All Entries Tagged With: "Apple"
MacBook Pro thinned down
Apple has made a few predictions about the new family of MacBook Pro notebooks it is soon to release – the world’s most valuable company thinks users will be more likely to choose the 13.3-inch version than any of the 15-inch models, and so is producing far more of the smaller-screened models in time for [...]
Mobile GPU Shipments Stats
The Jon Peddle Research Agency has published statistics for mobile GPU shipments to be used in SoC (system-on-chip) platforms. The data translates to an annual growth rate in 2011 of 18% for phones and tablets. Just confirmation that tablets and smartphones are moving from the realm of luxury good to mainstream consumer product, which we [...]
Apple Overtakes RIM In Canada
For the first time Apple has dethroned Canadian-based Research in Motion as Canada’s top smartphone provider. Despite a difficult period for RIM in the past few years Canadian’s stayed loyal to the brand, but RIM was finally overta ken by the Cupertino juggernaut sometime last year. RIM shifted 2.1 million Blackberry devices in Canada in [...]
Apple to increase iPhone share in China
It seems to me that Apple hugely underestimated China. iPhone is by far the most popular smartphone in the world, but you wouldn’t know it in China. Apple has only 7.5% market share when it comes to smartphones. Samsung on the other hand enjoys over 24.3% of Chinese market of smartphones. Android is by far [...]
Tablet Trends
Apple looks set for a bumper run with the first production run of the new iPad 3 set to sell out in a flash. CES 2012 and the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona both produced a rash pf tablets, leading IDC to update its forecasts for 2012 media tablet sales. IDC now predicts sales of [...]
MacBook Air To Get Supersized
As a further development of the overlapping/merging of various form factors int he ultraportable sphere (11.6-inch netbooks, 14-inch ultrabooks), rumors are surfacing that Apple will be releasing a 15-inch version of its MacBook Air, the touchstone of ultraportable functionality. The Apple MacBook Air is still seen as the device (design- and performance-wise) to aspire to, [...]
NVidia Tegra 3 vs Apple A5X
At the iPad Conference in San Francisco we heard Apple claim that their new A5X processor in the new iPad 3 offers 4 times the performance of an NVidia Tegra 3 processor. They were talking about graphic performance of course. No specifics were given however, and NVidia respectfully dismisses these claims. Nvidia, said: “We don’t [...]
iPad 3 survey
iPad 3 is out and surveys are in full spin trying to get some sense into what people want and which direction to take. iPad Site reports on the mobile ad network inMobi, which suggests that close to %30 of people will upgrade to new iPad 3. 65% of new iPad owners will however prefer [...]
Apple iPad 3 Is Here (ships March 16th)
The Apple iPad Conference in San Francisco was warming up as Tim Cook told of how Apple sold more iPads in Q4 2011 ‘than any PC manufacturer sold PCs.’ Apple managed to shift 15.4 million premium slates in Q4, while HP could only offload 15.1 million PCs in the same period. Cook, Apple’s CEO since [...]
iPad HD, not iPad 3
Gizmodo and Ars Technica had posted that according to their sources at Griffin and Belkin new iPad 3 being released next month will actually be called iPad HD. iPad HD is to have retina display with 2048 x 1536 pixel resolution. iPad HD is to sport A6 quad-core processor and allow for LTE connectivity, but [...]
