Apple was the top smartphone vendor in the United States last quarter according to new data released on Monday. A new report from market research firm The NPD Group suggests that the three best-selling smartphones in America last quarter were all iPhones. Apple’s new iPhone 4S was deemed the top-selling smartphone this past holiday quarter, followed by the iPhone 4 and the iPhone 3GS, which is now free on contract from AT&T. Two versions of Samsung’s Galaxy S II smartphone rounded out the top-5. Read on for more. “Attracted by a faster processor, improved camera and the Siri speech-driven agent, most iPhone buyers paid a premium for the iPhone 4S, making it the top-selling handset in Q4,” NPD analyst Ross
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NPD: iPhone dominated in Q4, Android popularity grows among first-time buyers
February 6th, 2012 
Zach Epstein 
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No Comments »Google hires Apple Senior Director for “secret project”
February 5th, 2012 Edgar Cervantes While Eric Schmidt and Steve Jobs may have had a “no poaching” agreement before, it seems like it is no longer in place. According to Venture Beat, Google has just hired Simon Prakash, Apple Senior Director of product integrity. Prakash worked with Apple for eight years, and most recently was in charge of quality control [...]
Google poaches Apple’s Senior Director of Product Integrity for secret project, maybe to work on Google X?
February 5th, 2012 Jake Smith Google reportedly poached an Apple employee to hire on its own staff. VentureBeat reported that Google hired Apple’s (now former) Senior Director of Product Integrity Simon Prakash for a secret project, where he would work perhaps alongside Google’s cofounder Sergey Brin. Prakash could even work under Motorola Mobility, whom Google is working to acquire, to head [...]
Posted in News Tags: Apple, google, Google Corporate, Google X, motorola mobility, Sergey Brin, steve jobs No Comments »Mobile Miscellany: week of January 30th, 2012
February 4th, 2012 Zachary Lutz Not all mobile news is destined for the front page, but if you’re like us and really want to know what’s going on, then you’ve come to the right place. This week, we’ve spotted a leaked Android 4.0.4 ROM for the Nexus S 4G, and we’ve also come across …
Posted in News Tags: Android, Android 4.0.4, Android4.0.4, app, Apple, Apps, Canada, ClockworkMod, clockworkmod recovery, ClockworkmodRecovery, droid 4, Droid4, england, Galaxy Nexus, GalaxyNexus, google, htc, HTC Rezound, HtcRezound, Ice Cream Sandwich, IceCreamSandwich, iOS, iPhone, koush, Lumia 710, Lumia710, mm, mobile miscellany, MobileMiscellany, mobilepostmini, mobilicity, motorola, Motorola Droid 4, MotorolaDroid4, nexus s 4g, NexusS4g, Nokia, Nokia Lumia 710, NokiaLumia710, Peter Alfonso, PeterAlfonso, price, pricing, release date, rezound, Sprint, Sprint Zone, SprintZone, UK, Verizon, verizon wireless, VerizonWireless, Videotron, wind, wind mobile, WindMobile No Comments »ComScore: Android and iOS gallop ahead, US smartphone usage approaches 100 million
February 4th, 2012 Zachary Lutz The latest report is in from ComScore, and as you might expect, the news is sunshine and roses for the crews at Google and Apple. Both companies platforms charted some worthwhile month-over-month gains, as Android is estimated to account for 47.3 perc…
Posted in News Tags: Android, Apple, BlackBerry, comScore, google, iOS, LG, metrics, microsoft, mobilepostmini, motorola, Nokia, Numbers, Rankings, results, RIM, Samsung, Stats, symbian, Windows Phone, WindowsPhone No Comments »U.S. Government Chooses Android For Its Openness, Can Update Phones in 2 Weeks
February 3rd, 2012 Kellex The U.S. government has been testing Android phones for a couple of years now, but they expect to deliver them to soliders in 2012 according to a report from CNN. Up until this point, government officials and military personnel were not allowed to u…
Motorola beats Apple in court; iPhones and iPads banned temporarily in Germany
February 3rd, 2012 Edgar Cervantes 
We have something special for your daily flurry of lawsuit news. We usually see Cupertino Giant messing with all the little boys in the playground. Today, Motorola has taken a big swing at Apple, winning a permanent injunction in Germany. This forced Apple to pull most of its devices from its online store (you [...]
Posted in News Tags: Apple, Germany, iCloud, Mobile Me, motorola, permanent injunction No Comments »Apple and Samsung to pull in 90% of smartphone profits in 2012, UBS says
February 3rd, 2012 Zach Epstein Industry watchers agree that smartphone sales will continue to balloon in 2012, but much of the projected growth will seemingly be enjoyed by just two companies. In a report to clients earlier this week, UBS analyst Maynard Um lowered his full-year unit sales projections for cell phones to 1.69 billion from his earlier estimate of 1.7 billion units. At the same time, however, he raised his industry revenue estimates to $242.8 billion from $238.8 billion thanks in large part to a huge year projected for both Apple and Samsung. Read on for more. Um believes Apple and Samsung will combine to account for more than half of smartphone industry revenues in 2012. Each firm recently reported a moster holiday quarter
Posted in News Tags: Apple, Business, earnings, Galaxy S II, galaxy s iii, iOS, iPhone, iPhone 5, market share, Mobile, profit, Sales, Samsung, Smartphones, UBS No Comments »Canalys: More smartphones than PCs shipped in 2011
February 3rd, 2012 Daniel Cooper 2011: the year Smartphones supplanted computers, at least according to the bundle of spreadsheets that just arrived from Canalys Research. Vendors shipped (shipped, not sold) 488 million of the devices, compared to 414.6 million “PCs,” which erroneou…
Posted in News Tags: Apple, BlackBerry, Business, Canalys, Canalys Research, CanalysResearch, data, Desktops, galaxy, iPhone, Laptops, lumia, mobilepostcross, Netbooks, Nokia, Numbers, RIM, Samsung, Shipments, Stats, Tablets No Comments »iOS apps crash more than Android apps, study shows
February 3rd, 2012 Dan Graziano Apps running on Apple’s iOS devices crash more frequently than Android apps according to a new study preformed by mobile app monitoring company Crittercism. The data, which was collected between December 1st and 15th last year, spans 23 different versions of iOS and 33 different Android versions. The latest version of iOS (5.0.1) leads all others with 28.64% of all crashes, Forbes reports. The OS build is still relatively new, however, so much of the poor performance could be attributed to apps that haven’t yet been properly updated. Even still, there are older version of iOS that have surprisingly high percentages — iOS 4.2.1 was responsible for 12.64% of crashes, iOS 4.3.3 had 10.66% and iOS 4.1 had 8.24%. The chart above,
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