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Apple Emerges Victorious in Smartphone Satisfaction Survey, HTC Follows at Second, Samsung Third

Apple Emerges Victorious in Smartphone Satisfaction Survey, HTC Follows at Second, Samsung Third

Credit : JD Power J.D. Power’s newest Wireless Smartphone Customer Satisfaction Study reveals that iPhone users rate their devices highest among all smartphone users in all surveyed categories, categories included performance , physical design, features and ease of operation. On a 1,000-point scale, Apple ranked first with a score of 849, performing well in all key factors used to determine [...]
No Surprises here, Samsung & Android Extend Lead Over Apple iPhone last Quarter – Gartner Study

No Surprises here, Samsung & Android Extend Lead Over Apple iPhone last Quarter – Gartner Study

Credit : Macobserver.com Android dominance of the smartphone market continued during the second quarter, majorly powered by Samsung’s Galaxy 3’s success.  Apple in contrast struggled somewhat as consumers unexpectedly held out for the next version of the iPhone according to Gartner, Inc. Worldwide sales of mobile phones to end users reached 419 million units in the second quarter of 2012, [...]
Android Domination Continues, Accounted for 68% of Worldwide Shipments Last Quarter, iPhone garners 78%

Android Domination Continues, Accounted for 68% of Worldwide Shipments Last Quarter, iPhone garners 78%

Image Credit : talkandroidphones.com iPhone User? –  You’re in the minority. Smartphones powered by Android accounted for 68% of all smartphones shipped in Q2 2012, Apple iPhone came in at a in a distant second  with a 17% share of the global market. IDC analysts traced Android’s success in the market directly to South Korean personal electronics giant Samsung, which so far this year [...]
More than Half of New Mobile Phone Buyers Choosing Smartphones

More than Half of New Mobile Phone Buyers Choosing Smartphones

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 [...]
Facebook releases SDK 3.0 Beta for iOS, better integration with iOS 6

Facebook releases SDK 3.0 Beta for iOS, better integration with iOS 6

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 [...]
BlackBerry CEO wants more time to turn company around

BlackBerry CEO wants more time to turn company around

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 [...]
Blackberry Playbook 2.0 Review

Blackberry Playbook 2.0 Review

Product: Blackberry Playbook 2.0 Price: Starts at £169.99 The tablet market is a funny one in many ways. The undisputed king is Apple, with the luxurious (and expensive) iPad and they aren’t going anywhere. But everyone wants a piece of that pie, and now Blackberry have their newest Playbook model – 2.0 – that is offered at a cheaper price and thus presents a lower barrier to entry. But [...]
Comparing iPad, PlayBook, Galaxy Tab and Streak

Comparing iPad, PlayBook, Galaxy Tab and Streak

Apple reinvented the Tablet computing landscape with its Tablet iPad, competition soon followed with Dell launching Streak, Samsung  joined the fray with Galaxy Tab, Blackberry became the latest entrant with its PlayBook tablet launched earlier this week. We bring you a feature comparison of these four models BlackBerry PlayBook Apple iPad Samsung Galaxy Tab Dell Streak Screen size 7 [...]
BlackBerry announces PlayBook Tablet

BlackBerry announces PlayBook Tablet

Blackberry PlayBook Tablet At the BlackBerry Developer Conference in San Francisco yesterday , Research In Motion’s CEO Mike Lazaridis announced the company’s new tablet named PlayBook. The Tablet PC will hit US stores early next year and  with rollouts after April  in the rest of the world. The PlayBook will run on  an OS created by the recently acquired QNX, it will be called BlackBerry [...]
Twitter Mobile Usage registers a spurt

Twitter Mobile Usage registers a spurt

mobile version of Twitter Twitter’s mobile usage of the service  has gone up 62% in just over four months, and 16% of all new Twitter users are starting out on mobile devices as opposed to web signups according to Twitter’s CEO Ev Williams. “Our Twitter for iPhone and Twitter for BlackBerry clients are now two of the most popular ways to use Twitter. This may not be surprising. [...]
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