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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Sir Tim Berners-Lee on the power of the mobile phone
Sir Tim Berners-Lee was speaking at Nokia World conference and as you would expect from the man who invented the web he had a few pithy things to say about the future of the web, and the importance of mobile to that future. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has always been an advocate of information freedom. It…
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At Nokia World, developers ask: ‘Where’s MeeGo?’
Nokia World: Nokia is showing off its new phones based on its Symbian^3 operating system at Nokia World – but some are wondering how quickly its much-vaunted MeeGo project will bear fruit
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Nokia World 2010: Mobile giant will look to recapture greatness
The Finnish manufacturer is the embattled beast of the mobile market, today it must throw down the gauntlet to rivals
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Nokia’s revenue and profit trends point to its key problem: commoditisation
Analysis of the troubled mobile company’s financial results shows that its principal problem is that though it is selling more phones, the profit and price it gets are falling
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Nokia accounts for 47% of mobile ad impressions
Research from mobile ad network InMobi shows Nokia accounts for 48% of mobile ad impressions Nokia (including Symbian) accounts for 47.4% of global* consumer mobile ad impressions in July 2010, according to the first metrics report from mobile ad network InMobi. Global Manufacturer Share July 2010 Manufacturer Impressions %Share Change Nokia 9,661,872,987 47.4 -3.6 Samsung…
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Nokia replaces Kallasvuo with Microsoft’s Elop
Nokia ousts chief executive and brings in Microsoft business head Stephen Elop as mobile phone maker struggles to compete with Apple iPhone and Google Android handsets
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Nokia N8 gives you a chance to be a movie star
Nokia are to make short film with Pamela Anderson to promote the forthcoming Nokia N8. If you’re lucky/unlucky and free on the 20 September you could feature in a film alongside popular, Pro-PETA, pert Playboy, panto star Pamela Anderson.* The short film is produced by the McHenry brothers (a quick look on IMDB reveals they’re…
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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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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 iPad estimates just get bigger and bigger
Hot on the heels of our iPad sales story of yesterday where analyst and managing director at Rodman & Renshaw Ashok Kumar predicted iPad shipments to more than double to 27 million units in 2011, we now get yet another analyst re-analysing their figures, and this time it’s slightly less, but it’s still a hell…
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Android makes gains over Apple in US smartphone market
comScore’s latest MobiLens data for the three months ending May 2010 shows a significant 4% rise in the Google Android smartphone market compared to a fall in the Apple IOS, RIM, Microsoft and Palm smartphone markets. However while this all seems to be going in Google’s favour it has to be remembered that many Apple…
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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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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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Apple beware, Android and Ovi are getting big
A couple of new snippets of info on the apps market released this week show that you’d be silly – nay stupid – just to concentrate all your efforts on building apps for the Apple platforms. There was plenty of big news for Android developers released at this week’s Google I/O jamboree in San Francisco’s…
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Smartphone sales on the rise
iSuppli handset figures for the first quarter of 2010 are out and they contain yet another indication of the smart phone’s revolutionary impact on mobile, as both RIM and Apple rose to the fifth and sixth positions in the global market for all types of cell phones, while Motorola fell to eighth place. RIM, whose…
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Nokia makes a massive restructure
Nokia has made a massive restructure of its entire organisation, and has separated the business into three units; Mobile Solutions, Mobile Phones and Markets. Is this really going to help? Usually there’s only one reason for doing this sort of thing, and that’s to sell off the bad wood and keep the good. So bye…
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Android overtakes iPhone
The figures are out for smartphone sales and Android based smartphones are doing incredibly well in the US, while Nokia continues to dominate worldwide. According to analysts NPD Group Android is now number two position in the US on consumer smartphone sales with 28%, behind RIM (36%) and ahead of the iPhone (21%). “As in…
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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…