After holding the top spot in the global smartphone market for years, Nokia may soon lose its dominance to Samsung and Apple, according to an investors’ note from Nomura Securities. Sometime this quarter, the investment firm expects Samsung to grab first place, followed by Apple in second, a move that would shake up a landscape …
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Energized by the recent deal between Microsoft and Nokia, Windows Phone will grab the No. 2 spot ahead of Apple’s iOS in the global smartphone market by 2015, according to IDC’s latest Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. Windows Phone: coming on strong? Releasing some slight revisions from a report issued in March, IDC expects Windows Phone to capture 20.3 percent …
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A shot of an iPod Touch with what is purportedly a jailbroken version of iOS 5. Twitpic Apple’s new beta version of iOS 5 has been jailbroken for the second time this week, now opening the door for users to jailbreak their iOS 5 devices using the latest version of the popular Redsn0w tool. In a blog post today about …
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ViewSonic’s ViewPad 730 will sell for $250. ViewSonic Amid a tablet market crowded with pricey products, ViewSonic is offering more cost-conscious consumers an alternative with its new ViewBook 730. Powered by an ARM Cortex-A8 1GHz processor and running Android 2.2, the ViewBook 730 will sell for just $250 when it makes its debut in late June. Though at that price, …
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ComScore Google’s Android retained the top spot of the U.S. smartphone operating system market over the three months ending in April, gaining 5.2 percentage points to capture 36.4 percent of all smartphone users, said ComScore today. In second place, Apple’s iOS also managed to win over more of the market, eking out a 1.3 percent gain to grab 26 percent …
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Facing unrelenting competition from Apple’s iPad, many rival tablet makers will build fewer tablets than originally planned, according to a J.P. Morgan analyst. Apple In a research note released yesterday, analyst Mark Moskowitz said that non-Apple tablet makers have gotten an early “dose of reality” by failing to produce a high-volume tablet that comes close to matching the demand for …
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Nielsen Users of Apple’s iPhone typically do a bit more with their phones, but Android owners are grabbing the largest amount of data each month, according to a study released yesterday by Nielsen. Analzying almost 65,000 cell phone bills in the U.S. during the first quarter of the year, Nielsen found that Android users on average gulped 582MB of data …
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Nokia today cut back on its sales forecasts for the second quarter, sending its stock into a nosedive. The Finnish mobile phone maker is now looking at sales for its Devices & Services division to be “substantially” below its previous estimate of 6.1 billion to 6.6 billion euros ($8.8 billion to $9.5 billion) that it provided in April. Nokia blamed …
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Samsung’s new 10.1-inch Galaxy Tab tablet is slated to reach consumers in June, with Best Buy revealed as one of the retailers, but Samsung is also busy prepping a 4G edition due to hit the market later this year. Best Buy’s product page touting the Galaxy Tab says only that it’s “coming soon,” however, comments made recently by J.K. Shin, …
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ViewSonic’s new 7-inch ViewPad 7x tablet. ViewSonic ViewSonic has unveiled its new 7-inch Honeycomb tablet, dubbed the ViewPad 7x, and its new 10-inch dual-OS tablet that can run both Windows 7 and Android. The two tablets are on display for the first time this week at the Computex computer show in Taipei, Taiwan. Powered by a dual-core Nvidia processor, the …
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