Archive : Mobile

China is all set to go to past the US to become the country with the highest number of active  iOS and Android devices, both smartphones and tablets according to report from Flurry.   More details below : For this report, Flurry uses its entire data set, tracking more than 2.4 billion anonymous, aggregated application sessions per day across more than 275,000 applications around the world. Flurry [...]

Nokia’s low-cost Asha series phones are selling twice as much as Lumia, Apple is rumored to be developing cheap iPhones, how could Samsung be far away, Samsung is coming up with a new handset line called Rex that is  targeted  at emerging markets according to a WSJ report.   “As the number one mobile leader and innovator, we are committed to developing the best possible mobile solutions [...]

Android and iOS once again dominated the smartphone market with 91.1 percent of all global smartphone shipments for the fourth quarter of 2012. Android and Apple shipped and landed 87.6 percent of the 722.4 million smartphones shipped worldwide in 2012 according to a report by IDC. “The dominance of Android and Apple reached a new watermark in the fourth quarter,” said Ramon Llamas, research [...]

Apple’s mobile iOS 6.1 has plethora of issues including connection issues and battery problems and now a security flaw discovered in iOS 6.1 lets people bypass the lock screen of your iPhone. It was first reported by videosdebarraquito, the process is to make and immediately cancel an emergency call and then hold down the power button twice. It doesn’t seem to be all that easy to reproduce, [...]

Apple and Samsung accountes for 52 percent of all global smartphone sales in fourth quarter of 2012 according to a report by Gartner. Overall, mobile phone sales declined across the globe by 1.7 percent last year, the last time when sales fell were in 2009. Below is the report : “The last time the worldwide mobile phone market declined was in 2009,” said Anshul Gupta, principal research analyst [...]

Rumors about Apple’s  “iWatch” may indeed be more than just rumours, according to a report published by Bloomberg  Apple has “a team of about 100 product designers working on a wristwatch-like device that may perform some of the computing tasks now handled by the iPhone and iPad” Bloomberg cited two people familiar with the matter who claimed Apple’s wristwatch [...]

Apple CEO Tim Cook today announced that Apple had paid out $8B to developers during the last quarter, an increase of US $1 Billion since the last time numbers were announced last month. The increase in payouts demonstrates that the developer ecosystem of iOS continues to be vibrant, especially as it represents actual paid downloads of apps, not free downloads or overall share,” says Matthew Panzarino [...]

Apple has today announced that 25 billion songs have been purchased and downloaded from iTunes, the 25 billionth song was “Monkey Drums” (Goksel Vancin Remix) by Chase Buch, and the person who downloaded it will receive an iTunes gift card worth €10,000. Apple’s full press release is below: iTunes Store Sets New Record with 25 Billion Songs Sold CUPERTINO, California―February 6, 2013―Apple® [...]

Google has purchased Channel Intelligence which according to its blog, “tracks online retail sales for a number of categories ranging from computing to consumer packaged goods”. The deal is worth U.S. $125 million in cash. In an announcement on the Channel Intelligence website, the company noted it has “worked with Google for years” as a featured Google Shopping launch partner with [...]

Nokia’s preference and love for Microsoft’s Mobile OSes is evident with most of its flagship phones running on the OS,  it’s not surprising when the Finland based company hinted that Windows 8 running tablets might be announced in the future according to Nokia chief executive Stephen Elop. Speaking to reporters in Sydney, Mr Elop said the company was not yet announcing anything, [...]