Phone Wars Heat Up As Holiday Season Approaches For over a year now, Apple has been engaged in an all-out legal war with its Android competitors. According to Apple, most Android phones have taken numerous features stolen from the iPhone, an act that amounts to patent infringement and should be cause for these competitors to [...]
Shopping on Your Smartphone This Holiday Season Over the past century and a half, major technological advancements have spurred the rise of consumerism and repeatedly changed the nature of shopping. In the late 1800s, the rise of streetcar lines led to the birth of the department store, which allowed retailers to create a new culture [...]
In the smartphone world there are a myriad number of indicators that tell us which mobile provider or manufacturer is superior. We can look at the data for phones shipped, devices sold, market share, earnings, and profits. We can compare size, revenues, and cultural power in our bid to find the most successful company in [...]
Samsung Passes Apple as Top Smartphone Seller Quarterly figures released this week have revealed some interesting – although not altogether surprising – news: according to Samsung and to market analysts, the phone company shipped more smartphones than Apple this past quarter. Samsung shipped 27.8 million smartphones during this time, which equates with 23.8 percent of [...]
Smartphones have become so prevalent in our society that we don’t even question getting them anymore. We obsess over whether to get an iPhone or an Android, sure. We spend sleepless nights wondering whether we should upgrade to the hot new product or keep the fully functioning one we already have. We buy unlimited data [...]
With the introduction of the Siri iPhone app earlier this month, smartphone technology took a seemingly small step that will be remembered as a giant leap for humankind. For the first time ever, at least practically, consumers have access to speech-recognizing personal assistant software that can process a seemingly endless series of commands, questions, and [...]
1984 was the year Apple released the Macintosh and changed personal computing forever. They capitalized on the device’s inaugural year by creating a Hollywood-grade television advertisement inspired by George Orwell’s masterpiece “1984”, in which a woman wearing an Apple logo being chased by the novel’s Thought Police hurls an Olympian hammer into the projection of [...]
We know that now that we can hardly live without a smartphone and that Apple dominates the market, and while new phones will surely continue to be released,Apple might just surprise people with its October release of its iOS5 programming system. Their iOS5 programming system will feature over 200 new features compatible with all of [...]
If you’re like many people who’ve yet to take that plunge and buy a smartphone, you probably have no idea what to get. It seems that with every commercial or ad you see, every mobile device is touted as the best on the market. Much like with computers, the ad may say it’s the best [...]
Contrary to popular belief, there still lingers one mobile service provider that lists unlimited data as an available option. Once Verizon halts their unlimited data offering come autumn, Sprint will be the only major mobile service provider still offering unlimited data usage. For an additional $9.99, a month Sprint customers can continue to enjoy a [...]