Whip Me, HP Screams with New Tablet

Some corporations are like some people – Utter weirdos in their insatiable masochistic appetite for pain. Not content with failing miserably in its earlier consumer tablet outing, HP today announced plans to ship a new Android tablet, the Slate 7. Based on Android OS 4.1 Jelly Bean software, the 7-inch Slate 7 costs $169 and […]

Starving Beggars have Few Smartphones

Just yesterday, we read an article in an Indian newspaper that 25% of Indians go to bed hungry every night. And a few minutes back, we stumbled upon a Nielsen survey showing India with a low rate of smartphone penetration compared to the other BRIC countries. (Nielsen map of India is erroneous as it chops […]

Even with Dozens of Tablets & Price Cuts, Android Still has only 39% Marketshare

Despite powering dozens of tablets including the Amazon Kindle Fire, a new survey shows Android’s market share in the tablet market at just 39.1% in the fourth quarter of 2011. Something must be seriously wrong with the Android software if so many vendors including Sony, Acer, Asus, Samsung, Motorola etc are struggling to get some […]

Android’s Share of Smartphones Rises

The new comScore marketshare numbers for smartphone platforms are out. And Google’s Android platform has increased its market share to nearly 44% for the three months ending August 31. Some 84.5 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones, up 10% from the preceding three month period. How long before every mobile phone in the U.S. […]

iPhone 4S Debuts – Misery for Android, Blackberry but Not Worth Upgrading

Playing the sadist to its Android, Blackberry and other smartphone rivals, Apple today launched the iPhone 4S at a hall-filled event in Cupertino, California. The upgrade to the world’s favorite smartphone comes with a faster dual-core processor, a voice-based intelligent assistant Siri and an 8-megapixel camera. The new phone runs on the Apple A5 chip, […]