Latest Android news, applications and forum discussion

Send Us Tips!

Oct

29

2011

Q3 Smartphone sales Go to Samsung, Not Apple

4

by Spencer McClendon
tagged , , , , ,

Samsung claimed the top share of the global smartphone market in the third quarter with 23.8 percent, compared to Apple’s 14.6 percent. (Samsung fans rejoice.) Nokia took third with 14.4 percent of the market. Apple had the lead in the second quarter with 18.5 percent and Samsung was in second with 17.5 percent and of [...]

Categorized as Android News, Android Phones | Full Post

Oct

20

2011

Samsung achieves #1 spot in Q3 as shipments top Apple, Nokia

0

by Stacy Bruce
tagged , , ,

Reports are saying that Samsung has sold more than 20 million smartphones in Q3 of this year, nudging Apple out of the top spot for the first time since the original iPhone was released. Tuesday, Apple announced that September quarter sales of the iPhone peaked at 17.1 million, 3 million short of analyst expectations. According [...]

Categorized as Android Manufacturers, Android News | Full Post

Aug

12

2011

Android Holds 43% of Worldwide Smartphone Share in Q2

0

by Harold Williams
tagged , , , , , ,

Ladies and gentlemen, the figures are in from Gartner and Android is looking good. The numbers list a little over 107 million smartphones sold with Android being at 43.4% of those sales. Take note that these figures are the number of devices actually sold to end users. Reflecting on our very own Andrew Greenfield’s article, I too [...]

Categorized as Android News | Full Post

Aug

5

2011

Android Now at 40% of Smartphone Share

0

by Dustin Karnes
tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

We all know Android is growing; there’s no denying the numbers. Just like there’s no denying that Apple has a large share, RIM is dying, and Windows Phone is off somewhere by the fence huffing spraypaint. In the latest mobile subscriber number results from comScore, Android has now gobbled up a whopping 40 percent of [...]

Categorized as Android Development, Android News, Android Phones | Full Post

Jul

29

2011

Samsung comes up short as Apple becomes the Number One smartphone vendor in Q2 2011

0

by Robert Nazarian
tagged , , , , , , , , ,

On Monday, we reported that Samsung moved ahead of Nokia, and possibly Apple, as the top smartphone vendor through quarter 2, 2011. At that time, Samsung’s final numbers were not in, but Strategy Analytics just released them, and it appears Samsung came up a little short. Samsung was estimated to sell between 18 and 21 [...]

Categorized as Android Manufacturers, Android News, Android Phones | Full Post

Jul

25

2011

Apple and Nokia could be in Samsung’s rear-view mirror after 2nd Quarter sales

1

by Robert Nazarian
tagged , , , , , ,

With the launch of last year’s Galaxy S phone, and this year’s Galaxy S II phone, Samsung is quickly moving up to King status in the smartphone world. It is expected that Samsung sold between 18 million and 21 million smartphones globally during the 2nd Quarter 2011 (April-June). They already beat Nokia which is at [...]

Categorized as Android Manufacturers, Android News, Android Phones | Full Post

Jul

17

2011

Android top of Mobile OS usage for 7th straight month

1

by Dustin Karnes
tagged , , , , , , , , , , , ,

According to the latest mobile mix report from Millenial, Android is *still* on top of mobile OS usage – for the 7th straight month in a row. That’s right, folks… 2011 has been the year for Android, and it’s showing no signs of letting up. With a whopping 54% of the mobile OS share, that’s [...]

Categorized as Android Carriers, Android Manufacturers, Android News, Android Phones, Android Retailers, Android Software, Android Updates | Full Post

Apr

12

2011

How HTC continues to outshine the Android competition

6

by Dustin Karnes
tagged , , , ,

Today, we saw the announcement of the HTC Sensation: a new flagship phone with a 1.2GHZ dual-core snapdragon CPU, 4.3″ qHD SLCD screen, 8MP rear camera, 1.2 Front faceing camera, and 4GB of internal memory to boot. Before that? We saw the Thunderbolt, in all its LTE, speed-demon glory. And the Evo line? Forget about [...]

Categorized as Android Manufacturers | Full Post

1234