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Nokia’s preference and love for Microsoft’s Mobile OSes is evident with most of its flagship phones running on the OS,  it’s not surprising when the Finland based company hinted that Windows 8 running tablets might be announced in the future according to Nokia chief executive Stephen Elop. Speaking to reporters in Sydney, Mr Elop said the company was not yet announcing anything, [...]

Apple iPhone is not doing as bad as the reports suggests, Apple sold 17.7 million iPhones in US during the fourth quarter of 2012 according to a from report from Strategy Analytics’ Wireless Device Strategy Samsung,came second at 16.8 million mobile phones in the same quarter. 52 million phones were sold in the U.S. between October and December. Of the 52 million phones sold, two out of every three [...]

Android and Apple smartphones wiped the floor with rivals and captured a whopping 92 per cent of global sales in the fourth quarter of last year according to the latest research from Strategy Analytics. During the same period global smartphone shipments grew 38 percent annually to reach 217 million units. Neil Shah, Senior Analyst at Strategy Analytics, said, “Global smartphone shipments grew 38 [...]

Surprise, Huawei had the third largest market share in the global smartphone industry in the fourth quarter. While the Chinese manufacturer trailed Samsung and Apple, it did unveil the Huawei Ascend P1 S, which has a 6.68mm thin design to be the thinnest smartphone made. Huawei held a 4.9 percent marketshare based on unit shipments. This is much less than the 29 percent chunk held by Samsung and Apple’s [...]

Nokia recorded  profit of €439 million ($585 million) in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to recently released financial reports. Full year results for 2012 saw that the losses in previous quarters still puts the company at an overall loss of €2.3 billion ($3 billion), despite the Lumia-based sales uptick seen in the last quarter. Nokia says it sold 4.4 million Lumia devices, up from 2.9 [...]

Nokia has launched an iOS 6 maps alternative named Nokia Here mapping application, for iOS devices running iOS 4.3 and up, the iOS version has the same features  which are seen on Nokia Windows Mobile OS like nearby places discovery, but there are also crucial components like transit direction that aren’t present in Apple’s  Maps app.  Features: • Map views – Pick the map you need from map [...]

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 [...]

Credit : BGR Nokia has just unveiled its next generation Lumia smartphones, including the flagship Nokia Lumia 920 and the Lumia 820, both of which will run Windows Phone 8 at the joint Microsoft and Nokia ‘s New York press conference today. “The Windows Phone is unlike any other phone on the market,” Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told the audience. “It keeps you closest to the people and [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]