RIM's battle is a long and tiring one against the predominant mobile platforms in the industry. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com Nokia CEO Stephen Elop put it best: “The industry has shifted from a battle of devices, to a war of ecosystems.” In other words, a smartphone or a tablet is only [...]
Hands eagerly pawed all over Windows Phones at CES 2012. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com Microsoft’s Windows Phone OS is often criticized for lagging far behind iOS and Android, the other major operating systems in the mobile space. But on Thursday, a leaked description of Microsoft’s next big mobile OS, Windows Phone [...]
Apple's iPhone 4S helped boost it up the ladder of mobile-phone market share. Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired Apple has moved past LG in the worldwide rankings of mobile-phone unit sales. According to IDC, Apple is now the world’s third largest mobile-phone manufacturer, behind Nokia and Samsung. Apple jumped two spots over [...]
Apple is purportedly working on its own TV set, rather than just a set-top box like Apple TV. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com Rampant speculation says Apple has a full-fledged, big-screen TV project in the works — an iTV, if you will. Now Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster says Apple has been [...]
runMobileCompatibilityScript(‘myExperience1423509842001 ‘, ‘anId’); brightcove.createExperiences(); This week on the Gadget Lab podcast, the gang talks record Apple revenues, takes a look at the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx, and riffs on what leaders in the hip-hop community have to say about their namesake headphone offerings. Reviews editor Michael Calore and Gadget Lab [...]
The Galaxy Note has a 5.3-inch screen, making it almost tablet size. Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired.com The Samsung Galaxy Note is a beast of a phone. The Note’s gigantic 5.3-inch, Super AMOLED display makes it the largest “smartphone” we’ve seen so far. It’s practically a mini-tablet. In fact, a 5-inch touchscreen [...]
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 [...]
Since assuming the role of CEO, Tim Cook has opened up charitable matching, and, as of Wednesday, a generous employee discount program. Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired.com With an employee headcount in excess of 45,000, Apple’s ability to manage news concerning its internal machinations sets a benchmark for corporate information control. It’s [...]
It's Android versus Apple, and Android manufacturers aren't looking so hot. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com It’s a good time to be a smartphone manufacturer. That is, if your name is Apple. The company’s financial momentum is, in a word, insane. Apple far surpassed shareholder and Wall Street expectations during its quarterly [...]
In a conference call after Apple (AAPL) posted earnings Tuesday, CEO Tim Cook downplayed the impact Amazon (AMZN) had on the tablet market “I looked at the data particularly in the U.S. on a weekly basis after Amazon launched the Kindle Fire, and … in my view there wasn’t an [...]