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Competition in the smartphone market increasingly heated. Samsung and Apple still dominates, but Nokia have ever long-ruling thrown from the top five positions.

 

Thus recorded in the study by research firm IDC on global smartphone shipments in Q3 2012. The release
of Nokia from the top five among others due to strong pressure from Chinese vendors such as Huawei and ZTE.

Nexus 4 sells out in the UK after 30 mins as Play store crumbles under demand

This led to the LG Nexus 4 smartphone selling out in the first 30 minutes of retail, with high traffic bringing malfunctions in the online store.
Disgruntled consumers lamented the unresponsive site that produced frequent shopping cart errors at the checkout stage. This resulted in the users' orders being usurped by other lucky customers as the site failed to register certain purchase requests.

Carphone Warehouse cuts price of 32GB Nexus 7

Carphone Warehouse has announced that it has cut the price of three leading tablets in the build-up to Christmas. The online retailer released a statement saying that it aims to offer the lowest tablet prices on the high street.
It has already cut the price of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 to as little as £119, the 16GB iPad 3 to £359 and the 32GB Google Nexus, which was launched two weeks ago, down to £189 (though it currently still appears on the website for £195), a £10.99 (or 5.45 per cent) discount from the official SRP. The only major difference between the Nexus models is the jump in storage capacity.
Otherwise, there’s the same quad-core, Nvidia Tegra 3 system-on-chip, clocked at 1.3GHz, 1GB of RAM, a 7in, 1,280 x 800 display with Gorilla Glass, a front facing 1.3-megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, a microUSB port but no microSD one and no HDMI port as well.

The Nexus 7 single-handedly started a revolution in the small format Android tablet sector, which saw prices tumble. It is likely that a similar thing will happen with the impending launch of the Nexus 10, which will sport a Cortex-A15 core and a 4-megapixel display.

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Nokia Lumia 920 review

The Nokia Lumia 920 takes its role as Windows Phone's "flagship" seriously: It feels like it's the size of an aircraft carrier. If you're willing to put up with a huge chunk of smartphone in your pocket, though, you'll get the best performance Windows Phone 8 has to offer, along with important, exclusive apps that really enhance the phone's experience. The handset is priced at $450 off-contract with AT&T in the US, with the UK price still to be confirmed. Given a direct conversion, $450 would be £280 in our money, but needless to say the Lumia 920 won't be anything like that cheap over here, with it likely to weigh in around the £450 mark in fact.

Has Apple lost its mojo with the iPad mini and iPad 4?

Crank your reality distortion fields up to 11, folks: Over the last weekend, which saw the release of the iPad 4 and iPad mini, Apple says it sold “three million iPads.” Yes, iPads in general.
How many iPad minis did Apple sell over the weekend? No idea. How many fourth-generation iPads did Apple sell? No idea. More worryingly, did Apple also include the sales of iPad 2 and 3, and refurbished iPads in that figure? No idea.

Google Nexus 4 review

For the Android purist, only an unlocked Nexus phone will do – since network-subsidised Android phones are somewhat compromised, thanks to their skins, carrier modifications, and infrequent OS updates. Enter the Google Nexus 4 (£239 sim-free for the 8GB model), a totally streamlined smartphone running the new Android 4.2 Jelly Bean OS in its stock form.
The phone is manufactured by LG now, rather than Samsung which made last year’s Galaxy Nexus, and the price is very tempting. Indeed, the Nexus 4 represents a great deal for what amounts to the cleanest – and in our opinion, best – Android experience you can get, despite a few significant flaws.

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iPad mini or Nexus 7? Tablets to dominate Christmas shopping as PC market struggles

 

It doesn't exactly come as the shock of the century, but shoppers are set to spurn purchases of traditional PC devices in favour of more interactive toys this holiday season, according to the latest research.

A PriceGrabber survey has revealed that 59 per cent of consumers would prefer to receive a tablet as a festive gift, and iconic US manufacturer Apple unsurprisingly ranks at the top of the collective wish list: nearly two-thirds of respondents (63 per cent) proffered that their preferred present would be a third or fourth-generation iPad, with a further 24 per cent saying that they were hoping for an iPad mini.