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 81%…
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App downloads expected to peak at seven billion by 2013
According to ABI Research’s new “Mobile Application Storefronts” report, consumers downloaded some 2.4 billion applications from the combined worldwide apps stores, and the number is set to increase until 2013 when apps will peak at just below seven billion. The bad news is that ABI expect the number downloaded from app stores to drop after…
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Mobile handset sales to hit 1.3bn in 2010
It’s very easy to forget just how small Apple’s mobile market share actually is. The hype is so big for Apple that everything just seems to get lost in a snowstorm of words and we’re just as guilty as the next party. However when you look at charts like the one below you realise just…
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Mobile subscribers pass 4.35 billion mark
ABI Research figures show global mobile subscription numbers surpassed 4.35 billion by the end of 2009, with a YoY growth of 10.4%. ABI also predict that a staggering 80% of the world’s population will be using mobile phones by early 2014. Mobile subscriptions slowed perceptibly in the first half of 2009 as emerging markets took…