Apple phones

Industry analyst Gartner has announced in a report that in the first quarter of 2012, Android smartphones held a 56% market share, easily beating the 22.9% held by the Apple iPhone. The data from Gartner also showed that Samsung were by far the most popular manufacturer of Android devices, generating nearly 44% of that market share. Other manufacturers of Android devices, including HTC and Motorola, were all at less than 10%. Combined figures showed that one in every two smartphone sales was either a Samsung device or the iPhone. Competition is tough in the smartphone market, and right now it is RIM, the...

Apple has released a small update to iOS, bringing the most current version of the firmware up to 5.1.1. The small update delivers fixes for HDR photography and general OS bug fixes. One of the previous updates to iOS set shortcuts to activate the camera from the standby screen. Whilst this has generally worked well, some people experienced issues when using HDR settings for pictures. This OS update has made that less of an issue, making it more stable and reliable. The New iPad bug of not switching correctly between 2G and 3G networks has been fixed, as well as bugs affecting...

Figures from the US show that downloads from the Apple App store fell by almost 30 percent in March, down from 6.35 million per day in February, to 4.45 million. The reason for such a sharp decline is unclear, although Fiksu, the company behind the stats, suggest that the fact that people are getting bored with their shiny new iPhone 4S Christmas present may be a cause. The figures are gathered together using average download data from the volume of the top 200 free apps in the U.S., along with new app launches, in app purchases and user registrations. Fiksu state that...