According to Deloitte, the number of sub-US$100 smartphones in circulation is forecast to hit 500 million by the end of 2012. By the end of 2011, these sub $100 Smartphones stood at 200 million installed base. And Deloitte predicts that, this segment is about to double in volume this year. The firm said that smart [...]
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Path crosses 2 million users Not quite surprised that Path has crossed 2 million users. The app is just so brilliantly sexy that I somehow even managed my not-so-tech savvy cousin to start using it. The number of people starting to share photos on Path has also increased astonishingly. A shift from Instagram, I notice. [...]
Now who sells hot like the iPads? I completely missed out on the numbers, but guess who is the fastest selling tablet after iPad? It’s the HP TouchPad, which HP has abandoned. Although Black Friday might have changed the numbers well to the extremes but I have colored myself surprised that a tablet which possess [...]
Samsung Galaxy S III and quad-core
According to certain rumors, Samsung Galaxy S III — successor to commercially successful Samsung Galaxy S II, will come with lightening fast quad-core processors. Yeah, we needed these rumors since we are so clueless about Samsung’s next flagship device. I am pretty sure I will go gaga over their next product as it will bring [...]
Will Apple reply to Samsung now?
I like it when companies attack each other directly in a funny way. Not the patent wars. Samsung has introduced a new ad for the Samsung Galaxy S II targeting Apple fanbois. Funny. Apple, your turn. Tweet
Why Windows Phone needs to quickly gain market share
Now that Windows Phone 7.5 has been launched in India (HTC Radar is available for purchase), WP need to gain market share asap. If you look around, you’ll find people are using Android phones these days. And now that Android has even captivated the feature phone segment, it will be come increasingly difficult for WP [...]
Is it all about trust? Apple vs Google
Apple’s Find My Friend is now available for download from iCloud.com that was announced just last week at the iPhone 4S event. Find My Friend lets you see where your friends are on a map, and lets them track you. Sounds familiar? Yes, Google launched similar app — Google Latitude back in 2009. They got [...]
Thoughts on Siri
Apple announced iPhone 4S along with a new mind blowing feature — Siri, a personal assistant. Now Android already had something similar to it named “Voice Actions for Android”. Check out the video: But why Siri would win over this? Paul Miller at The Verge has pretty much summed up what I want to say. [...]
