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Shipment figures have been released for the last quarter of 2011 revealing a healthy year’s business for Apple’s iPad,with global sales doubling, but with the haunting spectre of accelerating Android tablet sales.
Nokia have announced their new Nokia Lumia 900 smartphone, and it sure does look a mighty purdy thing, packing a 4.3-inch ClearBlack AMOLED 800 x 480 capacitive touchscreen and 512MB RAM, all running on Windows Mobile Mango.
Last night, London’s 118 metre high Millbank tower was transformed into a canvas for an impressive light show to promote the new Nokia Lumia 800 with Windows phone.
New figures from mobile ad analysts Millennial Media show Android remaining king of the smartphone OSs, hogging a hefty 56 per cent global share – double the share of its nearest rival, Apple’s iOS, who only have 28 per cent.
New research has revealed that the UK is feeling the Google Android love, with the OS running on over half of all smartphones sold – a hefty 100% increase in market share from a year ago.
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Following hot on the heels of the top of the range Lumia 800 comes the new Nokia Lumia 710.
Employing the same 1.4GHz processor as seen in the Lumia 800, the handset comes with a 3.7-inch ClearBlack display and has the Microsoft Mobile suite built in.
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Nokia has finally taken the wraps off its new flagship handset, the Nokia Lumia 800, and it may well have been worth the wait.
Described as the “first real Windows Phone,” it’s a neat looking device, with an industrial design seeing the handset fitting into a 12.1mm (0.48-inch) thick piece of durable polycarbonate plastic, with tapered edges on the top and bottom.
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It’s only a video taster, but we have to say we’re getting increasingly stoked up at what we’re seeing of the forthcoming Windows Phone 7.5 Mango mobile interface.
A study by stat-juggling spods comScore has found that Google Android remains on an unstoppable trajectory in the States, with their smartphone market share reaching 41.8 per cent – a huge rise from the 36.4 per cent share it held in April this year.
Free app distributor GetJar has responded angrily to Apple after lawyers for the tech giant sent them a ‘cease and desist letter‘ over their use of the term ‘app store.’
Head honcho Patrick (Mad) Mork let rip in a blog post, insisting that Apple claiming ownership of the term ‘app store’ was – in his words – ”taking the piss.” Way to go Partick!
We’ve seen music videos created on mobile phones before, but this one’s actually for a decent artist and is refreshingly short of gimmicks.
Directed and filmed by fashion photographer/video director Todd Cole, the official music video for Kurt Vile’s “Baby’s Arms” has been shot entirely on a Windows Phone – and isn’t a bad looking thing at all.
Those kerrrazy, stat-loving types at comScore have just come from a fun-packed totting-up session to reveal a party pack of facts about the growth of smartphones in the US.
After a long and seemingly inevitable decline, it looks like the long-reigning, global smartphone champs Nokia are finally set to be unseated by upstarts Samsung.
Microsoft has served up a well stuffed platter o’facts about the forthcoming major update to its mobile OS, with the upcoming Windows Phone 7.1 update set to regale under the name ‘Mango.’
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