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While it’s generally known that Microsoft continues to support the Windows 10 Mobile operating system with regular updates, Windows Phone as a unit is pretty much a terminally ill patient. At the Q2-2017 earnings call yesterday, Microsoft CFO Amy Hood noted that Phone revenue had dropped 81% over the prior period. These are the remnants…
The Cupertino smartphone maker’s objective of setting up Apple manufacturing units in India moved forward a few paces as the company’s executives made their case to the Indian government on Wednesday. Priya Balasubramaniam, one of Apple’s VPs, was part of the team that met with government officials and laid out detailed plans for starting a manufacturing…
Google appears to be rolling out a brand new feature for Play Services 10.2 that allows your Android devices to piggyback on each others’ mobile data and remain online all the time. Called Instant Tethering, the Google Play Service 10.2 feature allows your Google Pixel or Nexus device to automatically provide a hotspot for all…
Microsoft is possibly one of the biggest comeback stories in the world of technology. After seeing their Windows revenues decline over several quarters, Microsoft is finally back to profitability and growth once again. The Windows problem hasn’t gone away yet, but the company now has enough new and growing parts in its business to offset the…
Google wants more control over Android, the open source mobile operating system technology that it owns. With Google Pixel, their first serious move into the smartphone space (please don’t say Motorola) also gave them the chance to better control where Android was going. We’ve written about this need of Google’s to control the hardware side…
According to two independent reports, Google has been buying up its own ads in order to have its own hardware rank higher on searches. While this is not necessarily unethical, it does cast a shadow over Google’s possible manipulation of what is one of the largest display ad networks in the world. An analysis done…
It seems that Windows 10 is not the only operating system that’s having trouble being adopted by users. Data for Android Nougat shows that only 0.5% of all Android devices are on the latest operating system, and even those are only on Android 7.0 Nougat. Google Pixel smartphones running Android 7.1.x Nougat came in at…
Google’s Android mobile operating system has declined in terms of market share in the most lucrative market in the world yet again. According to data released by Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, the period ending November 2016 saw Android’s market share decline in key markets including Great Britain, France and Australia. The good news for Android is that its…
When Microsoft launched its first All-in-one PC, the Surface Studio, the market as well as the media were impressed. But the starting price point of $2,999 was a little less digestible, considering the average price of a reasonably specced PC is about half that. However, despite the pricing hurdle and the fact that this was…
Google announced on its blog tonight that four smartphone models that will get the latest Android Nougat update will also come equipped to handle Daydream VR applications. Google showcased four phones from Huawei (2 models), Asus and ZTE (one model each.) Each of these smartphones will get access to the growing VR/AR content for Daydream,…
Barely a month after Google upgraded its keyboard app to version 6.0 and renamed it GBoard, the number of installs on Google Play have exceeded 500 million, putting it in the same league as apps like Microsoft Skype and file-sharing app Dropbox. The massive success is unprecedented in such a short period of time, and…
The Note 7 is dead. Long live Note 7. We’ve just heard that next year’s Samsung Galaxy S8 could be coming with S Pen support for the 6-inch display variant of the Galaxy S8. The Galaxy S8 plus-sized phone is rumored to carry over a lot of features from the Note 7 which, if not…
Microsoft has steadfastly refused to quit its device efforts. Despite setbacks the company faced in its hardware ambitions – buying Nokia for for $7.2 billion in 2014 and writing off $7.6 billion dollars a year later – the Redmond giant refuses to stay away from the hardware business, and Microsoft Surface underpins the Windows maker’s plan…
There are several theories and articles swirling around on the internet that argue that iPhone sales have already peaked, and the odds of scaling the high of 231.218 million iPhones Apple sold in 2015 are very slim, or next to impossible. The primary thrust of arguments that support the “iPhone sales have peaked” theory is…
Google made waves with the Google Pixel featuring its artificial-intelligence-based Google Assistant, but Apple had already done that with Siri on iPhone, so it was nothing new. Yet, the concept still seems fresh as another smartphone joins their ranks today. The Honor Magic, the end result of deep R&D by Chinese electronics major Huawei, comes with a…
