iPhone Christmas domination, HTC CES Desire, Galaxy A7 & more – Pocketnow Daily

Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about how Xiaomi is now worth more than a ton of major companies in the world. HTC follows as we get new hints on what to expect for CES 2015. Samsung then takes the stage with the Galaxy A7 and a possible launch date. Sony follows as we learn of its probable tablet plans for the next few weeks. We end today’s show talking about how Apple dominated the mobile space with the iPhone and iPad.All this and more after the break.Stories:– Xiaomi scores ...

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VAIO Android smartphone rumored for CES, Sony not included

We all remember how Sony sold its VAIO PC business earlier this year to JIP, in an attempt to focus on mobile exclusively. As a result, we now have a Sony Corporation that launches Xperia smartphones, and there is also a separate VAIO Corporation, of which Sony still owns a small 5%. We sadly don’t know if there is any collaboration between both companies, but we do hear that there is some competition on the way.Japanese ...

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Samsung Galaxy A3 and Galaxy A5 reach the US, sort of

Most of us are still trying to understand Samsung’s purpose of the Alpha lineup. While we do recognize that the build quality in devices like the Galaxy Alpha is top notch, it’s clear that the market isn’t really happy with the amount of

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ZTE rounds-out the year with new (rounder) logo

Given the attention smartphone brands like Sony, HTC, and Motorola receive, you’d be forgiven for thinking they were among the bigger players around, and while they’re still very important companies in their field, other firms have been snatching huge chunks of the market out from under them. The big names in growth are companies based out of China, and on the short list of heavy-hitters, there you’ll find ZTE. The company’s already the fourth-largest seller of smartphones in the US, and its enthusiasm for ...

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Boost your smartphone’s storage capacity with some Amazon microSD deals

In a perfect world, our phones would have all the internal storage they’d ever need. And while capacity options are hitting new highs, far too often we’re stuck with less space on these handsets than we’d like. What’s a data-hungry user to do? If you’re lucky, your smartphone’s manufacturer was kind enough to include support for microSD expansion, letting you pop in a memory card to augment that native storage. If you’ve yet to take advantage of your ...

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Last HTC Hot Deal of the year arrives with accessory savings

Back at the start of November, HTC announced one of the best deals we’d seen in months, knocking fifty percent off the price of the only-just-released Nexus 9 tablet. While that was a heck of an offer to have to follow up, the manufacturer attempted to do just that, and week after week, it’s been offering more of these HTC Hot Deals on various products. With 2015 now within reach, it’s time for this Hot Deals action to draw to a close, and today HTC shares the last of these sales it’s going ...

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Sources expose Microsoft’s plans to close the app gap

Even though most of us agree that Microsoft has done an amazing job at closing the app gap over the last couple of years, that doesn’t change the fact that the iOS and Android currently sports almost triple the amount of apps on Windows Phone. The market share difference between these three platforms still leaves a significant

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Have Lumia 735 US release plans hit a snag?

Where the heck is the Lumia 735? Ever since it launched back in September, we’ve been anticipating Microsoft’s plans to make the phone available to shoppers in the US. FCC documentation sure seemed to support the idea of the 735 coming to Verizon, a theory backed up by separate rumors. As of a few weeks ago, the 735 ...

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Apple’s new stylus patent teases more of a stand-alone product

Apple was clearly responsible for the death of the stylus after the launch of the first-generation iPhone. In a way, this has allowed user interaction with smartphones to be more efficient, but it also removes the level of accuracy that styli have offered users since their inception. Samsung has tried to pioneer the re-birth of the stylus with its

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iPhone and iPad demolished competition this Christmas

Who would’ve thought that increasing the size of the iPhone would amount to so much in 2014? Apple broke all of its sales records during the first few days since the launch of the iPhone 6, and these numbers also

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Samsung edges past Apple in customer satisfaction

There are a lot of ways we can look at which companies are the most successful in the smartphone game. Who’s selling the most phones? Who’s making the most profit off phone sales? Who’s got the most loyal customers? Each may tell a slightly different story, and only by thinking about all of them do we really get an over-arching picture of the market. Today we’re checking out what could be the start of a significant shake-up, as Samsung slides past Apple in terms of customer ...

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Samsung launches Milk VR to bring 3D content to Gear VR

Sometimes it seems that Android OEMs would like little more than for you to abandon the Spotifies, Play Stores, and Dropboxes of the world and commit to their own services and media offerings, instead. Companies like Samsung have long tried to steer users in such directions, and earlier this year we saw the start of the latest incarnation of this trend arrive, as Samsung launched its Milk Music. That was followed by Milk Video in the ...

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Google tracks down Lollipop memory leak, preps fix

Android devices get some flack for the extent to which they like to throw memory at a problem: Windows Phone or iOS handsets might encourage devs to code within smaller memory constraints, while Android sometimes seems to just add more RAM (we’re up to 4GB at the moment) in response to any issues. But despite that reputation, there are some good reasons why Android uses as much memory as it does – most of the time, ...

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Possible Galaxy S6 renders reveal metallic design in multiple colors

Despite the occasional rumor, next week’s CES is highly unlikely to bring us Samsung’s new Galaxy S6 – it’s just too early. But push a few weeks on, further out into the year, and the story starts changing: the GS6 launch event becomes less a question of “if” and more of “when.” MWC? A private Samsung Unpacked shindig? One way or another, it’s happening. But what can we expect from the phone it will deliver? So far, we’ve yet to get any convincing look at GS6 hardware; despite a few ...

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