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Apple No. 1 In Customer Satisfaction On Samsung's Home Turf
Samsung Electronics' Second Quarter Misses Forecast Due To Smartphone Worries
How To Replace The Battery In An iPhone 5 Video Tutorial
Dell Ponders Wearable Computing Move As PC Business Slump Continues Slumping
Most Americans Don't Want Wearable Tech Like iWatch, Google Glass - Survey
Unarchiver for iPhone and iPad
eCycleBest Beats the Competition for iPhone 4S Buy Back Prices
Pen & Ink is the #1 Productivity App in South Korea
Random House LLC Releases Cookmate Multi Timer App
Apple No. 1 In Customer Satisfaction On Samsung's Home Turf
AppleInsider Staff report that Apple's iPhone has achieved yet another milestone: taking the top spot for customer satisfaction in South Korea - the home country of Apple's archrival in the smartphone sector and in patent litigation Samsung.
A Quality Insights report on customer satisfaction in the South Korean smartphone market surveyed 44,168 smartphone owners to see how they would rate their satisfaction with both the device's performance over the course of one year and the manufacturer's customer service over that same period. Apple's after-sale service rated highest with South Korean consumers among all manufacturers, with a 52 percent satisfaction rate. That topped a 50 percent satisfaction rate for Samsung, as well as a 46 percent satisfaction rate for South Korea's LG.
For the full report visit here:
http://goo.gl/GMJN1
Samsung Electronics' Second Quarter Misses Forecast Due To Smartphone Worries
In other news, Reuters' Miyoung Kim reports that Samsung Electronics Co Ltd fll short of meeting already modest expectations for its quarterly earnings guidance today, deepening worries that its smartphone business may have peaked, as growth in sales of its blockbuster Galaxy phones begins to wane and new rivals emerge to eat away at its market share.
To read more, click here.
http://goo.gl/vWURo
How To Replace The Battery In An iPhone 5 Video Tutorial
iFixit has posted a video tutorial on DIY replacement of your iPhone 5 battery.
You can check it out at:
http://goo.gl/f6dk9
Dell Ponders Wearable Computing Move As PC Business Slump Continues Slumping
The Guardian's Charles Arthur reports that Texas-based PC maker Dell is guagung the market potential for wearable technology as sales of its desktop computers continue their swoon, admitting that customers have been slow to adopt Windows 8 tablets, and that Sam Burd, Dell's global vice-president of personal computing, told the Guardian: "we're exploring ideas in that space".
For the full report visit here:
http://goo.gl/NMDQx
Most Americans Don't Want Wearable Tech Like iWatch, Google Glass - Survey
Dell (item above) might be well-advised to think twice about diving in to wearable technology. TechHive's Matt Hamblen reports that Apple's anticipated iWatch and Google Glass are fodder fo plenty of headlines these days, but a recent poll shows that a majority of Americans with college degrees who make $100,000 or more a year wouldn't consider buying or wearing such devices and only only 34 percent would.
For the full report visit here:
http://goo.gl/WorJH
Unarchiver for iPhone and iPad
Want to be able to unzip or unrar email attachments on an iOS device? Would you feel more secure if you could store your files in password protected folders? Do you sometimes wish you could read your TXT format novels on your iPhone? Would you like to be able to read your PDFs or Word documents wherever you happen to be?
The Unarchiver brings all the conventional functions of file management and browsing to your iPhone/iPad. You can store your documents, images, audio, videos and other files in your iPhone, and browse them on it with ease. UnArchiver (zip+unzip/unrar) is a must-have utility for anybody who needs to decompress files on iOS.
Features:
File Manager
- Folders support
- Refresh, Rename, Copy, Move, Delete files
- Create new txt file
- Create new photo file from Photo Library
- Save image to Photo Library (from archive)
- Supports Zip, RAR and many other formats
Inter-app document interchange (iOS 4.x) - Other apps can save their files to app - Other apps can open their files with app
File Sharing
- USB File Sharing via iTunes
- Email Files as Attachments
NEW UnZip/UnRAR tool for iOS4
UnZip files from many other applications:
In Mail: long press attachment
In DropBox: press [->] button.
In Safari: simply press on link to zip or RAR file.
Info page (with video and screenshots):
http://softgames.biz/en/apps/soft/1/
iTunes link:
https://itunes.apple.com/app/id529090178?mt=8
eCycleBest Beats the Competition for iPhone 4S Buy Back Prices
eCycleBest.com, a leader in green electronics buy back services, is now offering top dollar for used iPhones, beating offers by most major competitors, including WalMart and Best Buy, by $100 or more. The company is responding to the upcoming launch of the iPhone 5S and the iPhone Light. Both upgrades, scheduled for release in 2013, will be marketed as affordable alternatives to their upscale predecessors.
To make way for the new inventory, top electronics retailers are scrambling to exhaust their iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 stock, offering models at prices up to 70% less than before: for example, WalMart customers can get the iPhone 4S for as low as $30 and the iPhone 5 for $129, while Best Buy fans are locking in on a free iPhone 5 for an iPhone 4S trade-in, or a price cut of $50 on either the 4S or the 5. At first glance, these deals seem hard to beat that is, until you crunch the numbers.
While the prices are certainly appealing, there's a catch each promotion comes with a required 2-year service contract commitment with a major US carrier which can run anywhere from $1,200 for an individual plan to $2,040 for a shared plan. And, in the case of Best Buy's free iPhone 5 offer, the traded 4S has to be in good working condition, and the $150 payback is only issued in trade-in credit never cash. Added to these stipulations is the fact that when the new models arrive later this year, customers who were lured by these promotions will be limited for the next twenty four months by a dated phone with fewer features and diminished usability.
Dave Kruchin, the company's founder and CEO, notes that because they specialize in iPhone buy backs, they can pass that on to their clients in cash value. "We are very much aware that the iPhone 4S holds more resale value than any of its closest non-Apple competitors," says Kruchin. "In fact, Piper Jaffray came out with a very interesting report last May that identified a 7% loss in value for the iPhone 4S and an 11.2% decline in value for the iPhone 5 based on resale prices in the US."
This translates into good news for the savvy consumer. eCycleBest offers as much as $259 for an iPhone 4S in good condition; $155 for one that doesn't power on; $220 if it has a faulty battery; and $168 if the screen is damaged. And by paying via PayPal or check, the company gives their clients the freedom to spend their cash wherever they want.
Finally, there's a "feel good" factor when dealing with eCycleBest, which, since its 2002 inception, has dedicated itself to keeping toxic e-waste out of U.S. landfills without contributing to the global e-waste crisis. It also stands by its commitment to ensure that all traded devices are processed and sold in the U.S. market as quality refurbished products and genuine repair/replacement parts.
For more information, visit:
http://www.ecyclebest.com
Pen & Ink is the #1 Productivity App in South Korea
Stepping Stone Mobile has announced that Pen & Ink is the #1 Productivity App in South Korea, having been featured by Apple in the "New and Noteworthy" section of the App Store. Pen & Ink is a simple way to create watercolor paintings and drawings on the iPad. It recently soared to the top of the charts in China and remains #1 in Productivity in 10 other countries, including Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines and Hong Kong.
South Korea is the first country to declare it will convert students' textbooks to digital tablets within the next few years. According to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, 100% of the schools in South Korea have fast Internet connections, and all the teachers are trained in digital learning. The country takes education very seriously, with most children studying 12 hours or more a day and a school year that lasts 216 days a year, compared with 180 days in the United States.
"It is important in South Korea to have a powerful art app," says Emily Zhang, who studies international marketing at Columbia University. "South Korean students want to create high-quality art." Pen & Ink, which is receiving 5-star ratings, includes all of the art essentials for free - numerous paintbrushes, pens, pencils, watercolor palettes and zoom.
Device Requirements:
(*) Compatible with iPad
(*) Requires iOS 5.0 or later
(*) 40.6 MB
Pen & Ink 2.4.1 is Free USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Entertainment category. The full version sells within the app for $2.99, and offers powerful artistic features such as smudge tools, layers, custom color palettes and 25 unique, realistic brushes.
Stepping Stone Mobile:
http://www.steppingstonemobile.com
Pen & Ink 2.4.1:
http://goo.gl/mJ2xX
Download from iTunes:
http://goo.gl/Eu72M
YouTube Video (Asian Brush Tutorial):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z5wsfpwb1E
Image Gallery:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/89089840@N04/
Facebook Profile:
http://www.facebook.com/SteppingStoneMobile
Twitter Profile:
http://twitter.com/StepStoneMobile
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Random House LLC Releases Cookmate Multi Timer App
Random House LLC and Smashing Ideas LLC both companies of Penguin Random House in the U.S., have jointly announced that Cookmate Multi Timer for iPhone and iPod touch is now available in the App Store. Cookmate Multi Timer is a simple tool to help time meals and other household chores. Users can set an unlimited number of timers and view them all on one screen. Tap anywhere on the timer to reveal additional controls: adjust hours and minutes, add notes, customize sound alerts, and set notifications. Notifications will alert family and friends via a custom or preset text message when the timer goes off.
Timers automatically rank so that the first to go off is at the top of the list. Timers will turn from black to red at the one-minute countdown, alerting the user that their timer is almost done. Cookmate Multi Timer runs in the background of your iPhone or iPod touch so that other applications can be used at the same time.
Cookmate Multi Timer will help manage your time in the kitchen. It is the perfect companion to cooking meals this holiday weekend.
Other features include:
(*) Stop, pause, or start at any time
(*) Restart expired timers
(*) Name each timer
Device Requirements:
(*) iPhone 3GS, 4, 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch and iPad
(*) Requires iOS 6.1 or later
(*) This app is optimized for iPhone 5
(*) 5.4 MB
Cookmate Multi Timer 1.0 is $0.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Utilities category.
Random House:
http://www.randomhouse.com/
Cookmate Multi Timer 1.0:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id650858202?mt=8
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http://goo.gl/UjBGy
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