The iPhone 4S bolstered smartphone sales for AT&T as well as Apple. Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired Fourth quarter 2011 saw smartphone sales take off in a big way, heavily influenced by the introduction of Apple’s iPhone 4S. In AT&T’s best quarterly smartphone performance ever, the carrier saw 9.4 million smartphone sales [...]
Too excited Apple has put a stop to iPhone 4S sales in China following rioting in Beijing over its products. The company saw ugly scenes outside its Beijing store when the new handset went on sale on Friday morning, with crowds turning to near rioting as they attempted to get [...]
But still activating 700,000 devices a day 700,000 is a big number. It is also just so happens to be the number of Android devices around the world that are activated every day according to Google?showing you just how popular the OS has become. “There are now over 700,000 Android [...]
That’s a lot of phones The iPhone 4S is looking to cement itself in sales history, topping 4 million sales in its first weekend, an incredible number for a piece of consumer electronics that costs ?499.? Pocket-lint was on hand on launch day to capture the excitement surrounding the new [...]
The Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch, pictured, features a bright 4.52-inch Super AMOLED display. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired Samsung’s flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S II, has had a tremendously successful run with consumers since landing on U.S. shores, a prime example of Android’s continued success in the smartphone market [...]
200,000 PlayBooks and 10.6m smartphones BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has had to admit that its shiny new tablet, the BlackBerry PlayBook, isn’t doing as well as it had hoped. The company has reported that it has shipped just 200,000 to shops in the last 90 days. To put that [...]
The iPhone 4 was the top selling smartphone on both Verizon and AT&T this summer. Image: Cannacord With all the rumor and mayhem around the upcoming iPhone 5, we almost forgot that the iPhone 4 is still on the market, and doing great. T. Michael Walkley, an analyst with Canaccord [...]
Despite an optimistic launch, Google TV sales have proven less than wow-worthy Consumers aren’t going as gaga for Google TV as manufacturers had hoped. In fact, people are flocking to return the smart TV set-top box. Logitech International, maker of the Revue Google TV unit, announced that Revue profits were [...]
The Motorola Xoom is not faring as well as its iOS counterpart. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com Motorola announced dismal device sales in its earnings report on Thursday, with tablets faring near the worst among the company’s products. The company shipped 11 million mobile devices over the past three months, according to [...]
But “a heck of a year” Ballmer has acknowledged that Windows Phone 7 market share is still incredibly small compared to that of Android and the iPhone almost a year after it’s launch, but that it’s be a “heck of a year”. In a speech to delegates at the company’s [...]