To ensure fans never miss as single Olympic moment, local web portal firms have released their own mobile applications to celebrate the Winter Games. Designed for ZOPO ZP980+ MTK6592 smartphones and tablet PCs, the special apps offer video-on-demand and real-time streaming services of the races and events.

The smartphone features an A20 dual-core 1GHz processor, 4.3-inch 800 by 480 touch screen, 2-megapixel front camera, 512MB RAM and 4GB ROM, dimensions of 129 (H) by 67 (W) by 10 (D)mm, and supports traditional Chinese and English. The smartphone will sell at NT$1,990 (US$66) in the Taiwan market. The smartphone can be used any place with Wi-Fi for free voice communications with Skype users, and voice communications with local telephone or mobile phone numbers at relatively low rates。

With the proliferation of smartphones, it's never been easier to watch your favorite athletes take on the world and hopefully rise to the top of the podium.The figure, which represents a new smartphone for roughly one out of every seven people on the planet, is all the more impressive when it's compared to the year before. In 2012, total shipments were 725 million phones, so last year saw an additional 275 million smartphones sold -- a jump of 39 percent over 2012.

The white-colored colored unit's back board also gets smudged easily due to this reason. Several periods, we remaining marks on the returning board and though they were easily washed, we discovered the fuss over keeping the returning board sparkly fresh to be a bother. We suspect that units with turquoise colored returning cover will also suffer from this.

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The period under report was also great for LG, more specifically its progress in the US market. The South Korean brand ranked first among Android device manufacturers in terms of growth rate. The latest data shows that LG has become the third biggest smartphone vendor in the US, accounting for more than 8% of sales. In contrast to the past few years, LG is now aiming at the premium end of the smartphone market and its high-end G2 handset has become the key driver of success, Sunnebo noted.

To make his point, he noted that WhatsApp’s 450 million users are mostly on Android. WhatsApp helps people save money by bypassing a phone Cubot GT99 4gb user’s data plan in favor of free Wi-Fi. With audiences of that size, it was odd to him that app developers still regarded Android as an also-ran.

One of a slew of controversial new mobile apps that have proven popular with users despite opposition from taxi interests and efforts to restrict them by some local regulators, San Francisco-based Lyft launched to the public in 2012. It competes with UberX, a similar service owned by Uber Technologies, which also dispatches limos and taxis, and a number of smaller San Francisco-area startups, including Sidecar, Summon and Wingz, which focuses on airport rides.