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Nokia, HTC and Samsung Preps New Windows Phone 8 Smartphones
Author: Jon Mitchell
Nokia, HTC and Samsung Preps New Windows Phone 8 Smartphones
Bangalore: Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 is reportedly witnessing a bright future ahead. Even though the number of hardware vendors for WP8 is little, it may soon change, as tech biggies including Nokia, HTC, Huawei and the Android only- Samsung is …
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Slow Sales Of Facebook's Phone? AT&T Drops Price On HTC First From to …
HTC Corp, (TAIEX: 2498) produces smartphones running the Android and Windows Phone 7 operating systems for themselves and as an OEM to other manufacturers. Since launching its own brand in late 2006, the company has introduced dozens of …
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Windows Phone Device Stats: May 2013
So while Nokia devices control 80 percent of Windows Phone usage overall, they only account for 66 percent in the US, with HTC grabbing 26 percent (well above its global share of 13.7 percent), thanks largely to the success of the Windows Phone 8X.
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MediaTek’s new chip offers entry-level smartphones a dual-core SoC with HSPA+ on the cheap
Author: Jade Kim
As glad as we are that MediaTek ushered in affordable, quad-core SoC designs with the MT6589, even that silicon can only go so far in making smartphones accessible. The company’s new MT6572 might be frugal enough to lower some of those few remaining barriers. The all-in-one part mates a cheaper dual-core, 1.2GHz ARM Cortex-A7 processor with HSPA+ 3G, China-focused TD-SCDMA, Bluetooth, GPS and WiFi, dropping the construction costs beyond what even the chip’s quad-core sibling can manage. While the MT6572 can only handle up to a qHD display, a 5-megapixel camera and 720p video, that’s more than enough to improve baseline features in a category where many recent entry-level phones still tout single-core CPUs and WVGA screens. Its rapid arrival in the marketplace may be crucial, too. MediaTek expects the first phones based on the MT6572 to roll out in June — just in time to keep the world’s transition to smartphones moving at full steam.
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As Smartphones Reach A Global Tipping Point, Leader Samsung Shipped 71M Devices In Q1, Nearly 2X As Many As Apple
Author: Tiffany Shoman
IDC is the first of the big analyst companies to come out with quarterly mobile device shipment numbers that indicate Q1 as the first quarter where smartphones have outnumbered more basic feature phones in worldwide shipments: in a total market of 418.6 million devices, 216.2 (51.6%) were smartphones. But it is was a kind of tipping point of another sort, too: it is a sign of how Apple is not the juggernaut that it once was.
(BTW… for those of you keeping track, this is not the first quarter where Android has all but dominated the top-five rankings, save Apple’s presence. That happened in Q4 2012, according to IDC’s figures.)
Samsung shipped nearly 71 million smartphones in the quarter, giving it a market share of almost one-third of the whole of the smartphone sector (32.7%). Apple, meanwhile, shipped 37 million devices — just over half as many as Samsung, for a market share of 17.3%. With all others in the top-five — LG, Huawei and ZTE — still with less than 5% market share apiece, Samsung and Apple remain a strong top-two.
But looking at the pattern of growth something else comes out: Apple only grew its volumes by 6.6% over the same quarter a year ago. In fact, in that regard, that growth puts it far behind not only Samsung (at 60.7% volume growth), but also behind LG (110.2% growth); Huawei (94.1%); and ZTE (49.2%). As a point of comparison, Samsung and Apple were more nearly level a year ago, in Q1 2012, (44 million versus 35.1 million in Q1 2012), and respectively saw growth of 267% and 89% in shipment volumes — the only two that increased:
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As we’ve pointed out before, shipments to those who sell devices are not the same thing as sales to users, but it is an important barometer for where the wider market is going. (The most recent figures from Kantar Worldpanel, which track sales, spell out how the difference between Android-based and Apple sales is not as wide as 2:1 in every market, but is in fact significantly wider in some.)
It’s notable that Nokia, BlackBerry, and HTC whose shipments were on the decline last year but still enough to keep them in the top-five, are now out of the picture altogether. It also shows that Nokia’s sub-10 million sales of smartphones, with 5.6 million Lumias, are not big enough figures to break out of the sizeable ‘others’ category.
With Apple still shipping more than three times as many devices as its next-closest competitor, LG, even if things continue as they are today, it will likely still be some time before it gets overtaken by the others in the list. Its performance also was enough to keep it in place as the world’s third-largest mobile handset maker overall, in a list otherwise dominated by companies that make both smartphones and feature phones:
IDC notes that LG, which shipped 10.3 million smartphones in the quarter, a rise of over 110% over the year before, was helped by three factors in the last quarter. The first of these was the popularity of the Nexus 4 device it created with Google; the second was the success of its lower-priced L Series (15 million sold in this category alone since launched); and the third was its LTE line. These three point to how those Android handset makers that can create strong enough and distinctive handsets that are set apart from the rest of the Android crowd can continue to pull away from the crowd.
Apple’s iPhone brand has never been seen as anything other than premium, and true to type, it is still not playing at the same level as others smartphone industry in creating new models that aim at the “cheap smartphone” market.
CEO Tim Cook did not discuss the prospect of a new, low-cost device, on Apple’s earnings call this week — the focus remains on selling older models, namely the iPhone 4, in markets like China as a route to bringing new smartphone users on to the platform. Other handset makers like Samsung, Nokia and many “others” are building out portfolios that hit not only at high-end users but those looking for entry devices priced at closer to $ 100 or even less. Some handset makers, specifically in emerging markets, are targeting only this market.
On the other hand Cook also left open the possibility that whatever comes next may be something different altogether: the “really great stuff” coming out in the autumn and in 2014 could be another iPhone. Equally, it could be something else altogether, and not a handset at all.
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Top Shelf 008: Galaxy S4 and the best new smartphones
Author: Angela Chin
Hello, S relations! Welcome to Top Shelf, a weekly show from The Verge that takes a deeper dive into the products and experiences of the technology that shapes our lives. Join David Pierce and a veritable gaggle of (mostly organic) friends as they showcase the best, brightest, craziest, and pixel-dense-iest from the consumer electronics industry.
This week, you’ll never guess. It’s time to talk about Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S4, and afterward we’ll be joined by Dan Siefert for a game of Android “hide and seek.”
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Verizon to offer one year payment plans on smartphones costing over $349.99
Author: Brandon Zimmerman
In addition to the dour news that Verizon will be strictly enforcing a 24-month upgrade cycle, the company is extending a small olive branch. Customers who want to get a new phone before their contract is up (or, presumably, anytime) will be able to do so without paying the full device cost up front. Instead, Verizon will let consumers sign up for a “Device Payment Plan” that will break up the full retail price into monthly payments over the course of a year. A Verizon spokesperson tells The Verge that smartphones and tablets costing more than $ 349.99 will be eligible, but there’s also a $ 24 “finance charge, billed at $ 2 each month.”
The plan was originally leaked by Droid-Life earlier today, and it’s mainly an extension of a program…
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Wacom unveils crayon-esque Bamboo Stylus mini for tablets and smartphones
Author: Jesus Sargent
Wacom wants to ensure there’s no purchaser’s remorse for those who didn’t pop for a pen-equipped device, so it added the Bamboo Stylus mini to its transportable touch-pen lineup. It signs up with the Stylus Feel, Solo, Pocket and Couple, but brings a stubbier 4.7 centimeter (1.85 inch) kind factor and strap with a dummy mini-jack plug for terminal pen mis-placers. In spite of the whimsical appearance, Wacom says the body is brass plated, has 6 colors of soft-touch rubber and nibs that are replaceable with company or soft touch options. You can color in your order now for $ 19 at the source.
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Vavuud Wind Meter For Smartphones Contains No Electronics, Delivers Accurate Ground Wind Speed Readings
Author: Jon Daniels
Smartphones have a lot of on-board sensors, but do they really have enough? No way, say a slew of recent hardware startups, of which Danish Vavuud is only the most recent. Vavuud is turning to Kickstarter to help build a smartphone-compatible wind meter, one that miraculously contains no electronics and yet still can communicate accurate wind speed measurements wirelessly to iPhones and Galaxy devices.
The Vavuud wind meter provides an easy way to measure wind speed exactly where you are, with a device that’s remarkably inexpensive and deceptively simple. It plugs into the headphone jack of your device, but that’s to give it a stable base; it actually uses two magnets in the rotor, which generate a magnetic field that the smartphone can pick up and process using algorithms normally used for sound processing to translate it to wind speed data. Vavuud co-founder Thomas P. Helms says it’s been tested with iPhone 4, 4S, and 5, as well as Galaxy SII and SIII so far, and it has been calibrated in a wind tunnel at the University of Denmark to ensure accuracy.
“To our knowledge we are the first to use the magnetometer in smartphones in this way, so we of course think the technology itself is kind of cool,” Helms explained via email. “It’s also cool because on a mechanical level it appears quite simple, but there is some relatively complex math behind it .”
It’s likely that Vavuud will be able to work with any modern advanced smartphone with built-in magnetic field sensors (which is pretty much all of them), so the limited existing test pool shouldn’t frighten away potential backers. The Vavuud is designed to be used by anyone who might find accurate current windspeed readings useful – a potential group of users that includes windsurfers, sailors, paragliders, model plane pilots and more.
“Surfers, sailors, paragliders etc. have needed an online anemometer for ages to be able to create and share crowd-sourced wind information,” Helms explained. “Because conditions at your favorite spots may depend on very local factors like mountains, could be affected by thermal conditions, and on and on.”
Vavuud is looking to ship the Wind Meter by June of this year, with pre-orders beginning at the £15 level. iOS and Android apps from Vavuud itself are expected to become available at the same time, but it’s easy to imagine how, as with the Thermodo, the developer community might embrace another means of collecting information about the world around you and integrate Vavuud into their own apps.
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No Comments »ABI: Tablets Will Take A 35%, $8.8BN App Revenue Share This Year – Passing Smartphones By 2018
Author: Brandon Zimmerman
Regardless of being such a (fairly) brand-new category of gadget tablets are racing up on their smaller cellular relatives, with quickly expanding user adoption and smartphone-surpassing web page traffic generation. Little marvel then that tablet apps are also bringing in enhancing quantities of revenue — forecasted to pass smartphone app revenue within five years. Making a projection in a brand-new report, analyst ABI Research anticipates tablets will account for even more than a third(35 %) of total apprevenues this year, or some $ 8.8 billion out of a total pool of $ 25 billon. That ’ s still a way behind smartphones of course
— projected to bringing in $ 16.4 billion this year, or simply under double the amount produced by tablet apps — but the revenue share is growing and ABI reckons tablets will go beyond smartphones in app income generation by 2018. The reasons for tablets to become utmost app revenue winners are down to their larger screen, which provides plenty of scope for developers to develop attractive items, as well as lesser cost slates helping to ramp up tablet ownership and boost app downloads, reckons ABI.”The larger screen makes apps and content appearance and feel better, so there are more lucrative opportunities, ” states senior expert Aapo Markkanen in a declaration. ” One might think that the bigger set up base of smartphones would compensate for the variation, however that thought fails to take into account the arrival of reasonable tablets, which hasn’t even started yet at its earnest. The smartphones paved the means for them, but in the end we think that it’s the tablets that will prove the more transformative device segment of the 2.”The analyst adds that the tablet classification is additionally well placed to open the computing market by attending to underserved market teams such as the senior and children.”The actually big offer about tablets is how they will help to finally bring the computing age to, for example, kids and the senior, ” says Markkanen. ” The company chance linked with them is
indisputable, however at the exact same they could additionally cause extremely significant social benefits.” On the OS front, ABI predicts that the lion ’ s share of the app wide range this year will remain to be created within Apple ’ s iOS environment: it expects 65 % of the integrated$ 25 billion to come from iOS vs simply over a quarter(27 %)from Google’s Android ecological community. While “ the various other mobile platforms ” will produce the remaining 8 % in between them (ABI does not break this out ). In spite of controling app profits, ABI recently predicted that Apple ’ s iOS will just account for 33 % of the smartphone app downloads this year, vs. 58 % being Android apps. However Apple ’ s tablet lead with its iPad gadgets remains to be a huge one, with ABI expecting 75 % of the tablet apps downloaded this year to be iPad apps, vs. just 17 % being Android apps. Amazon(with its Kindle Fire tablet)is projected to obtain around 4 % app share, while Windows tablets are relegated to around 2 %.Incoming search terms:
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ABI: Tablets Will Take A 35%, $8.8BN App Revenue Share This Year – Passing Smartphones By 2018
Author: Natalie Wood
Despite being such a (relatively) new category of device tablets are racing up on their smaller cellular cousins, with rapidly growing user adoption and smartphone-surpassing web page traffic generation. Little wonder then that tablet apps are also generating increasing amounts of revenue — predicted to pass smartphone app revenue within five years.
Making a forecast in a new report, analyst ABI Research predicts tablets will account for more than a third (35%) of total app revenues this year, or some $ 8.8 billion out of a total pool of $ 25 billon. That’s still a way behind smartphones of course — projected to generate $ 16.4 billion this year, or just under double the amount generated by tablet apps — but the revenue share is growing and ABI reckons tablets will surpass smartphones in app revenue generation by 2018.
The reasons for tablets to become ultimate app revenue winners are down to their larger screen, which offers plenty of scope for developers to build attractive wares, and also lower cost slates helping to ramp up tablet ownership and increase app downloads, reckons ABI.
“The larger screen makes apps and content look and feel better, so there are more lucrative opportunities,” says senior analyst Aapo Markkanen in a statement. ”One might think that the bigger installed base of smartphones would compensate for the disparity, but that notion fails to take into account the arrival of low-cost tablets, which hasn’t even started yet at its earnest. The smartphones paved the way for them, but in the end we believe that it’s the tablets that will prove the more transformative device segment of the two.”
The analyst adds that the tablet category is also well placed to open up the computing market by addressing underserved demographic groups such as the elderly and children. “The really big deal about tablets is how they will help to finally bring the computing age to, for instance, children and the elderly,” says Markkanen. ”The business opportunity associated with them is undeniable, but at the same they can also bring about very significant social benefits.”
On the OS front, ABI predicts that the lion’s share of the app wealth this year will continue to be generated within Apple’s iOS ecosystem: it expects 65% of the combined $ 25 billion to come from iOS vs just over a quarter (27%) from Google’s Android ecosystem. While “the other mobile platforms” will generate the remaining 8% between them (ABI does not break this out).
Despite dominating app revenue, ABI recently predicted that Apple’s iOS will only account for 33% of the smartphone app downloads this year, vs. 58% being Android apps. However Apple’s tablet lead with its iPad devices continues to be a big one, with ABI expecting 75% of the tablet apps downloaded this year to be iPad apps, vs. just 17% being Android apps. Amazon (with its Kindle Fire tablet) is projected to get around 4% app share, while Windows tablets are relegated to around 2%.
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Tablets Now Taking A Greater Global Share Of Websites Views Than Smartphones, According To Adobe’s Digital Index
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The proportion of web traffic coming from tablets has actually pushed past smartphones for the first time, according to Adobe ’ s most recent Digital Indexwhich has actually tracked even more than 100 billion visits to 1,000+sites worldwide, between June 2007 to date, to contrast which device kinds are driving one of the most page views. The monitored markets are the U. K, UNITED STATE, China, Canada, Australia, Japan, France and Germany. While the difference in between smartphone and tablet traffic is marginal — with tablets considering eight per cent of the gauged page views and smartphones seven per cent — the development in tablet page views is outstanding, especially thinking about some ways new the category is (the first iPad launched in April 2010 ). Obviously both mobile device types still account for a fraction
of the overall share of page views when contrasted to desktops/laptops — which considered 84 per cent of the page views, according to Adobe ’ s data – but both are taking a growing share, and tablet growth is on a particularly high trajectory: Adobe connects the increase of tablet web page views to how well-suited the form aspect is for web
browsing, with the most evident quality being tablets ’ larger screen size vs smartphones(albeit, that gap is closing as some tablets shrink and some smartphones swell ). Usually, Adobe discovered that Web individuals see 70 per cent more web pages per check out when browsing with a tablet compared with a smartphone — so tablet users are doing more leisurely(and most likely leisure time)browsing. While there is a great spread of different tasks around both tablets and smartphones, Adobe ’ s index shows that on-line shopping is an especially prominent activity for tablet individuals. Retail sites get the greatest share of tablet traffic across all sectors, according to its data, while automobile and travel buying websites additionally get a “ considerable share ” of tablet traffic: Composing on its digital index blog, Adobe includes: We’ve been keeping a close eye on how rapidly tablets have taken off. Just ayear ago in January we discovered that site visitors making use of tablets invest 54 % even more per online order than their equivalents on smartphones, and 19 % more than desktop/laptop users. Throughout the past holiday shopping season we saw that 13.5 % of all online sales were transacted via tablets. And last month before the Super Bowlwe learned that on-line viewership through tablets
increases during big sporting events. Now we know that not justis tablet traffic more important in regards to ecommerce and engagement, tablets have likewise become the primary device for mobile surfing. The U.K. leads Adobe ’ s Index for tablet page views, with the U.S. second: All countries tracked saw their share of traffic from tablets double over the course of 2012 — a trend Adobe anticipates to continue with 2013. It added that some slight dips in tablet share in certain nations in November were down to PC traffic surging, as opposed to tablet web page views dropping:
