Samsung Widens Smartphone Lead Over Apple

Samsung Widens Smartphone Lead Over Apple
PC Magazine
Global smartphone heavyweights Apple and Samsung have more than doubled their combined market share in the past two years, continuing to widen the gap between their competition. According to IDC senior research analyst Kevin Restivo, Samsung ...

Nexus 7? Wait: Google's Motorola Xoom + Jelly Bean is coming soon
ZDNet
Summary: Google launched Android 4.1 on the Asus-developed (but Google branded) Nexus 7 in part to reassure OEMs that they will be treated equally in the aftermath of its Motorola Mobilitypurchase. Maybe Google really did spend $12 plus billion for the ...

Samsung, Apple Widen Lead In Smartphone Race
InformationWeek
Apple and Samsung together shipped nearly half the world's smartphones during the second quarter of 2012, according to IDC. Smartphone vendors together shipped a whopping 153.9 million smartphones during the quarter, up a massive 42% compared to ...

Samsung Widens Lead Over Apple in Smartphone Market
Wall Street Journal
HONG KONG—Samsung Electronics Co. increased its share of the globalsmartphone market in the second quarter, widening its lead over Apple Inc. as the South Korean technology giant shipped more than 50 million smartphones, the largest number of ...

Wall Street Journal

Motorola Mobility leaving Libertyville for downtown Chicago
Chicago Tribune
Smartphone maker Motorola Mobility will move its headquarters from Libertyville to the Merchandise Mart in the summer of 2013, relocating 3000 employees to downtown Chicago, the company and Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced Thursday. Motorola ...

IDC: Smartphone Market Growth Strong, Samsung Leads Apple
MobileTechReview.com
IDC released Q2 smartphone market report that sees continuing growth in smartphone space. The worldwide mobile phone market grew 1% year over year in the second quarter of ... As a result, Samsung topped the 50 million unit mark and reached a new quarterly smartphoneshipment record in a single quarter. What remains to be seen is how the company's smartphones will fare against ... Check out our latest smartphone reviews: Motorola Atrix HD Video Review · HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE Video Review ...

Sprint Announces LTE-equipped Motorola PHOTON Q 4G LTE
Hot Hardware
Sprint and Motorola announced a new 4G LTE-enabled smartphone that features a full QWERTY keyboard as well as international capabilities in the form of theMotorola Photon Q 4G LTE. ... OVERLAND PARK, Kan. and LIBERTYVILLE, Ill. – July 26, 2012 – Sprint (NYSE: S), the only national wireless carrier offering truly unlimited data for all phones while on the Sprint network1, and Motorola Mobilitytoday announce Motorola PHOTON Q™ 4G LTE, the next generation of last summer's popular Motorola PHOTON™ ...

Hot Hardware

German judge: Motorola violates Microsoft's FAT patent
CNET
A German court has found Motorola Mobility in violation of a Microsoft patent, according to a new report. Judge Andreas Voss of the Mannheim Regional Court today ruled that Motorola's Android-based devices are infringing upon a File Allocation Table (FAT) ...

Samsung Q2 Smartphone Shipments Nearly Double Those of Apple
All Things Digital
But with Samsung releasing its Galaxy S III and buyers still waiting for the next iPhone, Samsung widened its lead in total smartphone shipments over Apple. Samsung shipped about 50.2 million smartphones in the quarter, according to IDC, while Apple sold ...

All Things Digital

Samsung's Q2 smartphone shipments nearly twice those of Apple, say research ...
Computerworld
IDC also confirmed Samsung's strong performance, though with slightly different figures. It said for example that Samsung shipped 50.2 million units, taking a 32.6 percent market share of thesmartphone market, compared to Apple's shipment of 26 million for ...

Google: About That Wi-Fi Payload Data We Said We Had Deleted…
All Things Digital
Google today admitted it had found that it still has within its possession user data from around the world that had been captured by its Street View cars. It previously said it deleted in late 2010 all the data its cars had slurped up through open Wi-Fi networks.

Who Cheated Whom? Apple v. Samsung Patent Showdown Explained
Wired News
Here Apple claims a design patent on the iPhone, which upended the smartphone market, making it mainstream. ... Those are the burning questions at issue in the biggest trial so far in the ongoing worldwide mobile-phone patent war that's broken out between Apple, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Samsung, HTC, Motorola and others. ... Apple intends to push for more injunctions blocking the U.S. sale of the South Korean-based company's phones and tablets that are powered by Google's Android operating system.

Google shows ISPs how to build a superfast network
CNET (blog)
... how to build a superfast network. As some broadband providers grumble about the cost of network upgrades and threaten data caps on subscribers, Google shows them, through its Kansas City Google Fiber project, how to offer subscribers 1Gbps broadband service at an affordable price. ... Google is even throwing in the $200 Google Android Nexus 7 tablet at no additional cost, so that users can use the Android App to control the TV service and even watch TV on their tablet. And Google is giving away basic ...

Apple's iOS 6 mapping won't put an end to Waze's days, says its president
ZDNet
Waze, available on Android, Symbian and BlackBerry as well as iOS, provides real-time, crowdsourced traffic reports, its own set of detailed road maps covering all of the US and most of Western Europe, easy turn-by-turn GPS-based voice navigation, alerts ...

Why Samsung beating Apple could be good news for iPhone 5
Computerworld (blog)
say the Android-lovers among us all. "Samsuing sure is giving Apple a kicking." I'd argue that while the statistics can be seen this way, there's more underlying forces in action here. The slow down in smartphone sales generally and iPhone sales specifically is ...

Apple Buys Samsung's Android Security Partner AuthenTec For $365M
TechCrunch
Amid fierce smartphone competition between Samsung and Apple that has spilled into a multinational patent battle, it looks like Apple may have opened yet another front on the M&A side: it is buying mobile security company AuthenTec — which had only just signed a deal with Samsung for Android devices — for $356 million. AuthenTec, among ... Aaron Levie, the CEO of Box, told me this week that among the enterprise customers of Box's 6-7 out of every 10 work in primarily iOS environments. It's not clear whether ...

Microsoft Wins Sales Ban Against Infringing Motorola Devices in Germany
PCWorld
Microsoft was granted an injunction against Motorola products last May when the lower regional court in Munich found that Google-owned Motorola Mobility had infringed a Microsoft patent related to SMS messaging with certain Android devices. Microsoft ...

Why Apple wanted AuthenTec: Thwart Samsung, Android in BYOD
ZDNet (blog)
And a big deal with Samsung to secure its Android devices could have been a material threat to Apple in a world where employees are dictating what devices are used in the workplace. According to a regulatory filing via Techmeme, Apple will pay $8 a share ...

Samsung Extends Lead Over Apple in Smartphone Market: IDC
eWeek
The success of Samsung's latest Android-based smartphone, the Galaxy S III, has helped it extend its lead over Apple and its iPhone in the ultra-competitive smartphone market, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly ...

Apple, Samsung Take Smartphone War to First US Jury
Businessweek
(2498) and Google Inc.'s Motorola Mobility unit. “Smartphone patents are like nuclear weapons in the Cold War -- there are just so darn many of them,” Lemley said. “Apple is riding high right now, but a year from now it may be Apple's products being enjoined ...

The Apple versus Samsung patent showdown explained
CNN
Apple is accusing Samsung of theft of intellectual property based on its smartphone's design and scrolling technology. ... Those are the burning questions at issue in the biggest trial so far in the ongoing worldwide mobile phone patent war that's broken out between Apple, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Samsung, HTC, Motorola and others. ... Apple intends to push for more injunctions blocking the U.S. sale of the South Korea-based company's phones and tablets that are powered by Google's Android operating system.

IDC: Samsung extends lead in smartphones
Boston.com
In the U.S., the phones work with the faster fourth-generation, or 4G, cellular networks that major wireless companies have been building. The Galaxy's screen is larger than the iPhone's, while the Samsung phone is lighter and thinner. An iPhone with 4G ...

Motorola smartphones banned in Germany following ruling on Microsoft patent
Unwired View
In the ongoing patent war between Android phone makers and, well, everyone else, Motorolahas suffered a defeat in Germany. Over there, Microsoft effectively got a ban on Motorola smartphones. The ban isn't self-executing, as it requires that Microsoft post ...

Is Google Fiber Key to Cloud Happiness?
Wired News
With the interwebs at the center of our lives these days, with so much we count on requiring connectivity, we often fawn over 4G mobile services as a sort of panacea for mobility. But the irony is 4G LTE offers faster speeds than many can get at home. ... that rally the most interest will be the first to get hooked up to Google's fiber-optic lines, which the company says will offer 1 gigabit-per-second downloads and uploads—far faster (Google says 100 times) than the typicalbroadband connections now in most U.S. homes.

Apple iPhone 5 Vs. Samsung Galaxy S III: What We Know
InformationWeek
The Samsung Galaxy S III, an Android device with a gigantic--well, gigantic for a smartphone--4.8-inch display, has proven a huge success since it began selling in Europe in May. (U.S. carriers received the phone in late June and early July.) J.K. Shin, Samsung's ... A few key features, including 4G LTE wireless, the Siri voice assistant, and a faster (likely quad-core) processor are almost certainly going to be part of the new model. We've compared those specs, as well as other, more speculative aspects of the new ...

Google Handwrite Lets You Search Google With One Finger (VIDEO)
Huffington Post
It's called Google Handwrite, and the new feature allows you to write out the letters of your search term using your finger or stylus on the screen of your smartphone. Google ... Google Handwrite works on both iOS and Android devices, no installation required.

Smartphone sales drive record Samsung quarterly profits
CNET
Apple has accused Samsung of copying "the look and feel" of its iPad tablet and iPhonesmartphone, and Samsung has filed a countersuit against Apple. Topics: Corporate and legal; Tags: earnings,: Galaxy S3,: Samsung · Steven Musil. Steven Musil is the ...

Is Google headed toward an Android Nexus PC?
CNET (blog)
In this edition of Ask Maggie, CNET's Marguerite Reardon discusses whether Google will use the Android mobile OS or browser-based Chrome OS to take on Apple and Microsoft in computing, and she explains why it's still important to check the coverage of your wireless provider .... Meanwhile, the 4G LTE Samsung Galaxy S III phone I've been testing from AT&T worked perfectly well and even seemed to pick up a 4G signal. ... Without network connectivity for voice and data your expensive smartphone is useless.

Microsoft vs. Motorola decision sees Droids banned in Germany ...
By Richard Lawler
The latest development in our neverending saga of worldwide patent warfare is a decision by a Mannheim judge banning Motorola's Android devices on the.
Engadget

Motorola's entire Android lineup banned in Germany
By Adrian Diaconescu
Microsoft is on a winning streak in its patent war against Motorola, with Moto now banned from selling Android devices in Germany. ... photon Motorolas Photon 4G Steps In Challenging The EVO 3D for Sprint's Best Phone! Motorola Droid sells ...
Android Authority

Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean Update Now Rolling Out To Motorola Xoom ...
By Chris Chavez
LG Viper 4G LTE Lets You Share Your World In New Ways U... Motorola Photon Q will have unlockable bootloader, othe. ... Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean Update Now Rolling Out To MotorolaXoom WiFi's (Everyone). posted on Jul 26th 2012 at ...
Android Phone Fans

Motorola finally unlocking bootloaders – for real this time | Android ...
By Cory Gunther
For months now we've been working closely with our developers and carrier partners to provide users a way to to unlock the bootloader on their Motorola Mobility device while keeping the networks secure and satisfying carriers' requirements.
Android Community

Thanks to iOS 6, MetaWatch outs Strata smartwatch — Mobile ...
By Kevin C. Tofel
Thanks to the new iOS 6 software, which now supports text message sharing over Bluetooth, the MetaWatch team is banking on Apple fans to fund its new Strata smartwatch. ... And the product is similar to the currently available MetaWatch for Android devices, so the Strata team isn't starting from scratch; all of the design and testing work is already done. Here's a ... Netgear's $39 Wi-Fi extender could be a mobile data saver 07/23/2012 · What impact will LTE add to RIM's PlayBook?
Mobile

Motorola Photon Q LTE Sprint: No pricing, release date set
By Brad Reed
The new smartphone will have a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a dual-core 1.5GHz processor, a 4.3-inch display screen, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, a rear-facing 8MP camera with 1080p video capture, and LTE and NFC connectivity. ... national wireless carrier offering truly unlimited data for all phones while on the Sprint network1, and Motorola Mobility today announceMotorola PHOTON Q™ 4G LTE, the next generation of last summer's popular MotorolaPHOTON™ 4G.
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Motorola Xoom users report receiving Android 4.1.1 update | The ...
By Jeff Blagdon
The wait for Jelly Bean could be over for Google's other Nexus device. Some owners of Motorola's Xoom report having received OTA updates to Android 4.1.1, despite not being part of a...
The Verge - All Posts

Sprint Announces Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE - Bonnie Cha ...
By Bonnie Cha
Sprint's next 4G LTE smartphone should get a thumbs up from keyboard lovers. ... Sprint is giving keyboard lovers a new choice in smartphones with the addition of the Motorola Photon Q4G LTE. Announced today, the Photon Q is the carrier's first 4G LTE smartphone with a ... The smart phone runs on the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system and includes such security features as remote wipe, PIN lock and data encryption for business users. The Photon Q also has an ...
AllThingsD

Motorola Mobility Moving to Chicago's Merchandise Mart | NBC ...
By Mary Ann Ahern
Motorola Mobility is getting a new address. The Libertyville-based division of Motorola, which recently merged with Google, will move to Chicago's Merchandise Mart.
NBC Chicago - Chicago Local News...

Samsung Galaxy S Lightray 4G hits MetroPCS | Ubergizmo
By Edwin Kee
Relatively small mobile carrier MetroPCS (at least in comparison to Verizon, Sprint, AT&T and T-Mobile) will be offering the Samsung Galaxy S Lightray 4G, also known by its model number SCH-R940, to the masses. Images of this particular ...
Ubergizmo

Google Fiber Is Official; Free Broadband Up To 5 Mbps, Or Pay For ...
By Mike Masnick
For years, we've pointed out that the real problem in broadband is the lack of competition. It's that lack of competition that leads companies like Verizon to stop investing in fiber networks, and companies like Comcast to only offer serious ...
Techdirt.

Linux Today - $49 Android PCs ROM, kernel and bootloader released
It is a purpose-built Android PC system designed for keyboard and mouse input, and powered by a VIA 800MHz processor, with 512 MB of DDR3 RAM and 2GB NAND Flash. It has built-in support for 2D/3D graphics resolution up to 720p.
Linuxtoday.com

Motorola PHOTON Q to hit shelves with unlockable bootloader ...
By Jeff Causey
On their blog today, Motorola announced that they have worked with their partners to respond to market demand for unlockable bootloaders. The fruits of these efforts will first appear with theMotorola PHOTON Q 4G LTE coming to the Sprint ...
Android News, Rumours, and Updates

Motorola PHOTON™ Q 4G LTE will have an unlockable bootloader ...
Welcome to the Official Motorola Mobility Blog. One stop for the latest in Mobile Phones, AndroidTablets, and Home devices. Subscribe ... We're excited to announce that Motorola PHOTON Q4G LTE, just announced today and coming soon to Sprint's fast 4G LTE network, will have an unlockable bootloader. We'll share ...
www.motorola.com/.../unlock-the-bootloader-on-motorola-ph...

First Sprint 4G LTE-enabled Device with Full QWERTY and ...
Motorola Mobility Ventures ... “Motorola PHOTON Q will be the first 4G LTE device with a QWERTY keyboard and world phone ... Sprint ID, offering an innovative way to personalize anAndroid smartphone with apps, widgets, ringtones and ...
mediacenter.motorola.com/.../First-Sprint-4G-LTE-enabled-De...

The Dark Knight Rises ™ for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S - Apple
Best iOS Game Ever! by Ken Smell. It runs flawlessly on the 4th generation iPod Touch! The graphics are incredible and the game play is easy to learn.
itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-dark-knight.../id522704697?mt...

Designing For Android: Tips And Techniques - Smashing Mobile ...
The back button is the best illustration of the interaction differences between Android and iOS. All Android devices have a hardware back button or on-screen ...
mobile.smashingmagazine.com/2012/07/.../android-design-tip...

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