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CTIA 2011 video - Samsung Galaxy S2, i9100

We didn't have the chance to travel to Barcelona for Mobile World Congress (maybe 2012) and so we didn't get a chance to see the Samsung Galaxy S2 when it was first unveiled. Catching up, this dual-core smartphone is crazy thin and packs some serious power

Samsung and Apple

Sorry Apple: Samsung  Phones KING Smart & "Dumb"

Samsung is now No.1 smartphone and mobile, knocking Nokia AND Apple off their thrones.


Two horse race: iPhone V Samsung Galaxy S II
Samsung has dethroned Nokia to became the world's top mobile maker in Q1 2012 (a position the Symbian maker held since 1998), but also knocked Apple off the top spot in the high end smartphone race, analysts Gartner confirmed.

Samsung's mobile phone sales hit 86.6 million - a massive 25.9% jump from last year and now accounts for every one in five mobiles sold.

Nokia still managed to get the No.2 spot, however, with 83.1 m sales.

This figure was much lower than estimates by Strategy Analytics, who crowned Samsung as the phone industry's "star performer" last month after it was believed to have sold a massive 93.5 m handsets in Q1 '12. (Samsung does not release the precise number of handsets sold).

But although knocked off the top spot, Apple still grew a whopping 96% following the release of iPhone 4S, selling 33.1 m iPhones and massive sales in China, now its No. 2 market outside the US.

Although iPhone sales grew phenomenally, it wasn't enough to prevent the Galaxy S II maker from becoming the king of smartphones.

"Samsung took back the world's No. 1 smartphone position from Apple, selling 38 million smartphones worldwide," Gartner confirmed.

Google's Android OS was also a winner - accounting for more than 50% of all smarties sold (56.1%) globally in the first three months 2012.

And it looks like Samsung is also king of Android with sales of its devices, which includes the S II, Y and Nexus on Ice Cream Sandwich, representing over 40% of all Droid sales globally.

Chinese brand ZTE, LG, Huawei and BlackBerry all made it into the top 10.

But significantly, no other Droid Vendor including HTC, LG or Sony achieved more than 10% sales overall. Analysts noted  most Android makers are "finding it hard to break the mould" and differenciate their phones in a flooded market.

But it looks like smarties like the iPhone, Samsung Galaxy S II and HTC One X are on all on the up –  with sales soaring a whopping 45%, which suggests high end devices are now eating into basic or ‘dumb' phones marketshare.

"Smartphone sales are becoming of paramount importance at a worldwide level," Gartner analyst,confirmed.

Smartphones contributed to almost 44% of Samsung's overall sales compared to just 16 per cent for Nokia.
Smartie penetration in Australia is a massive 52% - one of the highest in the world.

Sales of high end handsets continued to drive mobile growth overall, reaching 144.4 million in Q1, up 44.7% year-over-year, Gartner confirmed.

However, sales of basic mobile or what Samsung refers to as "dumb" phones dropped 2% compared to same time 2011 - to 419.1 million - the first fall since '09.

And as noted by previous analysts the smartphone market has become a two horse race with the top two vendors, Apple and Samsung, raising their combined share to almost 50%  - a 20% jump on a year ago.

Both iPhone and Samsung devices are widening their lead over Nokia – which saw its smartphone market share drop to 9.2%, Garnet confirmed.

"Global sales of mobile devices declined more than expected due to a slowdown in demand from the Asia/Pacific region," said Anshul Gupta, principal research analyst at Gartner.

"The first quarter, traditionally the strongest quarter for Asia – driven by Chinese New Year, saw a lack of new product launches, and users delayed upgrades in the hope of better smartphone deals arriving later in the year."

"White-box" vendors including Nokia seem to have suffered the most during Q1 due to a fall in mobiles sales and were unable to adjust production as demand slumped.

Gartner expects some of this volume to be sold during the next quarters, and anticipates a price drop as retailers look to dispose of stock.

The lower results in Q1 have led us to be cautious about sales for the remainder of the year, said Annette Zimmermann, research analyst at Gartner.

However, the arrival of new versions of the Android Ice Cream Sandwich, Windows Phone OS, and iPhone 5 should drive sales in H2 in Europe and US, Gartner analysts predict.

And it looks like Samsung & Co may have something to worry about in the form of new Chinese manaufacturers like Huawei and ZTE who will stiffen competition, say analysts.

However, it downgraded its estimates for 2012 mobile sales, by 20 million units, saying it "is unavoidable."

Samsung

Samsung on top, mobile phone sales dip: survey

 Mobile phone sales worldwide suffered a rare dip in the first three months of this year on softened demand in Asian markets, Gartner reported.

Approximately 419.1 million mobile phones were bought worldwide during the quarter in a two percent decline from the same period a year earlier,he said. It was the first quarterly decline since early in 2009.

"Global sales of mobile devices declined more than expected due to a slowdown in demand from the Asia-Pacific," said Gartner.

"The first quarter, traditionally the strongest quarter for Asia -- which is driven by Chinese New Year -- saw a lack of new product launches from leading manufacturers, and users delayed upgrades in the hope of better smartphone deals arriving later in the year."

South Korean consumer electronics titan Samsung became the top mobile phone seller in the quarter, bumping Finland-based Nokia from a leading position it had held since 1998, according to Gartner.

Samsung sold 86.6 million mobile phones in a 25.9 percent increase from the prior year.

Samsung also reclaimed the smartphone market throne from iPhone maker Apple, selling 38 million Internet-compatible handsets in the quarter in which overall sales were 144.4 million, Gartner reported.

Smartphones powered by Google's Android software accounted for 56 percent of the global market, or 81.07 million handsets, while the iPhone operating system was the next most popular with 22.9 percent, or 33.12 million devices.

Samsung sold more than 40 percent of the Android-based smartphones bought in the first quarter of this year, according to Gartner.

Apple sales of the iPhone 4S nearly doubled in the quarter as the latest model of the smartphone spread to new markets.

Apple sold more than five million iPhones in China, making it the top market for the California-based company after the United States.

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion saw its share of the smartphone market slashed almost in half to 6.9 percent. RIM sold 9.9 million devices in the quarter, down from 13 million a year earlier, as competitors encroached in markets around the world, according to Gartner.

"RIM desperately needs to deliver winning BB10 products to retain users and stay competitive," Gupta said, referring to a new smartphone platform being developed by the Canadian company.

"This will be very challenging, because BB10 lacks strong developer support, and a new BB10 device will only be available in the fourth quarter of 2012."

The ebb in mobile phone sales was expected to prompt price cuts on models left in stock rooms.

"The lower results in the first quarter of 2012 have led us to be cautious about sales for the remainder of the year," said Gartner principal analyst Annette Zimmermann.

"The continued roll-out of third generation (3G)-based smartphones by local and regional manufacturers such as Huawei, ZTE, Lenovo, Yulong and TCL Communication should help spur demand in China."

Launches of new Android phones along with models powered by Microsoft Windows software, along with the likely debut later this year of a new-generation iPhone, was expected to catalyze sales in the US and Western Europe.

However, Gartner trimmed 20 million units from its mobile phone sales forecast for this year.

Iphone 5

I phone 5

New concepts introduction video Iphone 5

New Iphone 5

 The iPhone 5 - Coming JUNE 2012 (4G)
The all new iPhone 5 is already buzzing with speculation. Will the new iPhone 5 be a complete redesign? Yes! Korea's IT News reported that the iPhone 5 is likely to be housed in "Liquidmetal". Liquid metal is the industrial name for an alloy of nickel, titanium, zirconium, copper and other metals. Apple was granted rights to use it in August of 2010. The current Apple iPhone release wasn't much to rave about, although people do really like Siri, the personal assistant. However, the new iPhone 5 is going to have some amazing new hardware and features like 3D video and pictures, newly designed keyboards and 4G speeds to name a few! This is made possible by the new A6 processor which will also be featured in the iPad 3.

This phone is going to be loaded with awesome new features like video chat on 3g and 4g (no longer restricted to WiFi only), face recognition and extreme downloading with 4G. (List of possible features below). The new iPhone 5 features are speculated, but have been well received by the public and will typically follow suit based on previous releases and their features.

 Like the recently release iPad 3, this new iPhone 5 will be equipped with a dual core A5X chip processors, much like the iPhone 4s (A5) and higher more powerful graphic chips that can deliver higher video resolutions (5-9 times better and 7 times faster) and amazing "still" images when taking pictures, AND it will make multi-tasking a lot faster, in addition to adding support for 4G speeds. There is a possibility it could contain the new A6 processor instead, boosting it above the iPad 3. It will also have a 4 inch screen (corner to corner) making it larger and on par with most android phones.

The processor will have speeds at 1.5 - 2.0 GHz and 1GB of RAM. Obviously the new iPhone 5 will have the new iOS6 software, iCloud and all the standard features of the iPhone 4S, including Siri, the personal assistant. These improvements alone will be healthy competition for the newly released Samsung Galaxy S II and the Google Nexus phone.

Apple recently filed several patent applications in order to bring 3D picture capturing to the iPhone 5. This phone will be capable of rendering, capturing and processing 3D images, which coincides with the recent changes to the dual-camera hardware. The new iPhone 5 will also be capable of taking pictures in Panorama!

The new iPhone 5 will boast 4G also known as LTE - Long Term Evolution technology according to AT&T which is due to the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) which is in line with the most recent technology standards for mobile networks.

Apple unveiled the iPhone 4S, a faster version of its best-selling smartphone that includes a virtual "personal assistant" you can talk to. And now, Apple will release the new iPhone 5, which looks promising in terms of being sleek, packed with new hardware and finally less restrictions. Very exciting! We will update our information as soon as we learn more about the newest features of the new iPhone 5, as more information comes in daily. Again, this phone is going to be a complete redesign so there is still a lot to learn about this device. Check it out ....

A few features of the new iPhone 5:

 4 inch screen

All new Liquid Metal design - smooth like liquid

Thinner sleeker design

Built in GPS standard

Face Recognition Security

Face Time on 3G and 4G

Custom SMS tones

 Custom E-mail alerts with ability to assign different tones to each email address

Shatter resistant Gorilla glass

8 MEGAPIXEL Camera rear and 5 in front

64G Basic and 120G memory

Extended battery life = 20 hours talk time on 3G and 10 hours on 4G. Standby 1000 hours.

Full 1080p HD Recording AND 3D Video Display !!!

Messaging indicator light

HTML5 (safari) or apps to make Flash Player capable through apps

SIM-Less Phone - The new iPhone 5 will be a World Phone. This is accomplished building 2 to 3 internal antennas which makes it capable of GSM and CDMA technology, so you can take the phone to any network!

Will you stay with AT&T, Verizon or Sprint or take it to a different carrier? What additional carriers do you want to see the iPhone 5 on? Any additional features you would like? (SEE WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING BELOW).

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New iPhone 5

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