Apple iPad Now Staring Android Tablets Tail Lights

Even though Apple is still the single largest seller of tablets and the usage of the iPad on the internet has substantially increased there is no denying the shear volumes of Android tablets being sold. Unlike Apple that has early versions of the iPad 2 for sale at a lower cost, it still pales to … Read more

Red Stripe Deals

No, we’re not talkin’ about some Jamaican beer, mon. The Windows Phone blog just blogged about the Windows Phone Store team’s decision about making a Thursday sale tradition: The Red Stripe Collection. Every Thursday, a new set of 3 apps and games (‘typically one Xbox game, one indie game, and one top-rated app’) will go … Read more

PS Vita Sales Jump 400% After Price Cut In Japan

Hiroshi Kawano, who heads up Sony’s Computer Entertainment division in Japan let us in on a secret, according to him, after the price cut of the PS Vita in Japan, sales jumped to about four times what they were before. This could have a lot less to do with the sale itself, but more to … Read more

Deal Time: iCade Gaming dock for your iPhone, Touch

This showed up in my email yesterday.  If you’re reading Mobility Digest and you don’t get emails from ThinkGeek, you need your head examined. Serious mobile gaming While we love the myriad apps and games in the App Store, there’s one thing we definitely don’t like about mobile gaming: our fingers going oddly numb or … Read more

Mobile sales figures (as percentage) according to Kantar Worldpanel

Kantar Worldpanel (a market research firm) has put out mobile operating system sales as a percentage of the whole for the 12 weeks ending March 15, 2012.  In the US, we see Android keeping its top position, but barely, falling from 54.2 to 47.6.  iOS jumped from 30.1. to 42.9.  Win7 almost doubled its share … Read more

Samsung sales surging and could surpass Apple

Less than a week ago we reported that Apple had finally thrown arch rival Nokia off it’s thrown to become the worlds number one in smartphone volume or device sales. Apple, who shipped 20.34 million smartphone units compared to Nokia’s second quarter slide of 16.7 million, off from a first quarter number of 24.2 million … Read more

Apple knocks Nokia off top, now #1 in smartphone volume

The Cupertino crew are throwing some high five’s this morning as the announcement came that they have finally dethroned rival smart phone giant Nokia as the worlds largest producer of smart phone handsets. With a very strong second quarter charge, Apple shipped 20.34 million handsets last quarter as Nokia watched their sales slide from a … Read more