rkt.india Posted July 20, 2012 Posted July 20, 2012 Finally, some good news for Nokia: Lumias outshipped iPhone, Samsung Android phones through first three quarters Nokia (NOK) has hit a bit of a rough patch lately, having just reported its third consecutive billion-dollar quarterly loss earlier this week. Of course, investors saw some promise in NokiaÃÔ earnings report, and it turns out there may be even more cause for optimism than they initially thought. According to market research firm Strategy Analytics, NokiaÃÔ Windows Phone efforts are off to a better start than AppleÃÔ (AAPL) iPhone or SamsungÃÔ (005930KS) Android smartphones at this point in their respective product cycles. We estimate Nokia shipped 6.9 million Lumia smartphones with the Microsoft (MSFT) Windows Phone operating system cumulatively worldwide during the first three quarters after commercial launch, from Q4 2011 to Q2 2012, Neil Shah, a senior analyst at Strategy Analytics, said in a statement. ǵhis compares with 3.7 million units of the Apple iPhone family in its first three quarters during 2007, and 1.3 million units for the Samsung Android family in its first three quarters during 2009. It is an encouraging start for Nokia and Microsoft. ShahÃÔ colleague Neil Mawtson added, Å£ased on historical shipment benchmarks, NokiaÃÔ new Lumia portfolio is performing reasonably well. Some of the pessimism surrounding Nokia and MicrosoftÃÔ emerging partnership so far may be misplaced. However, Nokia and Microsoft are clearly not out of the woods yet. With a new Apple iPhone 5 expected on the horizon, and SamsungÃÔ Galaxy S3 selling in huge quantities, Nokia will need to pull something impressive out of the bag for the next-generation Windows Phone 8 launch later this year to sustain its tentative early momentum. Of course, thereÃÔ one important caveat to Strategy AnalyticsÃÔ report: When AppleÃÔ iPhone and SamsungÃÔ Android smartphones launched, the smartphone market paled in comparison to todayÃÔ market. Comparing smartphone shipments in 2012 to smartphone shipments in 2007 or 2009 is like comparing modern-day salaries to salaries in the 1960s without accounting for inflation. http://www.bgr.com/2012/07/20/nokia-lumia-sales-q2-2012-vs-iphone-samsung/
Guest Posted July 21, 2012 Posted July 21, 2012 why people buying these phones when MS clearly told they are not going to upgrade them to Windows 8. :dontknow:
Desi Cartman Posted July 21, 2012 Posted July 21, 2012 I haven't read all the posts but I have never understood why people using android feel so proud. It's an OS, if u like it then use it but why so proud
Crookbond Posted July 21, 2012 Posted July 21, 2012 why people buying these phones when MS clearly told they are not going to upgrade them to Windows 8. :dontknow: 50% price cut in the US. Lumia available at 50 USD on a 2-year contract. Notice how it says out-shipped in numbers not money.
Rajiv Posted July 21, 2012 Posted July 21, 2012 Appstore not yet fully yet functional India....they have yet to strike deal i guess North Americas first Samsung Store, opened in Vancouver sDLJkHDtV1c
Sachin=GOD Posted July 22, 2012 Posted July 22, 2012 I haven't read all the posts but I have never understood why people using android feel so proud. It's an OS' date= if u like it then use it but why so proud I guess they are trying to copy the Apple fanboys.
Crookbond Posted July 22, 2012 Posted July 22, 2012 I guess they are trying to copy the Apple fanboys. :acute:
rkt.india Posted July 23, 2012 Posted July 23, 2012 Research In Motion' date=' Rest In Peace.[/quote'] Loose motion..
Rajiv Posted July 23, 2012 Posted July 23, 2012 Actually, I wouldn't write off BB so fast..I see many folks waiting for the BB 10 release
Rajiv Posted July 24, 2012 Posted July 24, 2012 Some apple news for the iphone5 AppleÃÔ iPhone 5 to feature smaller dock connector, wonÃÕ fit old accessories
Rajiv Posted July 24, 2012 Posted July 24, 2012 Apple ordered to run ‘Samsung did not copy iPad’ ads http://www.thestar.com/business/sciencetech/article/1228627--apple-ordered-to-run-samsung-did-not-copy-ipad-ads
rkt.india Posted July 25, 2012 Posted July 25, 2012 We love India, just not enough: Apple CEO Tim Cook India may have its fair share of Apple fans, but Apple is clearly no big fan of India. Yesterday Apple announced its Q3 results for the year 2012 which was a rare miss for the Cupertino-based tech giant as the revenues fell short of Wall Street expectations. Apple did post a 23 percent jump in revenue from the same quarter the previous year to $35 billion, but that was about $2 billion below Wall StreetÃÔ average forecast. CEO Tim Cook blamed the European recession for the flat revenues. For those who were hoping that India would figure somewhere on AppleÃÔ agenda prepare to remain disappointed. TechCrunch reports, that CEO Tim Cook told investors in a conference call, Ū love India but I believe that Apple has higher potential ©Ên some other countries. That doesnÃÕ mean weÃÓe not interested in India we are. WeÃÓe going to continue putting some energies there, but in the intermediate term there will be larger opportunities elsewhere. Forget the Apple store for now. Just recently Apple launched the iTunes in various Asian countries such as Thailand, Philippines, Sri-Lanka etc. Sadly, India was not on the list where the iTunes store was rolled out. It seems that Tim Cook is carrying on the legacy of Steve Jobs who felt that the cost of running operations in India was much too high and inefficient. Sales in China, which have been a growth engine for the company, also declined compared to the previous quarter. The big surprise however was not that India and China didnÃÕ grow for Apple, but the growth in Latin America which saw a tripling in sales. http://www.firstpost.com/tech/we-love-india-just-not-enough-apple-ceo-tim-cook-390095.html
diga Posted July 25, 2012 Posted July 25, 2012 Steve Jobs & India If first impressions are very difficult to dislodge, Steve Jobs studied avoidance of India for most of his working life can probably be traced to his first tryst with the country in the mid-1970s. That was before he had even thought of launching Apple, creator of the iconic MacIntosh computers. Jobs, then 18-and-odd years old, came to India with a hippie mindset along with a friend, Dan Kottke, after dropping out of Reed College in Portland, Oregon. What brought him to India? Was it a karmic connection? We know very little about that, except that after he dropped out of college he earned his keep by returning Coke bottles and sought a weekly free meal at a local Hare Krishna Temple. Said Jobs: Ū didnÃÕ have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends rooms, I returned Coke bottles for the 5-cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. Steve Jobs One canÃÕ say for sure, but those free meals were probably what got him and friend Kottke, who was later to become AppleÃÔ first employee, to backpack in India in search of enlightenment. But whether he found what he wanted or not is not clear. He did find something in Buddhism, for he shaved his head and wore loose-fitting Indian clothing often and experimented with psychedelic substances. But the one guru he came to meet Neem Karori Baba, a Hanuman devotee who had some American followers in the 1970s died before Jobs and Kottke made it to his ashram. Clearly, Jobs peregrinations in the India of the 1970s were less than enlightening. He was probably psyched by the extent of poverty and chaos he found here. His biography says he found India ÅÊntense and disturbing, and his search for enlightenment ended abruptly. After his India trip, he concluded: Ÿe werenÃÕ going to find a place where we could go for a month to be enlightened. It was one of the first times that I started to realise that maybe Thomas Edison did a lot more to improve the world than Karl Marx and Neem Kairolie Baba put together. That statement tells a lot about who Jobs really was and why his Indian connection never really happened beyond a broad interest in Buddhism. If Jobs believed that what you do helps others more than all the giving philosophies of the world (as the reference to Edison exemplifies), he well and truly lived the life that only he could live. Back in America, he created the company he wanted to create, and the product he was passionate about. That was his true enlightenment. But Apple in its first avatar was a niche player, and he was duly chucked out of the company he founded in 1985 when its fortunes plummeted and he was ousted in a power struggle with CEO John Sculley. He returned to Apple only in 1996, when the company bought Jobs next company called NeXT. A year later he became the boss again. The rest, as they say, is recent history. It was probably in his second coming at Apple that Jobs truly achieved all that he wanted to by following his own heart on the products he wanted to create the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. But India was a country he had fallen out of love with a long while ago and he never seriously considered it worth his notice. At one point in the mid-2000s, when the whole world was raising a toast to India, and when every IT company worth the name from Bill Gates Microsoft to IBM, Oracle, Dell and Accenture was making a beeline to our shores, Jobs appears to have briefly convinced himself that maybe (just maybe) he ought to give it a try. But his heart was clearly not in it. In early 2006, the talk was that Jobs would set up a 3,000-worker Mac support centre in Bangalore and had even hired around 30 people to ramp up the organisation. The media then began speculating that Jobs might do a Gates and come on an Indian tech pilgrimage. It never happened. Officially, it seemed Jobs didnÃÕ like the quality or the costs of an Indian operation. This is how BusinessWeek reported it at that time: Å©e (Jobs) is©Â tough-minded executive who knows when to cut and run Just three months back©Õhere was talk of the company hiring 3,000 workers by 2007 to handle support for Macintosh computers and other Apple gear. Many in India even speculated that Jobs might travel there this year to publicise AppleÃÔ commitment to the country. It wasnÃÕ meant to be. In late May, Apple dismissed most of the 30 new hires at its subsidiary in Bangalore. Quoting sources, BusinessWeek speculated that Jobs wasnÃÕ happy about the costs. Ūndia isnÃÕ as inexpensive as it used to be, the magazine quoted the source as saying. ŵhe turnover is high, and the competition for good people is strong. Apple felt it could ÅÅo (such work) more efficiently elsewhere. Jobs, clearly, carried his late teens India baggage with him all his life. This is why even when he launched his world-beating products, India was nowhere in his strategic thinking. He treated India almost like a pariah market and he ended up pricing his products higher in India than elsewhere. The iPod, the iPhone and the iPad, therefore, sell almost nothing in India compared to what the Nokias and Blackberries do. As Bloomberg reported recently: ŵhe cheapest iPhone 4 costs $705 at RelianceÃÔ iStore, while the cheapest iPad 2 sells for about $603. In AppleÃÔ US online store, the iPhone 4 starts at $199 with an AT&T contract and the iPad starts at $499. Little wonder, Bloomberg concludes that Apple is barely a player in the Indian market. While Nokia and Blackberry are being thrashed in the developed world markets, their Indian operations are flourishing thanks partly to AppleÃÔ unwillingness to give them a run for their money. India was probably Steve Jobs blind spot, but one canÃÕ fault him for that. And unlike many of his fellow millionaires, he did not believe in making a show of charity. Jobs believed in living life as he thought fit, and he got his kicks from developing ÅØow products that he was passionate about. In his 2005 commencement speech at Stanford, Jobs advised students to follow their hearts since we all have only one life and it is short. He said: źour time is limited, so donÃÕ waste it living someone elseÃÔ life. DonÃÕ be trapped by dogma which is living with the results of other peopleÃÔ thinking. DonÃÕ let the noise of others opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Guest Posted July 26, 2012 Posted July 26, 2012 ^ if true above comments show how reliable Apple is....i dont think there will be any other company which prove time and again for delivering high quality products :hatsoff:
Crookbond Posted July 26, 2012 Posted July 26, 2012 A typical Apple customer: If I show you a drunkard who keeps falling at every 2 steps and uses MS products, should I say a typical MS customer who crashes all the time? Your point is well taken but not the generalisation you seem to purport.
rkt.india Posted July 29, 2012 Posted July 29, 2012 New purported next-generation iPhone parts photos show fully assembled device http://9to5mac.com/2012/07/29/new-purported-next-generation-iphone-part-photos-show-fully-assembled-device/
rkt.india Posted August 5, 2012 Posted August 5, 2012 OPPO Finder X907@chinatronic com What an android mobile..must be the thinnest high end Android phone. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ20zpWp1VM]OPPO Finder X907@chinatronic com - YouTube[/ame] http://www.chinatronic.com/products.php/OPPO-X907/cPath,1_79
rkt.india Posted August 16, 2012 Posted August 16, 2012 New Xiaomi Mi-Two handset is first ever with quad-core Krait Hold on to your hats folks, Xiaomi just announced the Xiaomi Mi-Two - the first ever handset to use the Qualcomm Snapdragon APQ8064 S4 Pro chipset, which blew current mobile chipsets out of the water in early benchmarks. It's nothing like the early leak we saw. There's also an upgrade of their previous model, but we'll get to that in a moment. The Xiaomi Mi-Two is going to be the fastest smartphone on the market when it launches in October. We've seen dual-core Krait CPUs stand up to quad-core Cortex-A9 designs (Tegra 3, Exynos 4), but the APQ8064 chipset has four Krait cores, 2GB of RAM and Adreno 320 (over the Adreno 225 of current Snapdragon S4s). Xiaomi promises Xbox 360-like graphics performance and that might not just be PR talk. The screen on the Mi-Two will be a 4.3" IPS LCD with 720p resolution (342ppi), there will be an 8MP camera on the back (F/2.0 aperture, 26mm FoV), MHL-enabled USB, HSPA+ capable of 42Mbps downlink, 16GB of built-in storage and microSD card slot. The standard battery is 2000mAh and there's an optional 3000mAh battery. The Xiaomi Mi-Two measures 126mm x 62mm x 10.2mm. The phone will be priced RMB 1,999 ($315, €225), making the Xiaomi Mi-Two one of the cheapest quad-core (and even dual-core) smartphones out there. Now it's time to come back down to earth - we've avoided calling it an Android phone, because Xiaomi uses their heavily customized MIUI software, which is Android in an iOS mold. Still, the software is based on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. The launcher features its own voice recognition, which is weird considering how good Google Now is. The second phone that Xiaomi announced today is the Xiaomi 1S, an update of the Mi-One. It will use a speedier 1.7GHz dual-core processor (Snapdragon S3 chipset), while the rest of the specs are the same as on its predecessor. This one will be priced RMB 1,499 ($235, €190) when it launches on August 23. The bad news is buying a Xiaomi phone outside China may prove quite the challange. We could only find the old one on Amazon.com, but costs more than double its new price of $204. http://www.gsmarena.com/new_xiaomi_mitwo_handset_is_first_ever_with_quadcore_krait-news-4657.php
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