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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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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Tablet devices to reach 81 million by 2015
The number of annual shipments for tablet devices will reach 81 million by 2015 as an increasing number of consumer electronics players and handset manufacturers enter the market, finds Juniper Research‘s latest report. According to Juniper Research the catalyst for this expanding market is not the iPad but the Android Operating system which is allowing…
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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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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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A top gadget for all BlackBerry users
If you really want to be a true roadwarrior, then you need to swap everything to your mobile, and ditch the laptop, and just go mobile commando. However while apps and services like Dropbox and Evernote allow you to take your files and data with you wherever you go, there’s still one little problem. How…
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RIM announces Playbook tablet device
Newest rival to Apple’s iPad gets regal launch in San Francisco, but won’t be on general sale until next year
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BlackBerry users at 1.5million downloads a day
Research In Motion (RIM) has said that BlackBerry App World users are downloading more than 1.5 million apps per day on average. The total of 1.5 million downloads also represents a 40 percent increase for RIM over the previous, which is not bad considering that earlier this month they announced they had hit the 10,000…
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RIM losing out to the iPhone
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) has posted a surge in quarterly profit and revenue, however things don’t look so good for next quarter revenues as it fails to add as many subscribers as it expected. RIM said it shipped 12.1 million devices to wireless carriers and stores in its fiscal second quarter, up 45%…
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App figures round up – Android now number two
We’re just doing some work on applications here at Business Mobile for a business partner, and part of that is to try and see the size of the market, so we went hunting for figures on the number of applications in the wild. Unfortunately we just couldn’t find a single place with good figures that…
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Twitter users are now more mobile
Twitter’s mobile user numbers have increased 62% since April following efforts to make the service easier to discover and use on smartphones. A post on blog.twitter.com by Evan Williams Twitter co-founder and CEO added that 16% of all new Twitter users were using it on mobile and that 46% of all active users regularly use…
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BlackBerry buys DataViz
The one app that BlackBerry users have always moaned about not having, is an app that gives you the ability to actually edit those darn Microsoft Office files that people keep attaching to the emails. Luckily someone else managed to rectify this sometime ago, and DataViz have been making rather a lot of cash out…
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IDC bet on Android to continue to top Apple iOS
According to a recent post on eweek a new research note from IDC has predicted that Android and Windows Mobile will see their smartphone market share increase by 2014, both Apple and BlackBerry will experience declines. Which is stating the obvious but it’s always good to reinforce the message that mobile is not just all…
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Android web consumption rises off the back of Droid devices
More Android users are getting onto the mobile web bandwagon according to the latest traffic stats from Quancast, which show Google’s OS catching up with Apple’s iOS. Apple’s iOS platform is still a way ahead of Android in web browsing terms according to Quancast’s stats, but Android is rapidly gaining ground on its rival. In…
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BlackBerry App World cuts prices and revenue share
Cut-price apps are now to be available on BlackBerry App World but revenue share is reduced to 70%. Research In Motion (RIM) has ditched the rule on its BlackBerry App World that developers have to sell their paid apps for a minimum of $2.99. But at the same time RIM have also announced that it…
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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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Smartphones now 25% of US market
Android shows rapid growth as smartphone market grows to 25% in the US. Smartphones are really taking off in the US where they now represent 25% of the US mobile market, up from 23% in the last quarter according to recent data from The Nielsen Company. Not only are Smartphones growing they’re also predicted to…
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iPad apps have more in-app purchases than iPhone apps
The latest Distimo Report (July 2010 looking at June 2010) from app store analytics company Distimo looks in detail at app stores and how effective they are – particularly for in-app purchases. In the report Distimo looked at the Apple App Store for iPad and iPhone, BlackBerry App World (Worldwide), Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi…
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RIM betas BlackBerry App World version 2.0
If you’re one of the few many users who use BlackBerry’s App World to download apps, updates, content etc you’ll be very pleased to see that App World 2.0 has just gone live in beta form. App World 2.0 brings a number of enhancements to the app site, and some much needed new payment options…