The American Consumer Satisfaction Index (ASCI) released their 2012 findings yesterday, revealing consumer satisfaction scores for cellphone manufacturers and wireless carriers. The top two victors in their respective field may or may not surprise you? Apple’s scores as the top cellphone manufacturer are of little surprise, love or hate Apple, they do… Read more
Last week, people staged a protest outside of an Australian Apple store. Everyone was holding signs that said “Wake Up.” The signs were professionally printed, and the protest had its own website, so people assumed it was a company that staged this protest for marketing purposes. Of course, everyone jumped at the chance to blame Samsung. Many stated it… Read more
Nokia is once again suing its competition for patent infringement. This time, their targets are HTC, ROM, and Viewsonic. In an official press release, Nokia states that the three manufacturers are violating as many as 45 different Nokia patents. While Nokia already licenses patents to over 40 companies, it wants to add three more. Nokia filed a… Read more
RIM has promised that its tablet, the BlackBerry PlayBook, would be receiving compatibility with Android apps. That compatibility has just arrived, in the form of PlayBook OS 2.0. The update is now available for owners of the tablet, and the BlackBerry App World is being updated accordingly. “A range” of Android apps are now included, something the tablet… Read more
Most Android app developers rely solely on ads within their apps for revenue. When you take a feature like that away, developers will probably leave the platform. RIM is in a situation like this, as it has just been announced that the tablet will not feature support for mobile ads. This isn’t good for anyone, as developers for the platform will probably… Read more
So you’ve been waiting on prices to drop on tablets. You really really want one but just can’t afford it. Well, today may be your lucky day. Looks like the folks over at Lenovo are trying to push their numbers for Q1, at least in terms of IdeaPad A1 sales. Clicking this link here, will take you to the tablet which is being sold for a door-busting $199.20…. Read more
Well the Q4 numbers are out and no one’s surprised. It looks like both Google’s Android and Apples iOS are gaining some traction in terms of market share. Android rushed in at about 46.5% which is a gain of 3 percentage points from Q3. iOS took silver with a gain of 2% up to 30% in Q4. Other OS, as predicted either saw extremely small gains (Windows Phone 7… Read more
Amid bad press that Android is an unsafe operating system, BlackBerry producer Research In Motion (RIM) announced that it would be launching a new “Mobile Fusion device management software” in Q1 2012. The piece of software in question would allow for corporate IT staff to monitor rules for passwords, apps, and software across iOS and AndroidOS. Features… Read more
One of the bullet points for Research In Motion’s BlackBerry PlayBook, the company’s very first tablet device, is that they have always planned on running Android applications on it. That’s great for those developers out there who want to keep their development model strictly Android, but wouldn’t mind promoting their applications in other markets. To… Read more
When the BlackBerry PlayBook was about to launch, Research In Motion made it a point to outline the fact that the tablet device would have support for Android applications. So, while the BlackBerry PlayBook probably wouldn’t have many applications made specifically for it, the tablet would be able to share the benefit of applications made for Android. Great… Read more
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