Android growth

Android has gained a lot of market share in a very short time. It has also traversed through many types of screens in doing so. From a whole plethora of 2.8” to 5” phones, from 6” phablets to 10” tablets and some 12” hybrids as well.…

Windows operating system, the most popular Microsoft product ever created, has never been offered free to consumers. But facing the heat from the Internet and Mobile wave, where most of the awesome services are free, Microsoft is now ready…

Asia Pacific was the only region where sales of Mobile phones witnessed growth, compared to all other regions where it declined according to Gartner Worldwide mobile phone sales report for first quarter of 2013. Asia Pacific region alone…

There are downfalls and then there is what happened to Nokia. There are rises and then there is what happened with Samsung. Nokia was once synonymous with a mobile. I do not even know what company my landline phones belonged to-…

In a few hours we will bid good bye to 2012… and people are fondly remembering their best memories while vowing to better their worst ones. For technology, this year was both a great one and one for a few sorrows. Where death of notable…

The rise of Android phones in India has been phenomenal with over 600% YOY growth in the year 2011.Today they hold a comfortable 34% of the Indian smartphone market behind only the (now aging) Symbian OS. Even as analysts and experts have…

First off – A very Happy Independence day to all our trak.in readers – Even Google is celebrating it with Red Fort Doodle! Having said that, let us have a look at some of the buzzing articles of last week. Did you know that we just…

Android is the leading smartphone OS in the US now and it powers more than 130 million devices across the world including a phalanx of cheap handsets across Asia. Not just that, there are more than half a million devices activated…

Android is open and that’s the reason why people are flocking to it. That is a general statement people make these days. As true as it may sound, not much truth is there to that statement. I have discussed it in detail in my earlier post.…

One of the arguments I hear a lot these days is :  people are flocking to Android because it’s open. I am sure it is. Android is open. But what does it really mean to you? As a consumer or as an average consumer, what are you really…