Tag Archives: 2012
HTC made only $34 million profits last quarter, it’s lowest profits since 2004!
Accroding to report from Bloomberg, Taiwanese company HTC, made just $34 million in net income in quarter 4 2012. quarter 4 2012′s net income is the lowest income company made since the 2004. Company’s finances were actually slightly better than analysts expected, but $99 million drop from the Q3, and $322 million drop from year-over-year is not very pretty to watch. Even Taiwanese company released multiple flagship models(DROID DNA and Windows Phone 8X) they couldn’t make the best out of it. Need to remember too that these releases were in the middle of the quarter and so didn’t fully impact to the final result. HTC’s CEO Peter Chou though believes that “the worst for HTC has probably passed,” adding that the company will increase marketing budget considerably in effort to compete with Samsung.
Toni Aaltonen
Toni Aaltonen is founder and Editor-in-Chief of tonistechblog.com . Tech lover without any fan boyism. He loves handsets and devices which are well made and designed. Lives in Finland.
Follow Me:
Nokia Lumia 920 wins 12 media awards in 2012!
Year 2012 was important year for Windows Phone 8 devices, and especially for Nokia. HTC 8X, Samsung Ativ S and Nokia Lumia 920, Windows Phone 8 flagship models, with almost similar specs, but very different looks. We are not going to concentrate in all of those, but to check how did Nokia Lumia 920 was appreciated in media in 2012.
Nokia announced that company’s Lumia 920 Windows Phone has won 12 media awards from appreciated tech sites. It’s already known that Lumia 920 is very popular smartphone, almost sold out around the world. It also could mean that Nokia can’t answer to high demand of Lumia 920, or simply Nokia can’t produce enough. Check out the full list of media awards Nokia Lumia 920 received last in 2012, after the break.
Toni Aaltonen
Toni Aaltonen is founder and Editor-in-Chief of tonistechblog.com . Tech lover without any fan boyism. He loves handsets and devices which are well made and designed. Lives in Finland.
Follow Me:
Google announces 10 best Android Apps for 2012!
Apple has done it already, and by that i mean picked best apps for 2012, and now it’s time to Google’s announce best Android apps for 2012. Not all of the app were launched in 2012, some apps got huge updates boosting their functionality and allowing them in the top Android apps list of 2012. There’s not much surprises on the list – Evernote, Pocket and Pinterest are all in the list. Check out the full list after the break.
Toni Aaltonen
Toni Aaltonen is founder and Editor-in-Chief of tonistechblog.com . Tech lover without any fan boyism. He loves handsets and devices which are well made and designed. Lives in Finland.
Follow Me:
Evernote for Mac gets major design change in version 5 beta!
Evernote has launched new version to Mac, it’s called Evernote 5 and it’s still in beta state. In Evernote 5 there’s 100 new features and the app has been redesigned from the ground up, with more usable interface. There’s now sidebar which shows you recently-edited and often-accessed notes, along with buttons to switch between tags, notebooks and individual notes. New card-like interface for selecting notes in the middle and expanded view on the right of the selected note, These all new features and new design makes Evernote 5 much more simpler and easier to use. Check out the video from below, and tell me in the comment section what you think of the new Evernote for Mac?
TonisTechBlog in Facebook
TonisTechBlog in Twitter
Tonistechblog in YouTube
Toni Aaltonen
Toni Aaltonen is founder and Editor-in-Chief of tonistechblog.com . Tech lover without any fan boyism. He loves handsets and devices which are well made and designed. Lives in Finland.
Follow Me:
Windows Phone 7.8 gets detailed by Microsoft Italy!
Details of the Windows Phone 7.8 update has been revealed on Facebook, according to Microsoft Italy. Windows Phone 8 was officially launch on monday, but Windows Phone 7.8 is still a little mystery, and there’s not much details what is it going to include. New WP8 home screen will be included in WP7.8 devices. More tiles available in homes screen and tiles will be resizable. Also there will be more colors to provide more customization. That’s quite about it what’s been made official, but lets see what was revealed today.
The upgrade to 7.8 will be available for versions 7.0 and 7.5 shortly after the marketing of the devices Windows Phone 8. Among the features there is the new Start screen, the sharing of the calendar using the function Club and access to key services and content Microsoft, including Xbox Music Store library that can be enjoyed by Zune and Xbox SmartGlass.
In the post was mentioned “Club”, which actually means new feature called Rooms. Xbox Smartglass and Xbox Music Library will be both included in WP7.8.
TonisTechBlog in Facebook
TonisTechBlog in Twitter
Tonistechblog in YouTube
Toni Aaltonen
Toni Aaltonen is founder and Editor-in-Chief of tonistechblog.com . Tech lover without any fan boyism. He loves handsets and devices which are well made and designed. Lives in Finland.
Follow Me:
Kim Dotcom’s Mega File sharing site slated for January launch!
Kim Dotcom born in Germany, but have also Finnish nationality, and he’s ready to open Mega file sharing site in January. New Mega file sharing site will offer far better protection for its users’ data than his Megaupload site that was shut down by government earlier this year. The new site will use Advanced Encryption Standard that encrypts and decrypts user data within their own browser. The new site won’t work in US to prevent US officials from conducting raid on the site.
TonisTechBlog in Facebook
TonisTechBlog in Twitter
Tonistechblog in YouTube
Toni Aaltonen
Toni Aaltonen is founder and Editor-in-Chief of tonistechblog.com . Tech lover without any fan boyism. He loves handsets and devices which are well made and designed. Lives in Finland.
Follow Me:
Samsung Galaxy Note 2 sold 3 million units worldwide!
Samsung launched Galaxy Note 2 one month ago and now it has sold 3 million units worldwide. The selling speed is very fast, actually if you compared it to the original Galaxy Note, it’s three times as fast. It’s not matching the Galaxy S3 selling speed, but it’s impressive numbers from a 5.5-inch phablet. Galaxy S3 selling speed was 20 million units sold in just 100 days, so Galaxy Note 2 needs to speed up things if it wants to be as successful. Maybe Note 2 still is too big to fit in your pocket, but check out Samsung’s new video of NBA Superstar LeBron James cracking a joke of Note 2(it’s part of the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 ad campaign of course) .
TonisTechBlog in Facebook
TonisTechBlog in Twitter
Tonistechblog in YouTube
Toni Aaltonen
Toni Aaltonen is founder and Editor-in-Chief of tonistechblog.com . Tech lover without any fan boyism. He loves handsets and devices which are well made and designed. Lives in Finland.
Follow Me:
IDC: Android claims 75% of smartphone shipments in Q3 2012!
Android smartphones were in pretty good lead in Q2 2012, and now in Q3 2012 Android OS is claims 75% marketshare. According to IDC in quarter three there were 136 million Android headsets shipped. Even Apple launched pretty impressing new hardware, iOS were far behind from Google OS’s numbers, getting only 14.9% marketshare in quarter three. Blackberry was third with 4.3% marketshare and Symbian was 4th with 2.3% marketshare. Windows Phone dropped to 2% marketshare, keeping Microsoft in 5th place. As Windows Phone 8 smartphones starts to ship there’s going to be boost and Windows Phone will be higher on the list.
TonisTechBlog in Facebook
TonisTechBlog in Twitter
Tonistechblog in YouTube
Toni Aaltonen
Toni Aaltonen is founder and Editor-in-Chief of tonistechblog.com . Tech lover without any fan boyism. He loves handsets and devices which are well made and designed. Lives in Finland.
Follow Me:
Windows Phone 8 OTA goes finally live!
WPcentral.com
One of the big new features of Windows Phone 8 is the ability to do over-the-air (OTA) updates. Previously if you want to update your Windows Phone you need to plug in your smartphone to PC and update, but now you don’t. There are different sort and sized updates that can be delivered. Seems like Microsoft (MSFT) wants to take more control and hopefully is able to push fixes and updates more easily. In Windows Phone 8 updates are strictly OTA, but in later releases might have cable option as well.
There are two kinds of updates, automatic updates and manual updates. Automatic updates are downloaded to your device without the need of user. Manual updates need to be initiated by user.
Prompted (Manual) Update:
- You are informed that an update is ready to download. This will occur if you have opted out of automatic download of updates.
- The notification provides you the size and content of the update.
- You can postpone the update or authorize the download.
- You are prompted to connect to a Wi-Fi network.
- You can also allow the update to use your cellular data connection. This will use your cellular data plan. You will see a warning about the possibility of a cellular data charge.
- You are then informed when the update is ready. You can install immediately or postpone installation of the downloaded update.
- If you accept the update your phone will restart in the update bootloader screen. Once the update is complete your phone will restart again – to the updated operating system.
- You will see a dialog box that indicates that the update was successful.
Automatic Update:
- You are informed that an update is ready to install. You can postpone the update or install the update immediately.
- If you accept the update your phone will restart in the update bootloader screen. Once the update is complete your phone will restart again – to the updated operating system.
- You will see a dialog box that indicates that the update was successful.
- The update will take less than ten minutes in most cases, because the update has already been downloaded before you see the update notification.
Here is how to check updates: Settings->Phone Update
TonisTechBlog in Facebook
TonisTechBlog in Twitter
Tonistechblog in YouTube
Toni Aaltonen
Toni Aaltonen is founder and Editor-in-Chief of tonistechblog.com . Tech lover without any fan boyism. He loves handsets and devices which are well made and designed. Lives in Finland.
Follow Me:
TonisTechBlog’s iPad Mini Giveaway!
And The Winner of TonisTechBlog’s iPad Mini Giveaway is… Per Larsson, he chose the black version and black he will get.!
Apparently he lives in Sweden, and he tweeted the necessary tweet and left a comment per day. So good luck to you Per, and send me your details via email, which you can find from the site. The winner was chosen by using random.org random.number generator.
Huge Thanks to all of you who participated in TonisTechBlog’s iPad Mini Giveaway!!
One more thing…
Im going to do another giveaway when Tonistechblog’s Facebook page gets 1000 Likes, and i will let you know more of the details later, but i can tell you that it’s going to be huge…maybe a bundle of tech products. So if you want that I do more these giveaways put the word out there and lets get 1000 likes for tonistechblog’s Facebook page.
One more time congratulations to you Per, and i will send you the iPad Mini as soon as you send me your personal details.
Thank you guys from big support for TonisTechBlog.com and you are the reason why i blog about tech! Of course it’s my biggest passions to be a blogger and especially tech one. Now i’m doing iPad Mini 16GB Wi-Fi giveaway, just to say thank you for reading my blog and supporting it. So just read the rules from below and participate to this giveaway and iPad Mini could be yours!
RULES:
- You need to have Twitter account
- Tweet this post by pressing Tweet button below (yes below, not that one on the left).
- Leave a comment below, you can just say which color you want (White or Black).
- iPad Mini Giveaway competition runs through November 5th 2012 to December 5th 2012.
- 1 Comment per day (if you leave more you are off the competition).
- I will randomly pick one winner who has tweeted the tweet from below and who submitted comment below.
- iPad Mini need to be available in your country’s Apple store.
So i’ve been asked a lot of questions about this giveaway and here is some answers to those questions.
FAQ:
Q1. Do i have better chances of winning iPad Mini if i post a comment per day?
A1. Yes definitely. I will use random.org to randomly generate number, and i’ll then check on the comments what comment is that number. So if you have multiple comments you will have better chances to win.
Q2. Do i need to tweet this post everyday in order to win?
A2. Nope. You need to tweet this post only once.
Q3. If i win, how do i receive iPad Mini?
A3. Tonistechblog.com will send you iPad Mini via Mail and we will pay all the costs.
Tweet
TonisTechBlog in Facebook
TonisTechBlog in Twitter
Tonistechblog in YouTube
Toni Aaltonen
Toni Aaltonen is founder and Editor-in-Chief of tonistechblog.com . Tech lover without any fan boyism. He loves handsets and devices which are well made and designed. Lives in Finland.
More Posts - Website
Follow Me:
