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According to a report published by Dutch Mobile company Distimo, app developers earn more by developing apps for iOS devices than they do developing for Android. Distimo revealed that developing free/paid apps for Google’s Android is not as fruitful as iOS stating that 25 percent of free apps and 79 percent of paid app in the Android Market have been downloaded just 100 or lesser times.
comScore has released its February’s mobile report in which it has revealed that Verizon iPhone 4 was the most acquired handset in the month of February, beating every other phone in the market. Due to the event of Verizon iPhone ‘s release Apple gained 0.9 percentage points on its number of subscribers, which is now at 7.5 percent overall.
“Apple saw the strongest gain, up 0.9 percentage points to account for 7.5 percent of subscribers, on momentum from the release of the Verizon iPhone, the most acquired handset in the month of February.”
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While revealing the iPad 2 back in March this year, Steve Jobs called 2011 the year of copy cats. And here comes the first copy cat story. In February Samsung revealed Galaxy tab 10.1, but after the iPad 2 event they reviewed and found their tablet not strong enough to compete the iPad 2. Now Samsung has re-revealed the Galaxy tab 10.1 with a thinner design and a competitive price. Today’s Galaxy tab 10.1 is thinner than iPad 2 and starts at $499 same as iPad 2. For more difference between the both tablets checkout the specs comparison after the break.
HTC and Sprint have just announced HTC EVO 3D at CTIA 2011 in Orlando, Florida. The device packs a Dual Core processor, 1GB of RAM, 4.3″ 3D screen, 3D cameras and more, it is powered by a Google’s Android 2.3 operating system. Here in this post i have compared HTC EVO 3D with other popular smartphones in the market such as our favorite iPhone 4, Motorola Atrix 4G, and Samsung Nexus S. Have a look at the detailed specs comparison after the break.
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We knew it was coming, according to Bloomberg Apple has sued Amazon over trademark infringement of the term ‘App Store’. Amazon is all set to launch its Android App market named ‘Android AppStore’. Amazon cleverly choose the name and removed the space between the words App-Store, so that it looks as a single word and does not violate Apple’s trademark. But Apple won’t let it go away that easily, as it has already filed the suit against Amazon on March 18th.
Frank Meehan who is the founder and CEO of INQ, the company that showed its Android powered Facebook phone ‘INQ Cloud’ at the MWC 2011 said in an interview to Mashable that pretty girls and cool people use iPhone and Blackberry whereas Android is too geeky for them and “its too complicated” and “its all wrong”. He also said that Android device makers are only focused on Hardware of their devices about which customers don’t really care that much.
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According to a report by Bloomberg this week, Apple is working on a cheaper and smaller version of iPhone that will be sold for $200 off contract.
A mini version of the iPhone is in rumors since the release of the original iPhone. Apple has never commented, or showed interest in the smaller version of its widely popular phone. Actually Apple never needed a smaller or cheaper version of its device ever before because sales have been high all the time.
But now things are changing, manufacturers using Android OS are releasing devices of every size and price. You can get a high-end Android phone for $800 and you can get a low-end Android phone for $200. And now with Nokia’s deal with Microsoft we know a lot of Windows Phone 7 devices are going to hit the market next year and they are going to be of all sizes. In this situation iPhone mini becomes inevitable.
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Yesterday at HP’s Think Beyond event former Palm CEO Jon Rubenstein while introducing HP’s new mobile phones (HP Pre 3 and super tiny HP Veer) and an iPad look alike tablet TouchPad displayed an image that represented a poll conducted by Laptop Magazine’s OS Bowl boasting, “Yesterday, Laptop Magazine voted us the champion of the OS Bowl.”.
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HP at yesterday’s event announced its new phones that will feature its WebOS 2.2. Here i have compared the recently announced HP Pre 3 with Samsung Nexus S and Apple iPhone 4. HP Pre 3 is going to be available this summer. All 3 devices look almost balanced specs wise. HP Pre 3 features a new function called Touch to share*, which allows sharing of URLs between two devices when you touch them.
After a full year’s wait Android community finally got a decent tablet that can be considered a worthy competitor for iPad, it sports a revised OS and UI that is not designed for mobile phones and boosts some great specs such as Dual Core processor, 1 GB Ram, front and back cameras and more. Things were looking nice for this new Motorola Xoom tablet until we heard that it was going to cost $800 and it got worst when we heard that it is necessary for you to get a 1 month data subscription from Verizon to get your hands on this tablet and activate its Wifi feature, and if you don’t do that you won’t be having an active Wifi on this device because its locked.
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