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Infographic: The smartphone market in 2013

smartphone market share

IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker provides quarterly information about the current state of the smartphone market. The data from last year's fourth quarter just arrived, so is possible to take a look at the big picture. The following infographic shows the market share and shipments of the major smartphone operating systems of 2013.

Save a life, buy an app

piracy

Rest in peace to the bad guys, or, if you’re too cheap to support a developer by paying for their application, the good guys. The United States Department of Justice has gone on a killing spree, crushing three of the best-known websites and markets for Android piracy.

10 'must have' apps

There's more than 200000 apps on the market, but most of them are not useful. So I decided to help users to find some useful application.

Let's see what we have:

Soundhound

What's that song? Identify it FAST with SoundHound.
SoundHound is instant music search and discovery:
♪ The world's FASTEST music recognition: name tunes playing from a speaker in as little as four seconds
♪ The world's only viable singing and humming recognition
♪ Home screen widget allows you to identify music without launching the app
♪ Instant lyrics and artist info
♪ Split-second Say search: just speak a title or band name to check it out

Android market changes

http://www.helloandroid.com/files/android-market-makeover.jpg

A few weeks ago Google has changed Android Market as you may noticed. First of all they reduced the purchase refund window from 48 hours to 15 minutes to try an application and get a refund if they didn’t like it.
Developers must set a content rating for their apps: Mature, Teen, Pre-Teen, or All. Applications or games without a rating will be treated as Mature.

Android Device Catalog Released On The Market

Interested in Android powered devices? Android Device Catalog from HelloAndroid.com will keep you updated with all the latest information on Android powered phones and tablets. The application is based on the data in our Device Catalog. The application is available as a free download.

* Phone and Tablet Gallery
* Detailed device information
* Detailed search
* On-Line <- means always fresh

As the data comes from HelloAndroid.com, it needs Internet connection at the first start.


       

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