According to Neilson’s Q3 report, Android has captured 43% of the smartphone market (and 18% of the total market for all mobile devices). In other words, almost 1 in every 5 people walking down the street with a cell phone in their hands are sporting…
It’s no no surprise that quarter three’s numbers bode well for iPad. In that time alone, Apple sold 11.1 million iPads, which accounted for thee-fourths of the entire tablet market. These are truly outstanding numbers for a product created over a year and a half ago. One…
Gartner’s analysis for quarter three is out and it doesn’t look good for the iPhone. Incredibly, it only captured 3.9% of the market for 2011′s quarter three. Ahead of Apple are Nokia (23.9%), Samsung (17.8%), and LG (4.8%). Of course, these numbers refer to the…
According to Strategy Analytics, Samsung shipped more smartphones than Apple during the third quarter of 2011. Samsung smartphone sales increased by 44% over the last quarter and sold an incredible 117 million units. As a result, Samsung now holds 24% market share in the smartphone…
A few days ago, major mobile competitor Nokia announced that its new high-end smartphone, the Lumnia 800, will be available in the U.S. by early 2012. Many are saying that this is the first phone that will be able to truly compete with the iPhone. Let’s see…
We’ve all seen them sitting in Starbucks and lounging on park benches. They’re casually swiping their fingers on high resolution screens and using specialized styluses to create detailed graphics and notes. You won’t see them toting a New York Times or a planner. They have eschewed…
With the advent of the iPhone 4S, many people are talking about its most noteworthy improvement: Siri, the almost human, voice recognition software that is integrated in many standard Apple apps. Over the past week, we’ve seen a proliferation of blog posts talking about Siri’s offbeat responses…
By now we’re all familiar with the fatal BlackBerry outage that occurred last week. Interrupting email and Internet services, the outage left many BlackBerry users unconnected to the digital world around them. This outage, worldwide in effect, reached not only US phones, but also mobile devices in Africa, Canada, Europe, and…
When the first generation of the iPad was launched a little more than a year ago, we couldn’t have predicted that it would revolutionize the way we interact with the Internet. Today, however, its impact is widespread. A plethora of competing tablets have emerged, many e-readers…
At Apple’s last media event “Talk iPhone,” the almost mythical technology innovator introduced Siri, an application that allows users to ask questions and receive intelligent answers from their new 4S iPhone. Now, we’ve all seen some iteration of this software before. Even the most basic…