Sentences with phrase «biggest smartphone platform»

Google's Android mobile operating system surged past Apple's iPhone and Canada's Blackberry in the third quarter to become the second biggest smartphone platform after Nokia's Symbian, research firm Gartner said Wednesday.

By many estimates from analysts, Google's Android is currently the world's biggest smartphone platform.

In turning Android into one of the two biggest smartphone platforms and later popularizing Chrome OS — and its extensible web - based productivity programs — in the classroom and workplace, Google itself has become a major player on all platforms.

The biggest smartphone platforms at the time were Symbian, Windows Mobile, and BlackBerry OS, and they were each overcomplicated messes.

Not exact matches

Make Mobile Security a Big Deal The app rush is far from over, and the growth of both smartphone and tablet PC platforms is about to create a bonanza for malware creators looking to cash in via the back door.

Right now, the big discussion in Silicon Valley is around the notion of smartphone addiction, and whether or not it's healthy for young people to be so attached to the major technology platforms.

The big theory behind Ouya is this: smartphones and tablets have hugely expanded the games market in the last five years, while these devices plus Facebook have popularised the model of free - to - play gaming, and these platforms plus Steam on the PC have sparked a new wave of inventive indie developers.

There has been a big move for the mobile platform with smartphones and tablets flooded onto the market.

This as - of - yet untapped level on consumer — the person who wishes he read more books or was more up - to - date on current events, but simply doesn't have enough time to devote to this type of reading — is becoming a bigger focus among digital publishing platforms; last week, Rooster announced the March 11th launch of its «snippet» reading subscription that lets users consume serialized books at a fraction of the cost of full - size ebook subscriptions, again, optimized for smartphone reading.

The scenario in some ways is akin to BlackBerry holding on to making its BBM to rival platforms for fear of denying its own smartphone range one of its biggest attractions.

To that end, the company is building a platform that offers serialized content optimized for smartphones, for a much lower price than the subscription big boys.

After seeing the OS on big screen smartphones, it's safe to say that Windows Phone 7 is fit for tablets, although the platform needs an update or two in order to reach maximum capacity.

To ensure portability, bigger companies (including Amazon and Kobo) provide you with all - platform apps: you can start reading on your computer while drinking your morning coffee, continue where you left off on your e-reader and finish on your smartphone.

In terms of reading platforms, mobile devices enjoy almost exclusive preference (China being the world's biggest market for smartphones), with a high percentage of readers reading fiction through apps.

The biggest announcement was that the games through this service, which will stream PS2 and PS3 games, will be playable through not only PlayStation platforms, but other tablets and smartphones, as well as television sets.

However, the big news came two months after that, when Spotify was made available on Nokia's Symbian platform, which then dominated the smartphone market with more than 50 percent market share.

Now, we are poised to end the year with a big bang — with the introduction of our first smartphone running on the Windows Phone platform.

Zuckerberg maintains that the smartphone will be Facebook's first big leap into building the future of AR, triumphantly announcing that the camera will be «the first augmented reality platform.»

The deal comes amid patent litigation between Apple and Samsung, the world's biggest smartphone maker by shipments, whose best - selling devices run Google's Android platform.

Mobile might not ever be the lead VR platform for gamers, but when it comes to less hardware intensive audible and visual experiences, like streaming live concerts or sitting in a virtual cinema with friends, smartphones are likely to be the bigger target market.

Right now, the big discussion in Silicon Valley is around the notion of smartphone addiction, and whether or not it's healthy for young people to be so attached to the major technology platforms.

It is the launch platform for many of the year's big smartphones, but it has also given us a range of tablets, smartwatches and other connected devices in recent years - even reaching over to 2 - in - 1s, tablets and, this year, we may be seeing some more always - connected laptops.

Nokia's biggest Windows Phone to - date, the Lumia 1520 runs the latest version of Microsoft's smartphone platform on Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 2.2 GHz quadcore, with LTE and a 3,400 mAh battery that's even bigger than what's inside HTC's One max.

As console platforms drop to the third largest gaming market worldwide, it is clear the big Japanese companies are starting to take smartphone gaming seriously.

When Android hit the big time as a software platform for smartphones, it was a raw mess.

It also doesn't take a rocket scientist or a well - connected inside source to predict the «next big thing» from the world's number one smartphone vendor will pack Qualcomm's TSMC - made Snapdragon 835 sequel and run the latest version of Google's Android software platform.

A big slide remained on - screen reminding developers that Android commands 80 % of the smartphone market and there are millions of developers writing apps for the platform.

Samsung already has Tizen - based devices in the market, after it used the operating system for its new smartwatches — the Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo — but the introduction of smartphones is the big push moment that supporters of the platform are waiting for.

Lenovo is one of the biggest OEMs in China and if the company joins the Windows family with a high - end smartphone, it would be a great boost for the Microsoft's mobile platform.