The Windows Phone is scheduled to get some interesting updates pretty soon: first off there is going to be the Tango and then Apollo, the more substantial of the two. According to leaked information Microsoft plans to roll off Tango in Q2 of 2012, while Apollo will be roasting in the oven until Q4 of 2012.
Parrot has revealed the first car receiver which runs on Android OS. With this product you can access the internet radio and vocally search your favorite music. Just pronounce the name of the artist and the music will be launched automatically from your stored music library. You can also make hands-free calls. All the information from the phone is displayed on the bright 3.2″ display.
Apple and Samsung are two of the largest smartphone manufacturers in the world. Apple prizes it’s iPhone while Samsung has pretty much succeeded with it’s Android smartphones in the Samsung S series. Last year, Samsung momentarily overtook Apple in smartphone sales but with the results of the final quarter out, Apple is back in the game and leading. Samsung’s quarterly reports tell that it sold 36.5 million smartphones in Q4 whereas Apple has sold about 37 million, clearly on the first position, again.
Apple has seen a major surge in it’s growth even since the inception of iPhone and iPad series. Millions of units have been shipped and millions more are expected to ship out in the coming days. Alongside, Apple’s MacBook series is also doing a very good job on the sales. All this has made Apple the largest buyer of semiconductors worldwide, spending about $17 billion on them in 2011. Second in the list is Samsung followed by HP, Dell, Nokia and Sony respectively. It’s surprising to note that Apple manufactures limited products while Samsung deals with a greater range of electronics – yet Apple has taken the lead on this front too.
Fujitsu Limited is the world’s third largest IT service company after IBM and Hewlett-Packard. Fujitsu wants to enter North American mobile phone market and it is Fujitsu’s next target.
Lomography is a very prevalent mode in the realm of photography and video-making. Here are some great news for lomography fans: now you can convert the lomographic videos you make into digital videos on your smartphone. This can be easily done by using LomiKino Smartphone holder. Earlier it was a daunting task to convert the lomographic videos into digital videos. Now with the new LomoKino Smartphone Holder, it is a very easy task.
Sony Ericsson once was a prominent player in the cell phone industry but like they say, it took an arrow to it’s knee. However, some old relics of the good, old days remain. This one is a phone Sony Ericsson never released. A prototype of this device, which runs on Windows Phone 7, was spotted recently. This is interesting because Ericsson never released a Windows Phone device and has been rather toying with Android. Perhaps Sony Ericsson did have plans of such a device but then trashed them?
According to a recent Citigroup study, text messaging is on the downward trend. The report was focused on the SMS use during the Christmas and on New Year’s Eve and studied the communication habits of Europeans. The report reveals that users tend to replace the old SMSs with more modern means of sending and receiving wishes to far away friends and relatives.