Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS continued to dominate the worldwide mobile OS market in the first quarter on 2013, as per the latest report from IDC. The  report suggests that Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform has grabbed third place from BlackBerry in global smartphone shipments in the first quarter. Android and iOS combined for an overwhelming 92.3 percent of all smartphone...

Samsung Electronics announced today that it has developed the first adaptive array transceiver technology which will give rise to communications and data transfer at really fast Internet speeds. The new technology is the successor to the current 4G technology being used and Samsung says that they have managed data transfer speeds which are several hundred times faster than current 4G capabilities. According...

The ‘Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)‘ policy that is gaining a lot of traction in the corporate world and educational sphere alike, is one of the key considerations in employee satisfaction these days. This policy does not chain employees to use company issued devices, but frees them to bring their personal laptops, tablets and smartphones to the workplace and access company data and applications...

Global smartphones sales eclipsed those of feature phones for first time ever in the first quarter of 2013, as per the latest report from research firm IDC.  The report revealed that 216.2 million smartphones were shipped accounting for  51.6% of all mobile phones shipped  globally in the first quarter of 2013. This marked the first time when smartphones have claimed more than half of all quarterly...

Korean electronics manufacturer Samsung has taken the lead in Indian mobile segment. In terms of pure sales the company has managed to surpass current leader Nokia. Market Statistics & tracking organization GfK-Nielsen collected the actual sales data & has been able to conclude that Samsung’s Volume Market Share, specifically in the urban areas, is now 31.4%. This is marginally higher than...

Samsung  made headlines last month by unleashing the much awaited Galaxy S IV smartphone. Soon after the launch, rumors of a probable S IV Mini launch started surfacing the internet.  According to the report Samsung is launching S IV Mini and the Galaxy Watch under its Project J. Now a latest report from Businessweek which talks about Samsung’s triumph as a smartphone maker mentions that...

Smartphones have no longer remained a luxury purchase. Thanks to regional handset makers offering affordable phones & global MNCs brining out newer models almost every week, Indian consumers are spoilt for choice. This has prompted the average customer to actively indulge in searching via multiple channels. This frenzied activity has been categorically captured by PrecisionMatch, one of the premier...

Nokia has announced the financial results for 2012 and it shows that their Indian operations are not doing too well. Nokia India’s revenue dropped 23% in 2012 compared to the previous year. The total sales for the company in 2012 were 2,227 million euros, compared to 2,923 million euros in 2011 and 2,952 million euros in 2010. The sales figure is a total of all the business units that Nokia runs...

Months of speculations, hype, leaks and millions of blogs and articles later it is here!  In a bid to compete with its nemesis Apple, Samsung has taken off the wraps of its highly anticipated Galaxy SIV smartphone. The revamped smartphone, which follows last year’s Samsung Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note II is “slimmer yet stronger, less to hold yet more to see, [and] it is simply amazing,”...

Till about six years ago, Blackberry was the undisputed champion in the smartphone segment, a title which it was later forced to give up when the definition of smartphone changed with the introduction of the iPhone and Android devices. Blackberry has, since then, incessantly been losing market share and even its existence was in grave danger till they tried to reinvent themselves by awakening to the...