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Image Credit : talkandroidphones.com iPhone User? –  You’re in the minority. Smartphones powered by Android accounted for 68% of all smartphones shipped in Q2 2012, Apple iPhone came in at a in a distant second  with a 17% share of the global market. IDC analysts traced Android’s success in the market directly to South Korean personal electronics giant Samsung, which so far this year [...]

Android sales declined by 5% over last year, according to a report by Strategy Analysts, Google’s mobile OS’s market share dropped from 60.6 percent a year earlier to 56.3 percent and according to the report Android may be “approaching a peak” in its market share. The key reasons for the decline were a dull economy, maturing penetration of smartphones among contract mobile subscribers, [...]

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 [...]

Sparrow, the popular thrid-party email app for MAC OS and iOS plus  a great Gmail solution for iPhone users has been acquired by Google. According to some reports, the price is said to be around US $25 million. “The Sparrow team has always put their users first by focusing on building a seamlessly simple and intuitive interface for their email client. We look forward to bringing them aboard [...]

After Twitter introduced iOS integration last month, how could Facebook not get on the bandwagon, earlier today Facebook launched OS-level integration on the iPod touch, iPad and iPhone. A new iOS Dev Center was also revealed, so that developers have easy access the tools and resources  to build varied social apps for iOS. The key features of the new code are superior user session management, ready-to-use [...]

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 [...]

Imagine listening to the same music in every room of your house, at the same time. You walk from the living room to the kitchen and your favourite track goes un-interrupted. It almost sounds like an experience from a science fiction movie, but with Sonos it’s not only possible – it’s easy, affordable and bloody amazing! The applications are endless. You’re doing chores around [...]

Apple Apple iOS 4.2 beta made available to developers signed on to its development program. iOS 4.2  is suppose to add a number of features, especially for the iPad, in the form of multi-tasking, AirPlay, folder organization, the ability to print from your iPad and more. Apple has also announced that it is releasing a beta version of its AirPrint wireless printing for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch [...]

iPhone After Apple has announced yesterday that it will be relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create iOS apps, as long as the resulting apps do not download any code, developers were greatly relieved, as it meant that they could again start using third party development tools to create iOS apps. Adobe was glad at this development and has termed  Apple’s decision “great [...]