Browsing Posts in Hardware News

The Iphone’s domination of mobile data consumption is coming to an end asAndroid is expected to surpass Apple’s share thanks to tablets andsmartphones in the months to come.According to Cisco’s visual networking global mobile data traffic forecast for 2010 to 2015, at the beginning of last year Iphone data levels were four times greater than [...]

The nod ends an exclusive relationship that Jobs’ Mob had with AT&T in the US, which has been around since the Iphone sprang fully formed from the mind of Steve Jobs. Verizon COO Lowell McAdam unveiled the Iphone deal during a presentation in New York.What is surprising is that Apple is launching its Iphone on [...]

According toa report at Bloomberg, Verizon Wireless is blowing dry the ink on its deal to sell the Ipad, which will put it into evendeeper competition with AT&T.In an interview, Francis Shammo, CFO of Verizon Communications, said that the firm will provide customers with a special embedded chip for use on itsnetwork, which will remove [...]

GOING FOR 14-INCHES could be seen as an extreme reaction to Steve Jobs dislike for 7-inch tablets but Acer has jumped in with both feet with its Iconia tablet that is even more like a notebook with no keyboard thanApples Ipad.The 14-inch screen tablet has High Definition 1366×768 resolution with a high-brightness Acer Cinecrystal LED-backlit [...]

. . ANALYSTS at Mercury Research have released figures showing that AMD is continuing to dominate the discretegraphics market and took pole position for the second quarter running.The report, thePC graphics market share update, tells us that AMD is taking large strides in the market and added some 5.6 percentage points to its market share [...]

ANDROID VERSION 2.2 codenamed “Froyo” was released by Google yesterday and the company demoed its expanded voice command functionality.Google said it wants to use voice recognition technology to improve mobile devices, like by replacing typing on a small keyboard where possible. It also claimed it has improved its voice recognition translation technology.”Before it was easy [...]

JOBS’ MOB claims that it has flogged more than 1.7 million of its super, cool Iphone 4.Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO said that this is the “most successfulproduct launch” in Apple’s history and he apologised to those those who were turned away because Apple did not have enough supply.The statement from Apple fails to mention if [...]

USERS OF HTC Hero smartphones, who have been waiting for ages for an update to Android 2.1, are finally starting to download it like a mad thing.The Taiwanese mobile phone maker has started an over the air rollout of the update that will bring the phone out of an Android dark ages into a 2.1 [...]

WORLDWIDE MOBILE PC SHIPMENTS shot up by 43.4 per cent in the first three months of 2010 from the first quarter of 2009.Beancounters at the industry research firm Gartner claim that this year-over-year growth is the highest the mobile PC market has experienced in eight years and represents about $36 billion in end-user spending.Most of [...]

Asustek has announced top-to-bottom support for the USB 3.0 standard.The latest high-speed USB 3.0 specification was announced to cater for the growing users’ need for large external hard drives that use the interface to shift inordinate amounts of data. . USB, unlike Firewire, was never designed for bulk data transfer, however it has since become [...]