Tag: Figures
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Nintendo amiibo Will Unlock NES & SNES Classics – Gold Mario Also Spotted!
If you thought Nintendo’s amiibo couldn’t get any cooler, you were so wrong. During a company briefing it was revealed that the little plastic figures for Wii U will soon be able to unlock playable highlights from a library of NES and SNES games. To play classic moments including characters from Super Mario Bros., The […]
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Flip Phones Still Huge In Japan
Whilst it doesn’t seem to correlate with the current smartphone trend, Japan’s obsession with flip phones isn’t going to die out soon – fans of anime would be able to tell you that straight away. Whilst the devices appear a lot in Japan’s famous cartoons, in real life the older flip phone is still growing […]
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Ubisoft Reports Biggest Sales On PS4
Ubisoft’s latest earnings report has shown that not only has the company made some significant headway in terms of sales of new titles such as Assassin’s Creed unity, but also that the company’s biggest market is on Sony’s Playstation 4. the report shows that the Xbox One saw dramatically less Ubisoft sales than on the […]
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Recent iPhone Sales Beat Android By 0.1%
It’s always a competition in the phone industry as to who manages to sell the most devices, and the two biggest players are undoubtedly Apple and Android. the two command the biggest market share in terms of operating system, Android versus iOS is the name of the game. Recent numbers show that Apple managed to […]
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Contactless Card Pay Limit To Rise To £30
The UK has had access to contactless card payment for ages now, and it’s really, really fun. With a tap of your card and a corresponding beep from the machine, pin entry is made obselete. It’s quick, easy, and it feels really really futuristic. However, a £20 limit has been imposed on the technology since […]
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Android Lollipop Usage Numbers Released
The latest version of Android is often slow to arrive on mobile phones – whether as a download for users to get hold of themselves or as an included operating system on brand new phones. The new Android 5.0 Lollipop update is no different, as new figures released recently have shown that the brand new […]
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Apple and Samsung Tied In Q4 Phone Sales
A big year for Apple and Samsung in worldwide sales and shipping has yielded some great results. Not only has the iPhone exploded in a fresh new Chinese market, but Samsung has been revealing some excellent pioneering features, such as the Note Edge’s curved screen edges. Now it seems from new figures that both Apple […]
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1 Billion Android Phones Shipped In 2014
Last year global mobile phone shipments broke a new record in terms of the sheer volume of smartphones shipped. Over 1.3 billion handsets made it into the wild from manufacturers, and it’s partly due to the incredible popularity of Android. the mobile phone operating system from Google has recently hit one billion units shipped. Out […]
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Apple Now Top Smartphone Seller In China
It’s a difficult thing getting western products into China – companies trying to peddle tech in the closed economy in the country often tread carefully to avoid friction with the Chinese government. But today, it seems Apple has navigated the hurdles and come out on top, with iPhone sales taking the top spot in Chinese […]
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Mobile Tech Made $3.3 Trillion in 2014
As the new year draws in, facts and figures about the year gone by are coming in thick and fast – we’ve already seen the announcements of gaming’s biggest titles in 2014, and now it’s the turn of the mobile industry, with reports of staggering revenue being generated by mobile tech companies during the year. […]
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US Xbox One Price Dropped In New Offer
You might remember that back during the middle of 2014 the price of the Xbox One console, Microsoft’s next gen video game machine, dropped down in order to better compete with the price of the Playstation 4. Both consoles have been in a sales race ever since their release in late 2013, with the PS4 […]
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Android On 84% Of Phones Shipped in Q3
Industry statistics are showing yet more market dominance for Google’s Android OS – a staggering amount of phones shipped to retailers online and in store are using Android operating systems on board. Around 84% of smartphones have gone out with an Android OS on board, according to Strategy Analytics, a firm specializing in correlating and […]