Archive : Mobile

 Samsung shipped 52.1 million smartphones, double the number of iPhones shipped by its leading rival  Apple in the second quarter of 2012 according to estimates by Juniper Research. Samsung’s numbers were mainly due to its flagship phone Galaxy S3 which achieved sales of 10 million in June.   Other players in the smartphone game aren’t coming out as shiny as Samsung. RIM shipped 7.4m [...]

If reports are to be believed, Apple’s  next iPhone will drop the 30-pin wide dock connector used in its mobile devices  in favour of a smaller 19-pin connector port to enable the earphone to move to bottom from the top. This change is likely to annoy the Apple iPhones, iPads and iPods owners as it would not connect with the existing accessories such as speakers and chargers, this move could [...]

If you had planned on buying a 16GB Nexus 7 but have not already, there is some bad news for you – It’s sold out.  Google is no longer taking orders for the £199 model.  The page for the 16GB version Google Play displays a “coming soon” message, Interested customers can register to be notified via email when the model becomes available once again.   Nexus 7 which is built by Asus  [...]

58 percent of people in UK send text messages each day, that’s way ahead of 47 percent who prefer making phone calls according to a study by Ofcom, the Independent regulator for the UK communications industries. The change in communication is being driven by the growth of smartphones, and Ofcom found that more than one quarter of adults (27 per cent) and close to half of teenagers (47 per cent) [...]

UK court gave a ruling last week that Samsung’s Galaxy tablets don’t infringe Apple’s registered designs,  that iPad maker Apple  should  publish a notice on its U.K. website and in British newspapers alerting people to a ruling that Samsung Electronics Co. didn’t copy designs for the iPad according to a report by Bloomberg.  “Should Apple continue to make excessive legal claims [...]

Google has started shipping Nexus 7 pre-orders to customers who ordered the device from Google Play stores outside of the United States. ‘We’re now shipping Nexus 7 preorders. Many US and Australia preorders are scheduled to ship by July 17th. UK and Canada preorders have also begun shipping in waves.’ says a statement on the Google Play’s support page. Will the Nexus 7 wave [...]

Samsung and Apple’s court room wars are proving disruptive for retailers selling Samsung products,  FOSS Patents has published documents showing the ruthless approach Apple is taking with retailers. According to Samsung, several Samsung Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy Tab 10.1 retail sellers received letters ordering them to stop selling the two devices in late June and early July, before the ban on [...]

A recent Nielsen survey revealed that two-thirds of new mobile phones purchased in the second quarter of 2012 were smartphones. Nielsen also reported that just under 55% of all U.S. mobile subscribers owned smartphones. Android was the market leader with  51.8% of smartphone owners  using an Android OS handset, Apple came second with 34.3% share, and Blackberry owners represented another 8.1 % of [...]

After Twitter introduced iOS integration last month, how could Facebook not get on the bandwagon, earlier today Facebook launched OS-level integration on the iPod touch, iPad and iPhone. A new iOS Dev Center was also revealed, so that developers have easy access the tools and resources  to build varied social apps for iOS. The key features of the new code are superior user session management, ready-to-use [...]

Investors or BlackBerry users – no one seems to be happy with BlackBerry maker Research in Motion due to their inability to stay current with the market demands and inability to catch up with Apple iOS and Android based devices that does much more than email and phone calls. That’s going to change according to RIM‘s CEO. RIM’s CEO Thorsten Heins, who replaced long time CEOs [...]