With Amazon set to release fourth quarter 2011 sales figures Tuesday, quite a few analysts are expecting big things from the reputed online retailer. And it’s hardly surprising these business specialists are tracing Amazon’s success to the Kindle Fire tablet computer. According to Jordan Rohan of Stifel Nicolaus, the Amazon ecosystem of e-books, audio and [...]
Mobile Magazine reported that HTC UK is planning to reduce the number of phones marketed in 2012, in favor of high-end handsets designed to compete with Apple’s iPhone and Samsung’s Galaxy series. Phil Roberson, CEO of HTC UK, told the news site that their focus in 2012 would be on the iPhone/Galaxy market, those consumers [...]
Some may consider this a no-brainer – the iPad 2 over anything else, right? But despite the market dominance of Apple’s flagship tablet, not everybody wants to own an iPad, and in fact, there are many who are more than happy to keep their options open. We shall now see how the iPad 2 compares [...]
The problems never seem to end for Asus’ beleaguered Transformer Prime tablet. The most recent issue has been with the upgrade to Android’s latest operating system, 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Many users have reported lockups occurring shortly after they installed the upgrade. That is not a complaint to be taken lightly, and we haven’t even [...]
Apple is set to capitalize further on the huge success of its innovative tablet computer, the trendsetting iPad. The company reinvented the tablet computer when the first iPad was launched and this time around, Apple is looking to reconfigure a medium that traditionally has been the vehicle of learning for millions of students – the [...]
Samsung Galaxy SII has become more attractive to American consumers as Amazon Wireless opted to slash its retail price to only $79.99, easily making the handset as one of the cheapest high-end smartphone available. According to Amazon the new price tag, will be applicable to the Galaxy SII Epic 4G Touch, but the company was [...]
Freddie Mac announced on Thursday that the average rate on the 30-year fixed rate mortgage rose to 3.98 percent, that’s an increase from last week’s 3.88 percent, which was a record low. This is the first time this month when the 30-year FRM climbed, although it stilll remained below 4 percent. The national average on [...]
Rumours have it that Microsoft has set the wheels running when it comes to their next-generation Xbox 720 console. Sources have indicated that the Xbox 720 Oban chip is already in production. According to technology site, Fudzilla, the initial production of the processor chip that will power the Xbox already started in December 2011. However, [...]
Despite much talk of a new iPad and new iPhone to come out in 2012, there haven’t been too many rumors regarding a follow-up to the iOS 5 platform. This platform has been used by both devices with a new iOS release having always coincided with a new iPhone release. So with that in mind, [...]
Last month, we saw the Samsung Galaxy Nexus 4G become the first-ever smartphone to feature the latest Android operating system, the Ice Cream Sandwich OS. Unlike other smartphones released with older Android versions such as Gingerbread (2.3) out of the box, the Nexus 4G actually shipped with Android 4.0. This made it a big hit [...]