There's a brand new study out right this moment by Distimo which shows that apps featured in the Android Market gain massive appeal while apps featured in the iTunes market, either for iPhone or for iPad, saw similar but not nearly as impressive bumps. What you'll see here is two things: when featured in the market, it's actually the iPad apps specifically (when testing iPad apps, iPhone apps, and Android apps on the whole) that gained the most popularity in sales/rating - but it's after the featured period is done where you see the undeniable blast of growth for Android. After the featured period for each of these categories, while iPad apps went up 145% and iPhone apps went up 75%, Android apps went up a whopping 828%!
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Apple tablet marketshare dips as Android accelerates
Apple still dominates the consumer tablet market but is seeing the iPad's lead gradually eroded by Android models, according to new research, with slates running the Google OS grabbing almost 40-percent of the worldwide market share in Q4 2011. 26.8m tablets were shipped in Q4 2011, Strategy Analytics claims, contributing a greater-than-average amount to whole-year shipments of 66.9m units; Apple held 57.6-percent of the Q4 2011 market, down from 68.2-percent in the same period back in 2010.
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Apple rewards staff with $500 Mac cut, $250 iPad saving
Apple employees may have to put up with migraine-inducing levels of secrecy and the overspill of "magical" product dust getting in their eyes, but up to $500 discounts off new hardware may go some way to alleviating any discomfort. Announced by Apple CEO Tim Cook at a Town Hall session with employees post-financial results this week, 9to5Mac reports, staff will be able to take advantage of up to $500 off of a new Mac or $250 off a new iPad.
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Acer Iconia Tab A700 priced and detailed
We know that Acer's impending Iconia Tab A700 will have Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. We know it'll have a quad-core 1.3 GHz Nvidia Tegra 3 progressor. We know that HDMI, dual cameras, Wi-Fi, and a 9,800 mAh battery are all in its feature list. And we know that is should be out in the second quarter of this year. But until now, we didn't know anything about the price.
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T-Mobile’s AT&T prize in Spectrum shown clearly on map
This week it's being shown clear as day the amount of spectrum AT&T will have to hand over to T-Mobile after their planned merger falls through entirely. What you're going to see is a collection of areas and their associated MHz that AT&T currently has sway over but will be transferring to T-Mobile to amp up their own 4G network. This information comes from an FCC transfer application signed by AT&T and reveals the specific licenses T-Mobile will gain, here mapped out by spectrum policy reader Andrew Shepherd and so kindly shared with the entire world.
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ZTE V9A Light Tab 2 Android tablet revealed
The folks at Clove have revealed a brand new ZTE 7-inch tablet that'll be hitting the market in February, not too many days away, and with it an inexpensive price tag you'll all enjoy. Though this tab won't quite match up with the undeniable value proposition of the upcoming ASUS MeMO, the Light Tab will have 4GB of ROM, 3G connectivity (something the ASUS tablet wont have, at least at first) and a gigantic 3400mAh battery inside. This tablet will also feature Android 2.3 Gingerbread, a 1.4GHz processor, and a couple of cameras on the side.
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Samsung S-Pen stylus could show up in tablets next
Samsung is considering adding S-Pen digital stylus functionality to future tablets, borrowing the pen-input option from the Galaxy Note for larger models as it boosts data-entry methods. Asked whether Samsung saw the Galaxy Tab line-up expanding beyond mere finger control, "I think a pen interface continues to make a lot of sense across a number of screen sizes, like the larger is more obvious of those" product marketing manager Ryan Biden told Laptop. "That's about as specific as I can be without announcing a product."
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First QWERTY BlackBerry 10 in Dec tips RIM roadmap leak
RIM's first QWERTY BlackBerry 10 handset won't arrive until December, according to the latest leaks from the ailing company, with a further keyboard-toting slider tipped for early 2013. After last week's twin PlayBook tidbits as well as news on new Curves, BGR's sources reckon the BlackBerry London will hit in September, but will be followed in December by a combo touch and QWERTY device running the BlackBerry 10 OS and slotting into the Bold series.
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178m Ultrabook shipments predicted for 2016, but tablets still ahead
MacBook Air-rivaling ultrabooks will outpace tablets in growth over the next three years, new research suggests, though slates are expected to outsell the Intel-driven ultraportables for the foreseeable future. 178m ultrabooks are expected to be shipped per year by 2016, Juniper Research predicts, compared to 253m tablets, despite ultrabook shipments growing three times faster over the next half-decade. However, despite the rapid increase in overall demand, individual ultrabook manufacturers are still expected to struggle.
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RIM CEO to deliver imminent PlayBook refresh as stock dives
New RIM CEO Thorsten Heins will jump straight into finessing the reworked BlackBerry PlayBook for a launch early this year, ex-CEO Jim Balsillie has confirmed, though the prospect of a refreshed tablet hasn't helped the company's diving share price. Described as "a revamp of the poorly selling PlayBook tablet expected early this year" by the WSJ, the new PlayBook is believed to be the replacement 7-inch "3G+" model tipped in a leaked RIM roadmap earlier this month.
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RIM’s new CEO is a Placeholder not a Prophet
After listening to RIM’s new CEO Thursten Heins talk this morning, you could almost hear investors kicking themselves for not being specific enough in their demands for refreshed leadership at the BlackBerry company. “We shouldn’t have just asked for a new CEO” shareholders are no doubt muttering, “but made clear we wanted one with new ideas too.” Heins, for all his hyperbole about the BlackBerry advantage being its “integrated solution” of hardware, software and services, showed his true colors when he argued that “I don’t think there is a drastic change needed.” Those colors, it seems, are exactly the same shades as Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie preferred during their tenure at the top. So, is this new CEO simply a temporary placeholder or a sign of fresh misery to come?
Tablet and eReader ownership surged over 2011 holidays
Tablet and ereader market share in the US almost doubled after strong holiday 2011 sales, new research suggests, with 19-percent of adults now owning at least one of the devices. Lowered cost of dedicated ereaders contributed to the increased demand, Pew Research claims, while low-cost tablets such as the NOOK Tablet decreased the cost of entry to slates and helped drive demand for Android models.
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