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Facing a struggling economy and increased competition from Samsung and Apple, HTC cut its sales forecast by nearly 23 percent. The company is also reevaluating its purchase of S3 Graphics. HTC cut its sales forecast and said that its quarter-to-quarter sales will slow for the first time in two years. In the United States at…
Six weeks after it hit the market, iPhone 4S has quickly risen to fame on Flickr. It’s now the second-most popular cameraphone on the photo-sharing site. The iPhone 4 reigns as the top cameraphone for now, but it’s safe to assume the iPhone 4S will take over eventually. The iPhone 4 is also the most…
Apple’s next generation iPad, which we’ll assume will be called the iPad 3, is set to feature an ultra high resolution display. We’re talking 2048 x 1536 pixels, better known as QXGA. According to Richard Shim, an analyst at DisplaySearch who was interviewed by C|Net, production of said display has begun. The three companies building…
Everyone knows Apple’s App Store is still ahead when it comes to mobile applications, but the Android Market has made tremendous progress when it comes to gaining ground. The one advantage Android has is its open-source nature along with its many phone choices, which attract both developers and consumers. Google’s mobile operating system has garnered monstrous numbers, which…
Apple’s smartphone has ranked highest in customer satisfaction for the past five years, but that statistic isn’t stopping British buyers from voicing their complaints. 1,694 British iPhone buyers were surveyed for satisfaction with their iPhone and over 22 percent indicated that they regret buying one. Interestingly, 73 percent of the unhappy participants are men. The…
When iLounge begins one of their articles with “our most reliable source has spoken”, we tend to listen. Said source spills the beans on three products: the iPad 3, the iPhone 5, and the next MacBook Pro. Starting with the iPad 3, it’s going to be 0.7 mm thicker than the iPad 2 because it’s…
Apple’s war with Amazon over the “Appstore” name has not finished yet. Apple widened its lawsuit a bit recently, claiming that Amazon made some changes to the way it advertises its Appstore after the Kindle Fire came out. Previously, Amazon added the tagline “for Android” to make the platform on which it’s available clear, but…
John Stanton is a man who knows a thing or two about wireless networks. He was the first employee at McCaw Cellular, the operator that eventually became AT&T Mobility. He left the company before that transition occurred to start Western Wireless, which eventually grew to be called Voicestream, which was then purchased by Deutsche Telekom,…
While graphic novels and comics are nothing new to the iPad and tablets, you can’t help but feel that many of these aren’t actually taking advantage of what the device can offer. I’ve spent some time with the new iPad app CIA: Operation Ajax from Cognito Comics and it is an excellent example of the…
Android’s momentum is still going strong, as the latest Gartner numbers said the platform had 52.5 percent of worldwide smartphone sales to end users for the third quarter of 2011. That’s a rather impressive figure and it’s even more impressive when you consider that Gartner said its market share in this category doubled from the…