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Articles tagged with: android and Os
Windows Phone OS to Overtake Apple iPhone by 2015 - Report
The worldwide smartphone market is forecast to grow 55% year over year in 2011 as a growing number of users turn in their feature phones for more advanced devices. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors will ship a total of 472 million smartphones in 2011 compared to roughly 305 million units shipped in 2010. That figure will nearly double to 982 million by the end of 2015. more
Related Tags: apple, symbian, wp7, smartphone, seamless, windows-phone, cagr, feature-phones, feature-phones
Symbian Still Leading in Malaysian Smartphone Market
2010 was a boom year for the mobile phone industry in Malaysia, as consumers snapped up over 24 percent more units of mobile phone; growing the overall value of the industry by 30 percent compared to the year before. Smartphones were the key contributors to the industry's good performance, with GfK Malaysia's retail audit findings reflecting more than a two-fold growth of 208 percent in the number of units sold, and 150 percent increase in terms of value sales. more
Related Tags: symbian, operating-system, smartphone, Malaysia
Android Overtook Nokia as Top Selling Smartphone OS in Q4 2010
The Google backed android smartphone platform has overtook Nokia's Symbian OS during the last quarter of 2010, according to figures released by Canalys. Shipments of android-based smart phones reached 32.9 million, while devices running Nokia's Symbian platform trailed slightly at 31.0 million worldwide. However, Nokia did retain its position as the largest single brand smartphone vendor, with a share of 28%. more
Related Tags: symbian, operating-system, smartphone, 3d, dual-core, usa, windows-phone
Apple's Steve Wozniak Seen with a White iPhone
Apple's co-founder, Steve Wozniak was seen last week carrying the elusive white variant of Apple's iPhone, which has been repeatedly delayed due to apparent manufacturing difficulties. Speaking to CNN at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, he also carried an unnamed android OS based smartphone and a conventional iPhone while he mused on technology and its impact on society. more
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Google Exec Reports 300,000 New Android Activations Per Day
Google's android OS has seen a surge in sales recently with a reported 300,000 new activations being registered each day, compared to around 200,000 activations per day in August. The 300,000 figure came from a message sent by Andrew Rubin to the Twitter website. He is currently VP of Engineering at Google, where he is overseeing development of the android OS. more
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Google Shows Off New "Google Phone" - Confirms Gingerbread Release
Google has finally announced the launch of its anticipated upgrade for the android OS, code-named Gingerbread - and shown off a new line of Nexus smartphones, the Samsung supplied Nexus S. For developers, the Gingerbread SDK/NDK is now available as well. more
Related Tags: google, nexus-s, google-phone, gingerbread, video, usa, nexus
Android on track to be most popular Nordic phone platform next summer
Over the past year QAim Oy has been studying trends in the market share of different mobile operating systems, measured as page loads for Nordic content services. The results show extremely strong growth for android. The research was also used to forecast future trends, predicting that android will have taken over as the most popular mobile platform by next summer. more
Related Tags: symbian, operating-system
Android overtakes Symbian in the Asia Region
According to market research company GfK Asia, smartphones continue to register exponential growth in Asia in the last 12 months with over 4.7 million units of smartphones worth over USD1.48 billion being retailed in quarter three this year. It now occupies nearly half of the entire handset sales pie. more
Related Tags: symbian, operating-system
Apple's Steve Wozniak Says Android to Outsell Apple iPhone
Apple's co-founder, Steve Wozniak has said that while he thinks the Apple iPhone is better than the android OS, in the long-term he thinks android will become the dominant smartphone operating system. more
Related Tags: steve-wozniak, apple-iphone
IMS Research Sees Android Taking Share of the Tablet Market
Over 15 suppliers will be selling android-based tablets by mid 2011, including Acer, Cisco, Dell, Motorola, OpenPeak, Samsung, Viewsonic, and many more. Based on a recent study, IMS Research forecasts that android will grow its share of the market from a projected 15.2% in 2011 to 28.4% in 2015. more
Related Tags: tablet, motorola,, isp, galaxy-tab, apps, galaxy, planning, webos, viewsonic
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