How Apple's iPhone rapidly destroyed Nokia's world leading Symbian platform

In 2008, a journalist in Finland wrote a letter to Nokia complaining that its smartphones were difficult to use, prompting a confidential response acknowledging desperate efforts to catch up with Apple's new iPhone. One year later Nokia announced MeeGo, and the following year it made plans to shift to Windows Phone. The company is now being sold off for scrap.

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 62

Agawi TouchMark contrasts iPad's fast screen response to laggy Android tablets

A study benchmarking the touchscreen latency of popular tablets shows Apple's iPad mini and full sized iPad 4 leading response times of other tablets, with Android offerings dead last.

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 54

Google's Schmidt says Android more secure than the iPhone

Google chair Eric Schmidt raised eyebrows and got a few unintentional laughs on Monday when he said that Google's Android platform is more secure than Apple's iPhone.

Kevin Bostic 12 years ago 213

Samsung issues second, unsubstantiated denial of Galaxy S4, Note 3 benchmark cheating

In the face of a second set of investigative reports detailing exactly how Samsung leads other Android makers in exaggerating its performance on specific benchmarks, the company has issued its second denial this year, and which still fails to address any specifics.

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 62

Rampant cheating by Android knockoffs prompts AnTuTu to launch new benchmark

While some U.S. tech media reports have portrayed Samsung's benchmark fraud as a minor embarrassment related to numbers "nobody cares about," faking benchmarks is a big business in Asia, particularly among White Box Tablets, a market segment the U.S. tech media does consider relevant when talking about Apple's iPad market share of "shipments."

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 25

Asus, HTC, LG and other Android licensees join Samsung in faking test results

Cheating test scores and misrepresenting device capabilities are rampant at Samsung, but are also being used by virtually every other Android licensee apart from Google itself, research shows.

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 141

iPhone boosts T-Mobile's sales share, while Apple breaks even with Android in Japan

Strong sales of the iPhone aren't just proving beneficial for Apple, they're also helping out formerly struggling carriers that have picked up Apple's bestselling device, according to new figures from Kantar Worldpanel.

Kevin Bostic 12 years ago 16

Android overtakes Apple's iPad in tablet marketshare, approaches in revenue earned

Apple's iPad and iPad mini are still the most popular tablets in the world, but Android-powered tablets are grabbing an increasing share of the market and are collectively approaching the iPad in terms of revenue, according to a new study from ABI Research.

Kevin Bostic 12 years ago 204

iOS 7 shines as Apple bests Android, Windows Phone in 'user experience shootout'

Following the public release of iOS 7, Apple's newest operating system is thrown into the fire against its strongest competitors in a battery of user experience tests, and coming out on top against Samsung's customized Android build and Microsoft's Windows Phone.

Shane Cole 12 years ago 62

Fake iMessage app for Android spoofs Mac mini, routes chats through China [u]

A new messaging app aping the iMessage name has shown up on Google's Play Store, but Android device owners may want to think twice before downloading the unsanctioned app, as it doesn't seem to work as advertised and may be doing a bit more than it lets on.

Kevin Bostic 12 years ago 25

Inside Apple's 64-bit iOS 7 and the prospects for a 64-bit Android

Apple's shift to 64-bit mobile devices in iOS 7 came as a surprise, but the company's information outlined for developers indicates that the shift to 64-bit mobile apps will bring significant benefits in the short term, something Google's Android appears challenged to replicate even in the long term.

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 234

The Apple Era begins as Microsoft, Google shift to a hardware centric model

The formerly universal consensus that widely licensed software (like Windows) would always win out over integrated hardware products (like the Macintosh) has finally reached a definitive end, years after being proved wrong.

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 182

Apple's iOS grows mobile browsing share in US to dominant 65%

Apple's iOS has widened its lead over Google's Android in terms of mobile Web traffic share in the U.S., reaching 65 percent of the market, according to new data.

Neil Hughes 12 years ago 52

As Google's Android tops 1B activations, next version gets named 'KitKat'

Google's Android operating system has now passed one billion total device activations, the company announced on Tuesday, and the milestone comes as the search giant is gearing up to release the next version of its popular mobile operating system, which will be named after a familiar chocolate treat.

Kevin Bostic 12 years ago 99

Apple's iPhone grows to 43% share among US smartphones

Apple's iPhone continues to expand on its lead as the most popular smartphone in the U.S., taking more than 40 percent of the American market, according to new figures from Kantar.

Kevin Bostic 12 years ago 92

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