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Nielsen: Desire for iPhone slips as Android gains

Last year, the iPhone was easily the most desired smartphone on the market. But during the first quarter of 2011, that wasn’t necessarily the case, a new study from Nielsen has found.

According to the research firm, 31 percent of U.S. mobile consumers plan on buying an Android-based smartphone in the next year. Nielsen found that 30 percent of respondents plan to get their hands on an iPhone in the next 12 months. RIM’s BlackBerry smartphones and Windows Phone 7-based devices were desired by 11 percent and 6 percent of the respondents, respectively. Surprisingly, 20 percent of those surveyed are still unsure of which smartphone they want to buy.

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New TweetDeck for iPhone Warrants a Look From Twitter Power-Users

TweetDeck Tuesday introduced an updated iPhone app that sports a completely new design. The app is so different, in fact, that it’s actually a brand new app, and requires a separate download, as the previous TweetDeck iOS apps have been removed from the App Store entirely. The changes are good reason for Twitter power-users, who may have given the app a pass previously, to take a second look.

I’ve used TweetDeck in the past, albeit sporadically, to keep track of the the multiple Twitter feeds I’ve had to manage. I’ve since cut down to only two accounts (thanks to Twitter lists) but I still find that my Twitter apps of choice (the official client, and lately Tweetbot) don’t handle multiple accounts as well as they could. TweetDeck was good at this, but I always ended up leaving it because it left a bad taste in my mouth in terms of visual and UX design.

The new app looks much better than its predecessor. TweetDeck opted for a much cleaner, simpler interface, and one that does a great job of letting your stream of updates take center stage. It’s a smart design that acknowledges the design restrictions of the iPhone’s relatively small screen and only fits into that space what’s necessary, so that nothing comes out feeling crowded.

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