Smartphone revenue pass 1bn in 2013 as China booms

 The smartphone current market handed a important milestone in 2013, with 1bn units sold in the course of the calendar year, in accordance towards the analysis corporation IDC - together with other analysis corporations gave virtually similar figures.
Chinese sellers manufactured substantial inroads. Samsung and Apple topped the figures with 31.3% and 15.3% of fourth-quarter shipments, with Korean firm LG third with four.8%. Huawei, Lenovo and ZTE had been key gamers, using approximately 15% of smartphone revenue collectively.
More frequently, smartphones are eating into the whole cellular China Smartphone current market, which totalled 1.82bn handsets in 2013, up just four.8% from one.74bn in 2012, stated IDC. That means that smartphones designed up 55% of all cell phone product sales from the yr.
With growth accelerating, during the fourth quarter smartphones built up 58.2% from the 488.4m cellular sales, the exploration corporation reported.
But the swift expansion of smartphones to markets where by featurephones have held sway has also made a huge market within the lower conclude, although viewing saturation within the premium conclusion the place Apple in particular dominates. Its year-on-year cellular phone sales progress in 2013 was just twelve.9%, as compared to smartphone profits expansion for that 12 months of 38.4%.
The figures advise that Apple is growing its share with the smartphone sector from the context of whole cellular phone profits that grew by four.8%. That will be for the cost of featurephone makers - notably Nokia, which noticed blended shipments of smartphones and featurephones for 2013 plummet by twenty five.2% from 335.6m to 251.0m.
Nokia's cell cellphone division is staying bought to Microsoft, which happens to be trying to establish a smartphone system to compete with Google's Android and Apple's iphone.

Android PCs as well as other Windows-alternative desktops are for real

For decades, many years, you might set all of alternative desktops ?a Linux, Mac, whichever ?a alongside one another and Home windows would however beat them by ten to 1. That was then. This is certainly now.
Today, Home windows 8.x's is still stalled out while in the marketplace, Chromebooks gross sales have appear from nowhere to consider a bite from the low-end laptop computer industry, and after that you can find Android.
You know Android as being the primary smartphone and cheap wholesale tablets running process. Four big-name firms imagine Android has what it will take to be a top desktop operating program as well. Those people firms involve Lenovo and HP , the world's primary and range two PC suppliers. Two other providers you could have heard about, AMD and Intel, also see Android over the PC. And, lest we overlook, there's this very little business named Google backing up Android.
Think about that: 5 with the world's leading tech corporations assume folks want Android on their desktops. Four of these used to be counted amongst Microsoft's staunchest allies. Does one genuinely consider they'd be pushing Android on cheap tablet pcs should they didn't consider there was a industry there? I don't.
Why? Nicely, other than Windows 8.x's failure to get market-share, Android has tons and lots of apps. Even Mac OS X, the 1 actual thorn in Windows' side more than the many years, has just a fraction on the applications that Android delivers for the table.
In addition, the rise of software-as-a-service (SaaS) apps has made the actual operating procedure managing over a desktop fewer relevant. If a desktop can operate a web browser, it might run several prime company plans like Microsoft's personal Office environment 365, Salesforce.com's Purchaser Partnership Administration (CRM) courses, SAP's Organization Resource Scheduling, and so on., and many others. That is precisely why Chromebooks, the Chrome Website browser on top of a thin-layer of Linux, have received in popularity.
Specifically, I see property people and SMBs adopting Android PCs reasonably rapidly. Enterprises will go much more gradually. Around the other hand, XP's stop of assist is coming before long. Even at this late day several firms have not determined where by they are going to go. The majority will, I'm certain, go together with Home windows seven, but I do think a considerable minority, say ten p.c, will chose in 2014 to choose Android PCs, Chromebooks, or tablets.
So where do we go from in this article? By 2016, I believe Windows will nevertheless be the best pet. That set up foundation is not heading absent at any time soon.
Unfortunately for Microsoft, the amount two running system, which has a double-digit market share, is going for being Android/Chrome OS. By then I do think Google should have merged them. Whether or not Google hasn't, among the 2 platforms, they're going to however have surpassed Mac OS given that the 2nd area desktop functioning method by a large margin.
If Google retains them break up, I see Chrome OS as selection two. Any person can utilize it and as a lot more line-of-business application results in being Web-based SaaS, corporations will find Chromebook's minimal price tag and price of upkeep irresistible.
In the meantime, Android is going to be well-known with residence and SOHO buyers. It really is heading to enable all individuals users who adore Android on their own tablets and smartphones to benefit from the very same applications on their desktops.

JiaYu F1 has dual-core CPU, 4″ screen, 2,400 mAh battery, Android 4.2, and costs $50

China is where we often see crazy cheap smartphones, but the upcoming JiaYu F1 really is something special. See, this is a device running Android 4.2 Jelly Bean that is only going to cost $50 when it’s released in the near future.
Yes, you read that right. And yes, this price is for an unlocked unit – sans contract or long-term commitment. So you may be thinking that it’s incredibly low-end then. Well, it is. At least for this day and age. Yet only a few years ago, specs like the F1′s would have been considered the cream of the crop.
The JiaYu F1 has a 4-inch 480×800 touchscreen, a 5 MP rear camera with autofocus and LED flash, a VGA front camera, a 1.3 GHz dual-core MediaTek MT6572 processor, 512 MB of RAM, 4 GB of internal storage, microSD card support, dual-SIM functionality, HSPA, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, an FM radio, and a 2,400 mAh battery.See More  JiaYu Smartphone.
It’s got a beefier battery than most midrangers today, and the low RAM really is the main pain point here. But at $50, we assume you’ll be able to live with it just fine.
There’s no word just yet on when it will be out in stores, and you shouldn’t expect it to ever make it to anywhere outside of China, but the JiaYu F1 is a great example of how far we’ve come, in terms of mobile device specs, in just a few short years.

Onda V973 best 9.7 inch retina tablet PC

China Tablet market aboriginal cast Onda allotment in electronics, its 9.7 inches attenuate quad-core flagship "V973 quad-core adaptation of the" official price! As the thinnest quad-core tablet, "Onda V973 quad-core adaptation of" the ultimate buyer 8.5mm body, and brings calm the a lot of accepted leadership, top-level configuration: 9.7 inches retina screen, the latest quad-core processor architecture, the world's top 8 engine GPU, a new bearing of lithium array technology, the latest Android4.2.2 system, and 5,000,000 autofocus cameras. Currently the a lot of amount 9.7 inches retina tablet!
"Onda V973 quad-core adaptation of" clearly upgraded SDKV3.2, to become China's aboriginal advancement Android4.2.2 operating system, Book PC. After the advancement the new firmware, "Onda V973 quad-core adaptation of" brought abounding to enhance user experience: 4 abnormal acceleration boot, one additional awning circling / multi-task switching, faster and added calmly blow operation, GPU achievement enhancement (3DMark run account of 4300 or so, the added A9 quad-core book is alone 3100 or so), the new 4K player, so that "Onda V973 quad-core version" has become the fastest accepted operation, acquaintance the a lot of adequate one Android tablet.
As China's arch cast of tablet, Onda in the collapsed configuration, achievement all-embracing advance at the aforementioned time, the action is aswell in actualization to strive for excellence, has accomplished world-class standards. This, "Onda V973 Quad Edition" will already afresh advance the calm actualization tablet, declared as calm design, ability ability the a lot of outstanding tablet, it has an accomplished faculty of blow G+ G architectonics bottle panels, with integrally molded body, the all-embracing screwless design, seamless brand watches and so on, these are the actualization of the world's a lot of avant-garde casting process.
"Onda V973 quad-core adaptation of" Allwinner A31 is able with quad-core processor, which is based on ARM's latest A7 four-core architecture, is the a lot of avant-garde book processor, added powerful, faster, and added responsive. Newly able with up to 1M accessory cache, like the processor of the highway, there is no bandwidth limitations, will accompany two times added abstracts processing, manual speed, decidedly bigger book experience. Meanwhile, A31 quad-core processors, low-power technology to ensure the book able performance, but do not add any ability burning and heat, is the best ability and achievement than the ARM processor.
"ONDA V972 Book PC quad-core adaptation of" absolute abutment for 4K ultra high-definition video adaptation and output, up to 4096 × 2160 ultra-high resolution, the boilerplate 1080P (1920 × 1080 resolution) resolution four times, and supports Blu-ray 3D video Direct playback. "Onda V973  quad-core adaptation of" agenda aswell supports playback of up to 12 video preview, while acknowledging four accompanying video playback. Undoubtedly, Onda new quad-core book is currently the a lot of able video decoder tablet. In addition, 1080P Full HD HDMI video achievement capabilities, OTG connection, HI-FI audio recording capabilities everything.

MYSAGA C4 Dual SIM Card Dual

MYSAGA C4 Dual SIM Card Dual Standby + Various Recreational programs video chat, music, movies, games...MYSAGA C4 makes your life happy and colorful!

Lenovo Lephone A580 4.3 Inch Android 4.0 Smart Phone IPS Screen MSM7227A 1.0GHz 3G GPS Red

Lenovo Lephone A580

Basic Information

Model Lenovo Lephone A580

Band 2G: GSM 900/1800/1900MHz

3G: WCDMA /2100MHz

Sim Card Dual SIM Card Dual Standby

Service Provide Unlocked

Style Bar

Color Red

Shell Material Plastic

 

System

OS Android 4.0

CPU Qualcomm MSM7227A, 1.0GHz; GPU: Adreno200

ROM 4GB

RAM 512MB

 

Screen

Display Size 4.3 Inch

Type IPS, capacitive touch screen

Resolution 800 x 480 pixels

Screen Color 16000K Colors

 

Support Format

Ringtones Type Polyphonic/MP3

Audio File Format MP3/WAV/AMR/AWB

Video File Format 3GP/MPEG4

Image File Format JPEG/BMP/GIF/PNG/GIF

E-book Format TXT/CHM/DOC/HTML

FM Radio Yes

Earphone Port 3.5mm

Card Extend Support TF card up to 32GB extended

Cube U30GT2 or Pipo M9 Pro

Hi all, can't decide which tablet to get out of these two. Have read various reviews online which rate both highly but the only advantage I can see is that the Pipo has inbuilt GPS which isn't really a deal breaker for me.
The build quality on the Cube U30GT2 looks better than the Pipo M9 Pro but the M9 Pro looks a lot nicer in black! I've read a lot of customer reviews for the Cube U30GT2 which say it is very good but can find very few for the M9 Pro.
I can't decide! Is there anything I should be aware of with these two? Is one particularly better than the other? Does one seem more reliable/stable?
I can get them for pretty much the same price so i'm just trying to suss out which would be the best option - I won't really be using any for graphic intensive gaming, it'll be used mostly for watching videos whilst travelling, browsing the web and maybe playing with a few music apps.

Meizu da Gennaio ufficialmente in Italia e MX4 con schermo 2k

Meizu entra ufficialmente in Italia a partire da Gennaio, e l’OS FlyMe supporterà l’italiano, oltre ad altre lingue europee. Tutti gli appassionati ringraziano per questo bel regalo di Natale, infatti fino ad oggi gli apprezzati smartphone Meizu offrono solo la lingua inglese, oltre a quella cinese. Chi acquisterà un nuovo Meizu da Gennaio avrà già la lingua italiana installata, mentre tutti gli altri potranno scaricare l’aggiornamento a breve.
Inoltre il Meizu MX4 sarà da subito disponibile, non appena uscirà in oriente, anche nel Bel Paese. Abbiamo la conferma per lo schermo 2K, cioè con risoluzione di 2560x1536 pixel (da 5.5”), mentre dobbiamo ancora attendere per la conferma delle altre caratteristiche tecniche.
Nel frattempo, se non conoscete gli smartphone Meizu, potete leggere la nostra recensione del Meizu MX3 a questo link: Recensione Meizu MX3, dalla Cina con furore.