Microsoft Corporation plans to expand the audience of its mobile platform at the expense of Android and iOS users. The Internet demo version of Windows Phone 7 is used as a promotion tool.

Improved graphics, an updated camera and a voice control tool (similar to Siri in the latest iPhone) – all this may be waiting for Android in the near future.

Black Friday even overtook app stores: prices in the Apple App Store were reduced by 1,415 apps.

ChangeWave has published a new study of satisfaction of iPhone 4S owners. The vast majority – 96% – are satisfied with their device, which puts the iPhone at an unattainable height.

After Apple started accepting payments in local currency in China, the number of downloads in the store increased dramatically by a third. First of all, it affected the category of games.

According to Gartner‘s forecasts, the total tablet and smartphone market will be 44% larger than the personal computer market in 2011. And by the end of 2014, the estimated base of mobile devices will exceed the total number of personal computers. At the recent ITxpo 2011 conference, Gartner Vice President David Willis spoke about the future of the enterprise tablet application market.

Two tablets are currently fighting for leadership in the holiday season: Amazon’s Kindle Fire and Apple’s iPad.

The vast majority of smartphone users in the US – 71% – own either an Android device or an iPhone. If we talk about apps, the superiority is even greater: 83% of those who downloaded apps in the last 30 days use either iPhone or Android.

Windows Phone 7 Marketplace is now the fifth largest app store. It is outstripped only by the Apple App Store, Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store and BlackBerry App World.

43% of all smartphones sold in the UK in October were iPhones, according to research by Kantar Worldplanet. For comparison, Android phones took only 35% of sales. However, the total number of Android devices in England is still ahead of the iPhone.

In preparation for the release of the new version of BlackBerry, RIM is trying to lure Android developers to its side. Despite the general belief that the battle in the field of mobile devices has narrowed down to the struggle between iOS and Android only, RIM emphasizes at every step that the BlackBerry platform is not dead.

According to a study by the consulting company GfK, Apple has seriously overtaken its competitors in terms of user loyalty to the brand. Approximately 84% of iPhone owners said they would purchase an Apple smartphone again.

According to Kirill Petrov, Managing Director of i-Free, in 2011 Russian developers creating applications for iOS and Android platforms will receive more than $ 80 million. Most of this money will be earned outside of Russia, one of the main reasons is that payment by bank cards is still poorly developed in our country.

Android’s share of the tablet market is expected to grow in the next two years. According to a recent study by eMarketer, at the moment the share of the iPad is 83%, but Android and Windows 8 will reduce its share to 76% next year, to 71% in 2013 and to 68% by 2014.

In this issue: iOS apps bring 90% of profits, Europe is the leader in the number of Android apps downloaded per person, Apple has started accepting Chinese yuan in the App Store.

According to the latest research by Zscaler, the share of Android from the total number of transactions of the three leading mobile platforms was 40%. This is a big breakthrough compared to the second quarter, in which the Google platform owned only 17% of transactions.

The Bloomberg resource reports that Apple has removed the Big Fish Games application, with which it was possible to subscribe to the developer and receive games for a monthly fee.

Apple is launching a model for selling iPad games by monthly subscription. The first publisher to try it out will be the American company Big Fish Games.