Whether Samsung’s blatant Apple bashing adverts are actually convincing customers to buy its products is unclear, but they are at least inspiring other companies to mock Apple’s gadgets in their own ads. Amazion is the latest, with a new Kindle ad that takes aim...Amazon Takes Aim At Apple’s Expensive iPad In New Kindle Ad
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Side By Side: Samsung’s 5.3-Inch Galaxy Note Megaphone & The iPhone 4S [Humor]
Over at The Loop, Jim Dalrymple posted a picture of what Samsung’s new 5.3-inch smartphone, the Galaxy Note, looks like next to the iPhone 4S. While we were over there, guffawing with the rest of you, we happened to note this comment from Joel...IDC: Apple sold most smartphones in Q4, but Samsung wins 2011
Both Apple and Samsung have sold a historic amount of smartphones in the past year, and coming up with a tally of who sold more is harder than you'd think. But The NPD Group says they've done all the number crunching and have a winner.
IDC: The iPhone is once again the world’s No. 1 smartphone
Regained the spot that it took from Nokia in June and gave up to Samsung in September
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It will come as no surprise to Apple (AAPL) watchers that the company sold 37 million iPhones last quarter. Tim Cook reported that number two weeks ago.
Getting comparable figures from Apple's competitors is a different matter,...
Apple rules top three smartphone spots but loses new users to Android
Apple continues to hold the title for some of the top-selling smartphone models, with the iPhone 4S being the best selling handset in the US last quarter, according to a new report by market research firm NPD. But while...
Intel’s new 520 Series SSD benchmarked: Easy on the battery, great data protection and compression features
Intel announced today the new 520 Series solid-state storage code-named “Cherryville” and a number of tech websites and blogs already have their reviews up. The Verge has a nice review round-up, and MacWorld’s own review provides an extensive overview of the pros and cons of the device. Fabbed on Intel’s 25nm Multi-Level Cell process, the...
Android still 1st choice among virgin smartphone buyers
The iPhone may have passed over Android in total U.S. smartphone sales, but Google’s platform still has one key advantage: it’s attracting more mobile data newbies. According to the NPD Group, 57 percent of first-time smartphone buyers last quarter chose Android handsets.
Apple becomes the top smartphone vendor in US as Siri helps iPhone 4S outsell iPhone 4 by 75 percent
We saw the Android-iOS duopoly coming last summer. Now, the effects of this incredibly tight choke hold is becoming painfully evident to virtually every handset maker sans Apple and Samsung. According to a fresh NPD survey from this morning, during the fourth quarter of 2011 Android and Apple together accounted for over 90 percent of smartphone sales...
Samsung Pokes Fun At iPhone Users Again In Super Bowl Ad For Super-Sized Galaxy Note
Samsung’s bashing of iPhone users is becoming a regular occurrence. Its latest swipe came during yesterday’s Super Bowl, when it ran a commercial for its new, super-sized Galaxy Note smartphone, which sports a huge 5.3-inch display and includes a stylus. Yes, “it’s got a...Android’s original standard bearer — HTC — falls from grace
Squeezed by Apple and Samsung, it had a bad quarter and expects the next to be worse
There was a time when HTC and Android were practically synonymous.
The Taiwanese manufacturer built the first commercially available Android phone -- the HTC Dream -- in 2008, and two years later collaborated with Google (GOOG) to build the Nexus...
Samsung lampoons Apple with Super Bowl advert
Well, we knew it was coming and now Samsung has predictably used a high-profile Super Bowl ad slot to promote its 5.3-inch Galaxy Note tablet-phone combo while taking another jab at Apple users. Standing out as a culmination of an unsubtle anti-Apple campaign launched nearly three months ago under the ‘The Next Big Thing’ moniker, the commercial...
