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The Droid Pro by Motorola is getting an OTA(Over-the-Air) update with some glitch fixes,increased Microsoft Exchange support and data encryption on the microSD card.  The update improvement are especially welcome for business users.

This software update by Motorola Version.3.8.7.XT610.Verizon.en.US. You can update your Droid Pro either when you get a notice or by checking, Menu>Settings>About Phone> System Updates. If you are roaming  you will not receive an update notice, you will have to enable Wi_Fi for the update.

When updating any Droid phone, be sure that your battery is at least 40%
charged and that you have at least half an hour to wait for the process
to complete.  Just in case, you should also back up your contacts, photos,
and note what software you had installed.

You cannot use your
phone or make emergency calls during the update.  Some settings and
applications will revert to default but may be resynced or reset
following the completion of the upgrade.

Here’s a list of features of the Droid Pro update:

• Device and SD card encryption. The software now nncrypts files in device memory and/or SD card with AES256 encryption and auto-generated device key.
• Within the Exchange ActiveSync initial email account configuration, you will now be prompted to enter a server name.
• Exchange ActiveSync email delivery delays have been corrected.
•  Exchange ActiveSync calendar events created on the device will now push to your PC calendar.
• Calendar events will no longer be deleted from your device if the meeting is updated.
•  Device will now allow Wi-Fi users to access external corporate networks.
•  Global Customers can now re-register on non-CDMA networks after Airplane mode is exited.
• The on-screen clock times remains up-to-date.
•  Bluetooth devices will now select the correct audio recording level for optimal voice capture and alert youwhen your audio levelis too low.
• V CAST Apps has been preloaded.
• The 3G Mobile Hotspot icon correctly reflects the 3G Moblie Hotspot status.

New ActiveSync Email Policy Support for the following:

•  Data encryption for both the internal and SD card memory.
•  Requires manual synchronization while roaming.
•  Allow HTML E-mail.

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Steve Jobs is expected to announced the new iPhone 4, today at WDDC. Some analysts have compiled some factoids and opinions. His announcement will start at 10:00 PDT.

iSuppli Corp, reminded us, Apple in the first quarter shipped 8.8 million iPhones, giving it a 3.04 percent share of the market for all kinds of cell phones. Company shipments rose by 0.2 percent from 8.7 million in the fourth quarter of 2009, giving Apple the No. 6 position in the market in the first quarter, up from ninth place in the fourth quarter of 2009.

Apple’s strong iPhone sales are boosting its Macintosh sales. The company was the only U.S. PC OEM that managed to outperform the PC market in the first quarter. Apple’s PC shipments rose by 32.4 percent from a year earlier.

Adam Leach, principal analyst at Ovum, said: “In three short years the iPhone has become the industry benchmark for high-end smartphones and the fourth generation device will only reinforce this view. The success of the iPhone is down to a number of interrelated factors. First, Apple created a device with a genuinely unique user experience, one that consumers still find engaging and easy to use. Second, Apple wrapped this user experience into a well designed and sleek form factor. Third, the company created an end-to-end platform that integrates Apple’s own services (eg iTunes) as well as third party services onto the device (through the hugely successful App Store).
“But perhaps more important subsequently has been Apple’s ability to build and motivate a large and active developer community that produces content, in the form of apps, exclusively for the device. This ecosystem of developers and the value they bring to the platform, as well as to consumers, is the hardest aspect of the iPhone proposition for other companies to replicate, especially given the reluctance of developers to support multiple software platforms. It is also the reason Apple is so keen to protect this community from disintermediation by the open web and hence its rather tough stance with Adobe over Flash.

“However, the iPhone 4G faces much stiffer competition than its predecessors. The rise of Google Android over the last two years has been phenomenal and is allowing manufacturers to create appealing alternatives to the iPhone; critically at cheaper prices. These handsets are more than just iPhone clones. The risk to Apple is that these devices offer greater freedom with available content and may prove more appealing, if it offers the right user and developer experience, than a device with Apple approved content only. This may ultimately be what puts the brakes on unlimited iPhone growth.”

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