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These are not good times for Sony. The once-proud Japanese electronics maker is struggling in pretty much all markets it used to rule, from TVs to portable music players (Walkman), Sony is facing competition from the likes of Samsung, LG, Sharp and Apple. Sony’s phones are also on the list of “affected products” so we’re…
There’s a new iPhone 4/4S case trying to raise funds at Kickstarter. Called FLASHr, it’s powered by the iPhone’s LED flash and iOS’ “LED Flash for Alerts” feature, illuminating calls, texts and push notifications. When you turn on “LED Flash Alerts” in your Accessibility settings, your iPhone’s LED camera flash lights up for calls, texts,…
Samsung keeps monetizing on its relationship (i.e. sponsorship) with the Olympic Games. After that Olympic-themed Android app, they’re out with the Special Edition Olympics Flip Cover for the Galaxy S III, which also happen to be the official smartphone of the big event. Unfortunately — or not depending whether you like the case or not…
According to ABI Research, the world’s smartphone subscribers will download about 36 billion apps in 2012, resulting in almost 37 native apps through the year for the average smartphone subscriber. That’s nearly 6% increase to the 35 apps downloaded per smartphone subscriber on average in 2011. However, the average download count will not increase substantially…
Samsung has taken a sizeable lead in the smartphone market in terms of unit shipments. According to Juniper Research’s estimates, the Korean giant shipped 52.1 million smartphones in Q2 2012, just over double the number shipped by Apple – 26.0 million. What’s more, Samsung has also doubled its lead over Apple quarter-on-quarter, with its flagship…
Like it or not, mobile location-based services are on the rise. Small businesses take notice, it doesn’t have to be a big boys’ club. Whether we’re talking about Facebook, Foursquare or some other (smaller) app/service, local businesses can benefit from their use. Here’s how: Claim your store. First thing to do is to claim your…
OneTok is a new service for developers that allows them to easily voice-enable their mobile apps. The cloud-based platform is described as seamless to implement, providing developers with a fast and cost-efficient way to make their apps more accessible. At the moment, OneTok works with Android, BlackBerry 10 and iOS, with Windows Phone 8 support…
According to Florian Mueller of FOSS Patents, the Mannheim Regional Court has ruled in favor of Microsoft in a patent infringement case against Motorola. According to the decision, Motorola’s Android devices infringe on Microsoft’s File Allocation Table (FAT) patent. The FAT patent covers a multiple file name referencing system that stores multiple file names (both…
The battle between Apple and Samsung is still ongoing and it doesn’t look like the fighting will end any time soon. It’s beginning to resemble a 4th grade fight on the playground over who cheated playing four square. Originally Apple was winning the legal war hands down, able to swiftly convince judges Samsung was copying…
Best Buy dropped the price of the 8GB iPhone 4 from $99 to $49 in what appears to be a permanent price reduction and not a temporary sale. This new price point extends to the AT&T GSM version and the Verizon/Sprint CDMA version of the iPhone 4. Both the white and black models are included.…