16 Smartphones That Were Deemed ‘iPhone Killer,’ 2008-2011

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Where Will the Bear Market Bottom? 2 Valuation-Based Indicators Offer a Clear Range
The first half of the year saw the benchmark S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) produce its worst return since 1970. With the S&P 500 and Nasdaq respectively declining 24% and 34%, respectively, at their peaks, both indexes have firmly entered bear market territory. Given the heightened volatility and uncertainty that accompanies bear markets, it has a lot of investors wondering where the market will bottom.
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MoneyWise
1.6 million Americans are about to get an average $750 back from the IRS — could you be one of them?
The tax agency is about to hand out more than a billion dollars to taxpayers.
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The Wall Street Journal
Buying the Stock-Market Dip Is Backfiring. Investors Keep Piling In Anyway.
It is the worst year for buying the stock-market dip since the 1930s. Instead of rebounding after a tumble, stocks have continued to fall, denting a strategy that soared in popularity over the past decade.
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MarketWatch
Wharton’s Jeremy Siegel accuses Fed of making one of the biggest policy mistakes in its 110-year history
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Motley Fool
3 Growth Stocks Down 54% to 84% That You Can Buy and Hold Forever
Cathie Wood's Ark Innovation ETF, which focuses on such stocks, has plunged by nearly 75% from its early 2021 peak, and some individual companies have fallen further. Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD), Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META), and Twilio (NYSE: TWLO) are likely three such stocks. Jake Lerch (Advanced Micro Devices): There's plenty of carnage in the stock market among tech stocks, and AMD is no exception.
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Motley Fool
Why Nvidia's New Lovelace Chip Is Bad News for Jay Powell
Last week, Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) unveiled its new RTX graphics chips based on its "Lovelace" architecture. The chips have some impressive performance metrics, making an exciting leap forward in performance over the prior Ampere generation. The highest-end RTX Lovelace 4090 graphics cards will retail for $1,599, and the 4080 cards will go for a lower range, between $899 and $1,199.
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MarketWatch
‘My friends and family say I’m rich.’ I’m 26 and make $100,000 a year living in St. Louis, where I pay $850 in rent. But I can’t afford to buy a home, and am losing money when I invest. Would hiring a financial adviser be a smart move?
Answer: It sounds like you’re feeling stressed about money and questioning your decisions, so we asked financial advisers and money pros what you’re doing right and what you might want to change. “I would base your savings rate towards a home, and how much you can temporarily divert from the student loan debt towards a home, on how much you think the home will cost,” says Joe Favorito, certified financial planner at Landmark Wealth Management.
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Motley Fool
Market Pessimism Returns, 3 Stocks to Buy While Others Are Fearful
Stocks have taken a bumpy ride this year. The S&P 500 was in a free fall for the first six months of 2022, tumbling about 24% from peak to trough on fears that rising interest rates to combat inflation could cause a recession. With the market growing fearful again, our contributors think that some stocks are starting to look like great bargains.
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Yahoo Finance
Oil prices: Expect a 'few years of pain' after 2022, analyst says
Energy in the next few years is biased “towards higher prices," says one oil analyst.
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SmartAsset
Putting 20% Down on a Mortgage May Be a Mistake
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Barrons.com
The Stock Market Is Reeling. Here’s What Could Stop the Pain.
Federal Reserve officials have a busy week of speeches ahead. Investors are desperate for more information on the future of rates.
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Bloomberg
The Great Bond Bubble Is ‘Poof, Gone’ in Worst Year Since 1949
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Motley Fool
Is Nvidia Blunting Intuitive Surgical's Edge in Robotic Surgery?
Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ: ISRG) has the clear lead in robotic-assisted surgery. The company got approval for its da Vinci surgery system back in 2000. With more than two decades of research, development, and real-world use under its belt, competitors have an uphill battle if they want to catch up with Intuitive's technology.
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Investing in This ETF Right Now Could Make You a Millionaire Retiree
When it comes to building wealth over time, it's hard to beat a strategy of dollar-cost averaging into a broad index fund.
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The Smartest Dividend Aristocrats to Buy With $500 Right Now
Dividend Aristocrats are almost always smart investments. Since inception, Dividend Aristocrats have delivered a 12.3% annualized total return compared to 10.6% for the S&P 500, with annual volatility of 13.7% against 14.6% for the S&P 500. There are currently 65 S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrat constituents, with members across different sectors.
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Motley Fool
3 Top Stocks to Buy for the Long Haul
Investing for the long term is the best way to grow your wealth. And these three stocks can help you do it.
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MarketWatch
‘I’m spending a fortune on home maintenance. I realize my second husband is essentially living in my house for free’: What is a fair way to split costs?
‘When I married my husband, he sold his house, which was valued at about $100,000 more than mine, but he had no equity in it.’
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Motley Fool
3 Dividend Aristocrats In Warren Buffett's Secret Portfolio You Can Buy Right Now
A little-known group of Buffett stocks includes three members of dividend royalty with solid growth prospects.
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Yahoo Finance
How to survive the worst bear market of all time
Today, with the stock market in meltdown mode, it’s natural to look back at other times of financial woe. The market environment in the 1970s can be particularly instructive.
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Motley Fool
Better Buy: Carnival Cruise vs. Royal Caribbean Stock
Carnival (NYSE: CCL) and Royal Caribbean (NYSE: RCL) are two of the biggest players in the space, and investors might be wondering which of these companies is the better investment now that trip demand is rebounding. Read on to see why two Motley Fool contributors have very different takes on the question of whether Carnival or Royal Caribbean is the better buy. George Budwell: Carnival's management painted a fairly optimistic picture about its ongoing recovery efforts from the COVID-19 pandemic when it reported 2022 second-quarter earnings back in June.
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After the first iPhone came out in 2007, tech publications rushed to identify the phone that would be the “iPhone killer.”

SPOILER: Apple sold more than 190 million iPhones last year. It is safe to say that the iPhone has not, in fact, been killed.

1. Google Nexus One

2. The BlackBerry Torch 9800

3. The Palm Pre

4. The Galaxy S II

5. The Motorola Droid

6. The Else phone

7. The entirety of Windows Phone 7

8. The BlackBerry Storm

9. The HTC Evo 4G

10. The Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X10

11. The HTC HD2

12. The LG KU990

13. The LG Viewty KU990

14. The Samsung SGH-F480

15. The HTC Touch

16. The LG Voyager

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