The latest figures from analysts Gartner show Android is now at the heart of 25% of all smartphones worldwide, up from 3.5% at this time last year. Additionally Gartner forecasts that media tablets (such as the Apple iPad) will reach 54.8 million units in 2011. Worldwide Sales Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totaled…
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iPad app market now 14% of total Apple app store market
Distimo’s regular US monthly app report is out for the month of October and it shows that Apple app developers appear to be prone to cheating on their old-faithful iPhone with the new high-class rich thing in town the iPad. Distimo found that the proportion of iPad-only applications outgrew the proportion of universal applications during…
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Google AdSense now comes with added app ad slots
Google have integrated AdMob and AdSense and it’s good news all round, as both advertisers looking for new ad slots and app builders looking for extra revenue should be catered for from the off. It’s six months since Google finally acquired mobile advertising platform AdMob, and Google have celebrated the day by announcing that it’s…
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Smartphone traffic to increase 700% by 2015
Analysts Informa Telecoms & Media estimates smartphone ATPU (average traffic per user) on mobile networks will increase 700% over the next five years. Informa estimates that ATPU per smartphone in the US currently averages 85MB per month, and this is forecast to reach a staggering 776MB/month by 2015, where as Western Europe will also enjoy…
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Apple has 95% of tablet market in 3rd Quarter 2010
Global tablet shipments reached over 4 million units in the third quarter of 2010, with Apple unsurprisingly being the market leader. The latest research from Strategy Analytics, shows Apple took 95% of the global share of the tablet market beating Android into second place with just 2% of the market. However that’s due to rise…
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One million people in UK have made payment by mobile
According to new figures from PayPal released today over one million Britons have now used PayPal to make a payment or send money on their mobile phones. In Britain, PayPal saw month on month mobile transactions grow by 20% in July and August this year. PayPal UK customers already make an average of almost five…
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Android now 44% of US smartphone market
US Android market has grown significantly in the third quarter of 2010, and now accounts for 44% of all smartphones purchased. Thanks to continued high-profile handset introductions, the Android smartphone OS significantly grew its lead in the US consumer smartphone market in Q3 2010. According to market research company NPD Group, Android’s OS was installed…
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31 percent of mobile usage is via wifi
David Harper CEO of PercentMobile has shared some mobile traffic figures with the people on Mobile Monday and we thought they were so good we’d share them with you. The PercentMobile figures come from analysis of the last 6 months aggregate UK mobile Web Usage from a sample of over 2.5 million UK uniques, over…
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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; that…
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Google mobile search up 500%
Mobile search is starting to make significant growth confirms Google, and Android users are responsible for much of that growth. It looks like all those millions of people sitting on their couch with their iPhones, watching TV and searching the Internet Movie Database for the name of the actor in the episode of The Bill…
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Android makes huge gains in US Smartphone market
comScore’s August mobile figures are out and US smartphone ownership is up by a massive 14%, but it’s not great news for RIM or Apple. Following yesterdays Nielsen results today we have comScores August results and it confirms the decline in popularity of the BlackBerry and the rise of Android. The results include the three…
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Android stengthens it’s position in the US smartphone market
Android now has first place in the US smartphone market, with both Apple and RIM fighting hard for second place. According to August data from Nielsen Company, Android is now the most popular operating system among people who bought a smartphone in the past six months, while Blackberry RIM and Apple iOS are in a…
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LG delays launch of Android 2.2 tablet – software update on the horizon?
Google’s head of mobile Hugo Berra was said to have spooked many a manufacturer last month when he openly noted that Android 2.2 (“Froyo”) is “not optimised for use on tablets”
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Games are still the dominant apps category
The latest Distimo report is out for Q3 2010 and it’s got lots of good information on how the app world is doing in the US. Especially the continued dominance of games as the top apps in nearly all app stores. The report covers the most popular applications in the Apple App Store for iPad,…
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Google adds 20 new countries to it’s paid application list
As we reported on Monday Google was planning to add additional countries to it’s paid app support, and they’ve come up trumps. There are now 29 countries where developers can sell apps on the Google Android market. From today Android developers can sell their apps in 29 countries, up from just nine. Today’s additions include;…
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eBuddy hits 100 million app downloads
Dutch web and mobile instant messaging business eBuddy has passed the 100 million app downloads mark. A blog post from the firm confirms the figures and adds a quote from CEO and co-founder Jan-Joost “JJ” Rueb, “Reaching the 100 million mobile download milestone speaks not only to the popularity of mobile IM, but also to…
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The next tablet is a Next tablet
We’re shocked, nay stunned. Retailers Next have released their own-branded Android tablet device. The ten-inch tablet advertised on their website for £180 includes a touch screen, wifi, has 8Gb RAM and runs on Google’s Android OS. It’s not clear if this will be in-store as well. The tablet is currently not available next day but…
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Phone + Android = Google Phone? Nope
Where’s the clarity in the Android market? Google have just announced a use for it’s old Nexus One website as place for users to go to find “real” Google phones, but is that really any help? The www.google.com/phone site – previously occupied with Nexus One details – now has a list of “Google” phones, as…
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Android ad requests growing by 996%
US mobile ad house Millenial Media has seen phenomenal growth in Android requests, with 996% growth since January 2010. Millenial Media’s monthly US Mobile Mix survey for August 2010 continued to see rapid Android and iPad growth on their network in August. Top 15 Manufacturers (all devices) Apple 28.32% Samsung 15.46% Motorola 14.32% Research In…
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Dell to release a 7 inch Android tablet in next few weeks
The seven inch Android tablet that Michael Dell whipped out at last week’s Oracle World conference (see our report) is going to be released in the next few weeks, with a ten incher to follow in the next six months according to a report in the Wall Street Journal Dell’s Greater China President Amit Midha…