Digitimes Research estimates Android will takes 70% of the worldwide handset market in the second half of 2012
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Android accounts for 1 in 3 smartphone users in US
Android topples RIM in the US to grab first place in the smartphone market.
Android, Apps, BlackBerry, iPhone, News
Half a billion a year spent on apps in the UK
More than half a billion (£581 million) is spent by UK consumers via apps
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Android to have 45% of smartphone market by 2016
Android is expected to take 45% of the smartphone market by 2016 up from 23% in 2010.
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It’s official – BlackBerry PlayBook to run Android apps
RIM has announced that it will let the PlayBook run BlackBerry Java apps and Android v2.3 apps.
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iPad apps outnumber Ovi, BlackBerry and Windows combined
Apple now has over 300,000 iPhone apps in the US, more than twice the nearest competitor according to February’s Distimo figures The latest Distimo report for Feb 2011 looks in depth at the Mac app store and has some interesting things to say about Mac desktop app users versus Apple mobile app users. Distimo reports…
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Google launches AdMob toolkit for Windows Phone 7
Google have launched an AdMob beta SDK for Windows Phone 7 (WP7) so Windows app developers can get access to revenue and advertisers can exploit the new OS. The new Beta WP7 developers allows developers to integrate advertising into their applications, control where the ads appear, and what types of ads are shown in their…
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Android the best selling smartphone handset in the US
comScore’s January US figures from their MobiLens survey shows Android taking the lead among smartphone platforms with 31.2% market share, after two short months in second place. Of the 234 million Americans ages 13 and older with mobile phone almost 65.8 million (28%) now have a smartphones, that’s up 8% from the preceding three-month period and it…
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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 the…
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All BlackBerry devices to be NFC capable from now on
According to a report on website Near Field Communications World virtually all new BlackBerry devices released from now on will include Near Field Communication (NFC) capabilities. At a Westminster e-forum on smartphones, tablets and apps, Research in Motion’s (RIM) UK managing director Stephen Bates suggested that almost all upcoming RIM BlackBerry smartphones and tablets would…
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RIM to run Android apps on BlackBerry devices?
Even with the best will in the World, BlackBerry hasn’t a hope in hell of catching up with Android or the iPhone in the apps war, so if you can’t beat them join them. The constant criticism that the Blackberry is getting for its poor showing in the app department – 10+k apps and that’s…
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1 in 5 smartphone owners are addicted to their smartphone
Yeah I’ve got an Android phone but I can handle it right? I don’t need to …oh hang on my phone’s ringing The latest JustAsk! Research Study from US business Crowd Science into consumer smartphone behaviour and attitudes reveals that smartphone owners are unable to give up their devices, and are thoroughly addicted to the…
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Average mobile app usage exceeds 11 hours a month
The fastest way to a smartphone user is via an app or messaging as new research shows smartphone users spend more time with their apps and messaging than they do on calls and web browsing. According to the study, commissioned by, the research arm of the GSMA, mobile apps are responsible for 667 minutes of…
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Owning a BlackBerry increases your workload and decreases your productivity
A new book The Activity Illusion finds that smartphones are not the answer to all our worries but are in fact the cause of all our worries. It’s what we all knew, but were afraid to say. Yes the BlackBerry, CrackBerry is more a hinderance than a help. In a new book The Activity Illusion…
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A quarter of downloaded apps are used only once
Bad news if you’re thinking of producing an app that will make you millions, a new survey has found that most downloaded apps are used only once. Localytics studied the thousands of Android, iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry and Windows Phone 7 apps over the last year, and the good news is that users are willing to…
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Two million Windows 7 phones in the channel
Microsoft’s senior product manager Greg Sullivan said in an interview with Bloomberg that it sold over 2 million Windows Phone 7 devices to carriers and retail partners last quarter. The weasel words here are “to carriers and retail partners” this is not the number sold, there could be 1.9 million boxes sat around unsold in…
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Mobile developers are switching to tablet apps over Android
Tablets – particularly iPad tablets – are hot property with mobile developers according to the Appcelerator Mobile Developer Report, and the desire to get a iPad app out has put developers off developing for Android. Appcelerator and IDC surveyed 2,235 Appcelerator Titanium developers from January 10-12, 2011 on perceptions surrounding mobile OS priorities, feature priorities,…
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GSMA nominees for 2011’s Annual Global Mobile Awards
The GSMA has announced the nominees for the 16th Annual Global Mobile Awards and it’s a good mix of the usual suspects, the blatantly obvious and some real gems. The hotly contested device and manufacturer awards are probably an easy win for Apple. In the best device the iPhone 4 is up against the HTC…
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DigiPos launches Mcommerce app platform
Solutions provider for retailers, DigiPoS, has launched its MobileShopper mcommerce ecosystem, and claims it’s the first off-the-shelf package to combine, an app, mcommerece, mobile coupons and self-scanning technologies and more, in one solution. The MobileShopper iPhone app combines online shopping with the in-store experience, and is aimed at propelling retailers into the future; with the…
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Blackberry overtakes Apple iOS
BlackBerry OS overtook Apple’s iOS for the first time in the UK and the US in November in terms of mobile internet usage according to web analytics company, StatCounter. The company’s research arm, StatCounter Global Stats finds that for the first time in the UK the BlackBerry OS at 43.45% overtook Apple’s iOS which recorded…