iOS devices will soon get infiltrate from Facebook own Android based home application named as ‘Chat Heads’.

iPhone and iPad has received the latest update for Facebook Apps like Chat Heads, stickers and other UI improvements. Only one disadvantage remains that Facebook Home will be useful for Android users rather than iOS users who will get accustomed with this new apps Chat Head.

As we know there is always an issue with the restrictions of any apps in Apple based OS, but the new app Chat Head is only limited to Facebook only which was not meant to be when it was started developing this app. The basic goal of Facebook was to reach as much user’s hand so that everyone can use this unique app.

This new application from Facebook is available in market now for iOS devices, but there is one complaint that some users is getting hands into this new apps, so still in some weeks it will launch in other places.

Apple Inc. has recently taken a decision to scale up its presence across India due to the so-called success iPhone in India. The company is planning to triple its exclusive outlets figure by 200 till 2015.

Already in India total 17 franchisees are there operating 65 Apple’s exclusive stores also known as Apple’s Premium Re-sellers.

Again company itself running Apple stores in some countries like U.S. & China, so company will share designs & manpower too to create new exclusive stores just like that of original Apple stores.

Rs. 1 crore is the estimated fund decided by Apple Inc. to the franchisees over a year as a means of reimbursement for the new Indian stores.

Most of the mobile handsets in the country still belong to the 2G category.

As per IDC report  Apple has marked a record sales of around 400 percent & also jumped to second spot in total revenue in the smart phones sales market.

Another rumour has been coming up from Apple’s armory that a smaller & cheaper version of smart phone to be soon launched in summer by the name given from the company iPhone Mini.

After having a formal meeting with Apple’s Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer, Katy Huberty points out some exciting reasons why Apple should introduced a cheaper smart phone.

As per Huberty Apple’s customer base is increasing by 50 percent with the help of iPad Mini sales across Chinal/Brazil which shows a total  new smart phone customer in the ecosystem.

Recently Chinese customers were not willing to purchase older version of smart phones & were much interested in the newer versions of Apple iPhone.

Apple is expanding their partnership with some world leading mobile carriers like NTT Docomo, T-Mobile, and China Mobile in Q2 2014.

Customers were these days interested to buy older versions of iPhone not going for new devices as described by Huberty.

Again more customers were interested to buy iPhone 4/iPhone 4S rather than iPhone 5.

Thats why company may change some features or appearance of iPad & already iPad Mini 2 will be showcase in the market with retina display & iPad 5 will be redesigned before it put its footsteps in to this tech market.

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iOS is one of the world’s modern operating system with nearly 300 million iPhone, iPod, iPad & other touch devices.

To accomodate high speed international users Apple has launched a new iOS 6.1 on the iPhone 5 & the other newer iPads. Recently, Apple is trying to reach many places like Denmark, Finland, Switzerland & Middle East to enhance its LTE reach to its customer. Company wants to expands its LTE network via. 36 additional iPhone carriers and 23 new iPad carriers.

Siri has discovered a new options with iOS6.1 downlodable to Apple devices in US to purchase movie tickets.

Fadango’s & Apple Voice Assistant helped a lot in creating a sort of features to book movie tickets while it makes a way to free from waiting in a line.

With the help of iCloud the subscribers can download songs to their iOS devices.

Apple TV one of the unique feature via. Bluetooth Keyboard through iOS6.1After th initial beta version launched the update comes around three months. This beta update is available after three days & the users can avail update through iTunes.

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Apple has unconstrained its newest software modernize for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, with iOS 5.1.1 fetch a quantity of insignificant bug fixes.

The new edition of the mobile OS can be downloaded above the air, and develop the dependability of the Air Play video quality which was under-performing “in some situation.”

iOS 5.1.1 also bid a secure to progress the “dependability of by means of HDR option for photos taken using the Lock Screen shortcut.”

Prelude to iOS 6?

The modernize also solves problems for customer when switching between 2G and 3G networks, while issue syncing bookmarks and the Reading List by means of the Safari browser have also been address.

Finally, iOS 5.1.1 puts rewarded to a pop-up message inform customer a booming acquires has been disastrous.

The update approachs among reports that the release of iOS 6 is little over a month away.

The company’s annual WWDC developer’s convention has been booked for June 11 in San Francisco and has often provided the location for important software declaration.

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Samsung Electronics reclaim the guide in smartphones from Apple in the first quarter of this year. One of its weapons: screens of many special sizes. 

How is Samsung throbbing Apple

Samsung sells at least 13 smartphones with screens ranging from 2.8 inches on the Replenish to 5.3 inches on the Galaxy Note. Apple, which has always believed in a limited number of models, offers only a 3.5-inch display on its two iPhones. Suwon, South Korea-based Samsung is testing the tablet market as well with a similar plan.

The different strategies — and the success of Samsung’s — has led analysts including London-based Neil Mawston at Strategy Analytics to speculate that Apple will have to expand its line at some point. Samsung also ended the 14-year reign of Nokia as the world’s biggest maker of all kinds of phones in the last quarter.

“Samsung has long had a buckshot strategy for its mobile and portable hardware,” Mawston said. “Samsung fires out dozens of new models at high speed every year and hopes that one or more will eventually stick.”

The maker of the Galaxy range of phones sold 93.5 million handsets in the first quarter, 36 per cent more than a year earlier, Strategy Analytics said April 27. Nokia shipped 82.7 million, down 24 per cent, and Apple sold 35.1 million units, an 89 per cent increase from last year.

Samsung sold 44.5 million smartphones in the three months ended in March, regaining the lead from Apple, according to the researcher’s data. Smartphones let users watch video, send e- mails, play games and surf the Web.

Product breadth
Size is an important reason in choosing mobile devices after Google’s free Android software became the biggest challenger to Apple’s iOS in the $219 billion global smartphone market.

“What we’re seeing here is, really, Samsung gaining share because of product breadth,” said Mark Newman, a Hong Kong- based analyst for Sanford C Bernstein & Co. “They have all different price range for all different people.”

Samsung plans to unveil a successor to the Galaxy S II in London today.

Last week, Asia’s biggest consumer-electronics maker said first-quarter profit jumped 81 per cent to 5.05 trillion won ($4.5 billion) after earnings at the mobile business almost tripled. Chinese demand for the iPhone helped Apple boost its fiscal second-quarter profit 94 per cent.

Samsung shares have gained 33 per cent this year in Seoul trading, while Apple has surged about 44 per cent in New York.

Hybrid phone-tablet
Critical to the surge in profit at Samsung was the Galaxy Note, a hybrid between a phone and tablet computer equipped with a stylus to manipulate programs, photographs and text on its screen. Since Note’s debut in October, Samsung sold more than 5 million of them.

Samsung said it expects to sell 10 million units by the end of this year and plans to introduce more pen-equipped products with different screen sizes.

“Screen size seems to be far more important than we originally anticipated,” Daniel Kim, a Seoul-based analyst at Macquarie Group, said in a March 28 report. “Once consumers are used to larger screens, few go back to screens smaller than four inches.”

Samsung counts Apple as its biggest client — Apple accounted for 7.64 percent of Samsung’s revenue, buying chips and displays, according to data compiled by Bloomberg – even as the two companies have sued each other across four continents, with Apple accusing Samsung of “slavishly copying” its products.

Natalie Kerris, a spokeswoman for Apple, declined to comment.

‘Market’s needs’
“Our smartphone displays are designed to maximize the strengths of each device and reflect the market’s needs,” Chris Jung, a Seoul-based spokesman for Samsung, said in an e-mail.

The multisize screen approach isn’t playing out in the tablet market, where Apple dominated with 62 per cent of the market as of December 31, compared with Samsung’s 9 per cent, according to estimates by IHS.

Unlike its strategy for the iPod music players — where Apple brought out the Nano, the Mini and the Shuffle after the original was introduced in 2001 — the Cupertino, California- based company has followed a one-size display for its phones and tablets.

iPhone, iPad
The iPhone, which debuted in 2007, featured the same 3.5- inch display screen as the latestiPhone 4S model, even as the resolution improved. Similarly, the iPad tablet computer has sported a 9.7-inch screen since then-Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs unveiled it in 2010, while the display quality subsequently sharpened.

In contrast, Samsung’s first Galaxy Tab tablet device was introduced in 2010 with a 7.7-inch screen, while Waterloo, Ontario-based Research In Motion Ltd unveiled its PlayBook with a 7-inch display.

In addition to the 7.7-inch model, Samsung sells the Galaxy in the US with displays of 7 inches, 8.9 inches and 10.1 inches.

Jobs said in October 2010 that RIM would struggle to attract application developers to support itsBlackBerry smartphone and that devices like its PlayBook tablet are “dead on arrival” because they’re too small to compete with the iPad.

Size speculation
Speculation has persisted that Apple will add different screen sizes. The Maeil Business Newspaper reported in March the iPhone 5 will have a 4.6-inch display, while the Chinese online portal Netease reported last month that Apple is planning to introduce a smaller iPad.

Still, “Apple could play the ‘if it’s not broke, don’t fix it’ card,” said Ramon Llamas, an analyst atIDC in Framingham, Massachusetts.

While Samsung has taken the market-share lead in unit sales, Apple still garners most of the industry’s operating profits, wrote Michael Walkley, an analyst at Canaccord Genuity, in a May 1 note. Apple accounted for 73 per cent of all handset- industry profits in the first quarter, he estimated, and Samsung generated 26 per cent, giving the duo 99 per cent of the total.

One of the foundations of Apple’s success has been its focus on developing a single iconic product with mass appeal, rather than seek market share by having a broad portfolio of products, said Brian Marshall, an equity analyst with International Strategy & Investments, in San Francisco.

Given the fast growth in tablets and phones and Apple’s relatively low market share in the latter, the company doesn’t need to expand its form factors for now, Marshall said. As the markets get more saturated, the pressure will be much stronger to add more screen sizes.

“Today, the answer is no,” he said. “Down the road, the answer is yes,” he said.

Mawston at Strategy Analytics agrees.

“Apple will need different screen sizes if it decides to launch new models for lower-cost segments in the future,” he said.

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Ending Nokia’s 15-year-long supremacy as the world’s top mobile phone vendors, Samsung Electronics has appeared as the biggest retailer of mobile gadgets in the first quarter of 2012.

Samsung ends Nokia's 15-year run; becomes No 1 mobile vendor

According to newest examine by plan Analytics, Samsung sold an enormous 44.5 million units in the initial three months of this year, grasping a considerable 30.6 per cent of the mobile phone market. Last year, the company had clocked sales of 12.6 million during the same period.

The monthly profit of the Korean company jumped 81 per cent to cross USD 5.15 billion, the report added.

Cupertino-based tech huge and manufacturer of the astonishingly popular iPhones, Apple didn’t fare too awful moreover. At 35.1 million shipments, the company pursues Samsung as the second most flourishing seller of mobile phones.

Nokia shipped 11.9 million handsets universal in Q1 2012, recording its lowest market share since 1997. The report credited the deteriorating shipment routine to the company’s ‘painful Symbian-Microsoft transition’.

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Every Google-endorsed Android smartphone that is sold in the nation will now approachs collection with a Reliance Communications mobile link as the Anil Ambani company goals high-end customer to incline up subscribers. 

RCom and Google have entered into a two-year deal according to which all Google-endorsed android mobile devices from companies likeSamsung, HTC, Sony Ericsson and LG will come with the telco’s third generation, or 3G, mobile connection with 1 GB of free downloads for the first six months.

But these devices will work on networks of all other mobile operators and consumers will have the option to switch to other operators.

Industry experts estimate that more than 200,000 such phones will be sold in India over the next two years and that RCom will be able to retain two-thirds of these customers on a long-term basis.

“RCom would be able to retain more than a fair share of these customers on its network,” said Prashant Singhal, Partner at Ernst & Young Global’s Indian affiliate. “The intangible brand benefits from such an exclusive tie-up will exceed the monetary benefits in the two years.”

Singhal said the number of subscribers that the company will add because of the tie-up will not make a substantial difference to its overall user base or to its revenues. But it will help RCom in positioning itself as a network for premium users, enhancing its current image.

As part of the agreement, RCom, the country’s second-largest telco by subscribers, will launch a 30-crore campaign for Google Android products starting Saturday.

Google has also committed to an equivalently valued campaign on its online platforms. The advertisement, that depicts the android logo Green Bot going blue, will include platforms like augmented reality and will continue till the T20 World Cup.

“We are creating a dedicated help desk to which any android phone bought under this agreement will be mapped automatically,” said Sanjay Behl, group head, brand and marketing, Reliance Communications.

The two companies are assigning two dedicated marketing people each for the initiative, he added.

“We confirm the collaboration with Reliance to market Android devices,” said a Google spokeswoman.

This will be Google’s fourth such deal globally. It has similar agreements with Verizon in the US,Telstra in Australia and one in Japan.

The Android platform was created by Google, but has since been made open, or publicly available. Manufacturers using Google’s android version carry a Google logo and the Green Bot on them.

These are Google-endorsed. Others who are using the publicly available version of android like the ZTE and Huawei phones do not have the Google logo. In India, Idea Cellular offer packs with Android-based handsets from ZTE and Huawei.

In the past, Aircel and Bharti Airtel had exclusively launched Apple’s iPhone in India as part of similar tie-ups. Airtel retained a sizeable number of the customers that bought the phone, while many who bought it from Aircel switched to other networks.

Average monthly bills of customers using data-oriented phones like Google Android devices is estimated to be around 250-300, while the average monthly bill of a Reliance Communications customer is around 100.

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BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion (RIM), which lately cut prices of several of its smartphone gadget, imagines the motion to increase its sales by about 25-30% in a aggressive Indian handset market. The Waterloo, Canada-based mobile handset maker, which is fraught to fight internationally with Apple’s iPhoneand the Android-based smartphones, believe India as one of focus markets where lowering prices will help it reach more customers. 

Sunil Dutt, MD, RIM India, who took over the company just a few months back, said in an exclusive chat with that more price cuts could not be ruled out as the brand gets the benefit of economies of scale through increased sales. However, leaders in the smartphone market - Samsung and Nokia – said they are not looking to slash prices and will instead focus on broadening their product portfolios.

“The objective is to reach out to more consumers and, therefore, make our devices affordable for both the consumer segment as well as for our enterprise customers,” Dutt said.

RIM slashed prices of select models by up to 26% indicating a change in its India strategy. Analysts tracking the sector said that the average price of a BlackBerry smartphone stood at Rs 21,000, which is extremely steep compared to other brands in the market.

“The price cuts will give them volumes but it is unlikely to have any impact on market shares. There is room to further lower prices as well as broaden its portfolio specifically in the Rs 10,000-15,000 range and also in the sub-Rs 10,000 segment, which boasts of multiple domestic vendors such as Micromax, Karbonn and Lava, which have already launched low-cost smartphones in a bid to drive future demand as they attempt to move up the value chain from low-cost feature phones,” said G Rajeev, senior market analyst, mobile devices &tablets, IDC India.

Samsung, the leader in the smartphone segment with 17 models in the market, has six devices in the sub-Rs 10,000, seven in the Rs 10,000-20,000 bracket with only four models above Rs 20,000. RIM’s BlackBerry, on the other hand, has only one model – the hugely successfulBlackBerry Curve model – in the sub-Rs 10,000 range.

According to the Framingham, Massachusetts-based market researcher IDC, the share for RIM in the Indian smartphone market stood at around of 10% in fourth quarter of 2011. Samsung led with 35% share while Finnish-handset brand Nokia had a market share of 31% for the October to December period last year. The smartphone market in India grew by 99% year-on-year in shipment terms to reach 3.39 million units for the fourth quarter. It is projected to grow by 54% during the period of 2012-2016.

RIM reported a fourth quarter loss of $125 million as it shipped 11.1 million units, down by 21% from the previous quarter. Dutt said the global worries did not impact the India operations, one of the best for the Canadian parent. “We are increasing our investment on the brand, distribution, products and on people here,” Dutt said.

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