iOS
Apple sells four iPhones every second to hit record profits
Everyone was expecting Apple to hit record numbers in its latest financial figures, and the numbers announced yesterday certainly disappoint.
The overachieving tech brand managed to sell 37 million iPhones in the last three months of 2011 – that's around four every second – as well as 15 million iPads, the same number of iPods and 5 million Macs.
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Samsung’s Next Big Thing ad campaign has been going for a couple of months now, and it shows no sign of slowing down.
The ads suggest that The Next Big Thing Is Already Here, essentially poking fun at the iPhone 4S and Apple fanboys, while bigging up the Samsung Galaxy S II. This latest ad shows Apple geeks being “Samsunged”.
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Samsung Galaxy Nexus in court over Apple’s slide-to-unlock feature
If you’re sick of hearing about Samsung and Apple’s various legal squabbles, spare a thought for Germany’s Mannheim Regional Court.
Hours after rejecting one of Samsung’s many motions against Apple, Mannheim Regional Court held a hearing on a spanking new complaint from the Californians.
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NFC shipments could top 100 million units in 2012 if Apple gets on board
Last year, a report from IMS Research suggested that shipments of NFC-enabled smartphones would top 80 million units in 2012, as the technology finally finds its footing.
An unnamed source tells Digitimes that that figure could rise to over 100 million units if Apple includes NFC support on the iPhone 5.
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Review of the week
# I just can't wait till Saturdaaaaaay #
I hate that song.
So how was your week? Last night I saw some dude take an absolute hiding, and made sure he got home alright. That was my good deed for the week. Ok then, month.
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iPad 3 case in production, hints at thicker chassis
We all know how tightly Apple keeps its iLips pursed ahead of any product announcement so the rumour-mungers need to get their fodder elsewhere.
Third party accessory makers have previously been a good source - and they're certainly helping with the guesswork over the iPad 3.
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Apple “reinvents the textbook” with iBooks 2
At a launch event in New York’s awesome Guggenheim Museum, Apple has lifted the lid on the successor to iBooks – the appropriately titled iBooks 2.
Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of marketing, was keen to emphasise the educational value of iBooks 2. It certainly wasn’t like this in my day. God, I’m old.
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Facebook may be built into next iOS version
Yep, it's a rumour - but, quite frankly, we'd be utterly astonished if there wasn't some truth to this here one. iMore has done a little delving around into the Beta 3 of iOS 5.1 and reckons Facebook is present in the contacts app - right alongside good old Twitter.
Of course, tweetage was something the Cupertino clan finally natively bundled into the last major iOS release meaning Apple users could do the basics like tweet directly from their camera app, rather than having to go around the houses to attach a pic.
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iOS share creeps up; Android still rules the roost; Windows Phone 7 barely registers
Nielsen has published a spanking new report detailing consumer habits from Q4 last year. The survey only takes the US into account, but we reckon it’s probably fair to say things were much the same the globe over.
Essentially, peeps went absolutely nuts for the iPhone 4S. No surprises there, eh? Can't beat a bit of Siri.
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We do enjoy a spot of crystal ball gazing here at Mobot. In fact, we’re trying to get Mystic Meg on board for a monthly article on smartphone predictions: Mystic Mobo-Meg’s Monthly Mobile Madness. Fingers crossed.
Where was I? Oh yes. Some analyst guy is predicting that Apple will shift 48 million iPads in 2012, and while that figure might sound pretty freakin’ high, he reckons it’s “conservative”.
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