Folks at Blaze Software, a web performance company published a report earlier today claiming that Android browser is faster than iPhone’s Safari browser.
They came to this conclusion after loading 45,000 web pages from 1000 websites over 3G and Wi-Fi on Android smartphone, Samsung’s Nexus S and Apple’s iPhone 4 running iOS 4.3.
Nielsen, the media research firm has just released their data showcasing the performance of the US Smartphone market in the month of November 2010.
According to the report, Apple’s iPhone still leads the pack when it comes to market share with over 28.6 per cent of the market. In second place, but falling sharply is old favourite RIM with its BlackBerry. It accounted for 26.1 per cent of the market share in November. In third spot was Android with 25.8 per cent. It is evident looking at these numbers how competitive the smartphone market has become. However, we should also notice another interesting trend.
Google yesterday unveiled Nexus S, the successor to the Nexus One smartphone that was launched early this year.
The new Android phone will be manufactured by Samsung and will be hitting the American stores on December 16. This is expected to be followed by a launch in the UK on December 20.
We had recently written about the upcoming launch of a new smartphone from Sony Ericsson that could be dubbed the PlayStation Phone.
This smartphone, rumored to roll out early next year, is expected to integrate an Android phone with the gaming capabilities of a PSP – including the trademark gaming controls.
Just a month after SquareTrade, a third-party warranty provider released data, which compares accident rates of iPhone 4 and the previous generation iPhone 3GS, they have released the results of a new far broader study of over 50,000 smartphones covered by their warranty program.
According to their previous report, the iPhone 4 was found to be far more accident prone than iPhone 3GS.
We have seen a number of smartphones launch in the past three years since the original iPhone hit the American market.
While not all these phones were positioned as potential iPhone killers, there is no doubt that a good majority of these new phones still adopted the core mantras that have made the iPhone a success.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs created quite a controversy during the company's quarterly conference call by questioning the openness of the Android operating system.
In his lengthy tirade against Android, Jobs criticized the Google model of creating a fragmented platform and noted that Apple's integrated platform was the better bet in the long run.
Soon after Steve Jobs' tirade against Google, Android and other Tablets, its time for the people who were targeted, to get back at Apple.
At yesterday's conference call announcing Apple's Q4 financial results, Steve Jobs made a surprise appearance and was highly vocal against Apple's competitors. He took on RIM and Samsung (both of which have the 7-inch Galaxy Tab and the Playbook ready to be pitted against Apple's larger 10-inch iPad) saying that a 7-inch tablet is just not enough – and that a 10-inch screen was the bare minimum for a tablet to be taken seriously.
Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs made a surprise appearance at today's conference call for Apple's Q4 2010 financial results and he was all guns blazing.
Before taking a dig at the new tablets from competitors such as Samsung Galaxy Tab and BlackBerry Playbook that sport a 7-inch screen saying that a 10-inch screen was minimum necessary for a tablet, he responded to Google’s claim that Android is open while iPhone is closed.
Microsoft officially launched Windows Phone 7 – its next generation mobile operating system at a media event earlier today.
Microsoft also revealed nine new Windows Phone 7 handsets that will ship by the holiday season to finally join the smartphone race and take on Apple's iPhone, Android smartphones and RIM's BlackBerry.
Microsoft had unveiled Windows Phone 7 at Mobile World Congress 2010 back in February.
