A Design Perspective Pranjal Sutradhar Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati Pre-final year stuent pranjal5026@gmail Abstract: Nowadays there is boom of smart phones, there are more than a billion smartphone users in the world [1]. As of 2013, two-third of Americans own smartphones [2].The key feature of these smart phones are their application support and there operating system on which these application runs. The most common mobile operating systems are Android, iOS, Blackberry and
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Dropbox’s current business model Freemium Dropbox utilizes a freemium model that offered both free and premium accounts. To be clear, the users can get the basic services for fee, and they can get more features, functions or storage for a fee. Initially, any one can register a Dropbox account for free to become a user. Each Dropbox user can use 2GB storage space to store any files such as photos, videos, music and Microsoft document files etc. Through any devices such as laptops, Mac, iPad, iPhone
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multi touch interface. Android is a mobile operating system (OS) based on the Linux kernel and currently developed by Google. With a user interface based on direct manipulation, Android is designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers, with specialized
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But Nokia's estimated share of the converged mobile device market was 31% in the fourth quarter, compared with 38% in the third quarter of 2010. The Current Scenario…. On 11 February 2011 Nokia announced a partnership with Microsoft; all Nokia smartphones introduced since then were to run under Microsoft's Windows Phone (WP) operating system. On 26 October 2011 Nokia unveiled its first Windows Phone handsets, the WP7.5 Lumia 710 and 800. Yet Nokia has reported an operating loss of $1.38 billion in
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can satisfying their customer need. This helps Blackberry gain more advantage than other competitive. Weaknesses: 1. Blackberry brand is not as well-known as before: Before Apple joined in the smartphone market, or Samsung’s galaxy became well-known, Blackberry is consider as the top brand for smartphone. However, since Apple launched IPhone, and Samsung started to launch it first Android phone, Blackberry have lose it position in the market. The reason for this because of customer want to use the
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over the world. In emerging markets, Nokia offers durable, attractive, and affordable cell phones. For example, in Indian market, people have an average income therefore; they did not want to spend $600 for a cellphone. Instead of introducing a smartphone with thousands of applications, Nokia focused on the basic functions of cellphone and sold with cheaper price from $30. Furthermore, Nokia also makes it a point to involve the local consumers with offerings that appeal specifically to them. Nokia
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TO IDENTIFY THE TOP THREE OPERATING SYSTEMS FOR SMARTPHONES AND EXPLAIN THEIR FEATURES In this report I want to explain what are the three major smartphone operating systems and their features. The contents of this paper will describe the different design features of Google’s Android, Apple’s iOS and Microsoft’s WindowsPhone operating systems and why the consumers favor them. If you have any questions you can contact me at 409344-0867 or at nuthaky.phani@gmail.com Respectfully
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policy and strategic management TATA GLOBAL BEVERAGES LIMITED A strategy for the DIVERSIFICATION IN SMARtPHONE BUSINESS Guided by, Dr. S.S. Patil Submitted By, 13323 Ritesh Raut 13324 Yogesh Sathe 13325 Sandesh Shendkar 13327 Amit Bhusare 13328 Harshal Patil 13329 Dev Roy PUMBA (2013-15) TATA TEA LTD.: DIVERSIFICATION IN SMARTPHONE BUSINESS AN OVERVIEW OF TATA TEA LIMITED * TATA Tea was set up in 1964 as a joint venture with a UK
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Recommendation Since the mobile phone has become a device with a convergence of media forms, there is a big chance that it can change the user’s habits. As the smartphone affords an ample amount of possibilities to interact and communicate, there seems to be an indication that it changes the user’s way in which he conducts everyday life. Based on the result of our research, we can see that there are changes taking place in user habits, dependency towards the mobile phone behavior, interactions,
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2013 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS ANNUAL REPORT 2013 Financial Summary Samsung Electronics and Consolidated Subsidiaries 228,693 Income Statements Sales Operating Profit 2011 165,002 15,644 13,759 2012 201,104 29,049 23,845 2013 228,693 36,785 30,475 201,104 36,785 Net Income 29,049 165,002 15,644 Balance Sheets Assets Liabilities Shareholders’ Equity 2011 155,800 54,487 101,314 2012 181,072 59,591 121,480 2013 214,075 64,059 150,016 2011 2012 2013
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