Android topples RIM in the US to grab first place in the smartphone market.
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Android accounts for 1 in 3 smartphone users in US
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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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US smartphone users increased by 60 percent in 2010
comScore figures for December 2010 show a year on year increase of 60% for smartphone usage in the US market, and Android continues its steady growth with a 7.3% rise in the last quarter of 2010 According to comScore figures 63.2 million people in the US owned smartphones during the three months ending in December…
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Mobile phone market grew 18.5% in 2010 to 1.39 billion devices
The worldwide mobile phone market grew 17.9% in the fourth quarter of 2010 (4Q10), a new quarterly high driven by smartphones. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) The IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, shows vendors shipped 401.4 million units in 4Q10 compared to 340.5 million units in the fourth quarter of 2009. Vendors…
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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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Android to grow more than twice the rate of major competitors in 2011
Android will continue to grow at more than twice the rate of its major smart phone competitors in 2011, according to Analysts Canalys. Canalys Q3 2010 estimates, show the Android platform already claims a 25% share of the worldwide smart phone market, with over 20 million shipments of Android-based worldwide. ‘The growth of Android has…
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Android number 2 smartphone in US
comScore figures for the three month average period ending November 2010 shows a 6.4% increase for Android putting it firmly in second place ahead of the iPhone, and 7.5% behind RIM in the US smartphone market, which itself has seen a phenomenal growth of 10% in the last quarter. Smartphone Platform Market Share 61.5 million…
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Smartphones now used by 1 in 4 US mobile subscribers
comScore’s quarterly mobile figures for the three months to October 2010 reveal that nearly 1 in 4 US mobile subscribers are on smartphones, and Android continues to grow with a substantial 6.5% growth rate in the last quarter. Smartphone Platform Market Share Of the 234 million Americans ages 13 and older who use mobile devices,…
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Android now powers 25 percent of all smartphones
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 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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LG loses chief executive following record making losses
South Korea’s LG Electronics – the World’s third largest mobile phone supplier – has ousted its chief executive Nam Yong, blaming him for LG’s lack of sales, and is replacing him with a founding family member in a bid to turn around its loss-making mobile phone business. Following a record $103 million loss in the…
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comScore – Android sees significant growth in US
comScore has released data from latest July survey of key trends in the US mobile phone industry during the three month average period ending July 2010. The big change is the increase in the Smartphone market share for Android. It produced a staggering 5% growth for the quarter. Elsewhere not much changed, which is surprising…
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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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UK spends £422 million on mobile software applications each year
LG have released a survey on Android apps ahead of the release of their new Android phone – the LG Optimus GT540 handset, and the app of choice for UK users from the 50,000 Android apps available is a money saving app rather than a gaming or lifestyle app. LG estimates that the UK spends…
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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…