iPhone 4S (iOS 5) not yet counted: Google Android growing fast
Google’s popular mobile operating system growing fast, but Apple’s new smartphone market share contribution not yet counted. RIM and Microsoft shares decline.
A new quarterly report from comScore has been released, revealing the unstoppable growth of the Google Android operating system, and Apple’s steady gain too. According to the Internet marketing research company’s September 2011 mobile subscriber market share (for US market only), Google’s Android operating system has gained 4.6% last quarter, from June’s 40.2%, and now owns a total of 44.8% US smartphone market.
Google Android growing fast in United States according to the latest comScore data.
It is worth noting that Android is the operating system used by mobile phones manufactured by Samsung, LG, HTC and Motorola.
Apple’s iOS, the operating system used by the iPhone, gains an additional 0.8% US market share. As of September 2011, Apple reportedly owns the total of 27.4% market share. Apple’s new smartphone, the iPhone 4S, is not yet included in the percentage.
According to Apple, the iPhone 4S is the most successful iPhone yet, with a total of 1 million pre-orders in less than 24 hours, and the company has sold 4 million iPhone 4S in less than three days. It is highly possible that the iOS will show-off a more impressive gain in the next quarterly mobile market report.
However, Android’s latest innovation is also expected to create a momentum that will surely generate more growth. Samsung’s new smartphone, the Google Galaxy Nexus with the latest Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update, will arrive in stores this month and will be sold by Verizon Wireless, the largest wireless carrier in United States based on the latest market share figure. Motorola, HTC and Samsung’s smartphones are also expected to receive the Android 4.0 update next year.
Research in Motion, the makers of the BlackBerry smartphones and Microsoft and its Windows Phone operating system, are the not-so-popular platforms in America, based on comScore’s Q3 report. Research in Motion has steadily lost market share, and Q3 is not an exception with a total of 4.6% decline, from June quarter’s 23.5% to 18.9% for the last quarter. Microsoft is also a victim of Apple and Google’s success with 0.2% decline, from June’s 5.8%, to 5.6% only for the September quarter.
Research in Motion and Microsoft are expected to release new smartphones this year and early next year. For Research in Motion, reports say the Canadian company will release new smartphones with the BBX operating system, while Microsoft’s new partner, Nokia, will release its first set of Windows Phone devices in Europe and Asia this month, and early next year in United States.
This report was originally posted on PopHerald.com as iPhone 4S (iOS 5) not yet counted: Google Android growing fast, under Gadgets and Mobile Category. Source: comScore
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Dummies Jailbreak iPhone 4 iOS 5 Untethered Unlock
GhostApp.org team of hackers have released and confirmed a new tool for iPhone 4 Jailbreak and Unlock compatible for iOS 4.3.4 , 4.3.5 and latest iOS 5 .Ghost 5.0 has been tested on over 1500 iPhone 4S models and is ready to jailbreak and unlock any iPhone up to iOS 5 for any baseband .
Upon his arrival, already jailbroken. Even though Cupertino has released this morning the developer version of iOS 5.0.1, the latest version of redsn0w (the 0.0.9b7) is already able to jailbreak. Great, of course, but it must nevertheless temper that good news since it is here that you can enjoy after installation of a small hack, as a semi-tethered jailbreak. This simply means that if your iDevice off, then you will not have access to the most basic functions. What are they? Well … uh … let’s say the phone, whatever. At the same time, it’s not bad, right?
Upon his arrival, already jailbroken. Even though Cupertino has released this morning the developer version of iOS 5.0.1, the latest version of redsn0w (the 0.0.9b7) is already able to jailbreak. Great, of course, but it must nevertheless temper that good news since it is here that you can enjoy after installation of a small hack, as a semi-tethered jailbreak. This simply means that if your iDevice off, then you will not have access to the most basic functions. What are they? Well … uh … let’s say the phone, whatever. At the same time, it’s not bad, right?
iOS 5.0.1 is already jailbroken (but not untethered sorry)
So of course, one might think that this is a revolution and that are true geniuses jailbreakeurs but in reality, it is not necessarily the case. Finally, if they are good, this is not the issue, but if iOS 5.0.1 has been jailbroken so easily, it is no coincidence, since the vulnerability exploited for iOS 5 has not been fixed by Apple . Racing results, the utility distributed by TheBigBoss on Cydia (and can be found on this filing: http://thebigboss.org/semitether) still works. If you want to enjoy the semi-tethered jailbreak your iDevice, it will start with the latest version of redsn0w and then follow up by installing this nifty little hack.
So, if you hesitate to take your iPhone on iOS 5.0.1 for fear of losing all your cool underground applications, and although you are reassured. Moreover, while we’re at, if you weep for the life of your iDevice since the launch of iOS 5, note that the latest version seems to correct this serious problem. In any case, what is being said on Twitter (and thank you to Jerome for the info). So it’s “almost” official, there will be no end “batterygate.” Well, at the same time, it would have made a little mess, eh … Especially after Antennagate the iPhone 4.
Oh, and if not, well we are still waiting the untethered jailbreak, obviously.
So of course, one might think that this is a revolution and that are true geniuses jailbreakeurs but in reality, it is not necessarily the case. Finally, if they are good, this is not the issue, but if iOS 5.0.1 has been jailbroken so easily, it is no coincidence, since the vulnerability exploited for iOS 5 has not been fixed by Apple . Racing results, the utility distributed by TheBigBoss on Cydia (and can be found on this filing: http://thebigboss.org/semitether) still works. If you want to enjoy the semi-tethered jailbreak your iDevice, it will start with the latest version of redsn0w and then follow up by installing this nifty little hack.
So, if you hesitate to take your iPhone on iOS 5.0.1 for fear of losing all your cool underground applications, and although you are reassured. Moreover, while we’re at, if you weep for the life of your iDevice since the launch of iOS 5, note that the latest version seems to correct this serious problem. In any case, what is being said on Twitter (and thank you to Jerome for the info). So it’s “almost” official, there will be no end “batterygate.” Well, at the same time, it would have made a little mess, eh … Especially after Antennagate the iPhone 4.
Oh, and if not, well we are still waiting the untethered jailbreak, obviously.
..
Article source: http://community.coastalcourier.com/blogs/detail/5986/
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iPhone 5 release date leads 2012 charge as iPad 3, iPod touch 5 linger
November 6, 2011 by Bill Palmer
by Bill Palmer
After a comparatively quiet iYear in 2011, Apple’s mobile products will necessarily see a slew of 2011 revamps from the headlining release dates for the iPhone 5 and iPad 3 to the lingering iPod touch 5 and Apple TV. This year saw the company’s mobile hardware releases skew less ambitious than usual: the original iPad was replaced by an evolutionary iPad 2 instead of the one people were hoping for. The iPhone 4 was replaced with an outwardly identical iPhone 4S instead of the redesigned iPhone 5 people were expecting. Apple’s MacBook lineup was split, with the Air seeing a major revamp and the Pro seeing nothing more than a speed bump. Other Apple iProducts were simply skipped over. How much this had to do with the challenging leadership transition from Steve Jobs to Tim Cook while Jobs was dying, and how much of it was a matter of the products merely not being ready yet, is something no one outside Cupertino can say for sure. But with 2012 around the corner, here’s a look at Apple product categories which will see updates this year, from the iPhone 5 to the iPad 3 and beyond, and the prospects for each…
iPhone 5: Its release date is unpredictable at this point, thanks to Apple’s 2011 jockeying which saw the traditional summer iPhone launch timeframe shifted to October for the 4S. But the iPhone 5 (or whatever it ends up being called) carries much of the company’s 2012 hopes with it. The 4S was something of a punt, a way to roll out new technologies like Siri and the A5 processor and Sprint compatibility while buying time until the next generation iPhone body styling is ready. Look for the iPhone 5 to get faster and thinner while embracing new technologies like 4G LTE. If we had to guess, we’d say it’ll surface in the summer. But that’s just a guess.
iPad 3: The whole world had this pegged for spring 2012, but now there’s buzz that it’ll be a fall 2012 product, with an iPad 2S arriving in the spring instead. Whenever it lands, the public will be looking for Apple’s tablet to take the next step toward becoming a full-on computer replacement, which was Jobs’ original stated vision for the product…
iPod touch 5: Apple’s history suggests that the iPod touch 5 won’t be released until the iPhone 5 surfaces, and the new touch will offer a design which resembles the iPhone 5. In fact, the lack of a new iPod touch in 2011 is the strongest evidence that the company had plans to launch the iPhone 5 this year; if the iPhone 4S had been the plan all along, a suitably revamped iPod touch would have been released along with it. Instead, Apple apparently had plans to release an iPhone 5 and an iPod touch 5 this year, and when it turned out the former wasn’t yet ready, the latter couldn’t be launched either. Instead Apple added a white version of the existing iPod touch 4.
Apple TV: Apple keeps making its set top box smaller, more powerful, and less expensive, and still no one cares. Is this the year Apple finally gets around to launching actual television sets with the “AppleTV” technology built into them?
MacBook Pro: It’s not that there’s that much Apple can do to reduce the size of the MacBook Pro, as long as it continues to include bulky hardware features like an optical drive and a hard drive which the MacBook Air has left behind. It’s just that Apple hasn’t even tried to reduce the Pro, as it’s largely the same hardware body it was back when it was still known as the PowerBook G4. After a disappointing speed bump this month, expect the MacBook Pro to be finally renovated in 2012 with a new hardware design which is at least marginally more svelte.
Here’s more on the iPhone 5.
Article source: http://www.beatweek.com/news/12229-iphone-5-release-date-leads-2012-charge-as-ipad-3-ipod-touch-5-linger/
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Jawbone to release wristband health monitor
Hosain Rahman met Steve Jobs in 2004; it did not go well.
Rahman’s 5-year-old startup, Aliph, was about to begin selling headsets for mobile phones, and one of his investors had arranged for him to show Jobs his first creation, a stylish earpiece connected to a phone with a thick cord.
Jobs hated it. In an hour-long session in Apple’s offices, Jobs intuitively exposed every shortcut the company had taken. “It was a shellacking,” Rahman said. “It was one of the most painful and formative experiences of my life.”
Rahman says that conversation was a turning point for the company now known as Jawbone. After that meeting, the San Francisco company began work on an updated device and has now sold 10 million Bluetooth earpieces, making it one of the largest makers of headsets in the world.
Jawbone also has begun positioning itself in a very Apple-like way, as a maker of consumer products that combine intricately designed hardware and easy-to-use software. Last year, Jawbone introduced a well-regarded wireless speaker, called the Jambox. And on Sunday it will begin selling UP, a sensor-laden wristband that connects wirelessly to a mobile phone and tracks elements of the wearer’s health, such as sleep patterns and physical activity.
“We think we can create an incredibly valuable series of wearable computers and specialized devices,” said Ben Horowitz, a Jawbone board member and partner at Andreessen Horowitz, one of the venture capital firms that plugged $120 million into the company in 2010.
Background noise
The history of Jawbone stretches back more than a decade. Rahman and co-founder Alexander Asseily were friends at Stanford University and incorporated the company in 1998. They focused at first on developing technology to cut out background noise on phone calls, which they thought could ultimately make speech recognition more accurate.
In the early years, when technology funding was sparse, they kept the company running by tailoring their noise-suppression technologies for use by DARPA, the Defense Dept.’s research and development arm, before ultimately deciding to enter the market with the wired headset Jobs hated in late 2004.
The headset won a variety of design awards but didn’t sell well. Jawbone then recruited famed industrial designer Yves Béhar, known for his work with clients such as Herman Miller, One Laptop per Child and Prada, to serve as chief creative officer. (He now spends about half his time designing hardware for the company.)
The company started selling its flagship product – a slick, metallic-looking, and eminently losable Bluetooth earpiece – in 2007. Jawbone earpieces alert users to appointments and can signal a phone to dial numbers associated with those events.
Jawbone also struck a partnership with Apple. Its products are sold in Apple’s stores, and its headsets were the first to integrate with the iPhone’s iOS operating system; the screen of an iPhone connected to a Jawbone headset, for example, has a second battery indicator showing how much juice is left in the headset.
Top-selling speaker
The Jambox, which went on sale last fall for $200, is now the top-selling digital speaker in the country, according to the company. It’s light and rectangular, connects to any mobile phone or PC, and produces crisp sound, considering its size. Horowitz says Jawbone is working on a new speaker, Big Jambox, which the company declines to discuss.
And now there’s UP.
“The big idea here is to help make people consumers of their own health,” Rahman said. “We probably know less about our bodies than we do about our phones.”
UP is supposed to change that. The pliable rubber-coated wristband is meant to be worn nonstop for 10 days at a time, even in bed and in the shower. An accelerometer inside tracks data like the number of steps a person takes in a day and the number of calories he or she has burned.
The device also monitors sleep patterns and can be programmed as an alarm that wakes the wearer, within a preset time range, at the ideal moment in their sleep cycle. The accompanying iPhone application lets users share their UP data with friends, create personal challenges, and record and track each meal they eat.
Rahman envisions insurers, schools and companies buying them to help keep clients, students and employees healthy. UP goes on sale this month for $100 in Best Buy, Target and Apple stores.
“We are not science experts or experts in your health,” Rahman said. “We are just doing what Silicon Valley does best, which is giving people the tools to experience things in new ways.”
Market data provided by Bloomberg News
This article appeared on page D – 2 of the San Francisco Chronicle
Article source: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/04/BUIA1LQ0DL.DTL
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Ghost to Jailbreak iOS 5 for iPhone 4/4S Soft
GhostApp.org team of hackers have released and confirmed a new tool for iPhone 4 Jailbreak and Unlock compatible for iOS 4.3.4 , 4.3.5 and latest iOS 5 .Ghost 5.0 has been tested on over 1500 iPhone 4S models and is ready to jailbreak and unlock any iPhone up to iOS 5 for any baseband .
Upon his arrival, already jailbroken. Even though Cupertino has released this morning the developer version of iOS 5.0.1, the latest version of redsn0w (the 0.0.9b7) is already able to jailbreak. Great, of course, but it must nevertheless temper that good news since it is here that you can enjoy after installation of a small hack, as a semi-tethered jailbreak. This simply means that if your iDevice off, then you will not have access to the most basic functions. What are they? Well … uh … let’s say the phone, whatever. At the same time, it’s not bad, right?
Upon his arrival, already jailbroken. Even though Cupertino has released this morning the developer version of iOS 5.0.1, the latest version of redsn0w (the 0.0.9b7) is already able to jailbreak. Great, of course, but it must nevertheless temper that good news since it is here that you can enjoy after installation of a small hack, as a semi-tethered jailbreak. This simply means that if your iDevice off, then you will not have access to the most basic functions. What are they? Well … uh … let’s say the phone, whatever. At the same time, it’s not bad, right?
iOS 5.0.1 is already jailbroken (but not untethered sorry)
So of course, one might think that this is a revolution and that are true geniuses jailbreakeurs but in reality, it is not necessarily the case. Finally, if they are good, this is not the issue, but if iOS 5.0.1 has been jailbroken so easily, it is no coincidence, since the vulnerability exploited for iOS 5 has not been fixed by Apple . Racing results, the utility distributed by TheBigBoss on Cydia (and can be found on this filing: http://thebigboss.org/semitether) still works. If you want to enjoy the semi-tethered jailbreak your iDevice, it will start with the latest version of redsn0w and then follow up by installing this nifty little hack.
So, if you hesitate to take your iPhone on iOS 5.0.1 for fear of losing all your cool underground applications, and although you are reassured. Moreover, while we’re at, if you weep for the life of your iDevice since the launch of iOS 5, note that the latest version seems to correct this serious problem. In any case, what is being said on Twitter (and thank you to Jerome for the info). So it’s “almost” official, there will be no end “batterygate.” Well, at the same time, it would have made a little mess, eh … Especially after Antennagate the iPhone 4.
Oh, and if not, well we are still waiting the untethered jailbreak, obviously.
So of course, one might think that this is a revolution and that are true geniuses jailbreakeurs but in reality, it is not necessarily the case. Finally, if they are good, this is not the issue, but if iOS 5.0.1 has been jailbroken so easily, it is no coincidence, since the vulnerability exploited for iOS 5 has not been fixed by Apple . Racing results, the utility distributed by TheBigBoss on Cydia (and can be found on this filing: http://thebigboss.org/semitether) still works. If you want to enjoy the semi-tethered jailbreak your iDevice, it will start with the latest version of redsn0w and then follow up by installing this nifty little hack.
So, if you hesitate to take your iPhone on iOS 5.0.1 for fear of losing all your cool underground applications, and although you are reassured. Moreover, while we’re at, if you weep for the life of your iDevice since the launch of iOS 5, note that the latest version seems to correct this serious problem. In any case, what is being said on Twitter (and thank you to Jerome for the info). So it’s “almost” official, there will be no end “batterygate.” Well, at the same time, it would have made a little mess, eh … Especially after Antennagate the iPhone 4.
Oh, and if not, well we are still waiting the untethered jailbreak, obviously.
..
Article source: http://community.coastalcourier.com/blogs/detail/5916/
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iPhone 5 release date brings 6th gen naming controversy amid LTE brand
November 5, 2011 by Bill Palmer
by Bill Palmer
When the iPhone 5 sees its release date in 2012, the biggest controversy may not be whether users like the inevitably redesigned body style or whether features like faster 4G LTE networking and the faster A6 microprocessor are included. Instead, the biggest brouhaha may be over what Apple ultimately decides on for the device’s name. If the iPhone 4 was the fourth generation iPhone, then is the new iPhone 4S the fifth generation? If so, that would make the next iPhone the sixth generation model. I say that won’t stop Apple from giving the product the kind of brand name which user are expecting: iPhone 5. But a respected colleague of mine says he’ll be shocked if Apple uses that name, saying that he believes the sixth gen iPhone should more accurately be called iPhone 6. If neither of those names ends up flying straight, the compromise might be “iPhone LTE” which just might work despite how stupid it sounds. Part of the question, however, depends on how Apple views the current iPhone 4S in a generational sense, and whether Apple is pleased with the results of its past decision to name a certain iPhone model after a networking technology. It also might depend on just when in 2012 Apple decides to give the iPhone 5 a release date…
It’s important to note that Apple has never much cared for adding generational numbers to products. Nearly every iMac model over the past thirteen years has been officially known simply as “iMac” and not iMac 2, iMac 3, etc. It was the same story for the traditional iPod model. Sure, variants like “iPod photo” and “iPod nano” have crept into the nomenclature. But the flagship classic iPod was continually branded as “iPod” for its first six generations before finally becoming “iPod classic” for its most recent few generations. There was never an “iPod 2″ designation for the second generation iPod; in fact the term “second generation iPod” was coined by users and the media as a common reference terminology and nothing to do with Apple. Similarly, the first iPhone was called “iPhone” and the second iPhone wasn’t called iPhone 2; instead it was called “iPhone 3G” because Apple wanted to promote the fact that it employed 3G networking. So Apple has shown some more willingness in recent years to add an alphanumeric suffix of some kind to its new generation models. But it’s worth pointing out that more often than not Apple has paid no attention to generational numbers when naming its iPhones. The second was known as iPhone 3G; the third was the iPhone 3GS, with the “3″ in its name being totally coincidental to to fact that it happened to be the third generation iPhone. The iPhone 4 was, then, the first iPhone to be named after its generation. And it could be the last…
If Apple considers the iPhone 4S to be a new iPhone generation and thus the fifth, that means the next one will be the sixth. But does that matter when it comes to naming the device? I say no. Ever since Apple launched the iPhone 4 nearly a year and a half ago, the public has been expecting the next iPhone to sport a redesigned outer body to be called the iPhone 5. Those expectations won’t change over the next six to nine months while we await its release date. If Apple calls the next one “iPhone 6″ in order to signify that it’s the sixth generation model, most consumers won’t get it. Instead, they’ll be asking “Why did they skip 5, was the iPhone 5 canceled, what happened?” It’ll create needless confusion among the public and, worse, arouse suspicion that Apple is “trying to pull something by skipping a generation.” Those in the know when it comes to Apple’s complicated iPhone naming history would understand it, but that’s not most people. I’d bet real money the next iPhone isn’t called iPhone 6. But if my colleague is right and Apple ends up not wanting to name it iPhone 5 either, what would be left?
The one feature we’re all fairly certain the next iPhone will have is 4G LTE networking. Apple can’t call it “iPhone 4G” for two reasons. One is that it’s already beaten the number 4 to death with regard to the iPhone. The other is that 4G is old news, as carriers like Sprint and T-Mobile have been pushing slower quasi-4G for some time. It’s the “LTE” part of 4G LTE that signifies newer faster networking. If Apple wants to go the “iPhone 3G” route and name this next iPhone after the networking qualities it’s about to gain, the brand name would ultimately be iPhone LTE. But from a marketing perspective, which is the one which matters when it comes to naming a product, “iPhone 5″ would make infinitely more sense. We’ll all find out once its release date arrives next year. Here’s more on the iPhone 5.
Article source: http://www.beatweek.com/news/12224-iphone-5-release-date-brings-6th-gen-naming-controversy-amid-lte-brand/
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