The Samsung Galaxy S4 may have been a bit of a disappointment in terms of design, but it does push the envelope in terms of functionality. Along with the hardware Samsung has also paid a lot of emphasis to the software features with the S4 and went all out to demonstrate them at the glitzy launch ev read more...

It’s official, Apple products will be available through T-Mobile in 2013. The plans were unveiled Thursday at Investor’s Day by company CEO Rene Obermann though the details did not include specifically which devices would be available. Speculation suggests that their offering will include both the i read more...

As part of its Google-led overhaul to become a lean and mean smartphoneoutfit,Motorola is pulling out of South Korea next year. Around 540 jobs will be lost, with 60-or-so staffers being offered a chance to relocate to the company’s R&D departments elsewhere. It’s not the first high-profile departur read more...

Courtesy : NDTV T-Mobile USA had been the lone iPhone-less carrier among the four national wireless companies in the U.S. Although it has been possible to use iPhones on T-Mobile networks, customers had to provide the phones themselves. The phones also work at much slower speeds, though T-Mobile ha read more...

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Approximate Price – 24,999 Nokia Lumia 920 is a new gift by Nokia in the very famous and successful Lumia series, which supports wireless charging. The Finnish handsets maker, Nokia, has some way back launched the highest ever 41 megapixels camera sensor smartphone, Nokia PureView 808, which was ve read more...

Gartner just released its Q2 2012 mobile sales unit report, ranking vendors and operating systems for mobile devices. Over this past quarter, of the mobile devices sold, 64.1% are powered by Google’s Android and 18.8% are operated by Apple’s iOS. Google’s Android made significant strides over the pa read more...

The iPhone 5 was the most anticipated Apple handset launch since the iPhone 4. The 4S offered only an incremental, albeit antenna-fixing, upgrade, and the fifth-gen iPhone arrives just as many 4 users’ 24-month contract comes up for renewal. However, in that time we’ve seen a seismic shift, with co read more...

There are variations in the service availability and data plans provided by operators around the world, with both factors impacting subscriber behavior. This section focuses on the effects of data plans on traffic volumes and application use. The measurements are made using a deep study analysi read more...

Courtesy : Erricson Report Data traffic doubled over one year The total monthly traffic split for voice and data. It depicts a stable trend of traffic growth with some seasonal variations. However, there are large differences in traffic levels between markets, regions and operators due to di read more...

A Smartphone is a cellular phone with better, faster and enhanced operating abilities and performance which was earlier restricted to Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) and portable computers. Smartphones are rapidly replacing feature phones in India. With the number of vendors offering wide variety o read more...

The Google Android mobile OS controlled 75% of the Smartphone market in Q3 2012. According to a new study by market analysis firm IDC the jump in market share was a direct result of faltering market reach for Nokia’s Symbian platform and Research In Motion’s Blackberry mobile OS. According to the s read more...

An important initial distinction is the difference between handheld mobile devices andtablets. Although tablets are included within mobile statistics, they are broken down separately within the data that we record through the network. It is important to separate them in terms of traffic, sales an read more...

Urbanization is currently a major global trend. Figure 8 shows that by 2016 over 30 percent of the world’s population are expected live in metro and urban areas with a density of more than 1,000 people per square kilometer. These areas represent less than 1 percent of the Earth’s total land are read more...

The coverage of the world’s mobile networks is constantly increasing as more and more base stations are being deployed. GSM/EDGE is the technology that by far has the widest reach and today covers more than 85 percent of the world’s population (see figure 7). WCDMA/HSPA covered around 35 per read more...

The announcement of Apple’s iPad Mini is right around the corner. Speculations are rife about the device, especially regarding its hardware and price-range.ccording to iMore, the Cupertino-based company may go the way of the MacBook Air, and introduce an ‘iPad Air’ that is smaller, more portable, li read more...

Source : mobithinking Worldwide mobile payments (m-payments) are growing strongly, but will still only be worth a fraction of e-commerce payments: N.B. definitions of m-payments may vary between analyst groups. • Merchandise purchases (e.g. via Amazon and eBay) account for most of m-payments in de read more...

Courtesy : Gartner Worldwide smartphone sales will reach 468 million units in 2011, a 57.7 percent increase from 2010, according to Gartner Inc. By the end of 2011, Android will move to become the most popular operating system (OS) worldwide and will build on its strength to account for 49 percent read more...

There were 11.1 percent more mobile devices sold in 2011 compared to 2010. • IDC (February 2012): 1,546 million handsets were sold in 2011, up 11.1 percent compared with 2010. • Gartner (February 2012): 1,775 million handsets were sold in 2011, up 11.1 percent compared with 2010. • Gartner (Febru read more...

All Things D — the people who host the D: All Things D conference — have managed to get their hands on three pictures Apple is presenting in court in the much-hyped Apple vs. Samsung trial. The pictures are timelines of Samsung’s products before and after the iPhone’s release in 2007, as well as a t read more...