Even if you throw the exploding tablet market in with the staid PC market, shipments of smartphones surpassed those of “client PCs” in 2011, a milestone for the computer industry.
Last year brought smartphones into the foreground. (Credit: Yang Li, via MIT) All the PCs in the world couldn’t compete with the popularity of smartphones–literally. IT research firm Canalys released its shipment estimates this morning for each country for the final quarter of 2011. When it tallied the annual numbers and did some quick cross-referencing it found vendors shipped 488 million …
While Apple may have made a mountain of money by putting a bunch of electronics inside brushed aluminum cases, a design student from the UK is wondering if his bamboo-based idea will yield a similar bounty.
(Credit: Apple) Apple won the smartphone wars last quarter, but Samsung was close behind in second place, according to Juniper Research. Buoyed by the iPhone 4S, Apple sold 37 million iPhones during the December quarter, giving the company a 25 percent share of the market. Though Samsung lost its top perch, the Korean handset maker still managed to carve out a 21.7 percent share thanks to …
Smartphone usage in the Philippines will rise sharply in 2012 given the growth momentum established late last year, foresees Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart). According to Smart chief wireless advisor Orlando B. Vea, the company has seen a doubling of the number of subscribers using smartphones in the last four months of 2011 due to the growing demand of mobile Internet and increased …
Smartphone vendors concerned about the strong performance of the iPhone 4S are to wait until the second quarter of 2012 to launch new handsets. That’s according to Taiwan-based sources in the smartphone supply chain quoted by Digitimes , who say that Samsung, HTC, Nokia and LG lack the confidence to launch their new models at the moment after record sales of the iPhone last month and the first …
stole the smartphone sales crown from Samsung during the fourth quarter of 2011, research firm Juniper Research reported Monday. While Samsung has cranked out a spate of new handsets last year????kept up, in part, by chopping the price of older models. cut the price of the iPhone 4 to $100 with a two-year contract, and …
By JIM ALGAR United Press International As modern smartphones begin to look more alike, there is one user preference difference that has kept phone design firmly in two camps: the keyboard — virtual or physical.
Several carriers offer services that are similar to the popular “Find My iPhone” app that can help you track your device if a thief took it or locate your device if you dropped it between the cushions on your sofa.
Apple has emerged as the number one smartphone vendor worldwide in the fourth quarter of 2011, by a small margin, after earlier losing ground to Samsung.
Samsung Electronics Co. reported a 17 percent jump in fourth quarter profit on the strength of smartphone sales even as the company battled claims it had copied Apple’s iPhone.
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