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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Tags: Android, Apple, Business, Galaxy S II, iPhone, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, market share, Mobile, Samsung, Smartphones 
No Comments »Samsung’s quad-core Galaxy S III reportedly just 7mm thick, set to launch in May
February 6th, 2012 Zach Epstein Samsung’s next-generation Galaxy S III will reportedly be one of the thinnest smartphones in the world when it is unveiled in the coming months. South Korea’s Electronic Times News on Monday cited unnamed sources in claiming Samsung’s upcoming flagship superphone will pack impressive specs into a case that is just 7 millimeters thick; the thinnest version of Samsung’s current flagship, the Galaxy S II, features a case that is 8.49 millimeters thick. The site also states that the Galaxy S III will feature an 8-megapixel rear camera, a 2-megapixel front camera, a Super AMOLED Plus display and the Android 4.0 operating system. An earlier report claimed the Galaxy S III could launch as soon as April, but Electronic Times News claims
Posted in News Tags: Android, Android 4.0, Details, galaxy s iii, Ice Cream Sandwich, launch, leak, Mobile, Rumors, Samsung, Smartphones, specs No Comments »Corning and Samsung form joint venture to combine ‘Lotus Glass’ with OLED displays
February 4th, 2012 Todd Haselton Samsung and Corning — best known for its Gorilla Glass products — announced a new joint venture this week that will manufacture specialty glass substrates for OLED displays. The joint venture will be based in South Korea and will combine Samsung’s OLED display technology with Corning’s ultra tough Lotus Glass substrate. The new displays will be utilized in mobile devices as well as larger products, such as televisions, and will be used in Samsung products and sold to other South Korean manufacturers. ”Corning and Samsung have a long and successful partnership in the display industry, dating back nearly 40 years to the early days of television,” Corning chairman, President and CEO Wendell P. Weeks said. “The strength of our business relationship
Posted in News Tags: Business, corning, gorilla glass, joint venture, JV, Mobile, OLED, Samsung, Samsung Mobile, Substrate, TV, Wendell Weeks No Comments »Verizon begins testing new mobile payment solution
February 4th, 2012 Todd Haselton Vantiv, a provider of mobile payment solutions, announced a new point-of-sale product on Friday that it will be rolling out in partnership with Verizon Wireless. The product, which is currently in field testing, includes custom tailored applications and an Android-based point-of-sale solution for accepting payments. The applications will be available in Verizon’s Private Application Store for Business. “Merchants and consumers are seeking greater mobility, control and timely access to data,” said Bill Weingart, Chief Product Officer of Vantiv. “We’ve teamed with Verizon to combine our payment and security expertise with Verizon’s ability to tailor development of mobile technologies to address those needs.” Verizon Wireless is also a member of ISIS, an initiative in which it has partnered with AT&T and
Posted in News Tags: Bill Weingart, Business, Mobile, mobile payment, payment, Point-of-Sale, POS, Private Application Store, small business, Vantiv, Verizon, verizon wireless No Comments »Samsung Galaxy S Advance receives early hands-on preview
February 3rd, 2012 Dan Graziano The Samsung Galaxy S Advance was announced on Monday, and not even a week later the device has shown up in Vietnam and received a hands-on from Mai Nguyen. The handset reportedly features a design that is a combination of the Galaxy S II and Galaxy Nexus, complete with a curved display. The Advance’s specs fall between the Galaxy S II and original Galaxy S, however, featuring a 4-inch Super AMOLED display, a 1GHz dual-core processor, a 5-megapixel camera, 768MB of RAM and 2GB of internal storage. The handset reportedly had a “solid feel,” with a thickness of 9.7mm and a weight of 120 grams. The Galaxy S Advance is expected to be released in Vietnam at the end of
Posted in News Tags: Android, Galaxy Nexus, Galaxy S, Galaxy S Advance, Galaxy S II, hands-on, Mobile, Samsung, Vietnam No Comments »Canalys: Smartphone shipments surpassed PC shipments in 2011
February 3rd, 2012 Dan Graziano Smartphone shipments overtook client PC shipments for the first time in 2011, according to new data from market research firm Canalys. Vendors shipped a total of 158.5 million smartphones in the fourth quarter, representing a 57% increase compared to the 101.2 million units shipped in the same quarter a year earlier. Shipments for the full year of 2011 rose 63% to 487.7 million units, up from 299.7 million shipped in 2010. The PC market only grew 15% to 414.6 million units in 2011, which included an astonishing 274% increase in tablet shipments — tablets accounted for 15% of all PC shipments last year according to Canalys. The firm expects growth in the smartphone market to slow in 2012, with vendors putting more focus
Posted in News Tags: Android, BlackBerry, Computers, Desktops, iOS, Laptops, Mobile, PC, Shipments, Smartphones, symbian, Tablets, Windows Phone 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 »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,
Posted in News Tags: Android, Apple, Apps, Crashes, FroYo, Gingerbread, Ice Cream Sandwich, iOS, iOS 5, Mobile No Comments »HP CEO says webOS will be better than ‘fragmented’ Android and ‘closed’ iOS
February 3rd, 2012 Zach Epstein Though Hewlett-Packard was unable to produce webOS devices that consumers were interested in buying — at a positive margin, at least — CEO Meg Whitman still thinks the beleaguered platform has legs. After unsuccessfully trying to sell or license webOS, HP decided late last year to donate its $1.2 billion platform to the open source community. The firm still plans to launch new webOS devices in the future, however, and Meg Whitman explained HP’s position while speaking with CRN. Read on for more. “There is a clear vision of what we’re trying to accomplish,” Whitman said in an interview. “There will be some people who will not love that vision, and then there are people who are very excited about this vision, and
Posted in News Tags: Android, Apple, Fragmentation, google, HP, iOS, iPhone, Meg Whitman, Mobile, open source, palm, touchpad, webos No Comments »Nokia Hello: breaks down borders, gets the drinks in
February 3rd, 2012 James Trew Ever wanted to order a tea and coffee, but found language to be a barrier? Then say bonjour, to Nokia Hello. Making creative use of NFC, Nokia Hello users can touch phones to exchange greetings, pleasantries, as well as the aforementioned beverage ord…
