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How your smartphone can help you save on gas

In this season of rising gas prices, car shoppers can more easily calculate a vehicle’s fuel costs using their smartphones

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Posted in Smartphone News on Feb 21st, 2012, 7:38 pm by Smartphone Monkey     

New Affordable Smartphone In Malaysia By April

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 21 (Bernama) — A new smartphone, which will be available in the Malaysian market by April, targets the affordable market segment. The phone, costing below RM500, was developed and manufactured in Malaysia by a local company, DMD Mobile Sdn Bhd.

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Posted in Smartphone News on Feb 21st, 2012, 8:44 am by Smartphone Monkey     

US and GB Smartphone User Survey Indicates Tens of Billions ($US) in Revenue Upside for Service Providers

US and GB Smartphone User Survey Indicates Tens of Billions ($US) in Revenue Upside for Service Providers

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Posted in Smartphone News on Feb 20th, 2012, 2:01 pm by Smartphone Monkey     

Technology: A tablet? A smartphone? Galaxy Note is both

It’s a tablet. It’s a smartphone. It’s a phablet. Samsung’s new Galaxy Note is hard to pigeonhole. It resembles an oversize smartphone or an undersized tablet. Then throw in that a key feature is a stylus-like pen — Palm Pilot redux?

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Posted in Smartphone News on Feb 19th, 2012, 7:55 am by Smartphone Monkey     

Apple Loses China Smartphone Market Share

Apple ‘s share of China’s smartphone market slipped for a second straight quarter in the fourth quarter of 2011 amid competition from Chinese vendors and as some consumers delayed purchases to wait for the iPhone 4S launch.

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Posted in Smartphone News on Feb 17th, 2012, 5:53 am by Smartphone Monkey     

Android smartphone conquest continues

Samsung and Apple dominate as Nokia becomes biggest Windows Phone vendor – but analysts warn that midrange Android handset makers face a make or break year Google’s Android mobile operating system dominated the fast-growing smartphone market in the fourth quarter of 2011, powering 50.9% of mobile devices shipped worldwide as it crushed Nokia’s Symbian and BlackBerry maker Research in Motion …

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Posted in Smartphone News on Feb 17th, 2012, 12:41 am by Smartphone Monkey     

iPhone saves smartphone market

“Smartphone volumes during the quarter rose due to record sales of Apple iPhones”. That’s a helluva statement — from Gartner’s press release on Q4 2011 handset sales today. Emphasis on sales, which is what the analyst firm measures, not shipments into the channel like its competitors. One hundred-forty nine million smartphones sold globally during the quarter, up 47.3 percent year over year, 35 …

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Posted in Smartphone News on Feb 15th, 2012, 11:19 pm by Smartphone Monkey     

Google tightens grip on smartphone wallets

Google on Wednesday assured users of its smartphone wallets that the mobile-age technology thwarts thieves better than old-school cash or credit cards.

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Posted in Smartphone News on Feb 15th, 2012, 8:41 pm by Smartphone Monkey     

Apple Now The World's Largest Smartphone Seller According To New Report

is now the world?s number one seller of smartphones according to a new report. The maker of the iPhone has also passed up LG to become the world?s number three phone vendor, according to a new market share report from Gartner. clocks in at 19 percent of all smartphone sales, making it the leader in …

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Posted in Smartphone News on Feb 15th, 2012, 7:14 pm by Smartphone Monkey     

Apple Became Top Smartphone Maker in 2011, Gartner Says

Record sales of the iPhone last year made Apple the biggest smartphone manufacturer in the world, according to Gartner, a research company. That makes Apple the third biggest vendor of cellphones overall, behind Nokia and Samsung.

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Posted in Smartphone News on Feb 15th, 2012, 5:19 pm by Smartphone Monkey     

Apple Overtakes Samsung as Smartphone Vendor

Apple Inc. (AAPL) passed SamsungElectronics Co. to become the world’s biggest smartphone vendorin the fourth quarter on surging sales of its iPhone, GartnerInc. said. Almost a quarter of smartphones sold …

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Posted in Smartphone News on Feb 15th, 2012, 10:46 am by Smartphone Monkey     

Smartphone App Could Help Health and Diet Conscious Track Caloric Intake by Taking a Picture

A picture can be worth a thousand calories or 800 or 1,800 through a new smartphone application being developed at Purdue University to help the health and diet conscious track the

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Posted in Smartphone News on Feb 14th, 2012, 7:47 pm by Smartphone Monkey     

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