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Android to have 45% of smartphone market by 2016
Android app downloads exceeded 1.9 billion in 2010
Android in it’s various guises notched up 1.9 billion downloads in 2010, a quarter of the total 2010 downloads. 2010 saw considerable growth in the mobile applications market for both Apple and Google Android and more competition is expected in 2011. Despite more proactive involvement in app store development from other platform providers, Apple’s...
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2010 mobile sales see Samsung growing fast
ABI Research figures for 2010 are all in and unsurprisingly Nokia still dominate the market with just over a third of the Worldwide market, however Samsung are catching up and account for one in five phones in the market. The ABI Research figures for Q4 2010 make for some interesting viewing. Nokia is still...
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Thinner, lighter, faster, better, iPad2 and it’s out this month
The iPad2 is finally out of the bag – or rather it will be to lucky people in the US in 9 days time – and it looks fantastic. The headline features are; thinner, lighter, more powerful, faster, with more features, an interesting cover, and all for the same price with the same 10...
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6.6 billion mobile users predicted by 2016
Worldwide mobile broadband-enabled subscriptions are mounting up, and will hit the one billion mark in 2011. According to the latest market data released by ABI Research, at the end of 2010 there were more than five billion mobile subscriptions globally, with one in five of those having access to mobile broadband. Another 28% growth...
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The new CDMA iPhone in the hotspot
The rumours were true there is to be a new iPhone released on to the market, but rather than a next generation iPhone it’s going to be an iPhone that will work with the CDMA wireless network and you’ll be able to create a wireless hotspot with it, which should make iPad owning iPhone...
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eBook sales to double to 30 million in 2011
eBook readers are set for big sales next year, with 100% growth expected. The market for eBook readers has until now been largely restricted to the United States, and in the US it has been led by Amazon’s Kindle, Barnes & Noble’s Nook, and Sony’s Reader. But according to ABI Research, starting in 2013...
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Smartphones account for one in five phones shipped
New figures show that the smartphones are now accounting for one in every five phones shipped, that’s up from one in ten this time last year. The smartphone markets are continuing to forge ahead at an extraordinary pace. According to ABI Research, smartphones made up 19% of all handsets shipped in the second quarter;...
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Mobile sat nav usage up
A navigation survey conducted by ABI Research has revealed that just as predicted, when Nokia and Google took the decision to deliver mapping for free, it hastened the invitable demise of the mass-market purpose-built sat nav industry. The ABI survey “2010 Navigation Survey Highlights Comparison: 2009 and 2010 Results from US, UK, Germany, and...
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85% of smartphones will ship with GPS by 2013
ABI Research anticipates that the sensor-driven user interface (UI) will be an emergent theme in the next wave of mobile UI innovation—turning objects, locations, and people into networked, interactive elements. Figures from ABI Research predict that by 2013, 85% of smartphones will ship with GPS, over 50% will ship with accelerometers, and almost 50%...
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Mobile app market to be a two(ish) horse race by 2011
We love analysts reports at Bmob, but sometimes we just don’t agree, and the latest report from analysts ABI Research is a case in point. According to ABI Research they expect mobile application downloads from iOS and Android to account for 78% of all application downloads in 2010, with iOS taking the lion’s share...
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More than 3.6 billion mobiles will be internet enabled by 2015
In 2015, 3.8 billion mobile handsets – slightly more than 60% of the installed base of mobile handsets worldwide – will contain mobile web browsers, according to a new study from ABI Research. That doubles today’s penetration rate and the research indicates that the installed base of full Internet browsers will exceed that of proxy-based browsers sometime in...
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Mobile data usage grows exponentially
Mobile data usage continues to grow exponentially as 3G technology spreads globally. According to ABI Research data usage is expected to increase from 2009 to 2015 at a compound annual growth rate of 42% in Western Europe and 55% in North America. In 2010, the average North American user is expected to consume 159...
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ABI Research says it’s time for marketers to wake up to mobile
Marketers should wake up to the potential of mobile say ABI Research The mobile web is here to stay but unfortunately marketers aren’t catching on to the true potential. According to ABI research the mobile web opportunity is there and while it’s not a “tsunami” of opportunity it is “the first waves of what...
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Tablet computers to ship over 11 million in 2010
When ABI Research first examined the media tablet market in February, neither Apple’s iPad nor any other multinational-branded tablet had been released. Six months later, the firm has revisited its forecasts, almost tripling the original estimate to reach about 11 million tablets expected to ship by the end of 2010, with the majority of...
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Mobile ad spend to quadruple in the next five years
ABI Research has estimated that amount spent on mobile display advertising will quadruple over the next five years, the more cynical will say yes it’s going to quadruple from £1 to £4, but any rise is good especially in the current economic client. The actual figures for the current mobile ad spend in the...
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World mobile population now numbers 5 billion
Last week ABI research were saying that by the end of 2010 the worldwide mobile population would exceed five billion, but according to analysts The Mobile World we’ve already hit the 5 billionth user this weekend. And although it was the July 4 weekend the five billionth mobile subscriber was probably living in India...
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Smartphone market to grow to 224 million in 2010
Smartphone shipments are expected to grow 21% this year to 224 million, according to the latest “Mobile Devices Market Forecast Analysis” forecast from ABI Research, and remarkably the reason for the huge growth has nothing to do with the iPhone or Android. Vice president of forecasting Jake Saunders says, “While there is considerable fanfare...
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Netbook market to get a 20 million iPad tablet boost
Last year ABI Research forecast that approximately 35 million netbooks would ship into world markets in the course of the year – an estimate was viewed in some quarters as unrealistically high – they were wrong, by the end of 2009 36.3 million netbooks shipped. This year they estimate 58 million netbooks will be...
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The state of the 2009 handset market
The figures are in and the numbers have been totalled up, and the winners is – Mobile. (shouldn’t that be the Liberals?-ED) ABI have launched their totals for handsets delivered in 2009 and it’s a staggering figure. In 2009 global mobile handset shipments totalled approximately 1.15 billion , with enhanced phones and smartphones capturing approximately...
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