Posts Tagged ‘smartphone’

Is Amazon building a smartphone?

July 18, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
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You can say it more than a rumor that Amazon is developing its own Android-powered smartphone. Accordingly to undisclosed sources, Amazon is closely working with a China based electronics manufacturing company Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd) to build the device. Amazon has also acquired patens to wireless technology to keep itself away from [...]

Smartphone users prefer apps over mobile web

May 28, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
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Apps have captured the imagination of lots of smartphone users. They now prefer to spend more time on apps than mobile web. Nielsen recently released a report showing how smartphone owners are getting fascinated by apps and their abilities of being personalized.  Mobile market is shifting towards smartphone-only environment and the apps are the ones [...]

The award goes to Samsung for world’s largest Smartphone maker

May 14, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
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Samsung Galaxy S III is a collateral challenge of Android’s to Apple’s iPhone. The combo of Samsung and Google’s Android has messed-up Apple’s sales statistics badly. In 2011 alone, Samsung’s smartphones, powered by Android OS, set the company in leading state especially the Galaxy S Series. Smartphone sales data for 1Q12 shows that Samsung has [...]

Time to secure that Smartphone you have

May 1, 2012 by · 1 Comment
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Smartphone is everything for today’s mobile user. Also with the launch of Google Wallet and other mobile payment services it has become a wallet for everyone as it replaces the credit cards & money people use to carry. For present generation it is a vault, where people store their valuable information, passwords and confidential docs. [...]

Where do iPhone and Android stand in the global market?

July 9, 2010 by · 5 Comments
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AdMob, Mobile Advertising Network has recently revealed a report on the smartphone devices metrics for April 2010. As per their closer look at the geographical distribution of smartphone devices, we can say, Android is still largely concentrated in North America while iPhone is going for global reach. If we consider only unique Android devices, 75% [...]

What kinds of apps are most popular in the app market?

June 18, 2010 by · 4 Comments
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Nielson has recently surveyed over 4,200 smartphone users who had downloaded mobile apps in the last one month. And their survey is showing that Facebook and Google Map are dominating the smartphone apps market. As per their report, we find that the most popular apps across all smartphones directly relating to Facebook, Google Map, Weather [...]

Why is Blackberry Pearl 3G going for traditional keypad?

May 13, 2010 by · 2 Comments
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WES 2020 (April 27-29), 2010 was off to the start following the announcement of Blackberry Pearl 3G smartphone. They had already announced that this device would come up with traditional keypad. What is the reason behind it? What markets is the smartphone intended for? RIM says that they are going to launch two different model [...]