Here strikes the latest reports regarding the global smartphones and PC sales, where in quite fascinatingly, for the very first time ever Quarterly smartphone sales surpassed PC sales in the Q4 2011 shipments.

According to the reports by Mobile market research firm Canalys the global smartphone shipments have surpassed that of PCs. Vendors shipped 488 million smartphones in 2011 compared to 415 million PCs.

During the Q4 last year, vendors shipped 158.5 million smartphones that is a 57 percent boost from the 101.2 million units sold in Q4 2010. In Q4 Vendors shipped 120.2 million PCs but that number includes tablet PCs and if you take out tablets from the mix, only 93.7 million personal computers were shipped.

Apple has grabbed the top place in the global smartphone shipments that has shipped a record of 93.1 million iPhones in 2011 most of the profits from the smartphone boom, while Samsung grabs the second place with 91.9 million and Nokia the third place with 19.6 million followed by RIM, although the BlackBerry maker’s shipment numbers were not revealed.

On the other hand, the big loser is Microsoft where in unfortunately Windows Phone is dead last in market share, with 1.6 percent global market share.

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AT&T has once again ranks top in its customer service satisfaction by defeating all its rivals and grabs the highest percentage of customer satisfaction among the four major US wireless carriers. Well, this is AT&T’s second consecutive quarter for ranking high in the customer service, according to the National Customer Service Survey (NCSS) by Vocalabs.

Vocalabs has conducted the survey, where in involved telephone interviews immediately following a customer service call during the last three-month period in 2011 and the report reveals that in the Q4 of 2011, 69 percent of AT&T clientele surveyed were Very Satisfied with their customer service calls.

On the other hand, AT&T customers as well reported the highest level of satisfaction with the AT&T’s customer service representatives and the automated part of the customer service call.

The survey further reveals that Verizon satisfaction rate of 60 percent was unchanged when compared to 2010, while Sprint won’t be happy with its numbers, as it saw the number of very satisfied customers dropping from 71 percent in 2010 to just 59 percent during Q4 2011. Where as for T-Mobile USA, the carrier’s very satisfied mark decrease from 65 percent (in 2010) to 48 percent last quarter.

CEO of Vocalabs, Peter Leppik states that offering a consistently high-quality customer service experience needs continuing commitment and focus throughout an organization. When companies get unfocused, or focus on merely one part of their customer experience or product portfolio, the overall customer experience can suffer.

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Nokia the Finnish Multinational Communications Corporation has unveiled its fourth quarter 2011 financial results and the good news is Windows Phone sales, which Nokia claims that over 1 million Lumia devices to date has been sold and yet strong demand for the Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 smartphones were not adequate to turn Nokia’s ailing earnings.

According to the official reports, in the fourth quarter 2011 the Finnish Multinational company has recorded a €954 million ($1.25bn) profit loss, counting the final 2011 count to a €1.073 billion ($1.4bn) loss, down 43-percent year-on-year.

Furthermore, the total sales of devices were decreased by 29-percent year-on-year, with smart smartphone shipments decreased to 19.6m units from 28.6m a year ago. On the other hand, Gross margin on smartphones as well dived from 28.7-percent to 19.9-percent, despite the fact that the Finnish company did at least restrain its smartphone expenses by over €150 million.

Sadly, on the side Symbian devices are facing issues of their own, with the rising markets that have earlier flocked to Nokia’s cheaper handsets currently looking somewhere else.

CEO of Nokia, Stephen Elop stated that the changing market circumstances are putting augmented pressure on Symbian, noting that in certain markets, there has been an acceleration of the projected trend towards lower-price tagged smartphones with specifications that are dissimilar from Symbian’s traditional strengths.

This indicates that Symbian demand will fade faster than Nokia initially expected, and the Nokia isn’t making any 2012 prophecy because of the unsteadiness of the market place. On the other hand, Nokia’s Lumia 900 smartphone is expected to land on AT&T in the US on March 18 at a price tag of $99.99 with new contract details, to face the challenge in the smartphone market.

Good news for the gaming lovers, as Zynga has now confirmed the purchased of 4 smaller mobile gaming companies, as the game maker strives to ramps up its foothold in the mobile space.

Zynga is one of the largest developers of Facebook gaming and as you are aware, Zynga games are provided on smartphones and on social networking sites. On Facebook Zynga was behind the crazy popular Farmville game.

Unfortunately, the information regarding the financial agreement to acquire the 4 smaller mobile games have not been disclosed by the two companies.

According to the official reports, the buys integrated Gamedoctors from Germany, where in Zynga makes a game known as ZombieSmash and was purchased in December. Another company acquired is Page44 Studios from San Francisco that made an iOS game known as World of Goo, this buy was made in September.

In August, HipLogic & Astro Ape Studios were purchased where in HipLogic is the third purchase that is based on San Francisco, while Astro Ape Studios in New York. The move is to support the smartphone gaming side of things. Zynga is famous in Facebook gaming despite the fact that it doesn’t have the similar notoriety and benefits in the mobile gaming monarchy.

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Here strikes the latest reports from the Insiders who note that Apple, the tech giant has allegedly rejected Sharp from its iPad 3 display supply chain, as the company’s panels for the third-generation iOS tablet merely weren’t up to scratch.

According to the reports, LG and Samsung Display have grabbed the major roles in supplying the Cupertino California Company with what are projected to be high-resolution 2048 x 1536 screens for its forthcoming tablet, after Sharp failed to gain approval from Apple for mass production.

Last year, in November the rumors regarding sharp’s involvement in iPad 3 components was initially raised, subsequent reports earlier in 2011 that asserted that the Cupertino California giant was considering a $1billionn investment in a Sharp display plant. Well, the status of that likely investment is unknown, nevertheless, though Sharp persists to supply panels for Apple’s iPhone.

At least, the iPhone partnership is predictable to carry on, with reports that Apple will use the company’s displays for the sixth-generation iPhone that are likely to debut later this year. Such panels are alleged to use low-temperature poly-silicon technology for its lower power consumption and the truth that it allows thinner, lighter screens.

While Apple has been vulnerable by stock shortages with both its iPad and iPad 2, the company as well has a high standard of screen quality it insists on.

That standard has showed the way to issues in the past; with LG Display apparently stumble upon production concerns that forced the Cupertino Giant to temporarily stop its orders with the company, afterward alleged to be liable at least in part for a scarcity of units in the marketplace.

Here we go with the latest update from the Japanese Multinational Conglomerate, Sony that has recently unveiled its plans to roll out an iOS version of its Music Unlimited app that has until now been accessible to PCs, Android, and other connected devices like Sony’s PSP, PS3, and BRAVIA TVs.

Tim Schaaff, the President of Sony Entertainment says that being a Sony customer does not necessarily signify every device you own will come from Sony. Further he says that the Music Unlimited iOS app will have all the similar features as the Android version and that there are no plans currently to make certain features exclusive to any particular platform, while he entertained the idea of device-exclusive features in the upcoming.

The Music Unlimited iOS app will at first is compatible for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod, although Sony intends to launch an iPad-optimized version afterward.

At present, Music Unlimited offers approximately 15 million songs on demand without frustrating ads. On the other hand, it’s as well merely available through paid subscription with two service plans.

Well, the Basic service plans at a price tag of $3.99 per month and Premium service plan at a price tag of $9.99 per month. The Premium subscribers who are using the Music Unlimited iOS app can enjoy offline caching of up to 5GB or 5GB of music therefore you can carry on to listen the music even when your device is not connected.

Unfortunately, at the moment Sony has not unveiled any precise details of the launch date. However, it is stated by the people with the matter that the iOS app will be launched in this quarter.

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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.

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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Apple, the giant has reportedly purchased Anobit, the Israeli flash memory specialist in at price tag for $400 million to $500 million contract for the NAND company’s proprietary performance technology.

According to the reports from the Sources, Anobit, the fabless semiconductor company already counts Apple among its clients, using embedded flash controllers in devices like the iPad, iPhone, and MacBook Air.

Well, the purchase would most probably give the Cupertino company greater control over high-performance solid-state memory, since Apple is expected to shift to in its MacBook Pro range over the next couple of years. On the other hand, this would mark Apple’s first acquisition in Israel, and furthermore a rare occasion as the Cupertino California Company does not usually purchase non-software companies.

Anobit is special for its Memory Signal Processing (MSP) technology; this provides flash storage solutions for enterprise and mobile markets. Its solutions are designed to improve longevity, speed, endurance and performance of flash storage systems, and also for overall system cost.

Memory Signal Processing technology is integrated in both Anobit’s MSP20xx embedded flash controllers for phones and tablets that support up to 256GB of flash each and a line of Genesis enterprise SSDs. Anobit’s technology is as well alleged to be in the Hynix flash modules supplied for the iPhone 4S, and the Israeli flash memory company has recently secured a $76m investment round from companies including Intel Capital.

The Company claims that Anobit’s technology (MSP) includes signal processing algorithms that compensate for physical limitations of NAND flash. Sadly, neither Anobit nor the Giant (Apple) have commented publicly on the acquisition deals.

Verizon has released its new hot spot device MiFi 4510L4G LTE. The 4G LTE MiFi device has shown at the Consumer Electronics Show in the last January, 2011.

Verizon MiFi 4G LTE hotspot device will support intuitive E-Ink display shows signal strength, battery level, roaming and number of connected devices. Verizon MiFi is having the ability to download speeds upto 5 to 12 Mbps and upload speeds up to 2 to 5 Mbps. MiFi offers a battery life upto five long hours. MiFi can create a personal Wi-Fi cloud ability of providing high internet speed data transfer with the ability to manage upto five Wi-Fi devices at the same time. MiFi 4G LTE is the one of the fastest hotspot device for this generation with high speed downloading data files. It is also useful for the family and meeting the wireless connectivity for small business.

Verizon is providing data plans for the MiFi 4G LTE hotspot device for $50 per month for a data usage of 5 GB. Verizon is offering this wireless MiFi 4G LTE hot spot device for a price tag of $99 for a two year contract. The hot spot device will be available at the Verizon stores on 21st April, 2011.