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WWDC 2012 is getting closer and closer and rumor mills are churning at full capacity, spewing rumors about things like iOS 6, Mountain Lion, and the MacBook Pro. The MacBook Pro is approaching it’s End-Of-Life date, or the day that Apple will stop selling the current version. On average, the MacBook Pro gets updated every 267 days, and we’re currently…
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For fashionistas looking to support their country with panache during the upcoming Olympic Games, international contemporary design store The Conran Shop has launched a collection of flag scarves available in the Stars and Stripes, Union Jack, French Tricolor and the Japanese Hinomaru.
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The Kindle Fire from Amazon has stolen a march in the tablet world, with some estimating that it now makes up more than half of all Android tablets in use in the U.S. today. But the latest monthly figures from mobile ad network JumpTap today paint a different picture in terms of usage.
JumpTap noted that in the months after its launch, Amazon’s device rapidly picked up market share, reaching 33 percent of all traffic on its network in January 2012. But since then, the figure has gradually been in decline and is now at 22 percent. Meanwhile, Apple’s iPad — which had lost share to the Kindle Fire — is now back to 65 percent, or where it was before Amazon launched its tablet.
JumpTap, which bases its numbers on ad impressions on its network, noted that the Fire tablet came its closest to the iPad’s traffic share in January, when the iPad’s share of traffic had declind down to 48 percent.
Meanwhile, the rest of the tablet market seems to be stalling out: collectively, the others currently account for 14 percent of all traffic on JumpTap’s network, the same proportion they had for the past three months.
In fact, the rest of the tablet market, excepting the iPad, seems to have been hit the worst by the rise of the Kindle Fire: together, they made up 31 percent of all traffic on JumpTap’s network back in November 2011 — in other words, their share has more than halved.
So why the decline for the Kindle Fire, and the growth for the iPad? JumpTap attributes it to strong sales of the newest iPad. But it could also be that while the Kindle saw a big boost in purchases after its launch and during the holiday period, it could be that some of the novelty of the product has worn off and people are now using it less.
However, important to note that JumpTap says that even as the Kindle’s share of traffic has declined, in real terms usage has actually increased three-fold over Q4 2011 as a result of the overall growth in tablet usage. It doesn’t give comparative traffic numbers for other devices.
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Samsung has just officially unveiled the long-awaited Galaxy S III at their event in London, and instead of boring you by telling you how momentous a moment this is for the company, I’m just going to jump right into the nitty-gritty.
The Ice Cream Sandwich-powered Galaxy S III features a sizable 4.8-inch 720p Super AMOLED display along with a 1.9-megapixel front-facing camera mounted right above it.
Inside its slim 8.6mm thick frame is the recently-revealed 1.4 GHz Exynos 4 Quad chipset, 1GB of RAM, 16 or 32GB of storage, and radios for Bluetooth 4.0, WiFi, and NFC connectivity. Around the back of the device is an 8-megapixel camera pod (sorry, no crazy Nokia-esque hijinks here). In typical Samsung fashion, the device’s frame is clad entirely in lightweight plastic, there seems to have been much more though put into the device’s design.
That’s not to say that something like the Galaxy S II was bad, but it definitely erred on the more industrial side of the design spectrum. The Galaxy S III takes many of its design cues from nature (Samsung Mobile head J.K. Shin says it was inspired by “pebbles and leaves”), and the smooth lines and curves are certainly a welcome change of pace (at least in my book) from the squared-off angles and textured back seen in its predecessor(s).
As far as its hardware goes, it seems to be the sort of incremental upgrade that people have been foretelling for weeks now, but that’s really only half of the equation here.
It will launch in 145 countries in partnership with 296 wireless carriers, with the 3G HSPA+ version set to launch in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East in May, while a 4G model will make its debut in the United States, Japan, and Korea later this summer.
Developing…
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