The statistics for the three month period ending in November were released today by comScore. While nothing much has changed, the gap between the duopoly of Samsung and Apple and the other three in the top five is growing fast. Samsung grew 1.2 percentage up to 26.9%, while Apple grew even more to 18.5%, up 1.4 points. Everyone else has dropped 0.4 to… Read more
Kodak has agreed to sell its digital-imaging technology patents to a consortium led by RPX Corporation, a patent risk advisory firm, and Intellectual Ventures, a patent-holding company. The entire consortium consists of 12 licensees. This list includes: Apple, Inc. Research In Motion Limited Google Inc. Samsung Electronics CO., Ltd. Adobe… Read more
Gartner, the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company, has released earlier today their 2012 3rd Quarter report for worldwide mobile device sales by vendor OS. The firm reports that despite an overall 3 percent decline in mobile phone sales, the smartphone category hit 169.2 million units sold in Q3, resulting in a 47… Read more
This comScore is over a 3 month period ending in August, which is before the iPhone 5 launch, so they are a little irrelevant at the moment. Still, the numbers show the state of the phone ecosystem a month ago. As you can imagine, Google is in first place with a growth of 1.7%, up to 52.6%. Apple had a 2.4% growth up to 34.3%. RIM dropped another 3.1%… Read more
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlsahuZ_4oM&feature=player_embedded This video is quite self explanatory, and just had to be posted. So what if it isn’t Android related? It’s awesome. Why doesn’t Google make me feel that special? Here’s a bright future to a good… Read more
The current smartphone race has ultimately come down to Apple’s iOS OS and Google’s Android OS. The key characteristics differentiating the two is that Android is an open source OS, is licensed to several manufactures while iOS solely is focused on the few devices that Apple has optimized the OS for. Most recently RIM has been developing their… Read more
RIM CEO, Thorsten Heins, had an interview with the Telegraph last Thursday, admitting that RIM simply can’t keep up with Samsung and Apple. That is, at least not without outside help. However, he went on to say RIM “made a conscious decision not to go to Android,” after seeing the struggles of manufactures like HTC and Motorola as of late. “If you… Read more
It seems like everyone has a smartphone these days, and manufacturers have the numbers to back that up. In Q2, Samsung shipped 52.1 million smartphones. That doesn’t necessarily mean they sold all of them, but it’s still an impressive number for a single quarter. Next up is Apple, who sold 26 million phones in the same quarter. Considering Apple only… Read more
The CEO of RIM, Thorsten Heins, has stated that he uses an Android device as his second phone. Is this surprising? Not really. Business people tend to carry around two phones, and when they do, what’s the point of having the same two phones? His main phone is Blackberry, which is good because he is passionate about his company, but I see nothing wrong… Read more
It’s a known fact that RIM has seen better days. It’s Blackberry phones used to be the best-of-the-best. Now it’s bleeding money right and left. Situations have become even worse now that BB10 has been pushed back to early 2013, rumors have begun to spread that CEO Thorsten Heins and his company may be looking into adopting another, more established… Read more
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