In their own homes replace iPhone and Co. frequently the computer shows an Accenture study . For better network coverage , the Germans are even willing to dig deeper into their pockets.

The smartphone boom continues : 45 percent of Internet users who do not have a smartphone want to purchase one within the next twelve months .

Online users can access in their own homes and more rare with the PC or laptop to the Internet. During the past year more than nine out of ten onliners have used their home computer for surfing, there are only 85 percent this year .

This is the result of representative study " Mobile Web Watch 2013," the consulting firm Accenture. The results of the investigation are the " world" exclusive.

"Smartphones and tablets at home often replace the computer ," explains Jürgen Morath , Technology expert and CEO of Accenture . In fact, Internet use with the smartphone(Lenovo A390) , the study found increases sharply within a year by a fifth.

70 percent of Internet users use the Internet on their phones , last year it was only 50 percent. Already one in five Internet users with its tablet line , almost as many have connected their game console to the network.

Smartphone boom continues

The use of mobile devices in their own homes is also increasing. Almost every second respondent goes with the smartphone or tablet more than once per day on the Internet .

The smartphone boom will continue , according to the study: 45 percent of Internet users who do not have a smartphone want to purchase one within the next twelve months .

" Was there last flat rates for mobile operators due to few other distinguishing features , are currently on consumer characteristics such as network coverage , call quality and speed more important again ," said technology expert Morath .

Internet speed is important

95 percent of surveyed Internet users place great value on a wide-ranging coverage, for almost as many users are a good call quality and connection speed important. In fact, all network operators are currently investing to make their networks for mobile internet usage faster .

Apparently, this user also willing to pay more money. Thus, 41 percent of respondents would spend € 15 or more for a significantly faster mobile Internet access .

Although this increases the demand on the network operator , but the loyalty decreases towards them. Well every four users, it does not matter who provides them voice and video calling , messaging and other services .

Network operators lose dominance

Nearly ten percent of the respondents could even imagine to obtain their telecommunications package from a provider of social networks. Only slightly less would choose a device or operating system manufacturer as a supplier . " Mobile providers are no longer as dominant perceived by customers as in the past ," says Accenture .

As before, the mobile phone(Lenovo A760) is rarely used for mobile payments . Only ten percent of respondents in Germany , according to the survey use such services. " Mobile payments still waiting for the breakthrough ," said Morath .

Thus, the payment will be attractive to customers via smartphone , the solutions to the telecom companies and other providers would be much easier to handle.

Wiko added two new smartphones to its lineup: the Stairway and the Darkside. The first is a 5-inch model, while the second is even greater because it comes with a screen of 5.7 inches. Both are dual SIM (compatible with up to 42 Mb / s) and is Android 4.2.1 (Jelly Bean) which animates the whole. They begin to appear at retail for less than 300 €.

Wiko is back and adds two new smartphones（THL W300 ） that are already mentioned in recent weeks. After peax 2, the brand continues to effect its upmarket and now offers two behemoths 5 and 5.7 inches, and the Stairway Darkside, which appear less than 300 € as shown LDLC or Material net. example.
Stairway: a false air of Galaxy SIII with a 13 megapixel camera sensor

The first tunes Galaxy SIII except it lacks the "Home" hardware button. Strapping the screen is made of aluminum, which gives it a better finish. Side characteristics, we are dealing with an IPS panel with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels. The SoC is a model carrying four Cortex-A7 at 1.2 GHz (a MediaTek?), Accompanied by 1GB of RAM and 16 GB of storage. The latter can be expanded via a microSD card reader (up to an additional 32 GB).

Stairway wiko

Two light sensors / video are in the game with 5-megapixel front and 13 megapixel rear. An LED flash will assist in taking pictures in low light. As usual with Wiko, we have the right to a dual slot for SIM cards and one of the two networks support up to 42 Mb / s. From Wi-Fi 802.11n and Bluetooth are also part and an A-GPS and an FM tuner.

Its dimensions are 144.5 x 73 x 9 mm and weighs 164 grams, which includes a battery of 2000 mAh. Wiko announced that autonomy is 19.68 hours talk time and 15.31 hours on 3G. The question is whether these figures are confirmed in practice.

While Android 4.3（THL W8S ） has been out for a month now, it's Android 4.2.1 (Jelly Bean) who is in charge of animating this smartphone. The DAS is itself of 0.563 W / kg, which is rather low average. It is proposed that for a little more than € 250 in the best case.
Darkside: aluminum finish and a giant screen

Turning to the second model, the Darkside. It almost takes the same data sheet for a few details. What changes is the IPS screen which is 5.7 inches while the definition remains the same: 1280 x 720 pixels. The design also seems to be working because we have the right to an aluminum hull, a first for the brand.
 
Wiko Darkside

The interior is almost identical except that the optical sensor from 13 to 12 megapixels, the memory card reader is lost and the battery goes to 2600 mAh. Side autonomy, the arrival of a large screen feels since the right to 17 hours talk time and 10.5 hours on 3G. The SAR is almost like speaking of 0.565 W / kg. The weight of the unit is 194 grams with dimensions of 161 x 82.5 x 9.3 mm. Finally, it is also more expensive since it is found just below € 300 in Materiel.net and for a few euros even less LDLC.
Availability side, we note that it is currently pre-orders, but it comes to a finish in the stocks in a few days.

Foreign manufacturers have continued to fall on the local mobile phone market in the second quarter of this year, with a combined share that dropped to only 5%.

According to industry figures, the iPhone from Apple Inc. have included 3.6% of handset sales in the Korean market in the period April-June 2013, while units of Chinese companies reached 1.4%. The three manufacturers of the country, Samsung Electronics Co., LG Electronics Inc. and Pantech Co., have appropriated the rest.Lenovo S750

Apple's share in Korea yet was 8.5% in the last half of last year, thanks to the release of the iPhone 5. She then narrowed to 6.2% in the first half of the year.

Some industry observers analyze the foreign brands are losing ground in the domestic market because most phones sold in the country are upscale. At the same time, many foreign brands have withdrawn from the market or planning to do so due to poor business results.

The BlackBerry Canadian dream of leaving the domestic market currently dominated by the first two smartphone manufacturers in the world, Samsung Electronics and Apple. Motorola Mobility announced last December its intention to terminate its mobile business in Korea. In July 2012, Taiwan's HTC Corp. also announced its plan to close its office in Seoul because of plummeting sales.Lenovo P780

The Asian manufacturer Oppo has just announced a new Android smartphone that allows the user to choose between Android overlay manufacturer or a clean version of Android. A first which is already emulated.

And if, instead of offering smartphones do not allow users to choose the version of Android they want, manufacturers of smartphones offered in dual-boot devices, which allow you to choose between Android overlay manufacturer and refined version of Android? The idea seems to have attracted the Asian manufacturer Oppo, which offers a dual-boot Android smartphone to 269 €.

The device seems to be generally fairly well equipped, with an 8 megapixel sensor, a 2-megapixel webcam, 16GB of storage space, a MediaTek quad-core processor clocked at 1.2 Ghz, 1GB of RAM and a screen 4 7 "display 720p resolution. In short, a mid-range smartphone pretty decent, which could attract a large number of users.Lenovo p770

Launch in September with, hopefully, a great success in the key, which may push other manufacturers to choose between the overlay and the edited version of Android.

The BlackBerry was once the status symbol of businessmen. But but the once successful smartphone manufacturers missed the connection to the wiper and As-generation of modern mobile phones（THL W8 Beyond）. Now, the company embarks on a search for "strategic options," as the company announced today.
 
For the company, thus gives two possibilities: either you find a partner or a buyer. Until the end of Janaury, the Group had renamed for image reasons of Research in Motion (RIM) in Blackberry. An internal committee is to clarify how to proceed with the former leader. A potential partner could also be the ailing computer maker Dell. In the past, but Facebook were sometimes even been mentioned as a possible buyer.
BlackBerry needs a larger market share to its new operating system 10 in the fight against Apple, Samsung and co still can have a chance. The times when every other smartphone was a Blackberry in the U.S. is definitely behind anyway. According to figures from market researcher IDS end of last year it was not even one in twenty.
 
BlackBerry has enacted a radical restructuring program with the restart as a brand and at the same time but increased the marketing budget. New devices such as the BlackBerry Z10（THL W100） and Q10 will boost demand again. Back in March, the campaigns were underway for the devices. The creation was by AMV BBDO based in London, BBDO Proximity (Dusseldorf) has taken over the adaptation of Germany.

It is certain that the Pantech brand is not a brand that comes to mind when automatic we plan to buy a smartphone. But can it will be changed, because this firm based in South Korea announced a device quite noticeable in the market for high-end smartphones of the moment.

One of the major advantages of this smartphone will be marketed under the name of Pantech Vega LTE-A is its connection LTE-A. In reality, only the Galaxy S4 LTE-A benefit in this time of very high-speed connection, where the future development of this sector by the manufacturers. By cons, it is worth noting that only South Korea and some parts of Russia offer this connection that allows up to 3 times more flow compared to the classic 4G LTE connection. Indeed, the rate rises to download 100MB / s to 300MB / s, which is still impressive on a Smartphone.THL W9

From a technical point of view, the Pantech Vega LTE-A is more or less similar to high-end smartphones that have come out this fall. For cons, the selling points of this device are its connection LTE-A, and the fingerprint reader. It is actually a reminder that rumors about such a fingerprint reader on the back of the LG G2 always fuse on the canvas, but Pantech beat LG offering a fingerprint module on the back of its latest smartphone.THL W8 Beyond

The Pantech Vega LTE-A has a screen of 5.6 inches with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels (1 080p). Under the hood, the device offers a Snapdragon SoC 800 quad-core 2.3 GHz, and will run on Android 4.2.2. Referring to the characteristics of the device, the device class rather alongside future Galaxy Note 3 and HTC One Max.THL W200

Normally the Pantech Vega LTE-A will be launched in South Korea in the middle of the month of August, before perhaps touch European soil. So you think that the Pantech Vega is a tough opponent against the Galaxy Note 3 to be formalized next September as the HTC One Max.

It was only a matter of time. HTC is currently preparing the One Max, a model "size" of its smartphone 2013 meeting a great success. The Taiwanese manufacturer has already announced a mini version there is a little less than a month. He whispered for some time that HTC will launch a phablet. A photo released by ePrice seems to confirm the claim. The device features a 5.9 inch screen (against 4.7 inches for One, 4.3-inch Mini One). The Max One and rival series Samsung Galaxy Note. Other competitors are already on the market "giant" screen for a smartphone, including the Sony Xperia Z Ultra.THL W11 Monkey King

ePrice who has been reliable in the past, announced two models. The first "standard" that is, the international model. The second is dedicated to the Chinese market with a dual SIM to put two SIM cards in the same phone. The site the opportunity to give the general characteristics; attention, we do not know if it's standard or Chinese model. However, they should be roughly equivalent to each other. The HTC Max One is advertised to have a screen of 5.9 inches with a resolution 1080p (1920 × 1080), a Snapdragon processor clocked at 2.3 GHz 800, 2 GB RAM and 16 GB of storage. The "BoomSound" system is always there to provide excellent audio quality. A MicroSD card reader is present on the Chinese model.THL W100

In addition, the battery is 3300 mAh, enough to hold many hours. For its part, the camera is identical to the One (UltraPixel sensor on the back, 2.1 megapixel front). The software, although not announced, should be Android 4.2. Indeed, although version 4.3 is output, HTC has not yet adapted to its terminals. For now, we do not know the date of announcement and even less its release date.

Samsung Galaxy S4 is undoubtedly the flagship of the moment: the attention, however, in the coming months, is likely to go beyond this device, or to his successor, the Samsung Galaxy S5.

The next smartphone is much talk, because its production and presentation elicits at least one main question: will the Samsung Galaxy S5, just like the Samsung Galaxy S4 to keep up with the times, with a revolutionary with which sbariagliare the competition?

The Samsung Galaxy S4 is certainly shining for its ancillary features such as eye tracking or smart breaks: the strength of the Samsung Galaxy S5 will be, however, the RAM. In contrast to the 2 GB of its predecessor, with the new device, we will move to 3 GB. Samsung, in fact, has just confirmed the start of production of components with 3 GB of RAM which would, inter alia, the Samsung Galaxy Note 3.

The differences may be significant compared to that seen Samsung Galaxy S4（THL W100）, the new memory from 3 GB thus produced, should be thinner with obvious consequences on the design of the device, and much more, even more efficient from an energy point of view.

Rumors encouraging, therefore, that also affect the timing of the next launch: the Samsung Galaxy S4, in fact, it could lose the scepter of top of the range in May. Sources increasing number of ceremonies would give, now, for the presentation of certain Samsung Galaxy S5 in this month, more than a year after the launch of its predecessor.

With the Lumia Nokia 1020 brings a smartphone that clearly stands out from the crowd. Unlike other high-priced high-end devices, it does not lay so much emphasis on the best technical smartphone features, but focuses more on a different area: photography.

It is the high quality camera with Nokia's own camera app that makes this Windows 8 Smartphone and mobile Snapshot lets hunters' mouths water. With the Nokia Lumia 1020 has redefined the smartphone camera: With its combination of raw image capture performance and good short-range capabilities, the 1020 is one of the smartphones with the very high artistic potential. Our American colleagues have already had occasion to test the Lumia 1020 already extensively.ThL W8S

If we throw away our compact camera and instead leave us again Lumia 1020? For everyday use and weekend events - absolutely. The Lumia 1020 is extremely comfortable and makes for smartphone ratios excellent images that reach the good quality compact cameras.

But based on our CNET tests and Nokia still has a lot to do before a smartphone can replace a quality standalone camera. Even if one Lumia 1020 any time may call for snapshots - the first birthday of the child despite all the progress we would not want to stick with the Lumia 1020.THL W8

German price comparison services list the three colors (white, black and yellow) of the Nokia Lumia 1020 currently with prices starting from € 695, it is available but still nowhere. Including contract prices start for the smartphone with a € (Vodafone), 339 euros (O2) and 149 € (T-Mobile). The price of the device itself is certainly quite high for casual users. Such users are probably better off with the 200 euro devices class (or even cheaper), since their high resolution photo and video shooting quite sufficient for this user group. Serious photographers will appreciate the 2-in-1 capabilities of the Lumia in 1020, however.

While the latest OS updates are often deemed to burden the system, the latest version of Android seems instead to resolve some problems of delays suffered by the Nexus 7.

Google Nexus Remember, it was a few weeks ago: many Nexus 7 first generation were subjected to a progressive degeneration without the owner can do about much: massive slowdowns, crashes, impossible to launch applications Since ... the "scandal" was a little packed, but the worries of performance always seemed present. Fortunately, this "Nexusgate" could have ended with the arrival of the update to Android 4.3.

Several users report indeed a real improvement in the performance of their tablet since the installation of 4.3, which is partly due to the arrival of the TRIM function: it allows Android （PIPO M9 3G）to better manage the removal of data blocks flash memory used for storage, indicating the controller which are no longer used. The result is a faster access to data storage, and so much less slowdowns. In short, if you are the proud owner of a Nexus 7 and you have not yet gone under 4.3 Jelly Bean, run do: it is free and it can only do good. For our part, the copy of the editorial 'having always been very fast, we did not notice any significant performance improvement.