Nielsen said Google’s Android platform ran on 43 percent of smartphone shipments from July 2010 to December 2010; Apple iOS grabbed 26 percent, while RIM’s BlackBerry took 20 percent. – Google’s Android operating system continued to be the hit of the U.S.
smartphone world, accounting for 43 percent of smartphone shipments from July
2010 to December 2010.
Nielsen said Feb. 1 that Apple iOS was on 26 percent of smartphones
shipped over the last six months, whole Research in Motio…
A new Cisco study forecasts a 26-fold increase in mobile data traffic by 2015, driven by smartphones, tablets and mobile video watching. – Worldwide mobile data traffic is expected to increase 26 times by 2015, driven primarily by smartphone and
tablet use, as well as consumers increasing interest in watching videos on
mobile devices, Cisco Systems reported in a
Feb. 1 study.
Traffic will reach 6.3 exabytes the equivalent of
1 q…
Google’s Android platform shipped 33.3 million units, or roughly one-third of the 101.2 million smartphones shipped across the globe, Canalys said. – Google’s Android operating system became the world’s leading
smartphone platform, accounting for 33.3 million of the 101.2 million
smartphones shipped worldwide in the fourth quarter 2010, according to
researcher Canalys.
Canalys, which crunched smartphone shipments across North America, Asi…
News Analysis: As the iPhone comes close to its launch date on the Verizon Wireless network, the Android smartphone makers will likely fume about once again playing second fiddle to the iPhone on another carrier’s store shelves. – With Apples iPhone set to
make its debut on the Verizon network in a matter of days, speculation is
already percolating on what impact this will have on Android handset makers.
The end of the exclusivity deal that Apple had in place with AT amp;T made
other carriers, especially Verizon, fertil…
Samsung has introduced the Ace, Fit, Gio and mini Galaxy smartphones. Geared toward first-time smartphone owners, the phones may not reach U.S. shores. – Samsung is apparently planning world domination. Or more
exactly following swift
sales of 10 million Galaxy S smartphones and well more than a million
Galaxy Tab media tablets the launch of four more-affordable Galaxy S
phones – the Ace, Fit, Gio and mini.
Geared toward first-time smartph…
Sony and Cisco continue to update their respective Bloggie and Flip lines of ultra-portable camera devices in spite of the growing popularity of smartphones and portable media players with camera modules and robust imaging software. Despite the latter’s rise, dedicated cameras such as Bloggie and Flip offer some distinct advantages for shutterbugs. First, there’s ease of use: One button turns these devices on, one big button records, and a USB port uploads images and video to your PC and Mac.Second, many dedicated devices on the market shoot images and video at high resolution. For example, the Bloggie Touch can shoot video in 1,920-by-1,080 resolution, along with 12.8-megapixel still images. The Flip Ultra HD boasts 1,280-by-720 resolution, along with a slimmer body than previous iterations. But with smartphones adding new visual software and more powerful camera modules on a quarter-by-quarter basis, will dedicated cameras such as the Bloggie and Flip eventually find themselves shunted to the dustbin of dead tech? That’s a question the marketplace will decide. – …
Consultancy Deloitte Jan. 18 celebrated the tenth anniversary of its predictions, which it launched in 2001 with 10 predictions about mobile telephony. The forecast has evolved to cover technology, telecommunications and media. Deloitte employs 10,000 services professionals who have their fingers on the pulse of these sectors. These pros whip up a list of trends they see for each New Year. Then, Deloitte taps its so-called "second network" of clients, who are interviewed by the service pros for insights into the top trends. The trends share a common theme, which the consultancy characterizes as such: "Deloitte sees a 2011 where consumers and enterprises will be dealing with diversity in hardware-computing platforms, in software operating systems and in wireless-network access." Another way to put it is that the influx of WiFi and 3G-powered smartphones such as Apple’s iPhone and Google Android handsets, as well as tablet computers such as Apple’s iPad and its litany of Android-based counterparts flooding the market, are presenting IT managers with more choices and more management challenges. For example, CIOs must be wary of when and how to allow these machines to tap into cloud-computing services. That’s the chief theme in the enterprise that eWEEK sees for 2011. eWEEK spotlights 10 of Deloitte’s trends in this slideshow. – …
Intel has yet to play a major role in the exploding tablet and smartphone spaces, but the Web traffic generated by these devices is fueling strong growth in its enterprise server business. – Intel is yet to be much of a player in the booming tablet and smartphone
spaces, a concern for industry observers in the long term. However, for now the
burgeoning markets are helping drive demand in some of Intel’s traditional
businesses, and company executives continue to promise a strong prese…
Samsung is planning to introduce several 4G tablets and smartphones at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, furthering its vision of “digital humanism.” – Samsung Electronics has sold more than 1.5 million Galaxy Tabs, the
7-inch, Android-running tablet that it has made available through every major U.S.
carrier. Nevertheless, the South Korean electronics giant appears to have only
begun its attack on the Apple iPad’s market share.
At the 2011 C…
LAS VEGAS& With more than 10 million Galaxy S handsets sold, Samsung may be the worldwide leader in Android smartphones. But Motorola easily dusted Samsung in the presentation category at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show here this week. The phone maker, which has put all its chips on the Android table, became a tablet maker with the Motorola Xoom dual-core device, slated for launch in February. The Xoom sports Android 3.0 with several 3-D capabilities baked into the UI. Motorola also unveiled two high-end smartphones running on the top two U.S. carriers’ networks: the Atrix 4G on AT&T and the Droid Bionic for Verizon Wireless. After their initial launch Jan. 5, eWEEK tracked down all of the gadgets on the show floor. The devices were tethered, so it was hard to judge their weight and feel, but the processing speed was definitely impressive running YouTube and other applications. We took a few pictures here for good measure, and also noted a Toshiba Android tablet that no one is allowed to touch. We have more details on that below. – …
Android ran 40 percent of U.S. smartphones purchased in the six months leading up to November. However, Nielsen noted Apple remains the overall smartphone market leader. – Google’s Android operating system powered 40.8 percent of
smartphones purchased in the last six months, though Apple iOS led the United States in
consumer market share, according to the Nielsen Company.
Since June 2010, 27 percent of devices purchased ran iOS,
while 19 percent bought were Resear…
Opera Software, the famous internet browser and competitor with the likes of Internet Explorer and Firefox is planning to release its new mobile web browser. The Norwegian company on Wednesday released a blog post in which they said that Opera software will release yet another mobile version of its internet browser for the booming Googles Android based Smartphones within the time span of a month.
Android is set to "explode" at the Consumer Electronics Show this week, with smartphones and tablet computers from Motorola, HTC and others out in force in Las Vegas. – Fortune said 2011 will be the year Google’s Android operating system
quot;explodes quot; across the technosphere on smartphones, tablet computers
and other devices hardware manufacturers cook up.
Time for a level set: quot;Explodes, quot; or some variation thereof, is
the dramatic euphemism pe…
Royal Bank of Canada customers can be the first Canadians to enjoy banking on the go. The RBC has released a mobile banking app for Apple iPhones, iPad and the iPod Touch, as well as BlackBerry devices. – The Royal Bank of Canada has become that countrys first bank to
launch a mobile banking application for select smartphones namely,
RIM BlackBerry devices and Apples iPhones, iPod Touch and iPad.
The free applications enable users to view account balances for
business and personal accounts, …
As far as Smartphones are considered their market has totally been revamped within few months; it wasnt long ago that the consumers desirous to buy Smartphones had to go through cumbersome tasks of getting the information about the retailers and the vendors and above all they had to sign a 2-3 years contract with the phone sellers like AT&T and Verizon. But now, in the Smartphone realm, things are changing pretty quickly; it is partly due to lenient policies devised by the manufacturers striving to gain high market share and a flood of considerably cheap Smartphones that have hit the market.
Motorola has purchased Zecter, a startup with assets for syncing and streaming content. The Zecter technology will be used to enhance Motorolas MotoBlur user interface. –
Motorola has purchased Zecter, a startup company with synchronization and
streaming technologies for on-demand media consumption, it announced Dec. 22.
Motorola officials plan to use the Zecter technology to enhance experiences
with their mobile content, as well as with the MotoBlur user interf…
The best smartphone is in the hand of the beholder. During 2010, however, the 11 pictured here were all notable competitors for the title, highlighting emerging technologies and managing to stand out during a year that saw a flood of devices, all competing for consumer and enterprise attention. This year also saw smartphone adoption blaze upward even as the economy continued to keep many down. Subsidies from carriers were partly to thank, but so were features such as 4G compatibility, dual cameras, gorgeous displays, high-end cameras, super-fast processors, HDMI support, the ability to act as a hotspot to a handful of other devices, NFC (near-field communications) technology, and the arrival of new mobile operating systems that finally got people as excited as theyve been about Apples iOS namely, Googles Android, Microsofts Windows Phone 7 and even Samsungs Bada. – …
HP has applied to trademark the names Gyst, Veer and Myte, leading to speculation that these will be the names of the WebOS-running smartphones that it has promised for 2011. – Gyst, Veer and Myte may be the names of the planned Hewlett-Packard
WebOS-running smartphones headed for retail shelves in 2011. The PC maker,
which threw itself into the smartphone arena earlier this year with its $1.2
billion acquisition of Palm, applied for trademarks on the names with the U.S…
Gmail for Android and YouTube mobile apps have been upgraded for Android 2.2 and later handsets. Gmail sports better Priority Inbox tools, while YouTube goes full screen. – Google this week upgraded its Gmail and YouTube
applications for Android smartphones, part of the company’s mission to release
upgrades early, incrementally and often.
Apparently many Gmail users told Google they like to
access Priority Inbox, the message management feature, from their Android
…
At a conference in San Francisco, Intel CEO Paul Otellini said that smartphones powered by the upcoming “Medfield” chip should begin hitting the market in the second half of 2011. – Smartphones powered by Intel Atom processors
should start appearing on the market in the second half of 2011,
according to company President and CEO Paul Otellini.
Speaking at the Barclays Capital Global Technology
Conference in San Francisco Dec. 8, Otellini reportedly said the new
smartphones…
