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LG’s Q Voice expanding to English, coming the first half of next year

LG is getting into the natural voice computing game with Q Voice, plus they state it is coming to English speakers inside the initial half of 2013. Using the Wernicke engine, Q Voice utilizes “reasoning with a probabilistic model to locate the greatest answer“, matching the context of the text inside addition to utilizing a standard database of correct replies. This could aid the Q Voice application act more naturally, regardless of what code the consumer is talking. In addition to standard voice to text plus searching, Q Voice can control device settings, plus basically “perform any function [with] the right procedure“. We take that to mean which any aim which is preformed inside software may additionally be done by Q Voice, that could cause a especially interesting application indeed. Needless to say, LG has programmed the ability to have a witty, psychological reaction whenever confronted with a query it can’t answer. [...]

iPhone Again Represents Over Half of Verizon’s Smartphone Sales in 1Q 2012

Marking the first significant piece of data to help build a picture of Apple’s quarterly iPhone sales numbers ahead of next week’s earnings release, Verizon today announced its own earnings results for the first quarter of 2012, revealing during the associated conference call that it activated 3.2 million iPhones during the quarter. The number is down from 4.3 million iPhones in the previous quarter, which was part of Apple’s record-setting launch quarter for the iPhone 4S that saw the company sell 37 million iPhones worldwide. Analysts are generally expecting Apple’s iPhone sales for the first calendar quarter of 2012 to be down slightly from that 37 million number, and Verizon’s results certainly support that belief, at least in the United States. But increased international availability of the iPhone 4S during the first quarter, most notably a launch in China in mid-January and an expansion to China Telecom in early March, [...]

Android Army Swells to Half of U.S. Smartphone Users

By Jared Newman, PCWorld Apr 3, 2012 1:32 PM More than half of U.S. smartphone users own an Android phone, according to a new survey by comScore. The market research group surveyed 30,000 U.S. mobile subscribers in February, and found that Android had 50.1 percent market share, up from 46.9 percent in a survey from November. Apple’s iPhone market share also grew over the last three months, up from 28.7 percent to 30.2 percent. Together, Apple and Google are eating the lunches of Research in Motion and Microsoft, whose respective market shares dropped to 13.4 percent and 3.9 percent. RIM’s Blackberry phones have been in a market share decline for years, and Microsoft is still making a rough translation from its old Windows Mobile OS to the new Windows Phone, which has yet to gain much traction. However, change may be afoot in the U.S. smartphone market. A report [...]