Tagged: Windows Phone
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Smartphone sales not accelerating fast enough to stem decline of feature phones News
14.05.2013 The rise of smartphones is not happening fast enough to stem the decline of feature phones in key markets, with users not upgrading or replacing old devices at a pace the mobile...Categories: Wireless Communications, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Hardware, Digital Media, Consumer Tech -
Samsung S4 and HTC One to contribute to Android sales spike in UK News
29.04.2013 Android’s dominance of the smartphone world is set to be cemented by the arrival of the HTC One and the Samsung Galaxy S4. Kantar Worldpanel ComTech has reported that Android is...Categories: Wireless Communications, Phones, Operating Systems, Hardware, Consumer Tech, Communications -
Nokia ships 5.6m Lumia Windows Phone devices during Q1 News
18.04.2013 Finnish phone maker Nokia achieved underlying operating profitability in the first quarter but sales were down 20pc year on year from €7.3bn to €5.8bn. During the quarter, the... -
Microsoft pulls no punches in new Windows Phone ads, targets Samsung users News
20.03.2013 It’s hard to escape Microsoft’s marketing lately as it blitzes us with Windows 8 and Windows Phone ads trying to convert users over to the new operating systems. In its latest... -
Microsoft and Nokia explain quality over quantity game plan at #MWC13 News
25.02.2013 Nokia CEO Stephen Elop revealed this morning that there are now 130,000 apps in the app market for Windows Phone 8 and this afternoon Microsoft’s mobile apps boss Todd Brix...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Phones, Hardware, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Digital Business, Apps -
Weekend news round-up: Facebook shuns server OEMs, Apple’s podcasting disaster News
18.02.2013 In our round-up of the weekend’s tech news and analysis, OEMs who failed to embrace Facebook’s Open Compute Project are out in the cold with the social network opting to make... -
Nokia Lumia 920 walk-through (video) News
15.02.2013 This month, Nokia’s flagship Windows Phone 8 smartphone, the Lumia 920, became available from Irish operators. To get to grips with the new handset, we had product experience... -
Android and iPhone account for 91pc of world smartphone market News
14.02.2013 Google’s Android is the No 1 smartphone operating system in the world by volume, followed by Apple iOS. Between them, Android and iOS accounted for 91.1pc of smartphone...Categories: Software, Phones, Operating Systems, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Hardware, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, AppsTags: Nokia, Microsoft, Windows Phone, Linux, BlackBerry 10, BlackBerry, Samsung, Android, iPhone, iOS, IDC, Smartphones -
HP to adopt Android - new high-end tablet expected in Q2 News
14.02.2013 If you can’t beat them, join them. HP is to bring out devices based on the Android operating system, just months after making its webOS operating system open source following...Categories: Wireless Communications, Phones, Operating Systems, Mobility, Mobile, Hardware, Consumer Tech, Computers, Apps -
UK will be the first country to get the new BlackBerry Z10 smartphone tomorrow News
30.01.2013 BlackBerry has revealed that the UK will be the first country in the world to get its latest smartphones built around the new BlackBerry 10 operating system. Smartphone buyers...Tags: iPhone, Android, Apple, Microsoft, Nokia, Windows Phone, BlackBerry 10, Operating Systems, Smartphones, RIM, BlackBerry -
Nokia confirms 808 PureView is its last Symbian phone News
24.01.2013 Nokia has confirmed in its Q4 financial results that the 808 PureView smartphone will be the last Symbian device it will ever produce.Categories: Wireless Communications, Software, Phones, Operating Systems, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Hardware, Consumer Tech -
Nokia reports €439m operating profit as strategy begins to work News
24.01.2013 Nokia has posted its first operating profit in more than a year as its smartphone strategy is finally beginning to bear fruit. The Finnish smartphone maker reported... -
Developer economy: 72pc now developing for Android, iOS drops to 56pc in mindshare News
23.01.2013 Mobile developers that do not develop for Android or iOS generate on average half of the revenue of those developers that do, a new report from Developer Economics reveals. -
Review: Nokia Lumia 820 Windows Phone 8 smartphone News
09.01.2013 The Lumia 820 is one of Nokia’s latest creations and it pivots around Microsoft’s latest mobile operating system, Windows Phone 8. You could say this is a joint effort by two...Categories: Wireless Communications, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Hardware, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Apps -
Microsoft accuses Google of blocking a quality YouTube app for Windows Phone News
03.01.2013 One of Microsoft’s senior legal guns has alleged that Google is preventing the software giant from creating a fully-featured YouTube app for Windows Phone devices. -
Tech predictions for 2013: Big Data, robots, 3D printing and 4G News
01.01.2013 John Kennedy casts a cautious eye on 2013, the year that 4G finally begins to roll out in Ireland in tandem with superfast fibre services. It will also be the year that Google...Categories: Wireless Communications, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Hardware, Digital Business, ComputersTags: Android, iPad, Apple, 4G, Broadband, Fibre, Google Glass, Smartphones, Tablet Computers, iPhone, Microsoft, Windows Phone, -
Apple reaches highest ever share of US smartphone market, Android leads in Europe News
21.12.2012 Apple has achieved its highest ever share of the US smartphone market with 53.3pc share, according to the latest Kantar Worldpanel ComTech report. Android still leads in Europe...Categories: Wireless Communications, Phones, Operating Systems, Hardware, Digital Media, Consumer TechTags: iPhone, Europe, US, Windows Phone, Microsoft, Nokia, Smartphones, Android, Samsung, Google, Apple, Everything Everywhere, 4G -
Windows Phone will be the fastest growing mobile OS over next five years News
20.12.2012 While Microsoft’s Windows Phone will be the fastest growing operating system in terms of shipments in the next five years, it won’t get anywhere near Apple’s share of the...Categories: Consumer Tech, Digital Marketing, Hardware, Operating Systems, Phones, Wireless Communications -
Weekend news round-up: Google drops G-bomb on Windows Phone, did Instagram spurn Twitter? News
17.12.2012 In our round-up of the weekend's top tech news, we learn that more than 80 countries have refused to sign the UN's proposed internet treaty, Google has delivered a blow to... -
Huawei plans to double headcount in Europe in the next three years News
10.12.2012 Chinese telecoms technology giant Huawei is to invest US$93m (€70m) to establish a new R&D operation in Helsinki, Finland, just miles from Nokia’s HQ. The new operation will...Categories: Wireless Communications, R&D, Phones, Operating Systems, Networks, Networking & Telecoms, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Media, Consumer Tech