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Needham & Company analyst Charlie Wolf released his quarterly report on the status of the smartphone market, pointing out that China is the worldwide leader. Shipments in China increased 164 percent from the year-ago quarter, now at 33.1 million units. The United States is second in the race with 25 million units sold in the…
Oh Nexus Q, you’ve gotten so much shit. Google’s social media streamer might have a lot of potential, but said potential definitely doesn’t show without hacking the device. With its limited out of the box functionality, developers are hard at work in attempt to make the Nexus Q, well, usable. Over the weekend, XDA member…
While T-Mobile has remained rather tight-lipped about the inevitable release of the Samsung Galaxy Note, it hasn’t stopped some accessories from finding their way into some Magenta stores already. We certainly have our doubts that the handset will be released on the previously rumored July 11th, but it can’t be too long now before we…
Samsung’s luck is finally starting to turn around. It won a case in the UK when a judge ruled in its favor saying the Galaxy Tab 10.1 doesn’t copy design aspects of Apple’s iPad. The judge had some interesting things to say about Samsung’s tablet however. Judge Colin Birss said it’s not likely consumers will…
Verizon is notorious for locking down the bootloaders on its phones and, unfortunately, the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S III is no exception. In a statement released to The Verge, Verizon confirmed that the Galaxy S III will ship with a locked bootloader. The wireless carrier explains its decision in the statement below: Verizon Wireless has…
Verizon customers looking to walk into a store and get a Galaxy S III on Tuesday will be sorely disappointed. According to MobileBurn, Verizon has pushed the retail launch date back by two days to July 12th. The company updated its website with this new launch date and provided the following statement: “As it sometimes…
iOS developer Cody Cooper did a code dump of the new Apple Maps app from the iOS 6 beta, and found some interesting pieces of information that could point to OSX integration with Intel-based Macs. More specifically, Cody found a reference deep within the altitude_manifest.xml file to a set of Intel-based chipsets for which certain…
Whether or not it was a complete surprise to Samsung that the Galaxy Note would become so popular, it has proved that there’s definitely a market for tablet/phone hybrid devices. To sweeten the deal for its own Note, Samsung has released a new Premium Suite of applications that make the S-Pen experience even better. We’ve…
Well, look what we have here. Google has moved one step closer to pushing its Nexus 7 tablet beyond the Google Play store. Today Staples has announced its attentions to carry the seven inch wonder in its retail chains across the country. Starting right now, folks can pre-order the Jelly Bean slate on Staples’ website.…
Amazon will not refresh its entire Kindle lineup including the Fire this month, as one previous rumor suggested. Instead, the Kindle maker plans to launch its Fire successor some time in the second half of this year, according to sources familiar with the matter who told AllThingsD. Those same sources talked about a few “key…