ABI Research predict tablet sales will reach more than 100 million in 2012, the figures are based on a very successful first quarter, where 25 million tablets were sold with Apple gaining the lions share of the market. Figures from ABI show the April to June quarter of 2012 set a new record for media…
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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.
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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 ad requests to Millennial Media grew by 3130% in 2010
Android ad requests to the Millennial Media ad platform grew by 3130% in 2010. 2010 was a bumper year for Android according to Millennial – who themselves did very well in 2010 they’re now third largest mobile ad network with 15.4% of the market – not only did they grow by 3130% over the year…
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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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Android to be the platform of choice for developers in 2011
Millennial Media’s November 2010 Mobile Mix report reveals that nearly a third of mobile developers are looking to develop for Android in 2011 The Millennial Media Mobile Mix report shows the choice of platform for developers in 2011 is Android with 29% of the developers polled, followed by the iPad (20%) and Windows Phone 7…
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Google launches the Nexus S for Christmas
Google has launched its awaited second smartphone the Nexus S onto the market. The Nexus S comes less than a year after Google’s first mobile the Nexus One and it will be the first device to ship with Gingerbread aka Android 2.3. Phone features include a Near Field Communications (NFC) chip for non-contact payments, VOIP…
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In-app billing to be present in around 1 in 3 apps in 2011
In-app billing adoption has been slower than predicted but Bango forecasts this will change in 2011 with an estimated 30% of all apps next year expected to be using in-app billing, In the mobile market, in-app billing as a charging model has been talked about for a long time, but it has still to take…
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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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Tablets may not hit Q4 targets
Apple’s iPad and other tablets may not sell as well as analysts had estimated according to an interview with Bloomberg by US analyst Ashok Kumar of Rodman & Renshaw. Kumar expects that the current belt-tightening to have a real effect on tablet sales, as consumers cut back spending on new technology or opt for new smartphones…
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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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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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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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Android ad requests growing by 996%
US mobile ad house Millenial Media has seen phenomenal growth in Android requests, with 996% growth since January 2010. Millenial Media’s monthly US Mobile Mix survey for August 2010 continued to see rapid Android and iPad growth on their network in August. Top 15 Manufacturers (all devices) Apple 28.32% Samsung 15.46% Motorola 14.32% Research In…
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Samsung’s app store achieves 10M downloads in Europe
Samsung is claiming its application store has passed the 10 million download mark in Europe, and it seems to be doing it off the back of games apps. The top three most popular Samsung Apps downloaded in Europe are Need for Speed Shift, Magic Torch and My Mirror. Need for Speed Shift is a car…
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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…