comScore the Market research firm has announced its November 2011 report on US mobile subscribers, according to the reports Android grabs the lead position in smartphone platforms, at the same time as Samsung is still on top in smartphone manufacturer market share. On the other hand, the Cupertino California giant (Apple) saw increasing growth, whereas the others expected due to a boost from its iPhone 4S sales.

30,000 US mobile subscribers were surveyed by taking the 3 month average period ending in November. The study report note that among the top 5 smartphone OEMs, the first place has been grabbed by Samsung with 25.6 percent, a 0.3 point change, whereas Apple stands at the fourth place with 11.2 percent, a dramatic 1.4 point change. The second and third place has been grabbed by LG and Motorola, with 20.5 percent and 13.7 percent respectively, each seeing a drop of -0.5 and -0.3 point changes.

Quite fascinatingly, the Search Giant’s Android continues to lead in the top 5 smartphone platforms, currently at 46.9 percent, a 3.1 point change, which is dropped from the 4.4 point change noted in the 3 month period ending last month. While, currently Apple’s iOS is at 28.7 percent, 1.4 point changes up from the 1.0 point change last month.

Sadly, RIM has seen the greatest drop with a negative 3.1 point change, platform market share down to 16.6 percent. Microsoft as well isn’t doing too good, in spite of its latest launch of fresh Windows Phone 7.5 Mango devices, currently seeing a 5.2 percent market share over the 3 month period.

Apple’s next generation iPad is the hot cake in the web and the rumors regarding it is flying high. Now here we go with the latest report which claims that the Cupertino California Giant will reveal its two versions of its next-generation tablet at the iWorld conference next month.

According to the reports from the Sources at Apple’s supply chain partners, the new models will target the mid- and high-end markets, whereas the present Apple iPad 2 will be sited to compete with Amazon Kindle Fire.

Quite fascinatingly, the fresh models will reportedly feature 9.7-inch screens with QXGA resolution and dual light bars to strengthen panel brightness. On the other hand, two weeks ago we had the report from the Taipei-based technology blog which stated that next generation iPad would feature 7.85-inch screen.

Earlier reports regarding Apple’s immediate QXGA ambitions support the current report, as Display Search analyst Richard Shim stated that QXGA, 2048×1536 Panel productions has started for the next-generation iPad and there are three suppliers.

On the other hand, there are numerous gossips which claim that the Cupertino California Company is likely to release a next-generation 9.7-inch screen model in the March-June time frame.

To be frank, till now Apple did not confirmed or revealed any information regarding its next generation iPad. As a result this report should be taken with a grain of salt.

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Here strikes the latest report from the Sources familiar with the matter which claims that Apple maybe debuting a totally redesigned iPhone in the fall of 2012, following the style initially set by the iPhone 4S, of latest Apple products being launched later in the year, instead of mid-year releases.

According to the report from the Sources, the new iPhone will incorporate an aluminum back panel, which is alike to that of the iPad 2, more willingly than the glass found on the present iPhone models, the iPhone 4 and 4S.

The revamped design is as well alleged to see the usage of a rubber or probably plastic bezel covering similar to that on Apple’s iPhone bumper covers, with it serving as protection for the device’s antennas, and as opposed to the Company having to place a plastic strip on the back of the iPhone as it does with the iPad and iPod Touch on wireless antennas.
Earlier reports have suggested that the Company’s next-generation iPhone will utilize an aluminum case similar to the one found on the iPad 2, in addition to a potentially larger display.

Well, of course this isn’t the first mention of Apple considering a metal back for a future iPhone. Numerous anonymous sources reported in March that Apple was cooking up a model with a flat metal back. Later, in August, at the same time as saying that the next iPhone would feature a smaller than 4-inch panel, and recently we had the report stating that the back of the device would be changed to a metal chassis instead of reinforced glass.

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Well, the latest reports from Chinese newspaper note that Apple’s Chinese manufacturing partner Foxconn plans to expand the size of its iPhone-producing Zhengzhou plant, with $1.1 billion construction, projected to make it as the largest smartphone-producing facility in the world.

On Monday, it has been reported that Chinese manufacturer and Apple partner Foxconn, plans to double the size of its smartphone plant at Foxconn Science Park in Zhengzhou that presently produces over 200,000 iPhones per a day.

According to the reports from the Sources, Foxconn’s plans call for a $1.1 billion toting up to the facility situated in Central China’s Henan province, with enhanced revenue from the huge expansion anticipated to bring in $20 billion in sales revenue in 2012.

Apple’s key iPhone manufacturer will increase the number of production lines to 95 and add to its over 1 million mainland China employees, where in 130,000 of employees work at the Zhengzhou facility. Presently, Foxconn employs a total of 1.2 million people and supplies electronics to a number of international companies.

In Brazil, the Taiwan-based company as well operates a production facility that produces certain iPhone models, and is presently trying to sort out local legal issues as a result it can complete a $12 billion investment to build an iPad manufacturing plant in the region.

On the other hand, recent gossips have noted that Foxconn will start producing the next-generation iPad 3 in January 2012, and is likely to be equipped with a display with similar pixel density to iPhone 4 and 4S Retina Displays.

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Here we go with the leaked press images and details regarding Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone. Galaxy S III is the next generation Samsung line of Galaxy S smartphone which has been reported to be appeared on Samsung’s official page on a Russian social network by the name of Vkontakte.

According to the reports from the Sources familiar with the matter claims that Galaxy S III may be the  first smartphone to be dual-booting Android and Bada Operating System right out of the box. Further this smartphone is known as Samsung GT-I9500 Universal, and its details are rather unbelieving.

On the other hand, the renderings in fact emerge quite crisp and surely in line with what we have seen from Samsung recently, in particular with the Galaxy Note and the Galaxy Players, the magic inside could be too far-fetched to be practical. Featuring a 5-inch HD Super AMOLED with 1280 x 720 pixel resolution display, with  9mm thick body and a 12 megapixel shooter on the back with both LED flash AND Xenon flash. Strange stuff to be sure!

Furthermore, the device features a 2 megapixel front-facing camera, with 32 or 64 GB internal memory, a microSDXC slot, and it is alleged to land as a stylus like the Galaxy Note, armed with a powerful quad-core Samsung Exynos 4412 1.5GHz processor, working with TouchWiz 5.0 software.

It is stated that the smartphone runs on both Android and Bada Operating System, which is really too strange to be realistic, and how this works is in fact outside of everyone’s understanding. Ultimately, buttons at the bottom of the display running against suggested for Ice Cream Sandwich, know that Android 4.0 does have the capacity to simply run with these buttons yet in-tact.

We will either find this smartphone to be real fairly soon or the name Galaxy S III wont pop up again until early 2012. What do you say?

Intuit has unveiled to its clientele that it plans to release a re-engineered version of Quicken for Mac 2007, which will be compatible with Apple’s latest OS X Lion operating system. The latest version will be known as Lion Compatible Quicken for Mac 2007.

The General Manager of the Intuit Personal Finance Group, Aaron Forth has noted to its clientele that, acknowledging the company has not always delivered on its assure to deliver the best products to Mac clientele. Especially, he was taking regarding the fact that Quicken for Mac 2007 does not have compatibility with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.

As you are aware, Quicken ran well with Rosetta, although sadly the Company removed it as an option from OS X Lion, as a result Quicken 2006 ad 2007 has also been prevented from running. Though, Intuit has released Quicken Essentials that will run in Lion, the program lacks a number of features that were present in older versions, because of this finding, number of people has prevented from upgrading to Lion.

On the other hand, there were gossips that Intuit was planning into getting Quicken 2007 running on Lion, and in a surprise move the company stated that it will offer an update to Quicken 2007 for Macintosh compatible with Mac OS X Lion, in an e-mail statement to its customers and a new FAQ on its Web site.

Right now, Intuit is promising that Quicken 2007 will be coming to OS X Lion, and that it will be available by early spring. Quicken 2007 should be able to run in Lion and let people with years of Quicken records to carry on their finances in Apple’s latest OS.

Intuit has steered Mac clientele to a reduced version of Quicken called Quicken Essentials for Mac and costing $49.95.

Steve Jobs the late Apple co-founder has been honored with Grammy Award for his significant contributions to music. The recording Academy has announced the recipients of its Special Merit Awards 2012.

The former CEO of Apple has been named as the recipient of a Trustees Awards 2012 for ‘Outstanding Contributions to the industry in a nonperforming capacity’. The Trustees Award category has been designed to recognize the individuals, who have made their ‘significant contributions to music in areas other than performance’. Steve deserves the award, as he is the one who had contributed significantly to the music.

The Recording Academy said that, Steve Jobs the former co-founder and CEO of Apple has helped in creating the products and technology, which has transformed the way of consuming music, TV, movies and books. The innovations of Jobs are creative visionary which include iPod and its counterpart the online iTunes store. He also created revolution in the industry and the distribution and purchase of music.

The Apple Computer Inc has received the Technical Grammy Award in the year 2002, in recognition of the outstanding technical significance to the recording field. The company is still the leader, with its new technology and in-demand products like iPad and iPhone. Among the recipients of Grammy Awards, Steve Jobs was the one of them along with Brazilian composer and arranger Antonio Carlos Jobim, soul performer Gil Scott- Heron and Roger Nichols an audio engineer, who will be honored posthumously. The Grammy Awards will be held at the ceremony of 54^th Annual Grammy Awards on Saturday, February 11, 2012 and would be telecast the next day.

Well, Sony has recently released its PlayStation Vita handheld gaming console in Japan on this Saturday. And here we go with the interesting news, which states that Sony had sold 3, 21,400 PlayStation Vita in the first 2 days.

Quite fascinatingly, the figure (3, 21,400) confirms that the Company is sitting pretty on their terrain in the country. On the other hand, in February Nintendo 3DS has sold 50000 units more than the PlayStation Vita in the first 2 days.

According to the statistics reports from research firm Enterbrain, although the figures in early days are promising, Sony thinks that they should live up to the anticipation of clientele to maintain the rivalry posed by the competitors.

In the initial days, Nintendo has grabbed a huge success, but in later stages has faced problems starting to show up. There were not many compelling games on that device, and sadly the company was forced to reduce the price tag for the 3DS soon after.

Of course, the Nintendo 3DS is a perfect opponent for the Sony PlayStation Vita. However, both the Companies have common opponents in the electronics market of smartphones and tablets. On the other hand, a lot of cheaper or even free apps and games are available on such devices. These factors might discourage people from buying a gaming device like Play Station Vita.

According to the recent reports from Flurry Analytics, both Sony and Nintendo are predicated to grab only 42 percent of the revenue in gaming market as against 82 percent 2 years back.

Sony is likely to release the device in Europe and US in February 2012, selling the Wi-Fi version Vita at a price tag of $250 and 3G enabled Vita models for $300 price.

Intel, the Chip maker has unveiled that its latest Medfield smartphone and tablet reference designs, the path-laying hardware Intel expects will influence manufacturers to adopt its x86 mobile chip instead of hanging with ARM.

The Phone running Gingerbread OS and the Tablet running Ice Cream Sandwich OS were demonstrated to MIT’s Technology Review, although just a render of the devices has been released. Yet, the chip maker’s impressions from Intel’s initial SoC (System-on-Chip) seem positive.

According to the official reports, Medfield grabs all of the core processing tasks onto a single chip. This so-called SoC design impersonates the design strategy of ARM licensees like Qualcomm and NVIDIA that have been far more successful in grabbing their silicon in mobile devices, which Intel has managed. The Company states that the benefit of a SoC design is battery frugality.

The precise nature of the power enhancements are yet to be seen, although there seems to be no issue with performance. software and hardware combination tweaks in fact sees both tablet and smartphone do well with common mobility tasks, like multimedia recording and playback.

Intel architecture VP Stephen Smith says that he phone was powerful and pleasing to use, on a par with the most recent iPhone and Android handsets. It possibly will play Blu-Ray-quality video and stream it to a TV if desired; Web browsing was smooth and fast. Further he says that Intel has built circuits into the Medfield chip especially to speed up Android apps and Web browsing.

According to Intel’s own tests, Medfield provides better graphics performance, faster browsing, and lower power consumption than the top three phones on sale nowadays. Smith expect products based on these to be unveiled in the first half of 2012 and he confirms by claiming that now we have [Medfield] in place, we can accelerate.

Here we go with good news, from Amazon which has unveiled a new deal, where in the retailer is currently selling the HTC Rezound smartphone at a price tag of $149.99 on contract.

Well, HTC Rezound is an Android Gingerbread smartphone which has strike the market in November, landed on Verizon Wireless at a price tag of 299.99. Quite fascinatingly, the new discount from Amazon will offer the smartphone at half the price of Verizon offer.

According to the official reports, both new and upgrading clientele can buy the discounted HTC Rezound from Amazon, further the online retailer promises free shipping within 2 days from the day of placing your orders, between 3PM ET (Monday-Friday).

Just a quick reminder, regarding the features of 4G LTE enabled handset Rezound, which features a 4.3-inch HD screen with 1280 x 720 resolutions, 8-megapixel rear camera with dual-LED flash and 1080p video recording and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera for video chatting, and is armed with a 1620 mAh lithium-ion battery.

HTC Rezound weights 6 ounce that comes in 5.08 x 2.58 x 0.54 inch dimensions and is powered by 1.5 GHz dual-core processor, 1GB RAM, with 16GB built-in memory and 16GB pre-loaded micro SD card, connectivity’s like Bluetooth 3.0, Wi-Fi b/g/n, Mobile Hotspot, GPS, USB 2.0, HDMI, equipped with the Beats Audio technology, a latest light-weight Beats headphone is as well added in the handset.

Furthermore the HTC and Verizon both have promised to deliver the Android Ice Cream Sandwich update on the Rezound handsets in 2012. Unfortunately, Amazon did not unveil the closing date of the offer, but we guess the counter will be shut when the stock is finished.

Stay tuned to know more updates on Amazon’s offer on HTC Rezound smartphone!