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iPad Mini, again about her

iPad Mini – What if you could make a title for a news item, we will spare you a few minutes reading virtual, but is, we must deal with such rumors: after all, all the rumors and are born free and equal rights. The iPad Mini, it is a ghost who comes nearly every two or three months. Sometimes it’s Digitimes who recovered the information from a vendor screen, other times they are sources inside Apple who talk too much. But eventually, we still have nothing and Apple remains on the market it controls, that of the shelf 10 inches high end.

It was in an episode of Talk Show John Gruber of Daring Fireball has dropped the word: no, a 7.85-inch iPad is not expected at Apple, but such a model exists in the labs of the parent, undergoing tests every day. Is it relevant? Is it useful? A Does the market place? How to sell, $ 299? All these issues have still not been answered and that is why Apple has never talked about a smaller version of its touchscreen icon.

The conference on the new iPad yet ended on a teaser for lack of a One More Thing: Apple promised us we would hear them talk again later this year, there would be other products in 2012. IPhone 5, surely. An iPad Mini? We do not would put our fingers to cut, but if it is in the plans of Cupertino, Google would be better off to move to place itself on the market…

Concept of iPhone 5 no start button and four inch

iPhone 5 – An interesting concept to the network reached today addresses two of the rumors that have been constant over the next generation of iPhone. On one side is heard that the iPhone 5 could make more screen, one that could lose the home button. How would these two changes in the smartphone on the block? The designer Kris Groen has raised a proposal that we see in the video below.

As you can see the artist imagines an iPhone more square than the current model to accommodate a 4-inch screen. It has long been mentioned as a possibility, which has its detractors based on that image that showed the difficulty in reaching with one hand to all parts of a screen that size. ¿3’5, 3’7 or 4 inches? What surprised us the Cupertino? Read on »

The iPhone 4S is not selling well in Europe, according to Reuters

iPhone 4S – A report published by Reuters moments ago is turning the web and it seems remarkable data set on the table. It focuses on iPhone 4S sales in continental Europe noting that the figures are not reaching the same levels as it does in other countries like UK, Australia or America.

The numbers speak for themselves, and have been revealed by research firm Kantar Worldpanel ComTech. Consider the countries where sales are going well, comparing its market share over the past three months (ending in November) with the fee had the iPhone in the same period in 2010.

    * U.S.: 25% of smartphone market share to 36% this year

    * UK: from 21% to 31%

Now compare those amounts with the figures they experience in other countries of the European Union:

    * Germany: The market share of Apple smartphone has fallen from 27% last year to 22% last quarter

    * France: from 29% to 20%

    * Spain and Italy show similar numbers but have not been specified

In this dynamic change is observed in the Android manufacturers, both Samsung and Motorola and others are attracting more customers by making their levels of market share reached 61% in Germany and exceed at least 46% in all other countries . What is the reason for this defeat Apple is experiencing trade in the old continent? Reuters highlights the economic situation in the euro area, which feeds especially in countries like Italy and Spain and to a lesser extent France and Germany.

It may be that this situation is affecting sales, especially when the Cupertino has a single model to offer, and expensive, compared to the dozens of alternatives that Android offers, sometimes at good prices. Also do not deny it, this pattern of sales will continue so, Android and iPhone will grow to fall in fee, it is one against 1000. Anyway, my point of view, this study ignores or does not deal with, some other causes of the low sales of Apple.

First and most important position, you are comparing different scenarios. Last year, the iPhone 4 was released to the world long before this year has made the iPhone 4S and that works against Apple. From June 2010 to October 2011 there is a world apart. Comparing three months ending in November 2011 with the overall levels of 2010, we find that the iPhone 4 had a very long journey in the last fiscal year, while the iPhone 4S is seeing the light and being known by the users now.

If you look at the attached graph you will notice that usually the sales and production numbers are down Apple well before launch, and take time to achieve a high rate after this. It is a logical behavior. Therefore we cannot pretend that the phone has got the block sold well in those months. United States and United Kingdom have noticed just because they are very prone regions Apple products but we should ask what would have happened if the iPhone 4S has been submitted in these two countries in June this year, the numbers would be staggering.

Also in September was a month with no benefit to Apple because the buzz around the iPhone 5, iPhone 4S was high and sales of the iPhone 4 is stopped. Kantar data probably do see the signature of the apple that the wait was too long and wrong, but do not know what was going on in there while we was Steve Jobs.

On the other hand, and secondly I think Apple is wrong to launch an iPhone 4S with Siri restricted to only some languages, leaving out the Italian and Spanish (Castilian), because in these countries there is great enthusiasm for the phone on the block but an English Siri does not attract attention when there is a huge database of owners of iPhone 4, why change if not?

In short, a more and like any other study that could be interpreted and manipulated at will. Less sales yes, but not two comparable stages. iPhone 4S

4-inch screen for iPhone 5 is worked by Sony

Sony is working with Hitachi on a 4-inch iPhone 5 display; this report different sources to the Japanese website Macotakara.jp. Presumably this is the screen of the iPhone 5.

The Japanese electronics companies operate on the resource at a screen for an IOS device on the market in 2012 to appear. To meet the high demand to meet Apple as the third company Toshiba would be attracted. The trio will be referred to as Japan will produce display screens.

Last week we were able to report that Sharp supposedly was engaged in the production of iPad 3 screens. According to the Japanese site, this is not the only tablet that Apple is planning to stand. Apple would be already working on designing a screen for the iPad 4.

An unknown producer from Taiwan, according to the sources, in agreement with Apple to build a completely different tablet; it is expected that the successor of the iPad 2 in the first half of 2012 the market will appear. iPhone 5

Smartphones manufacturers enter the worldwide struggle continues on, in quick succession by launching new devices. Major players like Nokia, Samsung and Apple hope in this way in the important fourth quarter – including festive month of December – their market share in the smartphone marketplace.

The U.S. Smartphones and tablet manufacturer Apple launches earlier this month the latest version of the iPhone. It was not the expected iPhone 5 but the iPhone 4S, a newer version of the current iPhone 4. Investors and fans responded initially disappointed, but the new smartphone, turn it to the public. According to Apple were in the first three days around the world for more than 4 million units sold.

Nokia Smartphones

Competitors Nokia and Samsung cannot stay behind. Especially the Finnish mobile phone manufacturer is under heavy pressure in the smartphone market has long been suffering from a declining revenue and profit. Nokia loses more and more shares because the company faces stiff competition from Apple iPhone and Smartphones with Android software from Google.

To turn the tide, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop announced in February an alliance with the U.S. software giant Microsoft. Nokia presents the first Wednesday is expected Smartphones that runs on the Windows Phone from Microsoft. The new device should ensure that Nokia is again gaining market share against Apple and smartphones with Google’s software.

Smartphones Growth

Sales of those phones made in the second quarter of this year a huge growth. The operating system Google Android becoming the largest platform in the world with a market shared of 43.4 percent. The competing system Symbian Nokia is second with a market share of over 22 percent, according to figures from Gartner.

Apple vs. Samsung Smartphones

The South Korean company Samsung has in turn engaged in a fierce competition with Apple. Samsung unveiled Wednesday with the Google Galaxy Nexus and it seems that the short term is a new launch. The latter device runs on the latest version of the Android operating system, known under the name Ice Cream Sandwich. According to Samsung, the Galaxy Nexus, a strategic product for the holidays at the end of this year now on Apple iPhone 4S has marketed.

Apple and Samsung are competing not just with new products. Both companies around the world also filed lawsuits against each other over patent infringement.

So we just imagine iPhone 5?

Reached by the end of the day, do not you feel it? Is electricity in the air, prior expectation, now, dear readers is a day of keynote AppleWeblog. So, a few hours after Tim Cook (with a possible surprise of Steve Jobs) takes the stage to catch all the news relating to the iPhone 5 and hopefully a ‘One More Thing’ we have a small collection of everything we hope to bring us this update of the Apple model.

By asking those who use and love the iPhone always tend to ask more than necessary, so much we even get to be realistic and think of a phone line with the strategy that Apple has always followed with the times. What most strikes me are that since more than a year since launching the iPhone 4 is the first time the company breaks the cycle of updating a year and that can have major consequences. Personally, I think, speculative theories aside, this cycle has been broken for the simple reason that the iPhone 4 has a phone with a spectacular success why renew something that works perfectly? Read on »

When the iPhone 4S confirmed by Vodafone, but iPhone 5 was not there?

Apple Keynote on Tuesday is a fact, as is to introduce a new mobile device, much has been speculated over this past week, much is also rumored to be made public even before the call on whether Apple would be true to their “story” and launch a slightly improved version of its current iPhone, or throw the house out the window announcing the big update (iPhone 5) The former seems to have been confirmed by Vodafone in Germany listings, which have listed a new “iPhone 4S” with capacities between 16 and 64GB.

Normally, if a website or online store publishes the upcoming availability of an unannounced product, we take it with a grain salt, and wait for it to confirm the news but do not talk about any store, if not the Vodafone herself, which is not exactly known for false advertising products. Credibility in this case is maximum, which we can informally confirmed by the appearance of a iPhone 4S certainly will be announced tomorrow, under the leadership of Tim Cook. Read on »

New iPhone 4 photos filtering of Foxconn Brazil?

Yesterday I commented on the possible accidental confirmation of a iPhone 4S beta iTunes for developers. Closely related to this web site days ago Gizmodo leaked a series of pictures of iPhone 4 “N90A”, allowing thinking about releasing an iPhone alternative, more economical.

Titled “Looks Like There Will Be a Cheaper iPhone 4, Made in Brazil”, something like “seems to be a cheaper iPhone 4 made ​​in Brazil”, the story reveals a number of photographs have been taken at the Foxconn plant in Brazil, showing the new Apple iPhone, which will likely be presented next week.

As you can see, the parts shown in the photos offer no distinctive features that differ from those of the current iPhone 4. However, as mentioned in the news, one of which displays a form of quality control Foxconn with an interesting detail: the number of model N90A. For those who do not remember, the numbering N90 corresponds to the iPhone 4, then the code N90A allow us to think of an update to this device, i.e. a new iPhone 4 could be a reality very soon. Read on »

iPro Lens: two professional lenses for the iPhone 4

iPro Lens – Schneider Optics is a company of professional lenses that descends from the legendary Schneider Kreuznach, who have been in business since 1913. Interestingly they have embarked on an interesting project to offer the market a couple of professional quality lenses mounted on the iPhone 4 calls iPro Lens. Thus they join the many proposals already on the market but in a quality side hard to beat.

The system used is as we have seen so many times, iPro Lens used a plastic cover and then adapt support for the location of the camera lens through the aforementioned bayonet closure. The two types of lenses (iPro Lens) offered are, as you can imagine, a wide angle to capture more area than that offered by the iPhone 4 camera by default, and a fisheye to get the circular effect of professional photographs. Examples of the results can be seen on their website. Read on »

AT&T can cover for iPhone 5

We talked several times about possible new iPhone 5 covers, available in various regions of the world. Now the rumors point to the U.S., where it appears AT & T already has several models of covers for iPhone 5 in the cellar, warm and ready to be sold.

It all started with the publication of an alleged photograph of the inventory system from AT & T, which shows 7 different models of covers, manufacturer Case-Mate. Now, MacRumors publishes new images, possibly sent by a worker of AT & T, which appears black model and silicone sleeve. The dimensions are not seen eye different from the current model, except for its thickness, and the mute switch on the device side. Read on »