Android continues to gobble up more of the smartphone market. Google’s mobile OS won a global market share of 81.3 percent last quarter, up from 75 percent in the prior year’s quarter, research firm Strategy Analytics said on Thursday. Shipments of Android phones hit 204.4 million, a hefty gain over the 129.6 million shipped a …
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AT&T has rolled out the 4G LTE welcome mat to another six markets. The cities included in the latest LTE expansion are Red Bluff and Redding, Calif.; Gallipolis and Marion, Ohio; Point Pleasant, W.V.; Albany, Ore.; and Watertown-Fort Atkinson, Wisc. The additions bring AT&T’s LTE total to 447 markets, covering almost 250 million people. The carrier plans to reach 270 …
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Samsung shipped a record 120 million phones last quarter, beating Nokia, Apple, and LG combined, Strategy Analytics said Tuesday. The quarter showed a 7 percent jump in overall global shipments from a year ago and gave Samsung a 29 percent slice of the mobile phone market. Strategy Analytics attributed the gain to strong demand for Samsung’s Note 3 phablet and …
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Courtesy of the new Android 4.3 Jelly Bean update, the Galaxy S4, S3, and Note 2 will be compatible with the Galaxy Gear smartwatch, Samsung said Tuesday. Samsung already has started rolling out Android 4.3 for the international version of the Galaxy S4, with more models to follow. The latest Jelly Bean update is also being prepped for the S3 …
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Consumers eager to grab LG’s next Nexus smartphone can preorder the device from a seller on eBay. Promising the 32GB Nexus 5 for $650, the seller, yoshio_221, seems confident that the phone will launch and that he’ll be able to lay his hands on enough units to satisfy his buyers. As yoshio_221 phrases the offer in his listing: This is …
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LG Electronics could be prepping to jump into the Chrome OS market. The company filed for trademarks on three names that contain the word Chrome — ChromeOne, ChromeDesk, and ChromeStation. Filed on October 15, all three trademarks list the device class as “Laptop computers; Computers; Convertible computers; Tablet computers.” In January of 2012, LG signed a deal with Microsoft that …
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The PC industry is likely to experience another rough year, according to analysts at Gartner. Global shipments of desktops and notebooks are expected to nestle in at 303 million this year, an 11.2 percent drop from 2012. Stirring in ultramobile PCs (which include hybrid laptops/tablets), shipments are forecast to decline by 8.4 percent this year, Gartner said on Monday. Tablets …
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Nokia may be set to report another surge in Lumia sales if a new report from the Wall Street Journal proves true. Citing the usual “people familiar with the matter,” the Journal said Monday that Nokia sold at least 8 million Lumia Windows Phone handsets last quarter. That achievement would mark the fourth quarter in a row in which Lumia …
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