Tag: Usage
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Phablets The Fastest Growing Form Factor
Phablets are essentially big phones… but they’re close enough in size to tablets to be considered a form factor of their very own. to date, the emerging phablet trend has been considered somewhat of a gimmick, however according to some new facts and figures from an analytic company called Flurry, the devices are one of…
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Possible Apple Watch Battery Life Revealed
We’ve been hearing a lot from both Apple and fans about the speculated limits on the battery life of the new Apple Watch. The device is loosely claimed to need a recharge overnight following a full day of use, with Apple employees themselves speaking of what might be frustratingly short battery life on the device…
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Qualcomm Poll Reveals Most Popular Uses for U.K Smartphones
Qualcomm has produced an infographic revealing U.K smartphone owner’s most popular mobile uses. The processor maker behind the Snapdragon family of chips which can be found in devices such as the HTC Sensation XL, Sony Xperia S and Nokia Lumia 800 posted the informative chart on the Facebook page for its widely-used CPU which is…
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Google Chrome Topples Internet Explorer to Become World’s Most Popular Browser
Google’s Chrome finally takes the top spot from Microsoft in the browser wars…
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Xbox 360 App Usage Up 30% Year-on-Year, Surpasses Online Gaming
For the first time in history US Xbox gamers are now spending more time using various entertainment apps than gaming on Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console. According to Microsoft, Gold Live members are spending an average of 84 hours a month on Xbox live, with entertainment apps usuage doubling in under year. These impressive figures mean…
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Google’s Chrome Becomes World’s Second Most Popular Browser
I for one am a big fan of Chrome; I’ve been using it for a good few years now and on a whole am really impressed with what it has to offer. Therefore I’m pleased to see that for the first time, Google’s Chrome browser has overtaken Mozilla’s Firefox to become the second most used…
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Android Still Most Popular Smartphone Operating System
The very latest Nielsen ratings for US smartphone OS usage figures put phones using the Android OS in top position yet again, with 43% usage among smartphone users, most of which are both today’s youth and those in the working professional age category according to the survey. Of the 43 percent of all US mobile phone subscribers…
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Vodafone launches free ‘Data Test Drive’ for new mobile buyers
Vodafone will be allowing it’s customers a three month free period of unlimited data from today in a scheme called ‘Data Test Drive’ and just like before you commit to buying a new ride, you’ll be able to try out all the features and use all the functions to see which mobile package is the…
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Apple iPad claims 89 per cent of global tablet usage
The iOS slate seems to have the market sewn up, so is there any room for Android?
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Android 2.2 Froyo dominates distribution on Google gadgets
Since its release nine months ago Android Froyo has gained a huge amount of distribution, in fact a report claims that the 2.2 version of the Google platform claims a massive 61.3% of all Android usage worldwide. This report takes into consideration any Google enabled gadget with access to the worldwide market and shows Froyo…