Apple tops US smartphone OEMs while Android solace leads

Apple tops US smartphone OEMs while Android solace leads. The newest comScore interrogatory for the trine period punctuation occurrence in in September has Apple action its enactment as the come one smartphone OEM in the US with a 0.7 lie increment to 40.6%. Samsung also enjoyed its own 1.2 measure amount over the previous poop to 24.9%. This comes at the cost of HTC and Motorola, who suffered 1.4 and 0.4 muzzle losses, respectively.

Apple tops US smartphone OEMs while Android solace leads.

Meantime, the Robot and iOS condition of smartphone mart continuing as both pool for any 92.4% of the boilersuit pie, a compounded 0.5 convexity process over the previous digit period stop. This came mostly at the disbursement of the change spiral that is BlackBerry's marketplace percentage, who has suffered other minify and now controls just 3.8% of the marketplace.

Apple tops US smartphone OEMs while Android solace leads.

Microsoft's Windows Sound OS is easy climbing its way into position localise, which is obviously a distance gone from the separate two. Still, WP's growing is starting to simulation ever-so-slight hints of gaining forcefulness, as the stylish inform reveals that it's get the endorsement largest changeable OS in some 19 countries, including Suomi, Annam, Italia, Thailand, Bust, and Russia.

In Q3 2013 over a billet of a 1000000000000 smartphones shipped worldwide, which is a year-over-year ontogeny of 44%. With much a huge confine of devices making their way into the pockets of so umteen fill globally, regularize a miniscule-looking mart shares can equate to thumping profits.

Apple to add movie ticket booking on Siri in iOS 6.1

Ticket Booking app from apple : This new feature comes courtesy of Fandango. You will see a button to purchase tickets in Siri when you search for show times or movie reviews. Moreover, you can also speak directly to Siri and ask to book the tickets for a particular movie.

Continuing the integration with important third-party applications, Apple is said to include another new feature in Siri in the upcoming iOS 6.1 update. While currently you can get movie ticket reviews and timings with iOS 6.1, in future you will also be able to purchase tickets through Siri.

Once you do that, the device will launch the Fandango app and your tickets will be booked. If you don’t have the app installed, you will get an option to download it from the App Store. This feature will only available in the US for a while and won’t be compatible with all the theaters.

iPad 4 gets torn apart, so the Kindle Fire HD

This  Apple Unlike the iPad 3 before it the iPad 4 doesn’t use a Samsung-made display panel and shifts to an LG-made one. iFixit also notes that Apple didin’t save any space by moving from a 30-pin connector to a Lightning one, which the team found disappointing. We also see the A6X chip, which comes with a quad-core GPU, meaning you get better graphic performance of what you’d get in an iPhone 5 or iPad 3.

A Kindle Fire HD’s BOM (bill of materials) is estimated at around $165, meaning Amazon doesn’t generate much profit off of the hardware given the price tag of $199. LG Display is a major player here too by producing the screen on the Kindle Fire HD. Texas Instrumentals is the supplier of the chipset while Samsung is accountable for the flash memory. The Hit the source links for a step-by-step account of the teardowns of both tablets, complete with photos and info on the various compoents.

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Apple sold 3 million iPads in opening weekend

Apple  with The 3rd generation iPad set record sales in its first weekend back in March by selling 3 million units. Releasing a new iPad as soon as Apple did doesn’t seem to have slowed the pace at which their tablets sell, even if we’re talking about two separate devices this time around.

Apple didn’t specify how many iPad mini’s and iPad 4′s were sold but the total number is still worth mentioning. The 3 million are all Wi-Fi only models and Apple expects the Wi-Fi + Cellular options of both tablets to ship in a few weeks in the US with more countries to be added later this year. According to Brian White, a Topeka Capital Markets analyst, the iPad mini was sold out at around 60% of surveyed Apple retail stores in the US.

Apple finally sends out invitations for the Oct. 23

Apple finally sends out invitations for the Oct. 23 event, the iPad mini almost certain . Apple just started spreading their invitations to their previously rumored event on October 23. The invite tagline is “We’ve got a little more to show you” and the word little may be used quite literally, as Apple is supposed to unveil the iPad mini at this event. Other rumors claim Apple may be demonstrating a 13-inch MacBook Pro with a Retina screen as well. We already saw numerous leaks of what the iPad mini is supposed to look like. The latest one shows the dummies, which Chinese accessory manufacturers use to prepare for their announcement of the Apple’s product.

Apple iPhone 5 battery test is complete

Apple  iPhone 5 is bending of physics . The battery inside the iPhone 5 has a capacity of 1440mAh at 3.8V, which equals 5.45Wh, compared to the 1432mAh, 3.7V, 5.3Wh of the iPhone 4S. And , coupled with the nicely optimized software, produced some truly impressive results.

The Talk time on the iPhone 5 was quite impressive, reaching 8 hours and 42 minutes  far from the top spots but pretty good nonetheless. And Given that the official iPhone 5 specs suggest a maxim talk time of 8 hours, we can  were nicely surprised by the performance of the iOS smartphone.

[Apple] Prepare ITunes Changes to Improve Sharing

Hot news these days, from Apple. While Apple is doing a plan, an overhaul of iTunes which will mark one of the biggest changes to the world's largest music store since 2003 debut.

Apple will unveil the changes. Asked not to be identified because the plans are not public. The Company will be closer to his iCloud integrate file-storage service with iTunes so that users can more seamlessly access and manage music, videos and software applications downloaded on the Apple gadget is different. Apple is also planning new features for sharing music.

Apple iTunes , Apple has been critical to the success of the past nine years, generating revenues of nearly $ 1900000000 last quarter alone as well as widening the withdrawal of the user for an Apple product family. Any changes will have implications for the media industry, because the store is the gateway for millions of iPhone, iPod iPad, and Mac users to buy music, movies and television shows.

Apple iTunes Store has more than 28 million songs and 45,000 movies. It also houses the App Store, which offers more than 650,000 downloadable applications for the iPhone, iPad and iPod.

IPhone 5 Black Edition

The iPhone 5, came in the middle of the community through, the images also confirmed a smaller dock connector, 3.5 mm headphone jack is placed at the bottom, front-facing camera above the sound hole and a different camera and LED flash modules. Design all in black, will be as deep as the external antenna. Apple logo on the back is black.

5 iPhone 5.degan IOS, IOS instead of 6. The antenna has a reflective surface and does not look like a steel that is used on the iPhone 4S. There does not appear to be secondary microphone on the top of the well, but it could be a small gap between the camera lens and LED flash.

5 iPhone will launch in the fall. Most of the rumors about the next iPhone, except the screen, which can not be seen very well in the photo. However, recommends taking a healthy pinch of salt with all the rumors.

[iPad] third generation

[iPad] third generation, has many other improvements, but the brilliance of the display with wide-screen models recently made the iPad has an amazing competitiveness in the market.

Apple gets some criticism that the new iPad does not offer many new features such as some expect. iPad, with new screens and better battery GPU should also be improved and capacity increased, it is almost twice as large as the one on the iPad 2. With all that, not a big surprise that no raft of new features.

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Top Apple Doing "Instagram has jumped the shark"

id Gadget Today --> some news from Apple. One was $ 1000000000 for photo-sharing app Instagram. Once named (app this year) by Apple now "jumped the shark," said Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller.

Schiller not only pollute the service (in a short message to the Apple enthusiast Clayton Braasch), he also had to remove from the Instagram account (@ Schiller) "as several thousand other users".

What Makes Schiller so angry..............? No billion dollar acquisition by Facebook, apparently. (It jumped the shark) while going to Android, an Apple executive. Braasch told Thursday.

Instagram released version of Android at the beginning of the month. In the first five days, the application Android seen five million registered users. It's not as big compared to 30 million iPhone users, but the growth rate is magnificent and highly contributed to his decision to offer the Mark Zuckerberg Kevin Systrom $ 1 billion for his app.

Three reasons to buy Instagram likely bubble up that you do not know about Instagram

What exactly is not clear Schiller. How five million new users in a slightly different platform to make an application (jumping the shark) ....? Instagram many iPhone users have seen their number of followers swelled, but it's hard to see what was wrong with it.

Many users are difficult to see further evidence that (the existence of a nuclear war) Steve Jobs promised to do for Android is running on Apple's successors.

Apple senior vice president for marketing Phil Schiller

If IOS launches Android application will simply get a warning from an Apple executive, the function of a warning for other application developers who simply IOS only.

Needs to know Apple is a company where almost every executive's comments can be calculated one. But it must be painful for Instagram. Four months ago, Schiller diTwitter congratulate them his, which he also put his own Instagram account.

 "@ Pschiller: Congrats to @ @ instagram foofighters iTunes Rewind 2011 and all winners :::Btw: @ Schiller on Instagram ; ->)"

To link your account now, and all you will see the error page Instagram. Many people would argue that with the support of Zuckerberg and $ 1 billion in the bank, Systrom et al do not need the support of Apple. But in fact the majority of users still Instagram iPhone users, and handlers in the new age of the iPhone seem hostile.

Apple Announces New 1080p Apple TV with New UI, Photo Stream

At their accident activity on appropriate now in California, Apple aloof appear the abutting bearing of their Apple TV multimedia device. The fresh Apple TV has abutment for 1080p movies and television shows as able-bodied as an absolutely fresh user interface. The best part? You can get it abutting week.

Apple Announces New 1080p Apple TV with New UI, Photo Stream
The bigger Apple TV is added deeply chip into the blow of Apple's ecosystem than anytime before. Fresh agreeable deals with absorb owners beggarly that iTunes will accept high-def copies of television episodes the day afterwards they air. With Photo Stream support, as anon as you booty a account with your fresh iPhone, it's activity to be accessible on your Apple TV.

Out of the box, the fresh UI appears as a alternation of ellipsoidal icons, added like an iPhone than Front Row. There are selections for Movies, TV Shows, Music, Computers, Settings, Netflix, MLB.TV, NBA, NHL, Trailers, WSJ Live, YouTube, Vimeo, Podcasts, Radio, Photo Stream, MobileMe and Flickr. And hopefully added than that, but regrettably, no absolute iOS-like app ecosystem. At least, not yet.

Happily, the fresh box will amount aloof $99, the aforementioned as the accepted generation. There's no chat yet as to what's inside, but we'll amend the column as anon as the abstruse blueprint appear online. Our guess? An A5, not an A5X or A6. Apple CEO Tim Cook said that orders for the fresh assemblage will alpha today, with, again, retail availability starting abutting week.

China too eager for iPhone 4S, Apple suspends sales

     iD-Gadget Today's --> The much-anticipated absolution of the iPhone 4S in China stumbled out of the aboideau in Beijing, afterwards assertive crowds kept the abundance bankrupt on absolution day.

China too eager for iPhone 4S, Apple suspends sales

      Apple’s capital abundance in the Sanlitun commune of Beijing, the aboriginal of its affectionate to accessible in the country, was pelted with eggs and accessory scuffles bankrupt out afterwards an anonymous abundance adumbrative appear that the abundance would not be opening.

Scuffles in advanced of the Beijing iPhone Abundance • Large crowds aggregate above-mentioned to opening

China too eager for iPhone 4S, Apple suspends sales

          Apart from the Apple Abundance in Hong Kong’s IFC Mall, which started affairs the iPhone 4S aback in November, you would accept that the better mobile-phone bazaar in the apple would accept hardly added Apple retail credibility than the bare two in Beijing and three in Shanghai.

             To abstain such incidents in the future, Apple has absitively to bind the availability of the iPhone 4S to online sales and the food of its bounded carrier, China Unicom.

Samsung Galaxy S 'Value Pack' firmware leaks

Samsung Galaxy S 'Value Pack' firmware leaks: 
A few canicule ago we heard from Samsung that they accept alone affairs to absolution the 'Value Pack' amend to Galaxy S owners, which was declared to advance achievement and add appearance begin in Ice Cream Sandwich. The acumen for this declared by Samsung was accouterments limitations of the device.

Now, however, the Value Pack firmware has leaked online. List of improvements accommodate the additions of Face Unlock, bigger camera achievement with the adeptness to booty pictures while recording videos, angel editor from the Galaxy S II, fresh lockscreen sounds, and bigger achievement in browser, arcade and gaming.

This doesn't acquaint us admitting whether Samsung will clearly be absolution it. They may accept activated this amend and after on absitively to abolish it. Whatever may be the reason, you can now download it and try it out on your phone. The beneath adventurous amid you would appetite to authority on for a while best to see if Samsung clearly releases the update.

Is Apple planning to soon ship iPhones with quad-core chips?

Some reliable bodies accept apparent quad-core processor abutment into the iOS 5.1 beta code. So, we could apprehend quad-core iPhones and iPads in the abreast future.

Shocker? Of advance not. But it’s acceptable to apperceive Apple is already alive on the abutting big accouterments jump.

core.0 agency single-core, core.3 agency quad-core

A few months ago added accomplished developers apparent the iPhone5,1 advertence into the aboriginal iOS 5.1 beta code. It ability about-face out Apple is absolutely gearing the abutting iPhone with a quad-core A6 chip.

Android nears 50% mark in the US

iD-Gadget Today's -- > Android nears 50% mark in the US:

        comScore has aloof appear their fresh address on the US smartphone bazaar and it turns out that there are no affecting changes to be witnessed. Android connected to be the fastest growing adaptable belvedere about and alike the barrage of the iPhone 4S wasn't abundant for iOS to bout its growth.

        In the three months catastrophe on November 30, 46.9% of the smartphone users in the US had a Google OS device. That's 3.1 percent credibility college than the Android bazaar allotment for the antecedent three months.

         iOS came in a adequately abroad additional - Apple's proprietary belvedere acquired 1.4 percent point and had a bazaar allotment of 28.7%. RIM's struggles abide as BlackBerry OS absent added 3.1 percent credibility and now alone admiral 16.6% of the US smartphones.

         Symbian and Microsoft didn't accept a decidedly acceptable time in the bazaar either, the two platforms bottomward 0.5 and 0.3 percent credibility of their corresponding bazaar shares.

Top Adaptable OEMs

3 Month Avg. Catastrophe Nov. 2011 vs. 3 Month Avg. Catastrophe Aug. 2011

Share (%) of Adaptable Subscribers

Aug-11 Nov-11 Point Change

Total Adaptable Subscribers 100.0% 100.0% N/A

Samsung 25.3% 25.6% 0.3

LG 21.0% 20.5% -0.5

Motorola 14.0% 13.7% -0.3

Apple 9.8% 11.2% 1.4

RIM 7.1% 6.5% -0.6

But for all the success that Android is having, the additional allotment of the comScore address shows that Apple is the distinct aggregation to annals the better advance in the accomplished three months. The Cupertino-based aggregation now owns 11.4% of the corpuscle buzz bazaar (that includes smartphones and featuresphones) and is breath bottomward Motorola's close for the third spot.

At the top Samsung continued its advance over the additional placed LG and now accounts for added than a division of all adaptable accessories awash in the US.

Apple ability be accepting $10 for every Android accessory sold

    iD-Gadget Today's - Kevin Rivette, the managing accomplice at bookish acreage close 3LP Advisors LLC, aggregate his able assessment on the advancing acknowledged wars in the smartphone world. In a babble with Bloomberg, the able appear that he believes Apple could be earning some acceptable money if it was to stop with all the cloister activity and instead apply on licensing.

     Rivette believes that the Cupertino-based aggregation owns patents that could defended it as abundant as $10 for every Android accessory awash if it accountant them. That's alert the bulk Microsoft receives from their accepted licensing affairs with Android manufacturers.

Yet, Apple doesn't assume absorbed in renting out its technology and prefers to try and ban as abounding Android articles as accessible from as abounding markets as it could manage. And while a abeyant celebration in this cause will absolutely accompany in lots and lots of cash, it seems awful absurd that it will anytime be achieved.

Instead Apple will apparently force the companies to acquisition workarounds for their technology (as HTC and Samsung did afterwards the two accessory victories that Apple had) and while that absolutely wins time for the iOS articles on the market, it deprives the aggregation of the acquirement that could be had if a licensing arrangement has been active instead.

      Not to acknowledgment that all those lawsuits aren't allowance Apple accomplish accompany and now it's adverse a few apparent contravention lawsuits itself. Maybe it would be abundant wiser if Apple aloof listens to Rivette and end this accomplished acknowledged battle, while it is still in a somewhat favorable position.

Apple's market share is declining in Europe

Europe is in a boxy banking bearings and Apple's shrinking bazaar allotment admitting the addition of the iPhone 4S is a aftereffect of that. In markets like the US, the UK and Australia, the 4S is affairs like hot cakes but continental Europe is addition story.

Analysts from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech acclaimed that Apple's bazaar allotment in France has slipped over the aftermost division (from 29% to 20%) and the aforementioned affair has happened in Germany (27% to 22%), Italy and Spain too.

For comparison, Apple's bazaar allotment in the US grew from 25% to 36% over the aeon of a year. The UK bazaar allotment broadcast at a agnate clip - it went from 21% top 31% comparing Q3 2011 over Q3 2010.

The iPhone's accomplished rivals, the Android phones, are adequate a arch position beyond European countries with bazaar shares alignment amid 46% and 61%. In Germany, Android has one of the accomplished shares (61%) with the Samsung Galaxy S II acicular out as the acknowledged handset.

Apple AppStore makes 6x more revenue than Android

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The aboriginal and added important affair is the Apple's App Abundance generates six times added acquirement than the Android Market. The calculations are done over the 200 top grossing apps. The App Abundance on the iPhones is still earning four times added than the Android Market, while the one on the iPads is accomplishing alert as acceptable as the accomplished Market.

The in-app purchases are accepting lots of acceptance too - bisected of the acquirement from those 200 top grossing apps in the App Abundance comes from in-app purchases, while the Android Market's allotment is alike bigger - up to 65%.

The Chinese App Abundance downloads accept developed a lot bigger compared to January this year. Check the account below, it compares the US and the Chinese downloads.

Finally, the Windows Phone Marketplace is now the fourth better abundance - its absolute cardinal of accessible amateur beats the one of Amazon's Appstore, the Ovi Abundance and the BlackBerry App World.

So, the Android's Market ability be communicable up with the App Store, but the Apple's belvedere is still the best assisting one for the developers.

Samsung files new patent claims against Apple in Germany

Not alone is the acknowledged action in the adaptable industry not assuming any signs of slowing down, but it appears that it's still acrimonious up speed. Today account came from a German cloister that Samsung has filed yet addition affirmation adjoin Apple.

The Koreans accept continued their advancing contravention case by abacus four fresh patents. The fresh patents that Samsung says are abandoned accommodate a brace of standard-related patents and two account patents, including one accompanying to the use of emoticons.

The bounded cloister in Manheim batten afterwards the audition on Friday and said it will advertise its accommodation on March 2, according to Samsung officials. Apple spokespersons weren't accessible for comment, but we shouldn't apprehend to apprentice abundant afore the accusation is over.

The alone botheration is that at the amount lawsuits are currently filed we can't see the accomplished cloister adventure catastrophe anytime soon.

Apple releases iOS 5.1 beta 2

The additional beta for the accessible iOS 5.1 amend has been seeded to developers. The big change in this amend is the adeptness to annul alone images from Photo Stream.

Currently, back you booty a account on an iOS device, Photo Stream (a affection in iCloud) automatically syncs it with all of your Apple devices. With iOS 5.1 beta 2 onwards, you can manually annul an angel on a accessory active this amend and it will automatically get deleted from added iOS accessories active this update. Older images, however, will accept to be deleted manually from all the devices.

In added news, Apple has additionally appear iTunes 10.5.2 amend that brings "several improvements for iTunes Match" and "fixes an audio baloney botheration back arena or importing assertive CDs".