Oh how the mighty have fallen as another piece of bad news surfaces for the BlackBerry crowd as new figures suggest the once giant smartphone OS has dropped to fourth in global shipments. There’s no question that Android at 75% and iOS at 17.3% of the total global smartphone market in the first quarter 2013 have the clear lead. Still, Microsoft saw an… Read more
When you ask an average consumer about tablets, what kind of response do you usually get? I’m willing to bet that they first mention the iPad. Or possibly they don’t even know what you’re talking about until you bring up the iPad. Now I hope you’ll agree that this is a serious problem. Because the iPad is just one tablet in a sea full of many others…. Read more
Marketing research agency, Ask Your Target Market (AYTM), recently published an infographic regarding the smartphone market for late 2012. In response to the release of the new iPhone 5, 600 Americans were surveyed with online questionnaires to gather these results. I’m no statistician or economist so I can’t comment on the validity of these… Read more
With Amazon’s September 6th event quickly approaching, with what is believed to be an unveiling of a new Kindle Fire, Amazon has made that even more likely with the announcement that the Kindle Fire is now sold out. This comes after several weeks of diminishing Kindle stock on Amazon’s site, with the Kindle Touch completely unavailable as of a few days… Read more
In a press release today, the US Department of Justice stated they have seized three domains associated with the pirating and illegal distributing of Android apps in what is described as the first such operation against cellphone app marketplaces. The three seized domains – applanet.net, appbucket.net and snappzmarket.com – are now in the… Read more
Android users itching to get more details on the Google Play Store’s gift cards are in for a treat. According to Android Police, an investigation into the gift card program itself found a Google Support page pertaining to the new payment option. The support page showed up in search indices (that have since been pulled), which confirm the cards will… Read more
Today’s announcement from Samsung brought us the brand new Galaxy Note 10.1 but another fun fact was contained in the announcement which was that Samsung has sold ten million Galaxy Note devices worldwide. Samsung had previously hoped to sell ten million Galaxy Notes and it looks like they certainly succeeded after launching on two carriers in the US… Read more
Available today, Google has updated it’s Google Translate app to version 2.5, adding some significant improvements from previous versions. The most notable feature includes the ability to translate text from images utilizing your phone’s rear facing camera. Using the image translation feature is quite easy. Simply tap on the camera icon, take the… Read more
AT&T is certainly thinking ahead as they revealed in an SEC filing today that they plan to shut down their 2G data network by 2017. That spectrum will then be redeployed to serve the dual purpose of improving network performance on 3G and 4G and helping to reduce the need for more spectrum capacity. The shutdown should be completed by January 1,… Read more
Ready for a nice dose of confusing analytics? Today we’ve got the latest on smartphone market share in the US. According to Strategy Analytics, smartphone shipments dropped 5% from Q2 2011 to only 23.8 million units this quarter. Also up is operating system shipments where Android fell from 15.3 million shipments last year to 13.4 million in this year’s… Read more
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