All posts tagged iPhone 5

Apple iPhone Market Share ‘Outpacing Android’

Telegraph reports today that Apple’s share of the US smartphone market doubled to 44.9 per cent in the final quarter of last year, according to research from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech.

Kantar said that Apple market share is growing at a faster rate than Android in 9 countries including Britain, Australia and the US. These finding came after Apple’s Q1 2012 revenue results.

Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive said: “We made a very bold bet, entering the quarter, as to what the demand would be. And as it turns out, despite it being a very bold bet, we were short of supply throughout the quarter and did end with a significant backlog.”

Slimmer iPhone 5 and Possibility of Quad-Mode LTE Enabled Chip From Qualcomm

An Investment bank Morgan Stanley is convinced that Apple’s next genration iPhone dubbed as iPhone 5 would be slimmer when it comes out later this year, according to a report says via appleinsider. Device could also debut Quad-Mode chip from Qualcomm capable of both 3G and LTE across all networks. Analyst Katy Huberty wrote in a note to investors that Apple products will be high in demand throughout this year as company will be launching two of it’s flagship  products revamp this year.

“Apple will also launch iPad 3 in H1 and a slimmer iPhone later this year. She also believes that Apple’s next generation iPad will have higher resolution display” she wrote.

Huberty said that touch panel technology will allow Apple to slim down the device. There were rumors that Apple is in talks with carriers to release LTE-compatible iOS devices later this year. We also reported earlier that Apple is in talks with China Telecom, third largest mobile network provider, the positivity of these talks would give Apple the confidence to bring Quad-Mode chip, capable of LTE network, to their next generation iPhone.

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20 Times More Powerful GPU for iPhone and iPad

Imagination technologies announced it’s next generation of GPUs which are 20 times more powerful than the existing one. GPU stands for “Graphic Processing Unit” and they accelerate graphics and video displays.

Imagination Technologies announced two in the Power VR family, PowerVR G6200 and G6400 GPU.G6200 will feature two compute clusters, while the G6400 will sport four clusters.

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New iPhone 5 Mockup

A new iPhone 5 mockup has been designed by ADR Studios and it looks really cool. New iPhone 5 mockup is much slimmer and inspired by Steve Jobs. It has glass capacitive screen on a polycarbonate lightweight body.

Among other features are 10 mega pixel camera and Apple’s new A6 processor. Overall structure is very much similar like iPhone 4/4S but much thinner and have slightly curved edges.

More images below

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Completely Redesigned iPhone 5 Fall 2012

BGR reported earlier that Apple will be launching a completely redesigned iPhone 5 fall next year. A new plastic or rubber material is rumoured to be used in iPhone 5.

Apple is planning to use a rubber or plastic material — similar to the material used in the company’s bumper cases — that will be built into the new iPhone case. In all likelihood, this material will be used as a bezel surrounding the front edge of the phone (like the iPhone 3GS bezel)

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iPhone 5, Steve Jobs and iPad 2 among the Top 10 Serches on Google

Google has released the Top Searches on its search engine and among the top 10 there is iPhone 5 at number 6, Steve Jobs at number 9 and iPad 2 at number 10.

Following is some data provided by Google:

iPhone 5

Searches for iPhone 5 rose 1,658% between 2010 and 2011, making the rumored smartphone the #6 fastest rising search on Google.

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