China Unveils List Of 30 Top Mobile Businesses In China. Finland's Jolla Will Be The Ferrari Of The Smartphone World. Huawei Aims to Be Smarter About Its Phone Branding - Ina Fried - Mobile. China’s Huawei has been a rapidly growing force in the global smartphone market, but remains little known to most U.S. consumers.
The company hopes to change that — not just by stepping up sales, but also through a big marketing campaign set to kick off in the second half of the year. In an interview at the CTIA trade show in New Orleans on Thursday, Huawei Executive Vice President James Jiang said the company has high hopes for the American market. Facebook Sends Traffic to Apps, Makes Less Money in Mobile - Ina Fried - Mobile. Why Apple Has Already Pwned the Gaming Market. A number of recent opinion posts have suggested that Apple has a real shot at the gaming market.
BlackBerry Maker To Manage iPhones, iPads, Android Devices. Microsoft says Windows Phone will surpass Apple in China (yes, really) Two Reasons Why RIM Is Still Worth Buying. Facebook Considers Android and iOS to be its Competitors. Uh-oh, PC: Half of computing device sales are mobile — Mobile Technology News. Apple May Need Cheaper Phones To Compete In China. Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga: a Windows 8 laptop that bends backwards into a tablet (hands-on video) Lenovo has indeed saved the best for last here at CES 2012.
Windows Phone Marketshare. Ellis Hamburger, Business Insider Good question.
However, if you want an honest opinion, it's usually best to go straight to the source. Google Activating 700,000 Android Devices A Day. Why many developers look to iOS first? Money. Microsoft Dishes Out Free Windows Phones To Angry Android Users. Pre-Order the Ubislate7 Android 2.2 Tablet w/ 7" Touchscreen (India Only) Facebook phone Buffy is real, could be available in 18 months. The rumored Facebook phone is real and will be manufactured by HTC under the codename “Buffy,” anonymous sources have told AllThingsD.
Although the news site doesn’t indicate where its information comes from, it must have more to report, because this is the first of what AllThingsD says will be a week-long series on the mysterious device. The so-called “Facebook phone” has been at the heart of rampant speculation for more than two years, although the only devices to emerge so far have been fairly standard Android or feature phones with Facebook features slapped on. “Buffy,” if real, is named after the famous vampire slayer featured in a movie and a long-running television series. The Buffy phone will run a heavily modified version of Android featuring support for apps developed in HTML5, and could see the light of day in a year to 18 months, according to writers Liz Gannes and Ina Fried.
Kindle Fire or Nook Tablet? I bought the… — Mobile Technology News. The Big Ideas Inside A New Version Of India's $35 Aakash Tablet. Barely a month has passed since the release of India's "$35" Aakash tablet, but its creators already have its successor--a sleeker, more powerful low-cost tablet--ready to launch. When the Aakash was launched in October, it was greeted with enthusiasm--what potential it holds for a developing market! --followed almost immediately by skepticism--could it possibly work for that cheap?
Yahoo Goes All-In With Mobile. Yahoo released four products Wednesday, and almost all of them were for iPad, Android and mobile.
The big news was Yahoo Livestand for iPad, a social newsstand app that competes directly with Flipboard. But Livestand wasn't the only product that Team Yahoo released at its Product Runway Even at its headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. The struggling digital media giant also released IntoNow for iPad. IntoNow, which Yahoo acquired earlier this year, has the ability to listen to a couple seconds of a TV show and determine what show you are watching. The new iPad app brings that functionality to the tablet, while surfacing related tweets, hashtags and other content.
Facebook Mobile Usage Set to Explode. There are now 800 million monthly active users on Facebook, according to Facebook's own statistics.
More than 350 million of those people access Facebook through their mobile devices, nearly 44% of its total active user base. In terms of traffic, 33% of Facebook traffic comes from mobile devices - according to data revealed by Mary Meeker in her Web 2.0 Summit presentation this month. Make no mistake, Facebook is getting serious about mobile. October 2011 was a big month for Facebook's mobile initiatives, with a new iPad app, an updated iPhone app and a revamped mobile browser site that closely mimics the functionality of its iOS apps. It also offers mobile versions for Android, Blackberry and other platforms. Toyota introduces Touch Life smartphone mirroring system, your Prius and iPhone can become one. Toyota Touch Life - world-first smartphone mirroring infotainment product 25/10/2011 Toyota introduces the latest addition to the Toyota Touch infotainment product family with the all-new Toyota Touch Life.
Offering consumers with unprecedented smartphone-vehicle connectivity, Toyota Touch Life will be available for the Toyota iQ city car towards the end of 2011 in selected markets. Toyota Touch Life uses the latest industry connectivity protocols to mirror the smartphone's display on the infotainment system's 7-inch touchscreen. Smartphone functionalities can now be easily accessed using steering wheel-based controls or the large touchscreen surface.
Nokia smartphone owners can seamlessly connect their devices with Toyota Touch Life using the new industry standard connectivity protocol, MirrorLink™, developed by the Car Connectivity Consortium. Siri Comes to the iPad...Sort Of. Apple has decided to restrict the usage of Siri to the iPhone 4S but that doesn't mean that enterprising developers haven't started the process of porting to devices like the regular iPhone 4 and iPad.
Over the weekend, developer @jackoplane was able to show some progress of getting Siri working on the iPad 1. The breakthrough comes a week after Steve Troughton was able to get everyone's favorite personal assistant to run on the iPhone 4. Of course, there is a catch. Blogging with Siri. As I mentioned on my earlier post, Steve Sande and I have been hard at work collaborating on "Talking to Siri," an ebook that will soon hit the Kindle store.
One of the topics we're exploring is how to push Siri beyond its advertised limits. Take blogging, for example. Did you know that you could create blog posts entirely by voice? I'm not talking about basic dictation either. That's because Siri supports SMS messaging, and a little known feature of Google Blogger allows you to create blog posts directly from SMS text messages. Android Ice Cream Sandwich includes native stylus support. Google confirms Ice Cream Sandwich will be open source. The future of voice is “apps”
With us moving away from single-purpose, 12-key-pad, mobile phones to more touch-centric Internet devices, the “voice” has been reduced to being an app. Sure, today, phone companies run that app and use traditional phone technology, but in the future, all voice communication could be from apps using Internet technologies. Speech smack-down: Siri vs. Android Voice Actions — Mobile Technology News. Siri is not search technology, but it can still hurt Google. Steve Jobs was clear last year that he didn’t consider Siri a search company, but instead, an artificial intelligence company. Video quality comparison: iPhone 4S vs. $3,000 Canon 5D Mark II. The Fragmented Mobile Information Race. Mobile devices are shifting many individual computing behaviors, perhaps none more significant than how we search for and receive information.
Arm Race: Your Wristwatch Is Your Next Web Portal. Tech support for iPhone is cheaper than BlackBerry, Android. Mobile media stores: Apple vs. Amazon vs. Samsung — Mobile Technology News.