3. Li’l Wayne sat courtside at the game with a pair of diamond-encrusted Beats by Dr Dre earphones on over a baseball cap. The cans are actually a collaboration between Beats and Graff Diamonds
via Lil Wayne Drowns out NBA All-Stars with $1 Million Beats Earphones | TechnoBuffalo.
The Beats by Dre Marketing Machine working full tilt! For all we know Lil Wayne is getting paid to wear those while sitting on the floor of the all-star NBA game.
Samsung Galaxy S III full specs: 1.5GHz quad-core, 1080p display, ceramic case.
SGS3 Specs:
WOW!!! FULL 1080P Display – that means a resolution of 1920 X 1080. I definitely didn’t see that coming! I’m still skeptical.
And what we new all along, but now it’s pretty much official: Exynos Quad-core. This definitely means it is the Exynos 4412 ARM-A9 chip. My excitement for this phone knows no bounds!
I’m keenly waiting for confirmation on the SGS3′s battery size (more than 2000 mAh?), the RAM (1GB or 2GB?), the onboard storage (32 GB standard?) and the thickness. Can it still be 7mm with that insane display? I’m doubtful but who cares it can be 8.49mm like the original SGS2 and that is just fine with me.
450,000 Android apps are available for download in the Android Market. That’s 3X the 150,000 apps announced at MWC last year.
1 billion Android apps are downloaded each month, and the number is growing.
More than 800 Android devices have been released in the past 41 months, and that number is really growing, especially considering all the product announcements we’ve seen already.
Android enjoys 250% year-over-year growth
via Android: 300 million devices, 850k daily activations, and 450,000 apps.
The Android universe is one MASSIVE ecosystem. Every time Andy Rubin updates the daily activations figure I’m amazed. At some point in 2012 we are going to hear it has crossed 1 million daily activations. And 1 billion Android apps downloaded every month – that figure is STAGGERING!
Samsung Galaxy S III to feature 4.8-inch display and ceramic back with simultaneous global launch.
HOLY S*^&! Look what BGR is reporting! This is the most exciting SGS 3 news/rumour to date. 4.8″ screen and a CERAMIC back… Now my phone can match up with my car’s brake discs! I really hope the ceramic material choice and the simultaneous 50 city worldwide launch are true.
Samsung GT-N8000 passes Bluetooth Certification — Galaxy Note successor?AndroidGuys.
We will find out next week when it is likely announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona! This and the rumored Google Nexus 7″ tablet are the 2 tablet devices I’m most excited about!
2011 FULL YEAR SMARTPHONE SALES STATISTICS
Rank . Brand . . . . 2011 units . Market Share . 2010 units . Market Share
1 (3) . Apple . . . . 93.1 M . . . 19.1% . . . . . . . 47.5 M . . . . 15.9%
2 (5) . Samsung . 90.9 M . . . 18.7% . . . . . . . 24.0 M . . . . 8.0%
3 (1) . Nokia . . . . 77.3 M . . . 15.9% . . . . . . 100.3 M . . . . 33.7%
4 (2) . RIM . . . . . . 52.5 M . . . 10.8% . . . . . . . 48.0 M . . . . 16.1%
5 (4) . HTC . . . . . 44.6 M . . . 9.2% . . . . . . . 24.6 M . . . . 8.3%
6 (7) . Sony . . . . . 26.8 M . . . 5.5% . . . . . . . . 9.5 M . . . . 3.2%
7 (8) . LG . . . . . . 23.3 M . . . . 4.8% . . . . . . . . 7.0 M . . . . 2.4%
8 (-) . . Huawei . . . 20.0 M . . . . 4.1% . . . . . . . . 5.0 M . . . . 1.5%
9 (6) . Motorola . . 18.6 M . . . . 3.8% . . . . . . . 13.7 M . . . . . 4.6%
10 (-) . ZTE . . . . . 12.0 M . . . . 2.5% . . . . . . . . 3.5 M . . . . . 1.2%
Other . . . . . . . . . . 26.5 M . . . . 5.6%
TOTAL . . . . . . . ..486.0 M . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .297.8 M
Source: TomiAhonen Almanac 2012
Smartphone sales are ON FIRE!
Overall growth of 63.2% in just one year.
Apple doubled and Samsung TRIPLED!
2011 FULL YEAR OPERATING SYSTEM MARKET SHARES
Rank . . OS . . . . . . . . 2011 units . market share . 2010 units . market share
1 (2) . . Android . . . . 208 M . . . . 43% . . . . . . . . . 54 M . . . . 18%
2 (4) . . iOS . . . . . . . . . . 93 M . . . . 19% . . . . . . . . . 48 M . . . . 16%
3 (1) . . Symbian . . . . . . 81 M . . . . 17% . . . . . . . . 116 M . . . . 39%
4 (3) . . Blackberry . . . . . 52 M . . . . 11% . . . . . . . . 48 M . . . . 16%
5 (7) . . bada * . . . . . . . . . 9 M . . . . . 2% . . . . . . . . . . 3 M * . . . 1% *
6 (8) . . Windows Phone * . 5 M . . . . 1% . . . . . . . . . . 2 M * . . . . 1% *
7 (5) . . Windows Mobile . . 4 M . . . . 1% . . . . . . . . . 11 M . . . . . 4%
Others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 M . . . . 6%
TOTAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486 M . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298 M
Source: TomiAhonen Almanac 2012
In one year, Android went from just over 50 million smartphone users to more than 200 million. So worldwide there are twice as many android phones as iphones, and four times as many as Blackberries!
Mercedes-Benz integrating Siri in its A-Class, coming to B, C, E series this Fall.
I wonder if this is going to
a) be useful, and
b) get implemented by other car manufacturers.
I have a feeling that it is.
I have yet to use my smartphone to pay for my meal, but this type of thing will be ubiquitous sooner than we think. I would guess in 2 years tops this is will be the standard way to pay at a restaurant!
Dropbox adds auto-upload for photos & videos, removes file size limits and Apps on SD storage.
Good enhancement from my favourite cloud service. I often use the dropbox app to move photos from my phone to my desktop anyways, so this is a convenient update for me. I also use dropbox now and then to move downloaded ROMs from my iMac to my phone.
Use this referral link to get an extra 250 MB when you sign-up for Dropbox!
via Samsung demos quad-core Exynos processors, we drool | Android and Me.
So Samsung demos 4 new Exynos Variants: ARM Cortex-A9 based dual and quad core (Exynos 4212 and 4412), and ARM Cortex-A15 based dual and quad core (Exynos 5250 and 5450.)
So the BIG QUESTIONS:
a) Is the SGS 3 going to have a dual-core or a quad-core?
b) Is the SGS 3 going to have an A9 or A15 based CPU?
“Hopefully we will learn more about Samsung’s roadmap at Mobile World Congress next week. I know everyone is all excited about quad-core, but I’m hoping we see the dual-core Exynos 5250 inside the next Galaxy S III and Galaxy Tab 11.6.”
I’m going to say NO CHANCE! While I would also much prefer to see the more advanced architecture of an A15 based processor in the next Samsung Superphone, I think their Marketing department dictates that an SGS 3 comes with a quad-core chip. Since the Cortex-A15 based quad-core (Exynos 5450) seems to be more than 6 months away, my guess is we will see the A9 4-core Exynos 4412 in the Samsung Galaxy S III.
I hope I’m wrong but I would be shocked if I was!
