According to new figures from Gartner, mobile sales and smartphones sales continue to grow in the second quarter of 2010. Gartner’s latest figures show smartphone sales to end users accounted for 19% of worldwide mobile device sales, an increase of 50.5% from the second quarter of 2009, while worldwide mobile sales to end users totaled…
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6.4m iPhones in the UK by the end of 2010
By the end of 2010 one in ten of the UK population will own an iPhone according to MobileSquared. By the end of this year, 6.4 million Britons will own an iPhone, according to new forecasts from research firm MobileSquared. That’s up 195% from the 2.17 million at the end of 2009, and they think…
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Tesco start their push for m-commerce on Ovi
According to stories in New Media Age Tesco has submitted a new application to Nokia for approval to join the Ovi Store and are going ahead with an Ovi m-commerce app ahead of an iPhone app. The new application, called Tesco Grocery App, is the first transactional application they have released for mobile and will…
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Where to find the cheapest unlocked iPhone
Website www.choreographics.eu has put together a startlingly good infographic of how much the iPhone 4 sells for in each of the 23 countries the iPhone 4 is currently on sale in. Of the 23 territories the iPhone is only available unlocked in just 14; France, UK, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy,…
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Torch, N8, WP7, what Else?
This weeks launch of both the RIM Torch 9800 and the Nokia N8 and the announcement of the forthcoming Windows Phone 7 Phones reminds us of just how sick we are of seeing the phrase “iPhone killer.” It’s also got us thinking about what happened to the killers of the past. First off there was…
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Worldwide mobile phone shipments jumped by 14.5% in the second quarter of 2010
Worldwide mobile phone shipments jumped by 14.5% in the second quarter of 2010, driven by sales of smartphones and entry-level handsets. The worldwide mobile phone market continued to show signs of improvement during the second quarter of 2010, driven primarily by smartphone vendors and companies outside the top five leaders worldwide. According to IDC’s Worldwide…
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Apple iPad shipments to hit 12.9 million in 2010 and 50 million by 2012
Analysts iSuppli predicts Apple will ship 12.9 million iPads in 2010, but their figures for 2011 and 2012 are looking stratospheric. Analysts iSuppli have revised their iPad shipment figures quite significantly, instead of their April predictions of shipments of 7.1 million they now predict end of year sales to be nearer 13 million units, but…
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Smartphone shipments jump 43% to 60m units in Q2 2010
According to a new report from research firm Strategy Analytics, global smartphone shipments rose 43% annually to a record 60 million units during Q2 2010. Research show that the smartphone market is continuing to grow and it now accounts for 19% of total worldwide handset volumes, up from 15% a year earlier. The research firm…
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Apple hits 100 million iOS devices
Apple’s figures for Q3 2010 (everything up to June 26 two days after the new iPhone 4 went on sale) show a dip in quarterly iPhone sales on Q2 but it’s a significant increase on Q3 sales for 2009. And despite Antenna-gate, Apple are bullish on their prospects for Q4 and are promising more new…
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Apple press conference to address iPhone issues
Apple is to address iPhone 4 issues at Friday press conference. According to a report in the Guardian, Apple has called an impromptu press conference tomorrow (Friday 16 July) to explain the problems with the iPhone 4 and to stop increasing speculation over an iPhone 4 recall . In a brief email, Apple invited press…
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IOS 4.01 now available to developers
Apple has released their pre-release version of iOS 4.1 to developers and it has the “fix” for the antenna problem. We still don’t know when it will be released to end-users but it shouldn’t be that long, a few weeks tops. As well as the fix there appear to be a few other tweaks in…
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Time to revenue for app developers is 36 days on average
A new report on app stores by VisionMobile should be required reading for any apps developers and publishers out there, especially those looking for revenue from their apps. According to VisionMobile’s Developer Economics 2010 report we are now in the industrial revolution era (2010-2014) of app development having gone through the difficult Dark Ages (2000-2004),…
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iPhone app download dominance under threat
The dominance of Apple’s iPhone in the mobile app download market will be eroded over the coming years as rivals make inroads. A new report by telecoms analyst Ovum states that mobile application downloads generated by non-operator application stores will grow by a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of around 41% globally over the next…
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Nokia slips down the smartphone wants list
The latest YouGov Smartphone Mobile Internet Experience study shows that Nokia continues to lose market share to newer brands such as Apple and HTC. The survey finds that Nokia is failing to compete, with the numbers of smartphone owners planning on opting for a Nokia as their next mobile dropping substantially over the last six…
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Apple 4th most successful ecommerce vendor in UK
Experian Hitwise have published their 4 Year Anniversary Edition of the IMRG Hitwise Hot shops list and Apple are at number 4 a jump from their 17th position in May last year, and all on the back of the launch of the iPad. If the iPhone 4 traffic was added in who knows it could…
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1.7 million people can’t be wrong
Apple has said that it sold more than 1.7 million units of the iPhone 4 in the first three days, making it the most successful product launch in the company’s history from the standpoint of sales. A quick back of the fag packet calculation shows that the iPhone 4 has given Apple and the Apple…
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iPhone delivery dates now 14th July
The Apple pre-order website now gives the delivery date for both the 16 and 32 GB versions of the iPhone 4 in the UK and US as 14 July. The pre-order has now had two huge jumps in less than a week. The site which went live on Tuesday where it advertised shipping dates as…
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Apple and O2 are the perfect combination
If you have an iPhone and you’re on O2 you’re a lucky person. You think that O2 is the best network in Europe by a long chalk, and you think the iPhone is incredible. Customer experience business Satmetrix, released its 2010 European Net Promoter Industry Benchmarks for the mobile phone carriers and mobile phone handset…
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100 million Apple devices by 2011
The FT has published a blog piece with some outrageous interesting speculation from analysts that Apple’s IOS devices could number 100 million in the next 18 months. The piece looks at some of the Wall Street analysts, who seem to be wanting to outdo each other with who can up-chat the iPhone/iPad sales the most.…
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iPhone 4 winning in analyst sweepstakes
Mobile analysts have upped their guesstimates for iPhone 4 sales, following the demand for the wunder-phone on its first day of pre-orders. In a research note, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster changed his iPhone sales targets for both the quarters ending in June and September to 9.5 million from 8.5 million. He wrote that Apple…