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Tag: iPhone wannabes

Samsung returns to mimicking Apple’s iPhone with chamfered metal-edged Galaxy Alpha

Wednesday, August 13, 2014 8:59 amWednesday, August 13, 201441 Comments

Faced with declining sales, Samsung has returned to the only thing that works for it, copying Apple…

USPTO rejects parts of Apple’s auto-correct patent, $119 million payout by Samsung likely to be reduced

Friday, August 8, 2014 9:27 amFriday, August 8, 20149 Comments

In a new twist to the second Apple vs Samsung patent trial…

The end of Apple’s thermonuclear war?

Thursday, August 7, 2014 11:29 amThursday, August 7, 201419 Comments

When Steve Jobs famously said he’d go ‘thermonuclear’ against Android…

Apple, Samsung agree to end patent suits outside U.S.

Wednesday, August 6, 2014 9:02 amThursday, August 7, 20149 Comments

Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. are starting to wind down…

Apple knockoff outfit Xiaomi overtakes slavish Apple copier Samsung in China market share

Tuesday, August 5, 2014 11:27 amTuesday, August 5, 201418 Comments

China’s Xiaomi Inc took China’s smartphone unit share crown in the second quarter…

Next Samsung phone to offer iPhone 5-like metal body with chamfered edges

Monday, August 4, 2014 1:29 pm30 Comments

Last week we reported on Samsung preparing their next round of smartphones…

Microsoft sues Samsung over nonpayment of Android patent licensing royalties

Friday, August 1, 2014 7:55 pmFriday, August 1, 201444 Comments

On Friday, Microsoft filed a lawsuit against Samsung…

As Apple’s profits and iPhone sales grow, Samsung posts stagnating sales, weak profits

Thursday, July 31, 2014 5:31 pmThursday, July 31, 201421 Comments

Samsung yesterday posted stagnating sales and its weakest profits…

Wall Street’s patience with Amazon’s losses wears thin

Tuesday, July 29, 2014 9:52 amTuesday, July 29, 201443 Comments

Amazon reported a wide-than-expected second quarter loss last week…

Samsung stumbles again, indefinitely postpones launch of Tizen phone

Monday, July 28, 2014 1:31 pmMonday, July 28, 201426 Comments

Samsung Electronics stumbled again this week, announcing it had indefinitely postponed…

The Wall Street Journal reviews Amazon Fire Phone: A gimmicky mess

Friday, July 25, 2014 3:00 pmFriday, July 25, 201419 Comments

The big idea in Amazon’s first smartphone is that you can control…

Gizmodo reviews Amazon’s Fire Phone: Don’t buy it

Wednesday, July 23, 2014 12:29 pmWednesday, July 23, 201412 Comments

Fire OS is workable but mediocre as a smartphone operating system…

Samsung losing ground on two fronts as Apple readies hotly-anticipated iPhone 6

Wednesday, July 16, 2014 7:54 pm17 Comments

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd is losing smartphone ground to Apple at the high-end…

Apple’s eight-month-old iPhone 5s outsold Samsung Galaxy S5 in its first full month of sales

Wednesday, July 16, 2014 1:28 pmWednesday, July 16, 201421 Comments

Apple’s iPhone 5s outsold Samsung’s Galaxy S5 handset by 40%…

iPhone 6 already hurting Apple’s rivals

Monday, July 14, 2014 10:31 amMonday, July 14, 201410 Comments

A troubling picture is shaping up for for Apple’s rivals…

Apple’s iPhone 6 eyed by 50% of smartphone consumers

Wednesday, June 25, 2014 6:43 pm17 Comments

Merry Christmas, Fragmandroid!

Why you shouldn’t buy Amazon’s Fire Phone

Sunday, June 22, 2014 8:56 pm39 Comments

Amazon’s Fire Phone is optimized for spying on unsuspecting buyers…

Amazon Fire Phone could add 55% to users’ shopping bills

Friday, June 20, 2014 3:01 pmFriday, June 20, 201426 Comments

With a great deal of spectacle, Amazon.com Inc…

Amazon’s Misfire Phone: How Jeff Bezos failed

Thursday, June 19, 2014 6:00 pmThursday, June 19, 201433 Comments

There’s no question that the Fire Phone is a strong product offering…

Amazon’s Fire Phone might be the biggest privacy invasion ever

Thursday, June 19, 2014 2:00 pm23 Comments

Amazon Fire Phone is probably the biggest single invasion of user privacy ever…

Analyst: No impact to Apple iPhone from Amazon ‘Fire Phone’

Thursday, June 19, 2014 10:58 amThursday, June 19, 201410 Comments

With a long history in computing, we believe Apple is unique…

Amazon launches shopping machine masquerading as a phone

Wednesday, June 18, 2014 7:45 pmThursday, June 19, 201465 Comments

Amazon’s Misfirephone…

Amazon Fire Phone’s Firefly feature: Apple’s iPhone already has it

Wednesday, June 18, 2014 5:01 pmWednesday, June 18, 201430 Comments

When Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos announced the new Fire Phone, he ‘forgot’ to mention…

Amazon shows ‘Fire Phone’ with 4.7-inch ‘3-D’ display to court mobile shoppers

Wednesday, June 18, 2014 2:21 pmWednesday, June 18, 201447 Comments

More than seven years after Apple introduced the iPhone…

Analyst: Amazon smartphone no threat to Apple’s iPhone, but Android phone makers beware

Tuesday, June 17, 2014 6:49 pm23 Comments

A day before Amazon’s expected announcement of a new 3-D smartphone…

IDC predicts Apple iPhone market share to drop to 13.7% in 2018

Wednesday, May 28, 2014 3:01 pmWednesday, May 28, 201423 Comments

According to a recently published mobile phone forecast from IDC…

Fragmandroid: Bounden delayed on Android due to widespread fragmentation, faulty or faked gyroscopes

Wednesday, May 21, 2014 1:58 pmWednesday, May 21, 201420 Comments

After long and painful discussions in the Game Oven office…

Apple iPhone continues to lead U.S. and Canadian smartphone usage share

Thursday, May 15, 2014 5:01 pm8 Comments

Chitika Insights examined hundreds of millions of smartphone-based…

Will Apple sue Amazon for copying the iPhone?

Wednesday, May 7, 2014 1:32 pmWednesday, May 7, 201437 Comments

Amazon’s smartphone looks a lot like an Apple iPhone…

iPhone 6 rivals have wasted their chance to cut Apple off at the knees

Monday, May 5, 2014 11:01 amMonday, May 5, 201419 Comments

The elephant in the room is Apple…

iPhone 6: How Apple kills off Samsung to dominate Android

Monday, May 5, 2014 9:52 amTuesday, July 8, 201428 Comments

For Samsung, the strategy has been to give customers two, and at times, three products…

Google’s Android: The Fisher Price of smartphones, training wheels for Apple’s iPhone

Friday, May 2, 2014 3:57 pmFriday, May 2, 201425 Comments

What do Fisher Price phones and Android smartphones have in common?

Android stinks and Apple’s about to prove it

Friday, May 2, 2014 11:07 amFriday, May 2, 201429 Comments

Apple’s iOS is coming for Google’s Android operating system…

How Apple envy is hurting Samsung

Thursday, May 1, 2014 2:18 pm20 Comments

Samsung, which has risen to prominence by “drawing inspiration” from Apple’s iPhone…

Apple iPhone tops J.D. Power 2014 U.S. Wireless Smartphone Satisfaction Study

Thursday, April 24, 2014 5:32 pmThursday, April 24, 20149 Comments

More than one-fifth (21%) of smartphone owners cite “price” as the main reason they chose…

Customers are stepping up for AT&T’s no-contract plan

Wednesday, April 23, 2014 1:44 pmWednesday, April 23, 201413 Comments

AT&T said 40 percent of its smartphone gross customer additions and upgrades…

Amazon to unveil 3-D smartphone for Christmas 2014 shopping season

Monday, April 14, 2014 8:58 amMonday, April 14, 201424 Comments

Amazon.com Inc. is preparing to release a smartphone in the second half of this year…

Apple closes U.S. ad-spending gap with Samsung

Tuesday, April 8, 2014 1:25 pm7 Comments

Samsung is the still the king of the U.S. smartphone marketing race, but Apple…

Candy Crush maker King Digital shares sour in market debut

Wednesday, March 26, 2014 5:25 pmWednesday, March 26, 201411 Comments

Shares in King Digital Entertainment Plc fell as much as 15 percent…

Mobile DRAM makers suffer as Google delays 64-bit Android

Friday, March 21, 2014 3:01 pmFriday, March 21, 201424 Comments

Apple is building the best system from the OS through the AP architecture design to hardware…

Apple dominates 64-bit mobile processors as also-rans lag behind

Tuesday, March 11, 2014 6:57 pmTuesday, March 11, 201423 Comments

Just one quarter after the launch of Apple’s A7, the first 64-bit mobile processor…

Family of girl slain over iPhone lobbies for ‘kill switch’

Monday, March 3, 2014 5:00 pmTuesday, March 4, 201465 Comments

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton…

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