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Showing posts with label one. Show all posts
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Samsung Takes The Number One Spot For The First Time
Although Nokia have been going through a rather difficult spell in recent years, they have still been managing to cling on to the top spot when it comes to global sales of cellphones – until now. According to new research conducted by a number of analytics firms, Samsung have ousted Nokia from the top of the leader board.
The reports, conducted by IHS iSuppli and Strategy Analytics show that the Finnish handset maker has been unable to cling for dear life on the top spot and has finally been knocked from the perch by Samsung due to Nokia’s poor sales performances of recent times.
In the first quarter of 2012, Nokia’s market share dropped down to a low of 22.5% while Samsung raced into the lead by holding a 25.4% of the global mobile market. In the same period, Apple were sitting with a 9.5% hold, which may not seem like a great deal but considering the company only produces the iPhone, this is quite some achievement.
One of the main reasons for Nokia’s fall from the top of the cellular grace was down to the company’s low-end device sales in emerging markets dropping off, something that they were unable to offset with the sales of their top-end devices like the new Lumia range of smartphones. Neil Mawston, who operates as the Executive Director of Strategy Analytics, reminisced about Nokia’s current issues and their golden years:
Nokia’s volumes were squeezed at both ends, as low-end feature phone shipments in emerging markets stalled and high-end Microsoft Lumia smartphones were unable to offset the rapid decline of Nokia’s legacy Symbian business. Nokia was the world’s largest handset vendor between 1998 and 2011, for 14 years, before finally yielding top position to rival Samsung this quarter.
Although the statistics refer to sales of all mobile phones, the main focus of the market is currently centered around top-end smartphones, sales of which suffered in the first quarter of 2012 across all major manufacturers. As the table below from IHS shows, Apple suffered a 5% decline is sales with Samsung experiencing a change of 11% during the same period. Nokia’s woes continued as their shipments of smartphones dropped by eight million units in the first quarter.
We have been used to seeing extraordinary boom in this market, but at the minute consumers are showing a reluctance in the marketplace with overall handset sales growing by a relatively small 3.3%. One of the firms involved in the research predicts that smartphone sales will be the only ones to increase in the next twelve months, growing by an estimated 35% while sales of standard handsets will decline.
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
The Nexus One end its life as an Astronaut
Remember the first Google Nexus phone, the HTC built Nexus One? It looks like the phone is ending its life as an Astronaut.
As part of a new project to lower the cost of satellites, NASA successfully launched NASAs 10cm-cubed CubeSat Satellites. The CubeSats are constructed from commercial off-the-shelf components, which each satellite costing between US$3500 and US$7000 to build. To keep the costs down, unmodified smartphones are used as the computer for the satellite. Three Android powered HTC Nexus One phones get the honor of powering the first CubeSats.
They Nexus Ones are equipped with a larger lithium-ion battery pack and a more powerful radio for transmitting data. Other than that, it really is just an off-the shelf Android phones. The phone camera is even used to capture and transmit images.
I was pretty sure I would be picking up a Samsung Galaxy S4 to replace my HTC Desire HD. Now, I really feel like maybe taking ONE more spin with HTC.
I was pretty sure I would be picking up a Samsung Galaxy S4 to replace my HTC Desire HD. Now, I really feel like maybe taking ONE more spin with HTC.
Source: CNET Australia
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Alcatel One Touch Idol Ultra Worlds Slimmest Smartphone
Alcatel has officially announced their latest Smartphone’s called One Touch Idol and One Touch Idol Ultrais the world’s thinnest phone just 6.45 mm with soft rubber soft touch body, large display with high resolution delivers vivid and sharp images, Dragon Trail glass protected screen from scratches and oleophobic coating keep clear from fingerprints, dual core processor smoothly runs games and web applications, front camera for video calling or self portrait, back camera for high quality photos with panorama mode and smile and face detection.
The Alcatel Idol Ultra has 4.7-inch HD AMOLED multi-touch screen display with 720 x 1280 pixels resolution, 1.2GHz MediaTek MT6589 dual core processor, 1GB RAM, 16GB built-in storage but lack of microSD card slot, 1.3-mega pixels front facing camera, dimension 134.4 x 68.5 x 6.45 mm, 1820mAh battery provides 8.5 hours talk time, 20 hours music and 400 hours standby time.
The Alcatel Idol has 4.7-inch IPS multi-touch screen display with 540 x 960 pixels resolution, 1.0GHz dual core processor, 512MB RAM, 4GB for single SIM and 8GB for dual SIM with microSD card slot for extra storage, 2-mega pixels front facing camera, weight 110 grams, dimension 133 x 67.5 x 7.9 mm, 1800mAh battery provides 3.2 hours talk time, 45 hours music and 415 hours standby time.
These Alcatel One Touch Smartphone’s have Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system, 8-mega pixels rear camera with LED flash, 1080p Full HD video recording, HSPA, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0 and GPS connectivity.
Alcatel One Touch Idol Ultra will be available in Red, Pink, Yellow, Green, Black and Blue colors while Alcatel One Touch Idol in Black, Silver, Gray, Pink, Red and Blue colors from April in Europe at price of €359 and €299 respectively.
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
D One Texas Hybrid Phone With 3 On
D-One tried to introduce Texas DM-309 mobile phone which is a 3 on GSM + GSM + CDMA with navigation systems that already use the trackpad to operate the menu.
For GSM number, the number of active can be selected one of them. But the number of CDMA will be always on and can not be disabled.
D-one Texas bandaged from a plastic material and comes in three colors, red, black and white, and use the LCD screen measuring 2.4 inches. On the phone is available a 3.5-mm audio port for headset usage needs.
In addition is also available a microSD slot in the battery bay, which for its own battery of this phone using a type 1050 mAh Li-ion rechargeable.
D-One Texas DM-309 is equipped with dual cameras, one on the front precisely on the LCD, and another in the back. Rear camera can record images in any condition. While the front of the camera functions to support the video chat feature or self portrait.
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