When several Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphones spontaneously exploded in August…
Tag: iPhone also-rans
UBS: Don’t laugh at Apple Watch and AirPods, they’re part of Apple’s ‘ambient paradigm’
Apple shares are being undervalued because investors are too bearish on the ‘ambient paradigm’ – an era of technology where…
Beleaguered HTC assembles Google-branded Pixel phones
HTC Corp., the beleaguered manufacturer that once ranked among the world’s top smartphone makers…
Google announces Google-branded iPhone knockoffs, again
oogle on Tuesday unveiled two new smartphones, the Pixel and Pixel XL…
Higher income U.S. states use Apple iPhones; lower income states use Samsung Galaxy phones
Apple announced earlier this year that it has officially reached the 1 billion active devices milestone…
Google’s Android platform has a serious flaw
Google’s Android 7.0 is finally here! It looks smooth and makes several improvements…
Where it all went wrong for China’s Apple iPhone-knockoff maker Xiaomi
It was just four days after Christmas 2014, and for Chinese smartphone company Xiaomi…
Google launches Apple FaceTime killer ‘Duo’
Google and Apple have battled each other for years for primacy over mobile users…
‘Quadrooter’ security flaws said to affect over 900 million Android devices
Four newly-discovered vulnerabilities found in Android phones and tablets allow an attacker to take complete control of an affected device…
Black Hat 2016: Apple’s iPhone destroys Android phones in security
Apple iPhones are killing their Android counterparts on the mobile security front…
Beleaguered HTC reports quarterly revenue of $598 million, a 44% YoY decline, net loss of $133 million
The latest HTC results, for its Q2, confirm another loss-making quarter for the phone maker…
Apple’s iPhone falls to 5th in China smartphone marketshare
In the battle for the Chinese smartphone market, Apple has lost ground in both marketshare and shipment quantities…
iOS users are worth 10X more than those who settle for Android
Strikingly, revenue is about ten times more per iOS device than Android…
South Koreans under 30 prefer Apple’s iPhone over Samsung’s Galaxy
Samsung woke up today to bad news…
Google plans to release its own smartphone and it will fail
Google has quite a few reasons to design its own smartphone and have better control over its software, services, and users…
No, the app boom is not over
There has never been a better time to be an apps developer…
Apple’s iOS: The platform where consumers get the best of all worlds
The best of every company’s software and services efforts will be on Apple’s iOS…
Apple’s absolute advantage over Android
A large part of the ongoing battle to keep a mobile device secure is to ensure that users’ devices…
Fragmandroid: 95.4 percent of Google Android users are running an insecure operating system
By comparison, Apple Inc. says 84% of iOS users are running its most recent and safest version…
Apple’s App Store revenue nearly double that of Google’s Android
App Annie has released its regular report on the two main app stores in the mobile world…
I really tried, but there’s just no way I can live with Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S7
The experience Android provides, and the experiences those apps provide, just isn’t on the same level as the iPhone…
Samsung Galaxy S7 settlers plagued with vexing Wi-Fi problems
Beleaguered Samsung’s flagship phone frequently has difficulty maintaining a Wi-Fi connection, causing, among other issues…
What it means for Apple if feds have found a way to crack shooter’s iPhone
When federal prosecutors announced Monday that an outside party had come forward with a technique…
Millions of Android phones open to ‘permanent device compromise’ attack
Millions of Android phones, including the entire line of Nexus models, are vulnerable to attacks that can execute malicious code…
Angry shareholders demand management heads roll at beleaguered Samsung
In 2014 we posted a report regarding Samsung’s Galaxy S5 sales plummeting 50% in China…
Boring Galaxy S7 isn’t beleaguered Samsung’s next big thing
It was, by Samsung’s standards, a very bland launch with no surprises and no Samsung wow factor…
No, Apple is not working on tool for downgrading from iPhone to Android
There is no truth to this rumor…
Apple pressured by carriers to help users downgrade from iPhone to Android
Apple is under pressure from mobile operators to make it easier for customers to downgrade from iPhone to Android…
Google Android’s VP of design says Apple’s iPhone interface is ‘heavy and burdensome’
Google’s Matias Duarte has a problem. In the next ten years he wants to replace the computer on your desk and the phone in your pocket…
Increase in users dumping Android to upgrade to iPhone bodes well for Apple
26% of the users who bought iPhone 6S and 6S Plus in the first month of its launch switched from Android…
TSMC’s Apple A10 exclusivity damages beleaguered Samsung in myriad ways
It looks like TSMC will gain 100% of Apple’s chipset business in 2016…
Windows Phone and Android are failures
Windows Phone? Android? They’re both dead. Apple CEO Tim Cook holds all the cards…
Apple’s iPhone expected to outgrow Android 17.3% vs. 9.5% year-over-year
IDC estimates the total number of smartphone shipments will hit 1.43 billion units…
Apple supplier Avago smashes earnings record
Avago Technologies stock jumped late Wednesday after the Apple supplier reported fiscal Q4 earnings that topped Wall Street expectations…
CIRP: Android users upgrading to Apple iPhone at unprecedented rate
Apple is converting users from rival Android in record numbers, according to a new report from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners…
Beleaguered Samsung names new cellphone head in bid to stem market share losses to Apple iPhone
Tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd’s long-time handset division chief is ceding day-to-day management…
Millions of Android settlers are now upgrading to Apple’s iPhone
Those who once settled for Android handsets continue to flock to Apple’s revolutionary iPhone in record numbers…
Beleaguered Microsoft’s moribund Windows ‘smartphones’ face grim future
Gartner is predicting a grim future for Microsoft’s Windows mobile OS…
Apple reaffirms its superpower over Google’s ‘Fragmandroid’
Once more, Apple has shown its superpower in the ability to keep the mobile platform fresh, while Google’s Android OS continues to be hampered…
IDC: Apple iPhone sales up up 22.2% as new models capture upgraders and Android converts alike
According to the latest preliminary results from the International Data Corporation, Apple’s newest iPhones helped drive third quarter shipments of 48.0 million units, up 22.2%…
Apple CEO: Android to iPhone upgraders will help us smash our own 74.5 million smartphone sales record
Apple sold about 14 million iPhones to former Android owners in the last quarter…
Tim Cook: 30% of buyers last quarter upgraded from Android to real iPhones
During Apple’s quarterly conference call on Tuesday, CEO Tim Cook said 30 percent of buyers upgraded from Android to a real iPhone…
