Welcome to the not-so-silly season
Mark Bridge writes:
August is traditionally known as the ‘silly season’… but last week’s mobile industry news was all very serious. Apple started with a move designed to reassure customers about unsafe iPhone chargers by arranging a discounted exchange scheme – and it ended the week with a patent victory in the USA.
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LG Electronics formally announced its latest flagship smartphone yesterday following a number of pre-announcements and rumours.
The LG G2 introduces LG’s new ‘G’ prefix for premium devices.
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Podcast - 31st July 2013
In this week's show we look at Google's new product announcements, O2's closure of its mobile telecare service and the clearance of radio frequencies for 4G services.
We also talk about the latest collection of quarterly results from Apple, Samsung, Amazon, LG and Facebook. Who's doing well - and should anyone be worried?
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Juniper Research estimates that 230 million smartphones were shipped worldwide during April, May and June this year.
That’s an increase of almost 50% from the same quarter last year and almost 13% up from the previous quarter.
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Surprises and statistics
Mark Bridge writes:
Google’s big announcement last week involved the company introducing Android v4.3 (as expected), launching a new Nexus 7 tablet (as expected) and also revealing a ‘Chromecast’ HDMI adaptor that’ll stream from most portable devices. That was more of a surprise.
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