Apple may not be the world’s leading mobile phone maker but its cut of both profits and sales puts it firmly at the top.
Though it holds only around 9 percent of the global mobile phone market, Apple raked in 75 percent of all profits across the industry last quarter, according to Asymco analyst Horace Dediu.
That left rival Samsung with 16 percent of the profit pie, RIM with 3.7 percent, HTC with 3 percent, (more…)
has just reported that UK Operator O2 is sending user’s phone numbers in the header information when you visit a website over O2′s 3G network.
The issue was brought to our attention to Lewis Peckover, who created a simple webpage to check the information that a mobile browser would send to a website when it requested data.
Whilst most of the data was to be expected, including the Host, User Agent, Referrer and Encoding, there was also another (more…)
, Joe Belfiore, an engineer on the Windows Phone team, admitted that the platform was indeed a response to the
.
“Apple created a sea change in the industry in terms of the kinds of things they did that were unique and highly appealing to consumers. We wanted to respond with something that would be competitive, but not the same.”
work, it was very unlike Microsoft to start off with a strategy to do something different.
article offers an interesting (more…)
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Remember the days of Betamax, turntables, and Zenith TVs with rabbit ears and big honking dials?
A little retrofitting turned a rotary phone into a Siri-enabled handset.
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Siri has just taken a little trip back to those simpler times of yore with a quaint little hack that turns the voice assistant into an operator reachable via rotary phone (cue the Jim Croce, (more…)
Hey, what's Windows Phone 7 doing on my iPhone ? Giving me a taste of its sexy interface, that's what.
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Admit it: you’re curious about Windows Phone 7. It’s impossible to look at those sexy screenshots and not be.
Of course, short of driving to your local cell phone emporium and standing there like a dweeb, there’s no easy way to test-drive the OS. (It’s not like (more…)
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With a rush of amazing Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals, this is a great time to buy a new phone for you or for someone else. There are excellent phones flooding the market (here are our top five favorite smartphones), but unless you plan on switching your next handset before your contract is up, you’ll want to consider a few points before making any semi-permanent decisions.
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Despite suffering a small drop from last quarter, Apple is still taking more than half of all profits in the mobile phone industry. This is only bound to go up in light of the
‘s popularity and its availability on three carriers.
“Apple generated a remarkable 52% of handset industry operating profits among the top 8 OEMs.”
This is very good news for Apple . Many people expected a significant drop in profit from consumers opting to not buy (more…)
‘s latest report has revealed that Apple had surpassed 10% share in the US mobile phone market in the last quarter, which means one in every ten mobile phone users in the US are using an iPhone now.
comScore took a look at the three month period ending in September. Apple ‘s OEM market share has gone up to 10.2% from 8.9% at the end of June.
Overall, this is a 1.3% gain in market share in only three months. Samsung showed no change, and the other (more…)
Word to the wise: occasionally turning off your iPhone can apparently help improve battery life.
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The other day I encountered a serious problem with my iTunes account that seemed to require major surgery, so I figured I’d stop in at my local Apple Store and mosey up to the Genius Bar downstairs to see if there was a less draconian fix than the one I’d read about online.
Since I was there (more…)
Nokia today announced the first two smartphones based on Windows Phone 7.5 – Lumia 800 and Lumia 710.
back in February 2011, where Nokia decided to ditch its Symbian platform and instead adopt Windows Phone as its
.
According to Nokia, Lumia 800 features:
head-turning design, vivid colors (cyan, magenta and black) and the best social and Internet performance, with one-touch social network access, easy grouping of contacts, integrated communication (more…)
