February 18, 2013 Smartphone, Tablet, Technology
Dipesh Patel, a head of ARM, stated that the price is still a factor that curbs smartphones and tablets popularity growth. He believes that vendors should concentrate more on affordable devices. Just 5 of 7 billion world’s population have mobile phones and just one billion users have smartphones. Patel thinks that smartphones and tablets for [...]
According to Counterpoint Research for the first time Japanese vendors lost their leading positions on Japanese mobile devices market. In 2012 Apple owned 15% market share. At the same time consolidated market share of Sharp and Fujitsu achieved just 14%. In total about a half of Japanese smartphones market belongs to foreign companies and this [...]
January 18, 2013 Android, Featured, Smartphone
A week ago Samsung announced its new smartphone running on Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean – Galaxy S II Plus. The device itself has no any differences with Galaxy S II and many users of this smartphone expected Samsung to release an update to Jelly Bean. Today Samsung officially confirmed these rumors. In the beginning of [...]
June 25, 2012 Android, Smartphone
It is rumored that HTC has been already working on an heir of One X flagship smartphone. The device called One XXL will look like original smartphone but will get some technical upgrade. It will be based on Qualcomm Snapdragon APQ8064 platform with Adreno 350 graphics and 1.6GHz quad-core processor. Like its predecessor HTC One [...]
During Computex 2012 exhibition Acer introduced two new S7 Series ultrabooks featuring Full HD touchscreens. Acer Aspire 13.3 and Acer Aspire 11.6 have 13.3-inch and 11.6-inch display respectively. The battery of the senior model provides 12 hours of work time, while the battery of 11-inch device provides about 9 hours of work. Both laptops will [...]
May 23, 2012 Android, Featured, Tablet, Technology
NVIDIA has just introduced its new platform that is can be a basis for quad-core Android tablets which price will not exceed $200. NVIDIA Kai will be released in next few weeks and first devices based on this system-on-chip are expected to become available till the end of summer 2012. Earlier Rob Csonger, a vice-president [...]
May 15, 2012 Smartphone, Windows Phone
According to Kantar Worldpanel analytics agency during the year the market share of Windows Phone 7 increased from 2% to 3-5% depending on a country. The country where WP smartphones got the biggest popularity is Germany – here it owns 6% share while Android has 62% one. In UK and USA the share of Windows [...]
April 27, 2012 Android, Featured, Tablet
According to comSource analytics agency Amazon with its Kindle Fire has just reach 54.4% US Android tablets market share. It is notable that took Amazon just two months – in December 2011 the share of Amazon Kindle Fire was just 29.4%. The second place belongs to Samsung Galaxy Tab series tablets – 15.4%, Motorola Xoom [...]
April 17, 2012 Featured, Internet, Technology
Some days ago Mozilla announced its plans to add video chat functionality to Firefox. According to LiveSide Microsoft also works on an in-browser version of Skype. That app will not require any additional software like Silverligh or Flash and will be based on HTML5 and JavaScript. There is no information about release date but it [...]
According to LG’s officials the company has been already ready to ship first batch of 6-inch 1024×768px flexible e-ink displays. In Europe the first e-books equipped with these displays will become available in April. Besides of flexibility these screens are very lightweight and thin – 14g and 0.7mm respectively. In near future LG also plans [...]
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