In most markets around the globe, the Apple iPhone is the best-selling smartphone. Not so in China, though the single most popular smartphone is still the iPhone. In the People's Republic the total number of differnet Android devices makes Google's OS the most popular platform Since China represents the largest smartphone market in the world (with more people than North America and Europe combined), Apple is intensifying efforts to gain a foothold in the rapidly-developing China. The iPhone recently launched with the China Telecom carrier, which became the second Chinese carrier offering the world's most beloved handset. Samsung commands the largest smartphone market share in China, [...]

Google Flight Search service allows users to find the right flight to destinations all over the world. Google Flight Search service desktop version has been around since last September. Type in where you need to go right on Google flights and search results will be displayed. Now, Google Flight Search service made itself iOS friendly. Flight destination, times, airline info, all that is now available on your iPhone. You can search by airline, price, or flight time. You can even use Siri to get your results without typing. Just say "Google flights" and whatever departure and destination you're looking for and the top listing will be Google flights result. [...]

Apple has released details of Mountain Lion, its latest update to the OSX platform. OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion brings the Apple desktop much closer to iOS, enabling cross-functionality and seamless switching between Apple mobile and desktop ecosystems. Apple's Mac system is picking up momentum, expanding its user base faster than Wintel PCs for 23 straight quarters, and Apple's senior vice president, Philip Schiller, announced confidently that 'with Mountain Lion things get even better'. The version currently on show is only a developer preview, arriving a mere seven months after the massive success of the Lion release. It seems Apple are establishing a rapid update path more in keeping with [...]

A new report by the NPD Group names Apple as the biggest-selling brand in Q4 2011. But on closer inspection, the figures suggest that Apple and iOS may have won the festive skirmish, thanks to the release of the iPhone 4S in October, but Google's Android is winning the mobile war. 48% of all smartphone consumers now own Android handsets, compared with 43% owning an Apple device. First-time smartphone buyers tell a different story, with 57% opting for Google's Android operating system compared with just 34% taking their first steps in the smartphone world with an iPhone. Ross Rubin, executive director of Connected Intelligence, for The NPD Group, explained that Android's 'large [...]

According to Digitimes, Apple will ship 2 million iPhone 3GS devices by the end of the fourth quarter. In Q1 2012 Apple is expected to shift a further 1.5 million units proving that despite the arrival of the iPhone 4 and now iPhone 4S, the iPhone 3GS is still the second-best selling smartphone in the US, easily beating off the chasing pack of HTC Evos, Motorola Droid 3s, and even the impressive Samsung Galaxy SII. In first place, of course, stands the iPhone 4, but Apple's decision to offer the smartphone free of charge to AT&T customers has ensured its continued success since its launch in 2009. While not the top seller in Apple's array of market-leading products, the iPhone 3GS [...]