Apple’s huge iPhone sales numbers from its latest quarterly results and the overall success of its iPhone 4S helped it grow its mobile phone business by 128.4 percent year-over-year in the fourth quarter of 2011, according to a new IDC report. That was good enough to help the company climb to third place overall in worldwide smartphone shipments, leapfrogging both ZTE and LG Electronics.
Apple’s 37 million fourth quarter iPhone shipments were a far cry from the market leaders, however. Nokia still ruled the roost with 113.5 million handset shipments, while Samsung edged closer to grabbing the top spot with a 20 percent increase compared to the previous year, to a total of 97.6 million units shipped. Samsung succeeded by growing its smartphone sales, but also by increasing its feature phone shipment numbers in an otherwise soft market for those devices.
While Apple was the biggest gainer percentage-wise during the quarter, LG suffered the biggest drop,with a negative 42.2 percent change compared to the same period in 2010. Its total shipments were at 17.7 million for the year, which is on par with 2007 levels. LG definitely felt the hit of the waning feature phone market and was unable to do much to impress consumers with its smartphones, either.
Apple also ranked third overall in terms of mobile phone shipments throughout the whole calendar year thanks to its fourth quarter results, with 93.2 iPhone shipments and year-over-year growth of 96.2 percent.
IDC predicts that the mobile phone market will continue to experience double-digit growth, despite only seeing 11.1 percent growth year-over-year in 2011, versus 18.7 percent growth between 2009 and 2010.
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A new report today from Mackotera.jp claims that Apple will both announce and launch its next-generation iPad, presumed to be called either the iPad 2S or the iPad 3, during the month of March. This comes just a few weeks after the blog claimed that Apple would be announcing the iPad 3 alongside iOS 5.1 at an event taking place at some point in early February with a release coming in March.
All along, March has been the front-runner with various reports indicating that Apple would be following in the footsteps of its release of the iPad 2, which was announced and launched in March of 2011.
The report also claims that Apple is going to be hosting some sort of event in February although Jim Dalrymple from The Loop says that the February event will not be taking place.
So right now, all signs point to a launch in March which means those of you that have been thinking about buying a new iPad, will probably want to hold off for a few weeks in order to see what Apple has up its sleeve.
Speaking of that, the iPad 3 is rumored to be a quad-core device, featuring Apple’s A6 processor, and it’s also speculated to have a high-resolution Retina Display along with high speed 4G LTE data capabilities.
Sounds pretty good right?
Luckily, we should only have to wait a couple of weeks to find out if the rumors are too good to be true.
Via: MacRumors
iPad 3 Announcement and Release Coming in March? is a post by Adam Mills from Gotta Be Mobile.
So this is the story. I want to find a way to combine several different feeds (my blogs, my calendar, etc) into one so that I could post them into Facebook without using 3rd party apps and too much hassle.
Services like friend feed for example or twitterfeed lets yu combine all sort of different services into one, and both of this exemples support facebook. But my main problem was that the information they show on this facebbok integration was very limited and I wanted my facebook reader to have more information about my posts directly on my facebook wall.
Edit: (Doesn't work that well ) After some searching I found out that Facebook notes application supports import a feed into its nots and it actually show a quite good preview information and if you click on the note it shows the full post and link to the original blog post, calendar or whatever feed you import. Main problem. It only support the import of one feed.
So I thought what if there was a simple way to combine multiple feeds into one. Well there is. After just a few minutes of searching I found a simple solution. It’s called Yahoo Pipes. I’m not going to give a tutorial on how to setup Pipes, since there are plenty of them around. Still i will leave you the link to the tutorial i used myself. I think it’s a good one, and quite clear.
Edit: This showed up to be really slow and it doesn't update as fast and reliable as one would wan't. Looking for alternatives
Edit2: Well I ended up using 2 facebook apps instead. Networked blogs and Ical to events, which basically fits my needs.
So here it is : http://www.watblog.com/2008/06/06/how-to-combine-multiple-rss-feeds-into-one/
Just a quick post.
Exacly a year ago I got my first 4.8, the Aigo P8888w. One year later here is my small collection. Every device is still very much active and being used for different tasks and situations.
I has been a fun year …
See you soon.
J.
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Photo: UMPCPortal.com
First news about new UMID M2 entry level model, showed up at UMPCPortal.com, and they really don’t look that appealing,
“Entry-level price for the UMID M2 will be $499 and will be with the 1.2Ghz CPU, 512MB, 8GB SSD, Win XP and no camera.”
This is what I hate about these companies.. they do a good step forward but 2 seconds later they do 5 backwards. Its good that they fixed M1 problems, its a sign that they are listening. but its a bit stupid if you ask me to mess up with hardware specs. when they are good as they are. such a small ssd is just nonsense and 512mb of memory on x86 device coming out on the end of 2009? 512 could be ENOUGH for XP if one tries hard but when, for example, drivers are not even optimized for hardware and take 180mb of memory like the GMA500 ones take..... hmmm think twice UMID, users will not be pleased.
I really hope they reconsider the specs for entry level, at least on these 2 points SSD and RAM, or at least, hoping for a “middle” level model to show up.
João
Source :UMPCPortal.com
New UMID model M2 shows up at IDF09. I have to say I’m very excited about this new model. I own the first UMID, and its a great device, but as everyone knows it has some problems here and there, mainly the build quality, the screen angle, and those idiot dongles. Well these have been now solved. Not sure about the build quality, but screen angle know looks much much better now, and they included a “normal” USB connector and standard phones connector.
About the specs, the device will keep the 4.8 inch screen with 1024x600 res. They expect to push out two versions one with 1.2ghz processor (Atom Z515) and 1.6Ghz (Atom Z30). Memory has been upgraded to 1ghz, and looks like they plan to release it with Windows 7 (basic, suppose). They also plan to include a optical mouse with right and left click buttons, both right and left next to the screen. Same keyboard and Camera (1.3MP). No info about SSD size or 3g models.
Price and availability, the new UMID is expected with the starting price of $499, final user price, on the Q4 2009 (November / December).
Not much more to say about it right know, just that I cant wait to put my hands on one. :) Any sponsors out there? :)
Here is the first impressions video from Steve Paine @ Midmoves.com
Tired of ugly finger prints on you computer, phone and other glossy devices? Here is the Solution.
Following Jkk, from Jkkmobile.com steps, I’ve too got my self some carbon fiber vinyl sheet from 3M and apply it to my some of my devices. These 3M DI-NOC carbon fiber sheets are very high quality, and easy to apply, no high skill required Just needs a bit of time, patience, and and a blow drier :) Yes!!, the vinyl is very moldable and stretchable using a bit of heat… useful specially to give a good finished look to corners and other non flat surfaces.
Here are some photos :
Unfortunately these are not easy to find normally they are not not cheap too. After a long search, I ended up buying from this ebay seller. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Real-3M-CARBON-FILM-30x61cm-CA-421-DI-NOC-SERIES-vinyl_W0QQitemZ180400958629QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM?hash=item2a00bc2ca5&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14 He has good prices and offers great service. Highly recommended. Thank you!!!
As usual if you have any questions don’t hesitate to ask.
João.
Updated:
Started to work on Asus 1008HA
My plan is to cover front and back. But for know here is how it looks on the lid.
