Qualcomm talks new dual-core Snapdragon with 5x performance - GSMArena.com news

Qualcomm, the company behind Snapdragon, teased its successor - the MSM8960 has two cores, five times the performance, better graphics and a multi-mode 3G and 4G modem. They also have a couple of other dual-core systems using the current Snapdragon core but at higher frequency. Two Systems on a Chip (SoC) we'll be seeing next year are the MSM8260 and MSM8660. They pack two Scorpion cores (same core as current generation Snapdragons) but run at 1.2GHz and they're shipping to manufacturers already.

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Samsung Q3 results are out: market share and profit increase - GSMArena.com news

The second largest cell phone manufacturer just published its Q3 results and things are looking pretty good. Unlike their neighbors from LG who had a rather rocky quarter, Samsung continue to gain pace and have moved another step forward in their plan to become Numero Uno. In Q3 the sales of the conglomerate have increased by 12 percent to 35.8 billion US dollars, while net profit rose by 17 percent to reach 4 billion dollars. The mobile division was among the more profitable Samsung businesses, generating 9.9 billion dollars of sales and 1 billion of profit. Those numbers represent an increase of respectively 16 percent and 0.3 percent compared to the same period of last year.

During the past three months Samsung sold 71.4 million handsets, giving them a market share of just over 22 percent (it was 20.8 percent in Q3 of 2009). In comparison, for Q3 of 2009 Samsung only pushed 60.8 million mobile phones.

The average selling price of the Samsung mobile phones has also increased by 14 percent over the previous quarter up to 122 US dollars.

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The Apple AppStore now has over 300,000 apps

The Apple App Store is still undeniably the leader in application stores. Without much fanfare, sometime yesterday evening it passed the 300,000 apps mark - less than two months after is passed the count of some 250,000 applications residing in its repository.

One report from Mobclix puts the app count at just over 300 thousand and another report from 148Apps puts the count at 333 thousand (in the US App Store, counting inactive apps too).

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