Mark Bridge writes:
In a way, it’s hard to believe that the first Apple iPhone wasn’t seen in public until this day seven years ago. It - and the trend towards one-piece smartphones with hardly any buttons - seems to have been with us for much longer.
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Figures from the International Data Corporation show that worldwide smartphone shipments in the third quarter of 2013 reached a new record for the second consecutive month.
Total smartphone shipments were up 38.8% year-on-year and up 9% from the previous quarter to 258.4 million devices.
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Apple’s latest set of financial results show quarterly revenue up slightly year-on-year to $37.5 billion and quarterly net profit down to $7.5 billion.
It sold 33.8 million iPhones during the three-month period to the end of September, a 26% year-on-year rise resulting in a new record for this quarter.
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A lighter iPad for light-fingered Apple thieves?
Mark Bridge writes:
No prizes for guessing which two mobile tech stories grabbed most of the headlines last week. Tuesday morning saw Nokia’s much-rumoured tablet and phablet launches, with a Windows RT device and two 6-inch smartphones joining the company’s product portfolio.
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A month later than expected, BlackBerry has started rolling out its BBM applications for Android and iPhone.
The apps will allow users with non-BlackBerry devices to send and receive instant messages using the popular BBM messaging service.
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