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 Samsung shipped 52.1 million smartphones, double the number of iPhones shipped by its leading rival  Apple in the second quarter of 2012 according to estimates by Juniper Research. Samsung’s numbers were mainly due to its flagship phone Galaxy S3 which achieved sales of 10 million in June.   Other players in the smartphone game aren’t coming out as shiny as Samsung. RIM shipped 7.4m [...]

Apple’s iPad accounted for 68.3 percent of global tablet shipments last quarter according to Strategy Analytics. Global tablet shipments grew 67 percent annually in Q2 2012,that’s up nearly 10 percent from the fourth quarter of 2012, and up 7 percent year-on-year. Peter King, Director at Strategy Analytics, said, “Global tablet shipments reached 24.9 million units in Q2 2012, jumping [...]

If you are among the hundreds of Google Nexus 7 pre-order customers are still waiting for their tablets to arrive on their doorsteps and think that you are unlucky, you are wrong as some of the consumers, lucky enough to receive a Nexus 7 were dumbfounded when they began using the tablet only to find a number of manufacturing defects. XdaDevelopers and other online forums have numerous reports that [...]

A recent Nielsen survey revealed that two-thirds of new mobile phones purchased in the second quarter of 2012 were smartphones. Nielsen also reported that just under 55% of all U.S. mobile subscribers owned smartphones. Android was the market leader with  51.8% of smartphone owners  using an Android OS handset, Apple came second with 34.3% share, and Blackberry owners represented another 8.1 % of [...]

Investors or BlackBerry users – no one seems to be happy with BlackBerry maker Research in Motion due to their inability to stay current with the market demands and inability to catch up with Apple iOS and Android based devices that does much more than email and phone calls. That’s going to change according to RIM‘s CEO. RIM’s CEO Thorsten Heins, who replaced long time CEOs [...]

Twitter has launched today new versions of Twitter for iPhone and Twitter for Android. These new apps contain several updates including a video feature, now you can click on a tweet with a video link on your iPhone or Android device,  and have the video play directly in the tweet. Below are the new features as described by Sung Hu Kim,  Twitter’s Product Manager “Expand Tweets Since we [...]

Google has released the source code of  Android 4.1, also known as Jelly Bean, the latest version of its Android operating system, this move that is sure to see massive excitement from the huge Android developer community. ” We’re releasing Android 4.1 in AOSP today.  The name of the tagged release is android-4.1.1_r1.  The name of the development branch is jb-dev.  We recommend that you create [...]

Samsung Galaxy S III launch generated the kind of buzz and excitement usually seen only with Apple mobile device launches. Columnists and Reviewers are running out of platitudes raving about the latest device to come out of Samsung’s stable. In tradition with proclaiming every other Android Phone a iPhone killer, Galaxy S III was touted as an iPhone killer as well. Is Galaxy S III the best Android [...]

When it comes to listening to music these days, the consumer is presented with a plethora of options; almost too many. Whether it’s a simple case of throwing some headphones in and listening solo, or streaming music from a personal computer to a media server like an Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3, whatever you choose to do, most people have an option in their home already. It’s with that in [...]

When it comes to picking a phone that we are going to use it’s normally anything but an easy decision, we’ve got to think about what we’re going to use it for, how often it’s going to need charging and that’s before you even start thinking about how often you’re going to actually use it as a phone. If you’re the kind of person who does a lot of exercising, [...]