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Samsung’s Q2 smartphone sales could have exceeded those of either Apple or Nokia, the first time the Korean company would have managed such strong performance. Samsung’s official figures for device sales are expected to come in at between 18m and 21m globally for the last quarter, research firm Strategy Analytics told Bloomberg, likely to best [...]
When it comes to data for seeing what smartphone operating system is the most popular with users or is growing the fastest we generally look to Nielsen. The last time the company offered some new insights on what the smartphone market looked like was back in April. Nielsen is back again with some new details [...]
Lately we have heard a few of those “analysts” mentioning that the Mororola Xoom, and the Atrix were not selling well, they even called them “sales failures”. That is a pretty big way to put it. If you would love more details regarding that story you can follow to SlahGear reports on Atrix and Xoom [...]
That’s right, ladies and gentlemen, the age where phones do nothing outside of calling and receiving calls is receding. The folks at In-Stat have forecast today that the unit shipments for smartphones will reach nearly 850 million by 2015, with more than half of US handsets being smartphones by 2012. That’s wacky amazing considering there [...]
Samsung has some pretty strong claims about the tablet market. They see it as a lucrative prospect, and they plan on hitting it hard come 2011. Of course, their first device in the market was the Galaxy Tab, and the company believes that they will be able to sell a ridiculous amount of them just [...]
Gartner‘s latest smartphone stats are out, and according to their numbers Android is the second most popular smartphone OS worldwide. At 25.5-percent of the market in Q3 2010, that puts the Google platform behind Symbian’s 36.6-percent and ahead of Apple’s 16.7-percent. However, the real difference is in year-on-year change, with Symbian dropping from 44.6-percent of [...]
Android has taken the top-spot for most popular smartphone OS, according to analysts Canalys, though the fact that it is a collaborative result from multiple manufacturers means that Apple’s iPhone is still the most popular US smartphone. According to Canalys’ figures, Android device growth increased by 1,309-percent year-on-year, from 1.4 million in Q3 2009 to [...]
This is a great accomplishment for Android. The market is growing faster than most of us anticipated. This was revealed during this afternoon’s Q1 earnings press conference, Jeff Huber who is Google’s senior VP of engineering. Also, Google views the Nexus One as a “profitable business” even though most analyst feel it didn’t sell enough [...]
Today the Symbian OS used mainly on Nokia phones dominated the smartphone operating system global market, Blackberry maker RIM holds the second spot, with Apple coming in third. However, an IDC report published today announces that the Android OS is expected to storm its way to the near top of the smartphone market, while growing [...]
Android usage has grown by leaps and bounds in the last several months. According to statistics from a ChangeWave research report, usage and overall consumer outlook towards Google’s mobile operating system has skyrocketed over the last three months. As of December 2009, the research firm’s survey shows that 4% of all users now have smartphones [...]