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The BlackBerry PlayBook was released to the public yesterday, and it’s already been fully disassembled for inspection by some hardware experts. A lot of the components have come from Texas Instruments (not just the processor). From a repairability standpoint, the PlayBook is easy enough to open, using standard screws, but replacing the battery requires you…
While most research shows that Android will be dominating the smartphone space in just a few years, many of these segment mobile devices into separate categories. New data from comScore is actually combining these connected devices and it shows that Apple iOS outreaches the Android platform by 59 percent with this new metric. The report…
I’ve always been interested in how mobile games are quickly becoming the premier experience when it comes to gaming on the go. I own a Nintendo DSi and a Sony PSPgo, but neither one of these devices get as much love as my iPhone and iPad when it comes to gaming. It seems like I’m…
It’s a little funny that Fortune wrote earlier this week about iOS and iPhone market share comparisons with Android, and just a few days later it’s reporting a Millenial Media study on just that – iOS versus Android market share. This time around, it seems like Apple was able to take back a bit of…
Yet another report has come out today claiming that Android has overtaken iOS globally. While this may mean very little to investors, the strategy behind Google’s geeky mobile OS has gained traction virtually everywhere it can, and InMobi is yet another firm to claim just that. One thing that Google’s OS can now claim –…
The folks at Unrevoked compiled a list of Android devices and organized them according to their ability to be rooted. The list is not comprehensive but it does help you choose among the major devices and gives some insight into which manufacturers are root-friendly and which are not. Not surprisingly, the developer devices and pure…
The platform wars are raging on, and Android versus iPhone market share articles are being churned out by the dozen seemingly every week. However, one Fortune writer believes that these articles and the market share comparison itself are inconsequential. Why is that? According to Andy M. Zaky at Fortune: For example, suppose Research in Motion…
Gartner has just released their forecast for the global mobile market reaching out to 2015, and as you might expect, things are looking good for Android. Much like ABI’s report, Gartner says Android is poised to take about half of the mobile smartphone market share by the end of 2012. A big part of the…
Forget about recession – it has no impact on the mobile entertainment market. As a matter of fact, the latest Juniper Research report forecasts that revenues from mobile entertainment content and services will increase by more than 15% this year, from $33.2 billion to nearly $38.4 billion. According to the research company, both big and…
A recent Piper Jaffray study of the teenage tech market has revealed that 37% of 4,500 high schoolers were looking at buying an iPhone in the next six months, while 17% already had one. That data mostly reflects the same data from their last survey, but the more surprising information is that a full 22%…