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We’ve heard a lot about sales and projections for smartphones in China – such as 199% smartphone growth in the past year – but how about active mobiles in the hands of Chinese users? The cross-promotion and ads platform Umeng has released its newest report accompanied by an infographic. It ...

China has, at present, 390-million mobile internet users among its billion-strong phone subscribers. And now new data for 2012 Q3 from Beijing-based mobile analytics startup Umeng claims that, among all those mobile users, Chinese consumers have snapped up just over 200-million iPhones and Android smartphones. Of those, 60-million are iPhones, ...

Android is absolutely dominating the Chinese smartphone market, claiming just over 90% of it.The scary thing is that the figure may actually be a little low because it doesn't take into account all the country's knock-off phones, many of which run the Google-owned operating system.The stats, which come ...

Maps are important, just ask Apple. There is superior mapping software though, and it belongs to Nokia. Nokia's new mapping product HERE is not yet "here", but it is a GPS app for iOS and Android, made the Nokia way.Nokia says, HERE is the "first location cloud" software and is ...

After many rumours over the last year, it seems that Microsoft Office for Android and iOS will be a reality. According to reports the Redmond giant will release its versions for its main rivals early in 2013. Office for iPad has already been a lingering rumour for a while.Office will ...

Developers and advertisers that use power edition and the Facebook Ads API now have the ability to choose which mobile platform their ads appear on... well, at least they can choose between iOS and Android, but not Windows Phone or BlackBerry as yet. This allows iOS and Android developers to ...

Apple iOS tablet sales are still on top in the world, but recent figures show that Android has made a considerable increase in sales. Global sales of Android tablets reached 25-million in the third quarter of 2012, an increase of 43% from the previous year, according to Strategy Analytics.While Apple ...

China has over one-billion mobile phone users and for the first time they're buying more smartphones than feature phones.According to Tech in Asia, the country's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) released a report detailing the number of mobile phones sold in the first half of 2012.Of ...

Microsoft's decision last week to not offer an upgrade path from Windows Phone 7.5 (currently in the market) to Windows Phone 8 opened a can of worms most thought only applied to Android. The F-word: fragmentation. But do the few million people using Nokia Lumias even care? Do those 200 ...

I have done extensive research, performing interviews with countless mobile users (well, four actually, but who's counting) to get to the bottom of which phones are at the top of the pile. This is what I discovered…Why we're better than everyone else -- iPhone users It is ridiculous that we ...