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Articles tagged with: android and Ios
Half the Australian population using a smartphone
The Australian smartphone industry is now worth over AU$15 billion (US$14.9 billion) per annum according to a new report published by Telsyte. Telsyte retains its prediction that android will overtake Apple's iOS as the leading smartphone platform by 2014, but by only a small margin. more
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Android Expected to Reach Its Peak This Year as Mobile Phone Shipments Slow
The worldwide mobile phone market is forecast to grow slightly more than 4.0% year over year in 2012, the lowest annual growth rate since 2009, due to a sharp decline in the feature phone market and sluggish global economic conditions. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors will ship a total of nearly 1.8 billion mobile phones this year, compared to 1.7 billion units shipped in 2011. By the end of 2016, IDC forecasts 2.3 billion mobile phones will be shipped to the channel. more
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Android and Apple Smartphones Expand Share of the Market in the First Quarter
Smartphones powered by the android and iOS mobile operating systems accounted for more than eight out of ten smartphones shipped in the first quarter of 2012 (1Q12). According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, the mobile operating systems held shares of 59.0% and 23.0% respectively of the 152.3 million smartphones shipped in 1Q12. During the first quarter of 2011, the two operating systems held a combined share of 54.4%. more
Related Tags: apple-iphone, windows-phone, blackberry
No Contest: Apple iOS to Maintain Tablet Dominance in 2012
After suffering a temporary dip in market share in the fourth quarter of 2011, Apple's iOS is expected to reassert its commanding leadership of the worldwide tablet space in 2012, according to IHS iSuppli. more
Related Tags: apple-ipad, tablet
Symbian Still Top Smartphone OS in the Middle East
Symbian is still the top smartphone operating system in the Middle-East, according to traffic analysis by the mobile advertising agency, InMobi. more
Related Tags: symbian, apple, inmobi
The Bottleneck Effect of Smartphone OS Upgrades
Flash Networks has released data showing that the amount of network bandwidth consumed by mobile operating system updates can threaten network performance, especially if delivered during peak traffic periods. more
Related Tags: flash-networks, windows-phone
Android Overtakes Apple with 44% Worldwide Share of Mobile App Downloads
In Q2 2011, android overtook iOS to become the market share leader in mobile application downloads. The market shares of android and iOS were 44% and 31%, respectively, claims ABI Research. more
Related Tags: app-store, android-market, mobile-apps
40 Percent of US Mobile Users Own Smartphones; 40 Percent are Android
Forty percent of adults mobile phone users in the USA now have smartphones, according to July 2011 data from Nielsen. more
Related Tags: smartphone, apple, usa, usa, USA
North-South Divide in USA Smartphone Preferences
There appears to be a geographic preference in the USA for the popularity of smartphone operating systems based on where the owner lives, according to analysis of mobile advertising traffic by Jumptap. more
Related Tags: jumptap, blackberry, mobile-advertising, usa, usa, USA
Android Overtakes Apple's iOS as Top Smartphone OS in the USA
According to June data from Nielsen, Google's android operating system (OS) now claims the largest share of the U.S. consumer smartphone market with 39 percent. more
Related Tags: apple, rim, samsung, USA
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