As expected, the iPhone 5 is now past its first 6 months and appeal is dropping ever so slightly. The latest market research by Kantar World Panel shows iOS interest has dropped year-on-year. In the US, iOS market share dropped from 44.6% in Q1 2012 to 43.7% in the same period a year later. The story is similar in the UK, where iOS historically isn’t as…
BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins took part in an exclusive interview with the Australian Financial Review in which he spoke about the current smartphone platform market. Within the interview he took time to mention the iPhone, and admitted that he and his company completely respect what Apple did in 2007; bringing the smartphone to the masses with a really…
Ever since the iPhone entered the smartphone market, it has set the standard for form factor design and build quality. It’s only in the past couple of years that the likes of Samsung and HTC have stepped up their game to really focus on the form and feel of their devices as well as ensuring they’re loaded with the highest specification components on the…
As part of its report showing which platform’s users have the highest bills, CIRP also surveyed those who had switched or stuck with their previous OS when upgrading. As expected, Apple’s iOS was top of the pile with 88% of surveyed respondents stating that they had upgraded from iPhone to a newer model. In second place was Android with 64% sticking…
I’ve never been one to bash Windows Phone. For me, it’s a refreshing change to the complex widgets and icon-dense layouts of the likes of Android and iOS, opting for a unique tile layout instead. But the slickness and simplicity of the operating system apparently isn’t enough to persuade Steven Sinofsky, the former president of Microsoft’s Windows…
In one of the most pointless and annoying attacks on a piece of technology I’ve ever seen, Nokia has launched a new ad campaign featuring a commercial that touts the available colors of its new Lumia 920, and nothing else (no, seriously, nothing else). If you’re as annoyed by this as I am and don’t even want to watch it, the ad is as follows: a…
The folks up in Redmond have been really busy the past few days. They’ve previewed a brand new tablet, Windows 8, and they’ve just previewed Windows Phone 8 at their developer summit in San Francisco. The new Phone OS boasts some great features, as well as a few that are’t so great. Software Updates Apple’s pretty good at supporting old hardware. In…
I stumbled upon an interesting article over at MinimallyMinimal the other day that made me stop and think. The article is about the problem with logos and how they make a difference on devices. If you are not sure what I am talking about, I’ll explain with a picture. Basically, the problem with the Nokia Lumia 900 is the amount of logos. There are…
It looks as though Apple’s strategy of delaying the 5th generation iPhone’s launch by a few months has been incredibly successful. The heightened anticipation lead to Apple retail having its most successful weekend ever. It also took iOS to a point in the US, where for the first time in a few years, it almost level-pegged with Android. The NPD Group has…
In clothing, decoration and styles, there’s always this comparison: gold/white/red is the new black. Everything is compared to black, as if that’s the standard class. In a similar way, the iPhone has carved out an existence for itself in the smartphone world, and a popularity that is unmatched by any other device before or since. Any other handset is…
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