The iPad remains the king of the tablet world, but Android rivals continue to carve off some of its market share. Apple shipped a total of 22.9 million iPads worldwide last quarter thanks to demand for the iPad Mini and the availability of the 4th-gen iPad, according to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker. That number …
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RIM is trying to amp up interest in BB10 by beefing up its BlackBerry World store with new music, movies, and TV shows. BlackBerry users will find a variety of individual songs ranging in price from 99 cents to $1.49. Full albums will cost anywhere from $7.99 to $11.99. You can preview any piece of music to help you decide …
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RIM may have trouble luring in buyers for its BlackBerry 10 devices, at least based on the results of a new poll. A healthy 47 percent of consumers were intrigued by certain features found on the new BB10 phones, according to a poll from mobile app developer Bite Interactive. But only 13 percent would consider buying one, and just 1 …
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Those of you who want to catch RIM’s BlackBerry 10 action tomorrow can tune in to a live Webcast. Scheduled to start at 7 a.m. PT/10 a.m. ET tomorrow, the event will run simultaneously in New York, Toronto, London, Paris, Dubai, Johannesburg, Jakarta, and Delhi. People who can’t make the trip to any of those cities can watch online through …
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Apple and Android continue to chew up the smartphone industry. The two platforms captured a record 92 percent of worldwide smartphone shipments in the final quarter of 2012, according to data released today by Strategy Analytics. Android took the lead with 152.1 million shipments last quarter, almost double the 80.6 million shipped in 2011’s fourth quarter, Strategy Analytics estimated. The …
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BlackBerry users should start to see lower prices for mobile apps, thanks to BlackBerry 10. To push its upcoming mobile OS, Research In Motion is kicking off a new global pricing plan in its BlackBerry World store. As described in a RIM blog post yesterday, the new pricing tiers used in the store will incorporate currency exchange rates and value-added …
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Samsung has created a new smartphone that can handle the great outdoors and even spend time underwater. Announced today, the Galaxy Xcover 2 is built as a durable and rugged device, according to Samsung. The phone is both dustproof and sandproof. It can also hold its breath underwater, at least at a depth of around three feet for up to …
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LG’s Optimus G Pro smartphone will reach consumers in April, at least those in Japan. Japanese provider NTT DoCoMo announced the news yesterday. A Google-translated version of the company’s press release revealed early April as the launch date for the successor to LG’s popular Optimus G. A DoCoMo slideshow page reveals a host of details about the phone, but only …
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A newer and beefier version of LG’s Optimus G could be coming to town, at least to someone’s town. A leaked slide sent to blog site Engadget teased a host of alleged details about the Optimus G Pro. If the slide is on the money, the new smartphone would sport a 5-inch 1,920×1,080 pixel display and tap into a 1.7GHz …
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Apple’s iPhone is the No. 1 pick among prospective smartphone buyers polled in North America, though it’s losing some ground to Samsung. Among 4,000 people looking to buy a smartphone in the next 90 days, 50 percent plan to buy an iPhone, according to a report out today from ChangeWave Research. That’s not a bad number, but it’s down from …
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