Archive : Mobile

Facebook has introduced out free voice calling for iPhone users within Facebook Messenger app for users in the US, earlier they tested after testing it for a short time in Canada. Free VOIP calling is already popular with apps like Viber, it is pretty big news when it lands on a Facebook app. Of course, the benefits of using Facebook Messenger to make voice calls are that it’s free with Wi-Fi and [...]

Facebook’s highly anticipated and discussed press event on Tuesday saw Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, announce Graph Search, its latest product.The new search tools that will let Facebook’s  1 billion users search the social network for information about people, photos, places and other interests. “Web search is designed to take any open-ended query and give you links that might have [...]

Apple Decreased iPhone 5 Components Orders Due to Weak Demand, Apple has cut orders for iPhone 5 screens and other components due to weaker than expected demand, according to the Wall Street Journal. : Apple’s orders for iPhone 5 screens for the January-March quarter, for example, have dropped to roughly half of what the company had previously planned to order, two of the people said. The Cupertino, [...]

Apple will soon announce its iPad 5 according to the rumors which stemmed from Topeka Capital Markets analyst Brian White observations from this week’s CES in Las Vegas, U.S. White noted “Our checks at CES indicate Apple will release the iPad 5 and the second-generation iPad mini this March. The iPad 5 is expected to be lighter and thinner than the iPad 4 that was released in October, while [...]

Rumors of a more affordable iPhone for emerging markets which were published by Reuters, the Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg earlier this week turned out to be incorrect based on comments allegedly made by Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller. Reuters issued an update Friday morning informing readers that it had withdrawn the story, which featured the headline “Apple exec dismisses cheaper [...]

Chinese phone maker, Huawei unveiled the Ascend Mate and the Ascend D2 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The Huawei Ascend Mate has a amazing 6.1 inch display powered by a 1.5GHz quad-core processor. It packs  an average 8 megapixel camera, a front-facing camera, and a microSD card slot. Equally impressive as the screen size, is the whopping 4050mAh battery, which the company  claims [...]

Apple’s iPhone 5 has been ranked the worst top smartphone at each of the three U.S. mobile phone carriers that sell the phone by a report published by Consumer Reports according to a report published by Business Insider. Topping the lists are the Samsung Galaxy S3, the LG Optimus G, and Motorola RAZR HD. Apple’s next-generation iPhone could launch soon and the company has some ground to make up [...]

Apple  today announced that nearly 20 billions apps were downloaded in 2012 from its App Store, bringing the total number of App Store downloads to 40 billion. “The App Store℠ has over 500 million active accounts and had a record-breaking December with over two billion downloads during the month. Apple’s incredible developer community has created over 775,000 apps for iPhone®, iPad® and [...]

WhatsApp had tweeted that they have processed 18 billion messages in one day on New Year’s Eve, out of which 7 billion messages were inbound and 11 billion messages outbound. WhatsApp surpassed 1 billion messages sent in a single day in November, 2011. Last August, it was handling 10 billion messages per day.

Out of  123.3 million people in the U.S. using smartphones in November 2012, 53.7% people used Android according to a study by ComScore,  26.9% of them are using Samsung devices. Apple’s iPhones accounted for 35% of all smartphone subscribers, with overall mobile share of 26.9%. “Smartphone Platform Market Share 123.3 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones (53 percent mobile market [...]