iOS, Windows global market share slump during the holidays

Another edition of Kantar Worldpanel’s Smartphone OS Market Share Data report has come out and this one’s a doozy for both iOS and Windows. The numbers cover the holiday quarter of 2015 and they seem to show an overall decline in interest with Windows-based phones and iPhones.

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Better now than never: the goTenna is shipping to customers

Remember back in the summer? Not this summer, last one! In the depths of outdoors vacationing season, our Pocketnow Weekly podcast crew wandered into the woods and found goTenna, a Kickstarter project that aimed to provide an interpersonal, long-distance cell network alternative when everything hits the fan in the great nowheres.After 15 months of extra tests, tweaking and regulatory passes, the first units shipped out ...

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HTC RE’s back for another Hot Deal at under $80

The do-it-all inhaler/camera’s back again on the discount table. It seems that HTC has been really amping up its holiday spirit with these Tuesday Hot Deals. Sure, the first real rounds came during the Black Friday/Cyber Monday era and then we’ve heard more of a pitter-patter since then. And we should also note that ...

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Morgan Stanley expects Apple to smash holidays and FY16

Apple is a huge money mover: it knows how to make money and it uses that money to make more money. Morgan Stanley is also a huge money mover: it gives businesses money, trades money for money and makes bold statements about money for money money money. Also, money.Morgan ...

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Pocketnow Holiday Shopping Guide 2014

With autumn very much making its presence felt, and the last days of 2014 looming ahead, the mobile electronics market is about to make another of its regular shifts, temporarily moving away from a time dominated by launch after launch, and instead focusing more on getting these products into our hands. We’ve just come off a couple big months of launches, led in by IFA in early September, and peppered with iPhone, iPad, and Nexus announcements in the weeks that followed. But now with the holiday ...

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Yellow Alert: my New Year’s Eve smartphone for 2014 is the Lumia 1020

The smartphone you carry on New Year’s Eve has a big say in how the night will be remembered. (And not just because it’s an opportunity to show off your newest holiday acquisition to your friends, you materialistic fop.) If you take pictures with your smartphone even semi-regularly, you’re bound to do it twice as often on a landmark event like New Year’s Eve – and so the phone you carry will play a big role in how well the evening is documented. As tech reporters, the Pocketnow review team is lucky enough to have access to a slew of purchased and loaner ...

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Do you disconnect for the holidays?

As of last month, I’ve been doing this mobile technology gig for four years. Playing and tinkering with new mobile devices has become more than just an awesome job, more than an obsession or hobby. As cliché as it sounds, it’s a way of life. I’m always messing with things, tweaking my home screens, searching for new apps and services, trying new games, reading tech news, poking and prodding, and thinking about what I’m going to say about a product once the final review time ...

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