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Jan

23

2012

Pew Research: Tablet Ownership Nearly Doubled Over The Holidays

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by Roy Alugbue
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Tablets continue to find their ways into the homes and offices of consumers. In fact, ownership of tablets and e-readers nearly doubled over the U.S. holiday season according to Pew Research. They found only 10 percent of Americans owned either a tablet and e-Reader in December, but ownership for both skyrocketed to 19 percent in January. [...]

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Jan

3

2012

T-Mobile Starts New Year With A Bang With “New Year, New Phone” Sale From January 6th Through January 8th Only

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by Roy Alugbue
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The holiday season may be over, but that isn’t stopping T-Mobile from wooing you into a new phone. The mobile carrier has announced they are having a 3-day “New Year, New Phone” sale for this weekend only, which starts Friday, January 6th. The prices of the various devices are certainly bonkers too. You’ll be able to [...]

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Dec

12

2011

Samsung Gets Serious– Boasts Claim Of Record 300 Million Sales For 2011

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by Roy Alugbue
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Samsung isn’t just content to sell 30 million Galaxy S and S II phones worldwide, no sir. Sammy has announced its sold 300 million handsets so far this year. Oh and the company doesn’t look like there is any sign of letting up either. JK Shin, President and Head of Samsung’s Mobile Communications Business is quoted as saying “we [...]

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Dec

9

2011

DROID XYBoard Tablets for Sale on Verizon Website, Confirms December 12th In-Store Availability

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by Stacy Bruce
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Yesterday we saw DROID XYBoard shipments start to arrive in Verizon stores, now today you can officially purchase the tablets online. Also we finally got confirmation and they will in fact be available in-store on Monday, Dec. 12th. The 8.2-inch version starts at $429 for 16GB of storage and goes up to $529 for 32GB. The 10.1-inch [...]

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Nov

11

2011

Verizon Galaxy Nexus Battery Cover and Battery Show Up on Samsung’s Website

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by Stacy Bruce
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A few days ago we noticed that Verizon retail stores started to receive a couple different cases already for the Galaxy Nexus. Well, today we are seeing that Samsung has now even added replacement batteries and battery covers onto their website as well. Earlier in the month we had a little bit of hope that [...]

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Oct

20

2011

AT&T’s Third-Quarter Earnings Are In, Android And Other “Non-iPhone” Smartphones Helped

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by Axl Logan
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AT&T has announced their third quarter earnings and we just wanted to highlight a few things we thought were note Android worthy.  Check out the details below from their conference call and feel free to comment as well.  Note that the overall sales of Android devices more than doubled year over year and more than [...]

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Oct

14

2011

Sony Ericsson’s Android-Based Xperia Smartphones Post Top Sales

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by Justin Routhier
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A comment from Sony Ericsson’s President and CEO, Bert Nordberg, seems to parellel the company’s recently released third quarter 2011 financial data figures quite nicely: “Android-based Xperia smartphone sales now account for more than 80% of sales… We will continue to invest in the smartphone market, shifting the entire portfolio to smartphones during 2012.” The [...]

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Oct

2

2011

Amazon’s Kindle Fire first day sales reach 95,000 units sold

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by Stacy Bruce
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Amazon’s new Kindle Fire tablet was officially announced last week and it looks as though the lower price point has created quite a buzz. eDataSource has the tablet pegged at selling 95,000 units on the first day alone.  eDataSource is a worldwide leader in competitive intelligence for digital marketing messaging. In other words, they keep [...]

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Aug

7

2011

HTC might have purchased Dashwire for patents and reports record sales again

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by Robert Nazarian
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HTC has agreed to acquire Dashwire, a Seattle-based cloud services company,  for $18.5 million via its HTC America Holding division. Dashwire offers a range of cloud services for carriers, handset vendors, and retailers. They offer Dashworks which is a cross-platform cloud sync solution that is available on Android, Symbian, BlackBerry, and Windows Mobile. “Cloud services [...]

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