: ThuderStorms, iClone Double Feature, Dead Treo's, and Open Marriages!

This Week in Smartphone Schadenfreude, July 19th Edition

By Rene Ritchie, Saturday, Jul 19, 2008 a 11:44 am

This week: Blackberry device outages, Android SDK, Palm launches Treo 700 v3

This Week in Smartphone Schadenfreude, July 12th Edition

By Rene Ritchie, Saturday, Jul 12, 2008 a 9:27 pm

In this week's edition: What? Surprised we're here? Thought we'd be taking this edition off so we could play Super Monkey Ball or Bomberman Touch, or otherwise just hide in our tasteful Cupertino estates drooling over our totally awesome new, glossy plastic backed iPhone 3Gs? We did that last time. We totally had the device before Mossberg and like 99% of the people at Apple. Totally.

We're having a bit of weekend, is all. Maybe you heard about it? MASSIVE failures. Epic. Keep reading on to find out why its all Microsoft and RIM's fault!

iPhone 3G to KO Blackberry in Ultimate Smartphone Championships?

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Jul 9, 2008 a 7:21 pm

ChangeWave is back with trends in intended smartphone buying for June 2008. The good? The iPhone has soared from 29% to 56% from a low this time last year of 18%. The bad? Rim has tumbled from 29% to 23% from a high of 33% last July. The ugly? Palm has held steady at 3%, having free fallen from 24% way back in late 2006.

The iPhone dominated almost all rounds, causing an overall increase in planned smartphone purchases to 10%. Satisfaction levels were through the roof at 78% (way above RIM's 54% and trouncing Palm's 29%)

Blackberry held on to the title of reigning email monster, with a holding-steady 42% ownership of that space, but Apple is making inroads even there, up to 11%.

Attack of the iClones Blog vs. Blog Edition: Crackberry/Boy Genius Haptic Thunder NERDFIGHT!

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Jul 9, 2008 a 10:35 am

Sure, the iPhone 3G launch is tomorrow. Consider this an amuse bouche. Or the opposite of that, an annoy bouche. Whatever. Something salty to make Friday taste all the more sweet!

The subject of today's battle royal? Nope, not iPhone vs. Blackberry. That's old. This time it's Blackberry vs. Blackberry, Blog vs. Blog, over the iClone to end all iClones: the touchscreen Blackberry Thunder!

Says our sister site Crackberry.com, 10th degree Blackberry belts and reigning world champions:

Touchscreen BlackBerry Thunder Keyboard To Utilize Haptic Technology... AMAZING Implementation! [...] Leave it to RIM to CRACK the touchscreen keyboard nut.

Says Boy Genius Report, craftiest of all mobile blogsphere Ninja:

The keyboard is incredibly annoying to type on, and the screen actually shows ripples even when pressed ever-so-lightly. [...] Most of the people who have handled it thinks it’s a joke.

Read on for round 2!

This Week in Smartphone Schadenfreude, July 5th Edition

By Rene Ritchie, Saturday, Jul 5, 2008 a 8:19 pm

In this week's edition: Nothing. Sorry. No time. We're already lining up for the iPhone 3G. Dieter got here early, but the rest of us are way back, forced to climb over ever-growing mounds of junked Crackberries and WinMobs and about a million Centros -- ouch! Heckuva tailgate going on, though. Ballmer keeps breaking out the Monkey Boy while Colligan and Lazaridis take turns timing their virtual keyboarding.

So yeah, sorry. Zip this week. Zilch. But it's totally not our fault. We don't even think the sister sites have been updated. (We'd ask Kevin and Jennifer but they're off playing hacky-sack with Sergey and Larry.)

UPDATED: Okay, fine. The Commenterati have spoken. We'll scour the interwebs. We'll find something. You'll get your fix. Anything to stop from harshening our pre-launch mellow!