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Samsung sells 28 million Galaxy S II handsets,
When Samsung released its former flagship device, the Samsung Galaxy S II, the company at once knew that it had a big hit in its hands because of the warm reception the superphone got from our smartphone-crazed brethren. Come to think of it, the original Galaxy S was in its own right a hit as well and since its successor was a lot more capable than it was, it was only natural for the smartphone-buying population to try to get a piece of the Galaxy S II action.
Once it hit the shelves, the Samsung Galaxy S II got a lot of glowing reviews and even critics had to agree that it was a fine phone. In fact, in US shores alone, most major carriers with the exception of Verizon released their respective version of the handset. Not only that, the versions of the Samsung Galaxy S II in US shores were selling like hotcakes during their stay in the shelves.
Due to the seeming popularity of the Samsung Galaxy S II, its manufacturer came out with the sales figures of the handset back in February. At that time, the Korean smartphone and tablet manufacturer claimed that it already managed to sell approximately 20 million units of the handset. This number is staggering because the handset was only in the shelves for about 10 months at that time.
More recently, Samsung again released the updated sales figures of the Samsung Galaxy S II and this time, the numbers already stood at 28 million. This means that the manufacturer managed to sell 8 million more units of the handset in just 3 months since hitting the 20 million mark in February. By hitting the 28 million mark in just 13 months of being available in the shelves, the Samsung Galaxy S II became the manufacturer’s fastest selling smartphone so far.
And if you add up the sales of the Samsung Galaxy S II with that of the original Galaxy S, the numbers reach an even more staggering 50 million sales of the Galaxy S line. With the entry of the current flagship device of the manufacturer to the smartphone competition in the form of the Samsung Galaxy S III, we expect these numbers to grow further in the future.
When talking about the Samsung Galaxy S II though, it may already be on its way out but its components are still top of the line for that matter. It packs a Samsung Exynos C210 chipset under the hood and this SoC brings into play a dual-core 1.2 GHz Arm Cortex-A9 processor in addition to a full gigabyte of RAM. It comes with 16GB of onboard storage but should this fall short of your expectations, the handset has a microSD card slot for memory expansion purposes.
The claim to fame however of the Samsung Galaxy S II is its glorious 4.3-inch SuperAMOLED Plus display with a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels. Its camera department is just as impressive with the handset packing a rear-facing 8MP shooter coupled with a 2MP snapper out front. Buy the Samsung Galaxy S II starting at just one penny!
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Rogers eyes new markets for growth,
TORONTO — Rogers Communications Inc. is moving to implement a raft of untested initiatives over the coming quarters, a period that could reignite growth for the country's biggest mobile operator — or shape up to be as challenging as the present.
With revenues slowing or even declining in traditional telecom services such as home Internet and rates for cellphone calls, Rob Bruce, head of the Toronto telecom giant's wireless and cable operations, said Monday the company is turning toward three new markets: so-called "machineto-machine" technology; retail transactions made with smartphones; and video consumption over mobile devices.
"At times, people in their day-to-day lives look at our business and they don't see the incredible growth opportunities ahead of us. Today [is] about calling out some of those things that are going to change the shape of our industry," Mr. Bruce said.
Each will reap hundreds of millions in additional revenue, he told the Canadian Telecom Summit here, if consumers and companies can be steered toward the new services. Rogers stock has been plagued this year by investor fears that fortunes are cresting at a company that remains the Canadian wireless market leader by total subscribers but whose position is slipping as refocused chief competitors Telus Corp. and BCE's Bell Mobility steal share while a host of smaller carriers led by Wind Mobile undercut the carrier on price.
Consolidated revenues dipped 1% to $2.954-billion in the latest quarter. At the Rogers annual meeting in April, chief executive Nadir Mohamed braced the market for further pressure. "As we go forward through, let's call it the near term, it's prudent to continue to assume there's going to be pressure on the top line," he said.
Shares in the mobile and cable giant are off more than 10% year-to-date.
Yet a resurgence of growth lies just around the corner, company officials say. Over the next few years, Rogers is looking to ramp up mobile traffic from connected parking meters, remote healthcare-monitoring technology and other automated, or "machine to machine" activity. By 2015, Mr. Bruce said industrywide revenues from "M2M" will amount to $400-million annually.
"Frankly this is just the beginning," he told the conference, adding: "We expect to hold a significant share of this growing market."
With M2M initiatives, Mr. Bruce said a strategy allowing its smartphones to make dayto-day retail transactions is another opportunity.
He said Canadians carry about 100 million credit cards today and 675 million in total, including driver's licences, healthcare and product loyalty cards. All of an individual's information can be housed on a Rogers device via an internal chip. A "rent" can then be charged to banks, governments and other institutions looking to house consumer "credentials" on clients' phones.
One deal has already been signed. In mid-May, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and Rogers announced a plan to launch by year-end a service allowing CIBC Mastercard and Visa holders to pay for small-ticket items by tapping a phone equipped with their encrypted credentials on a terminal at retail locations across the country.
The new service leverages the two credit-card companies' existing tap-and-go terminal network. Mr. Bruce said Rogers hopes to have one million enabled devices in the market by year-end.
Fast-moving events in the distribution of television content online and on mobile devices is another area Rogers eyes to fuel growth. The integrated media and telecom firm is racing against companies such as Netflix Inc. and Google Inc. to establish a video business online.
Mr. Bruce, who likened the pace as "more of a sprint than a marathon," said the company plans to allow "authenticated" customers to access more of its own content via smartphones and laptops — moves that can help drive bandwidth consumption against "capped" plans and, with the right incentives and cost structure, nurture customer loyalty.
It remains "early days" on all three fronts, the executive noted, but the firm is set up for this "next revolution." Will it amount to growth? Analysts says yes, some at least on wireless, the company's biggest unit by revenue.
For 2015, Canaccord Genuity forecasts wireless revenue of $7.3-billion, and consolidated of $12.8-billion. While wireless is expected to rise by $200-million in 2015, consolidated revenue will decline by $300-million, Canaccord says.
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Research In Motion woes worry BlackBerry users
LOS ANGELES — The darkening prospects for Research in Motion Ltd. are conjuring a nightmare scenario for its nearly 80 million users: What if they woke up one morning to find their BlackBerry phones had become paperweights?
Though it may not quite come to that, life as a BlackBerry fan is likely to grow increasingly tough as the device's maker struggles to recover from a financial free fall.
RIM's share of the U.S. smartphone market has plunged from 44 percent two years ago to about 12 percent, according to market research firm ComScore Inc. The firm, headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, has lost nearly 75 percent of its market value since last June.
Last week, RIM told investors that it probably will face an operating loss for the current quarter, and announced that it hired bankers from JPMorgan Securities and RBC Capital Markets to help it with a financial "transformation."
The company did not say if restructuring would mean selling itself in whole or part, or closing weaker operations such as smartphone manufacturing.
Analysts consider it unlikely the firm might shut down completely, especially because many government agencies, including the Defense Department, are using BlackBerry devices.
Still, the financial uncertainty swirling around RIM is raising questions about the fate of the millions of BlackBerry devices still in the hands of consumers.
"We're telling clients not to panic," said Gartner Inc. analyst Ken Dulaney, who said he
didn't think RIM was in danger of immediate shutdown.
But in the case that the company did decided to shuck its smartphone business, Dulaney said, "there are people who would want to keep it running and make some money at it."
Like many phone makers, RIM maintains an army of computer servers that are crucial to BlackBerry functions, such as email, its BBM messaging service and application store.
If the lights suddenly went out at the firm, analysts said, the services would have to be quickly farmed out to other companies to continue working.
Marisa Conway, a spokeswoman for RIM, declined to comment on what BlackBerry users could expect if the firm was sold or shut down. Instead, she said, "RIM believes the best way to continue serving its customers and driving long-term value for stakeholders is to execute on its plan to turn the company around."
Representatives of Sprint Nextel Corp., Verizon Wireless and AT(ampersand)T Inc., all of which sell BlackBerry devices, declined to comment about how or whether they would support RIM devices if the company was sold or ceased operations.
RIM's precarious position has drawn some comparisons with the late Palm Inc., the handset maker whose PalmPilot defined a new category of personal technology in the late 1990s and paved the way for a series of smash hit gadgets.
But a decade later, Palm's advantage dissipated in part because of blistering competition from companies like RIM. In 2010, Hewlett-Packard Co. bought Palm for $1.2 billion, an acquisition that two years later has produced few new devices.
Analysts have said RIM could face a similar takeover if larger firms are keen to gobble up its subscribers or the substantial cache of mobile technology patents the company owns.
Shaw Wu, an analyst at Sterne Agee, said that rather than a takeover, RIM might be in danger of a "take-under," in which the buyer pays a price that is below the current market value of the company.
Wu said in a note to investors that RIM's potential buyers could include Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp, Samsung Electronics Corp., HTC Corp., Nokia Corp. and even Facebook Inc., which is rumored to be developing its own smartphone.
Though consumers might not see their BlackBerry phones turning off en masse, firms that have designed software apps for RIM devices are facing the prospect of a disappearing market.
"We hope that RIM will live because BlackBerry is still our No. 1 platform," said Vyacheslav Pilguj, a Ukrainian developer whose Photo Studio photography app has become one of the most popular on the BlackBerry.
But that may soon be cold comfort. BlackBerry's App World, which competes with Apple's App Store and Google's Android Market, has failed to catch on widely, attracting only 80,000 apps since it began three years ago, compared with 600,000 for Apple.
Moreover, current BlackBerry apps run on a version of mobile software that RIM will soon retire. The company has said the newer version of BlackBerry software will be out toward the end of the year.
That system, called BlackBerry 10, is thought to be RIM's last chance to keep its mobile business alive.
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Facebook Camera for iPhone: Full Review
On the heels of its $1 billion Instagram acquisition, Facebook rolled out Facebook Camera for iOS, an app with functionality almost identical to the former photo- sharing service. Expanding on the rather spare camera features integrated into the main Facebook app, Facebook Camera lets users add filters, edit, batch upload and search through friends' images. But is there any merit to Facebook creating a completely separate camera app, or did the company just come out with a subpar Instagram replica?
Setup
setupClick to EnlargeUpon first launching the app, Facebook Camera detects which Facebook account is already logged into and associated with the iPhone; all we had to do was confirm it. We tapped the big button in the center that said, "Continue as [our name]" and activated the app. While there is an Android version of Instagram, currently, only an iOS version of Facebook Camera is available.
Facebook Camera for iPhoneClick to EnlargeIt's worth noting that the first time we set up Facebook Camera, the app asked for access to location information in our photos and videos. If we blocked the app's access to these details, we could only browse our Facebook friends' photos and not upload our own.
Interface
Facebook Camera for iPhoneClick to EnlargeAt first glance, Facebook Camera appears very Instagram-like in its user interface, showing off a single stream of photos from Facebook friends--pictures that they had posted on their Facebook accounts--which you can quickly browse through by scrolling within the app. Each picture also includes Facebook's usual like and comment features along with the time it was posted, and double-tapping on any photo brought us into a full-screen view where we could add tags.
Facebook Camera is initially configured to show pictures from all your Facebook friends. However, right at the top of the stream, you can switch to the "Me" view, which lets you view the stream of photos that you either posted or those in which you've been tagged.
A strip of your most recent photos, from your iPhone's Camera Roll, sits across the top of your screen, along with a button that launches the app's integrated camera.
Apart from these highly visible features, we appreciated how Facebook Camera had some pretty novel gesture shortcuts. For instance, pulling down on the top of the app shows you your entire Camera Roll, where you can select multiple pictures to post at a time.
Features
Facebook Camera for iPhoneClick to EnlargeLike the standard iPhone camera app, buttons within Facebook Camera let us switch between the front-facing and back-facing camera, and set the flash to on, off or auto. A big button along the side let us take our picture.
After we snapped our photo, we tapped on the tiny thumbnail preview on the bottom right corner of the app to go into edit mode. Here, we could either crop the picture or apply one of 14 filters found within Facebook Camera, ranging from "Boost" to "Neon." (By comparison, Instagram has 17.) If we wanted to edit another photo within our Camera Roll, we simply swiped on the main viewer to browse to the particular picture we wanted to tweak. The ability to add borders was conspicuously missing, though.
When we were ready to post, Facebook Camera gave us full control over which groups of people could view our photos. We filtered out who could see our pictures using the Lists feature within our Facebook account.
Facebook Camera for iPhoneClick to EnlargeHowever, we would have liked it better if Facebook Camera let us filter out the photos we could see using these lists too, instead of serving up all our friends' photos in a single stream. We also would have appreciated the option to post to other networks, like most photo apps (Instagram lets you post to Twitter, Facebook, email, Flickr, Tumblr, Posterous and Foursquare, for instance). Then again, it's called Facebook Camera for a reason.
Performance
Facebook Camera for iPhoneClick to EnlargeFacebook Camera is still in its embryonic stages, and thus performance was a bit inconsistent. When we tried to apply filters, sometimes there would be a lag, or we would have to tap on the filter more than once to get it to apply to the photo. Navigation was also glitchy at times; in particular, we had trouble exiting the full-screen view. We had to tap our screen multiple times before the app registered our touch and followed what we wanted to do.
However, we do acknowledge that this is version 1.0, and we're optimistic that Facebook will continue to improve upon future releases of Facebook Camera. There is no reason not to expect these minor issues to be resolved in the next iteration of the app.
Verdict
Facebook Camera feels somewhat redundant in light of the social network's purchase of Instagram. Why not integrate Facebook Camera into Facebook's official app? By releasing a standalone program, Facebook inevitably draws comparisons to Instagram, and with less filters, no borders and no ability to integrate with other social networks, Facebook Camera falls short. Even though it's free, we see no compelling reason to download this app and have it take another spot on your home screen.
On the heels of its $1 billion Instagram acquisition, Facebook rolled out Facebook Camera for iOS, an app with functionality almost identical to the former photo- sharing service. Expanding on the rather spare camera features integrated into the main Facebook app, Facebook Camera lets users add filters, edit, batch upload and search through friends' images. But is there any merit to Facebook creating a completely separate camera app, or did the company just come out with a subpar Instagram replica?
Setup
setupClick to EnlargeUpon first launching the app, Facebook Camera detects which Facebook account is already logged into and associated with the iPhone; all we had to do was confirm it. We tapped the big button in the center that said, "Continue as [our name]" and activated the app. While there is an Android version of Instagram, currently, only an iOS version of Facebook Camera is available.
Facebook Camera for iPhoneClick to EnlargeIt's worth noting that the first time we set up Facebook Camera, the app asked for access to location information in our photos and videos. If we blocked the app's access to these details, we could only browse our Facebook friends' photos and not upload our own.
Interface
Facebook Camera for iPhoneClick to EnlargeAt first glance, Facebook Camera appears very Instagram-like in its user interface, showing off a single stream of photos from Facebook friends--pictures that they had posted on their Facebook accounts--which you can quickly browse through by scrolling within the app. Each picture also includes Facebook's usual like and comment features along with the time it was posted, and double-tapping on any photo brought us into a full-screen view where we could add tags.
Facebook Camera is initially configured to show pictures from all your Facebook friends. However, right at the top of the stream, you can switch to the "Me" view, which lets you view the stream of photos that you either posted or those in which you've been tagged.
A strip of your most recent photos, from your iPhone's Camera Roll, sits across the top of your screen, along with a button that launches the app's integrated camera.
Apart from these highly visible features, we appreciated how Facebook Camera had some pretty novel gesture shortcuts. For instance, pulling down on the top of the app shows you your entire Camera Roll, where you can select multiple pictures to post at a time.
Features
Facebook Camera for iPhoneClick to EnlargeLike the standard iPhone camera app, buttons within Facebook Camera let us switch between the front-facing and back-facing camera, and set the flash to on, off or auto. A big button along the side let us take our picture.
After we snapped our photo, we tapped on the tiny thumbnail preview on the bottom right corner of the app to go into edit mode. Here, we could either crop the picture or apply one of 14 filters found within Facebook Camera, ranging from "Boost" to "Neon." (By comparison, Instagram has 17.) If we wanted to edit another photo within our Camera Roll, we simply swiped on the main viewer to browse to the particular picture we wanted to tweak. The ability to add borders was conspicuously missing, though.
When we were ready to post, Facebook Camera gave us full control over which groups of people could view our photos. We filtered out who could see our pictures using the Lists feature within our Facebook account.
Facebook Camera for iPhoneClick to EnlargeHowever, we would have liked it better if Facebook Camera let us filter out the photos we could see using these lists too, instead of serving up all our friends' photos in a single stream. We also would have appreciated the option to post to other networks, like most photo apps (Instagram lets you post to Twitter, Facebook, email, Flickr, Tumblr, Posterous and Foursquare, for instance). Then again, it's called Facebook Camera for a reason.
Performance
Facebook Camera for iPhoneClick to EnlargeFacebook Camera is still in its embryonic stages, and thus performance was a bit inconsistent. When we tried to apply filters, sometimes there would be a lag, or we would have to tap on the filter more than once to get it to apply to the photo. Navigation was also glitchy at times; in particular, we had trouble exiting the full-screen view. We had to tap our screen multiple times before the app registered our touch and followed what we wanted to do.
However, we do acknowledge that this is version 1.0, and we're optimistic that Facebook will continue to improve upon future releases of Facebook Camera. There is no reason not to expect these minor issues to be resolved in the next iteration of the app.
Verdict
Facebook Camera feels somewhat redundant in light of the social network's purchase of Instagram. Why not integrate Facebook Camera into Facebook's official app? By releasing a standalone program, Facebook inevitably draws comparisons to Instagram, and with less filters, no borders and no ability to integrate with other social networks, Facebook Camera falls short. Even though it's free, we see no compelling reason to download this app and have it take another spot on your home screen.
On the heels of its $1 billion Instagram acquisition, Facebook rolled out Facebook Camera for iOS, an app with functionality almost identical to the former photo- sharing service. Expanding on the rather spare camera features integrated into the main Facebook app, Facebook Camera lets users add filters, edit, batch upload and search through friends' images. But is there any merit to Facebook creating a completely separate camera app, or did the company just come out with a subpar Instagram replica?
Setup
setupClick to EnlargeUpon first launching the app, Facebook Camera detects which Facebook account is already logged into and associated with the iPhone; all we had to do was confirm it. We tapped the big button in the center that said, "Continue as [our name]" and activated the app. While there is an Android version of Instagram, currently, only an iOS version of Facebook Camera is available.
Facebook Camera for iPhoneClick to EnlargeIt's worth noting that the first time we set up Facebook Camera, the app asked for access to location information in our photos and videos. If we blocked the app's access to these details, we could only browse our Facebook friends' photos and not upload our own.
Interface
Facebook Camera for iPhoneClick to EnlargeAt first glance, Facebook Camera appears very Instagram-like in its user interface, showing off a single stream of photos from Facebook friends--pictures that they had posted on their Facebook accounts--which you can quickly browse through by scrolling within the app. Each picture also includes Facebook's usual like and comment features along with the time it was posted, and double-tapping on any photo brought us into a full-screen view where we could add tags.
Facebook Camera is initially configured to show pictures from all your Facebook friends. However, right at the top of the stream, you can switch to the "Me" view, which lets you view the stream of photos that you either posted or those in which you've been tagged.
A strip of your most recent photos, from your iPhone's Camera Roll, sits across the top of your screen, along with a button that launches the app's integrated camera.
Apart from these highly visible features, we appreciated how Facebook Camera had some pretty novel gesture shortcuts. For instance, pulling down on the top of the app shows you your entire Camera Roll, where you can select multiple pictures to post at a time.
Features
Facebook Camera for iPhoneClick to EnlargeLike the standard iPhone camera app, buttons within Facebook Camera let us switch between the front-facing and back-facing camera, and set the flash to on, off or auto. A big button along the side let us take our picture.
After we snapped our photo, we tapped on the tiny thumbnail preview on the bottom right corner of the app to go into edit mode. Here, we could either crop the picture or apply one of 14 filters found within Facebook Camera, ranging from "Boost" to "Neon." (By comparison, Instagram has 17.) If we wanted to edit another photo within our Camera Roll, we simply swiped on the main viewer to browse to the particular picture we wanted to tweak. The ability to add borders was conspicuously missing, though.
When we were ready to post, Facebook Camera gave us full control over which groups of people could view our photos. We filtered out who could see our pictures using the Lists feature within our Facebook account.
Facebook Camera for iPhoneClick to EnlargeHowever, we would have liked it better if Facebook Camera let us filter out the photos we could see using these lists too, instead of serving up all our friends' photos in a single stream. We also would have appreciated the option to post to other networks, like most photo apps (Instagram lets you post to Twitter, Facebook, email, Flickr, Tumblr, Posterous and Foursquare, for instance). Then again, it's called Facebook Camera for a reason.
Performance
Facebook Camera for iPhoneClick to EnlargeFacebook Camera is still in its embryonic stages, and thus performance was a bit inconsistent. When we tried to apply filters, sometimes there would be a lag, or we would have to tap on the filter more than once to get it to apply to the photo. Navigation was also glitchy at times; in particular, we had trouble exiting the full-screen view. We had to tap our screen multiple times before the app registered our touch and followed what we wanted to do.
However, we do acknowledge that this is version 1.0, and we're optimistic that Facebook will continue to improve upon future releases of Facebook Camera. There is no reason not to expect these minor issues to be resolved in the next iteration of the app.
Verdict
Facebook Camera feels somewhat redundant in light of the social network's purchase of Instagram. Why not integrate Facebook Camera into Facebook's official app? By releasing a standalone program, Facebook inevitably draws comparisons to Instagram, and with less filters, no borders and no ability to integrate with other social networks, Facebook Camera falls short. Even though it's free, we see no compelling reason to download this app and have it take another spot on your home screen.
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