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Apple Updates iOS to Version 6.1With LTE Support For 36 More iPhone Carriers Worldwide
RIM Announces Big Name BlackBerry 10 Music, Video Partners
Is The Blackberry Still Relevant?
Our Smartphone Obsession
iPhone fatigue Eroding Apple's Cachet With Younger Demographic In Asia's Trend-setting Cities
Is Apple Fixing To Release A 128GB iPad? - Rumor
Why Release Of A 128GB iPad Is Unlikely - For Now
Android and Apple iOS Capture Record 92 Percent Share of Global Smartphone Shipments in Q4 2012 - Strategy Analytics
How Unlocking Your iPhone Could Cost $500,000
Canonical Invites Input On Core Ubuntu Phone Apps
Massive Dynamics to Double Initial Shipment of iPhone 5 Battery Pack
Massive Dynamic's TeliPad Turns iPhone, Android or Windows Smartphone Into 3 Separate Phone Lines And Can Give iPad mini Smartphone Functionality
Apple Updates iOS to Version 6.1With LTE Support For 36 More iPhone Carriers Worldwide
Apple on Monady today updated the iOS to version 6.1, adding LTE capabilities to 36 additional iPhone carriers and 23 additional iPad carriers around the world, giving even more iPhone 5 and cellular-equipped iPad mini and iPad with Retina display users the option of ultrafast wireless performance. To date, Apple says iOS users have uploaded over nine billion photos to Photo Stream, sent over 450 billion iMessages and received over four trillion notifications.
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"iOS 6 is the world's most advanced mobile operating system, and with nearly 300 million iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices on iOS 6 in just five months, it may be the most popular new version of an OS in history," commented Apple senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing Philip Schiller. "iOS 6.1 brings LTE support to more markets around the world, so even more users can enjoy ultrafast Safari browsing, FaceTime video calls, iCloud services, and iTunes and App Store downloads."
Returning iOS 6 features include the voice-responding app. Siri, which supports more languages, easy access to sports scores, restaurant recommendations and movie listings; the controversial Maps app. with Apple-designed cartography, turn-by-turn navigation and Flyover view; Facebook integration for Contacts and Calendar, with the ability to post directly from Notification Center, Siri and Facebook-enabled apps; Shared Photo Streams via iCloud; and Passbook, the simplest way to get all your passes in one place.
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Additional updates in iOS 6.1 include the ability to use Siri to purchase movie tickets in the US through Fandango, and iTunes Match subscribers can download individual songs to their iOS devices from iCloud.
Apple's iOS App Store offers more than 800,000 apps to iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users, with more than 300,000 native iPad apps. Apple says App Store customers have downloaded over 40 billion apps, and Apple has paid over seven billion dollars to its developer community. Customers can choose from apps in 23 categories, including newspapers and magazines offered in Newsstand, games, business, news, sports, health & fitness and travel.
iOS 6.1 is available as a free software update immediately, and is compatible with iPhone 5, iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad (third and fourth generation), iPad mini, iPad 2 and iPod touch (fourth and fifth generation). Some features may not be available on all products.
For more information visit:
http://www.apple.com
Notes
(*)LTE is available on iPhone 5, iPad mini and fourth generation iPad Wi-Fi + Cellular models through select carriers. Network speeds are dependent on carrier networks, check with your carrier for details.
(*)(*)Information about LTE carriers can be found at:
http://www.apple.com/iphone/LTE
and:
http://www.apple.com/ipad/LTE
RIM Announces Big Name BlackBerry 10 Music, Video Partners
Reuters reports that BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd., which will launch its BlackBerry 10 operating system on Wednesday has a gathered several music and video partners for its BlackBerry 10 storefront, ranging from Walt Disney Co.'s Walt Disney Studios and Sony Corp.'s Sony Pictures to Vivendi SA's Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group.
For the full report visit here:
http://goo.gl/YfCeD
Is The Blackberry Still Relevant?
With the upcoming Blackberry 10 announcement, RIM is making news again, and its stock price is soaring, but is the Blackberry still relevant?
Blackberry might be the butt of fanboy jokes, but the trade-in experts at NextWorth (http://NextWorth.com) have pulled some surprising data that suggests loyal Blackberry users are still out there. In fact, NextWorth's data shows that Blackberry handsets resell values are neck-and-neck with increasingly popular Samsung, and not far behind HTC.
"The numbers show a robust secondary market for Blackberry that is keeping up residual value," says Jeff Trachsel, CMO of NextWorth. "This could definitely be indicative of the dedicated nature of Blackberry enthusiasts."
Average trade-in values for Blackberry from NextWorth:
Torch 9810 ($78)
Torch 9800 ($54)
Bold 9700 ($36)
Curve 9300 ($20)
For more information, visit:
http://NextWorth.com
Our Smartphone Obsession
Canada's CTV News has posted an interesting and in some aspects troubling video story on our increasingly obsessive relationship with smartphones.
You can check it out at:
http://www.ctvnews.ca/video?playlistId=1.1133403
iPhone fatigue Eroding Apple's Cachet With Younger Demographic In Asia's Trend-setting Cities
Reuters' Jeremy Wagstaff reports that the iPhone is losing some of its luster among well-heeled Asian consumers in Singapore and Hong Kong, especiallr younger users who have developed "iPhone fatigue" and are are turning to other brands, impelled bya desire to be different and enticed by a growing array of competing devices, notably machines from Samsung Electronics Co Ltd.
Wagstaff cites metrics from StatCounter (http://gs.statcounter.com/http://gs.statcounter.com/) indicating that that Apple's share of mobile devices in Singapore declined sharply last year from a peak of 72 percent in January 2012, its share fell to 50 percent this month, while in Hong Kong, devices running Apple's iOS now have a roughly 30 percent share - down from about 45 percent a year ago.
You can check it out at:
http://goo.gl/voRtQ
Is Apple Fixing To Release A 128GB iPad? - Rumor
9To5Mac's Mark Gurman reports word from unnamed sources that Apple is preparing to release a single, additional 4th-generation iPad model that would be a more premium SKU priced at around $799 for the WiFi-only model and $929 for the Cellular-compatible model added to the current line of 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB fourth-generation iPads.
Gurman notes that developers have found code in the just-released iOS 6.1 that points to 128GB iOS devices, 128GB references have also been found in Apple's recent iTunes 11 release, leading to speculation about an imminent a 128GB iPad release. However, while he thinks that projection is at least plausible, Gurman says he's currently not confident enough to outright claim that a 128GB iPad is in the product pipeline.
For the full report visit here:
http://goo.gl/eDme8
Why Release Of A 128GB iPad Is Unlikely - For Now
ZNet's Adrian Kingsley-Hughes says rumors that Apple is preparing to release a 128GB version of the iPad, adding a new model to the existing line up are unlikely to be based in reality, noting that there have been code references in beta versions of iOS 6.1 pointing to a 128GB iPad previously, and that product rumors based on findings within iOS beta code are notoriously inaccurate, and observing that Apple has never bumped storage capacity of any iOS device outside of a version refresh.
However, he also says he has little doubt that a 128GB iPad is coming, but thinks that it will be a new model - perhaps the iPad 5 and that its debut will be concurrent with elimination of the current base 16GB model, which would would allow Apple to retain the existing pricing structure for the iPads, with the 128GB model costing $699 for the Wi-Fi model, and $829 for the Wi-Fi + Cellular model.
For the full commentary visit here:
http://goo.gl/3mQxH
Android and Apple iOS Capture Record 92 Percent Share of Global Smartphone Shipments in Q4 2012 - Strategy Analytics
According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global smartphone shipments grew 38 percent annually to reach 217 million units in the fourth quarter of 2012. Android and Apple iOS together accounted for a record 92 percent share of all smartphones shipped worldwide.
Neil Shah, Senior Analyst at Strategy Analytics, says: "Global smartphone shipments grew 38 percent annually from 157.0 million units in Q4 2011 to 217.0 million in Q4 2012. Global smartphone shipments for the full year reached a record 700.1 million units in 2012, increasing robustly from 490.5 million units in 2011. Global shipment growth slowed from 64 percent in 2011 to 43 percent in 2012 as penetration of smartphones began to mature in developed regions such as North America and Western Europe."
Neil Mawston, Executive Director at Strategy Analytics, adds: "We estimate 152.1 million Android smartphones were shipped globally in Q4 2012, nearly doubling from 80.6 million units in Q4 2011. Androids share of the global smartphone market has surged from 51 percent to 70 percent over the past year, crushing Symbian, Bada and other platforms in its wake. Almost half-a-billion Android smartphones were shipped in total worldwide during 2012. Android is clearly the undisputed volume leader of the smartphone industry at the present time. Androids challenge for 2013 will be to defend its leadership, not only against Apple, but also against an emerging wave of hungry challengers that includes Microsoft, Blackberry, Firefox and Tizen."
Scott Bicheno, Senior Analyst at Strategy Analytics, says "Apple grew 29 percent annually and shipped 47.8 million smartphones worldwide for 22 percent marketshare in Q4 2012, dipping slightly from 24 percent a year earlier. Combined together, Apple and Android accounted for a record 92 percent share of all smartphones shipped globally in the fourth quarter of 2012. The worldwide smartphone industry has effectively become a duopoly as consumer demand has polarized around mass-market Android models and premium Apple designs."
1 Numbers are rounded
The full report, Android & Apple iOS Capture a Record 92 Percent Share of Global Smartphone Shipments in Q4 2012, is published by the Strategy Analytics Wireless Smartphone Strategies (WSS) service, details of which can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/9djv7u8
For more information, visit:
http://www.strategyanalytics.com
How Unlocking Your iPhone Could Cost $500,000
The Atlantic's Derek Khanna, a former staffer for the Republican Study Committee, says that the most ridiculous law of 2013 (so far) decrees that it's now a crime to unlock your smartphone.
"When did we decide that we wanted a law that could make unlocking your smartphone a criminal offense?" Khanna queries, rhetorically, noting that the answer is that we never really decided, but Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in 1998 anyway to outlaw technologies that bypass copyright protections, and while this may sound like a great idMacBook Pro - in practice it has had terrible, and widely acknowledged, negative consequences that affect consumers and new innovation and contends that "it's embarrassing and unacceptable that we are at the mercy of prosecutorial and judicial discretion to avoid the implementation of draconian laws that could implicate average Americans in a crime subject to up to a $500,000 fine and up to five years in prison."
I agree - Ed.
For the full commentary visit here:
http://goo.gl/IrFpG
Canonical Invites Input On Core Ubuntu Phone Apps
PC World's Katherine Noyes says that when Linux distro Canonical officially announced Ubuntu for phones it demonstrated an attractive interface but was otherwise light on specifics regarding the hardware, carriers, or apps that might be involved in actual devices. However, she reports that Canonical has nowlaunched a project called Ubuntu Phone Core Apps through which it's hoping the broader community of Ubuntu Linux developers and fans will help design and create a set of basic open source apps that will come preloaded on Ubuntu Phone devices.
For the full report visit here:
http://goo.gl/HPcGH
Massive Dynamics to Double Initial Shipment of iPhone 5 Battery Pack
Massive Dynamics Inc. has announced that the company has doubled its initial distribution of its cutting edge iPhone 5 battery pack. Massive and its strategic partner, CoCoBlue, are working overtime to ensure that the first shipment of units will arrive in the United States within the next two weeks.
"The excitement generated by the launch has been overwhelming thus far," said Oscar Hines, President. "We are working as quickly as possible to open our new e-commerce website and begin taking pre-orders for this ground-breaking product."
The ergonomically designed battery pack effectively doubles the useful battery life of the iPhone 5, and is the first product released under the newly formed CocoBlueUSA brand, a joint venture between Massive Dynamics and CoCoBlue (http://cocoblue.com.cn).
More information on Massive Dynamics and its smartphone products can be found at:
http://www.massivedynamicscorp.com/
and soon to come find new smartphone products on:
http://www.cocoblueusa.com
Massive Dynamic's TeliPad Turns iPhone, Android or Windows Smartphone Into 3 Separate Phone Lines And Can Give iPad mini Smartphone Functionality
Massive Dynamic's TeliPad combines a two-line smartphone and an iPad mini to create one device that does it all.
Telipad adds two additional phone lines to any smartphone or tablet device via Bluetooth (soon to be Bluetooth version 4). Just download the apps. With Telipad in your pocket, on your desk or in your car, you can enjoy your business line, family and friends line and private line. No more carrying or charging several phones.
Telipad can hold two simm chips and communicate via Bluetooth to any compatible device.
TeliPad works with all Apple iPads, Android tablets and Windows based tablets, on various U.S. networks.
Preorders start at $89.95
For more information, visit:
http://www.massivedynamicscorp.com/products.html
Product brochure:
http://goo.gl/Ig9hB
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