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Articles tagged with: Apple and Blackberry
Android Pushes Smartphones Sales Past Feature Phones for First Time
Western European feature phone shipments continued to decline sharply in 2Q11 as consumers increasingly move to smartphones, according to the latest European Mobile Phone Tracker from International Data Corporation (IDC). Feature phone shipments were down 29% to 20.4 million units in 2Q11, while smartphone shipments increased 48% to 21.8 million units from a year ago. The total Western European mobile phone market, however, declined 3% year on year to 42.2 million units in the quarter, according to IDC. more
Related Tags: android, htc, nokia, rim, samsung, motorola, lg, feature-phones, feature-phones
Samsung Overtakes Nokia in Western Europe to Be Top in the Mobile Phone Market
The Western European mobile phone market grew 5% year-on-year to 45 million units in the first quarter of 2011 (1Q11), according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) European Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. more
Related Tags: nokia, samsung, motorola, rim, europe, feature-phones, feature-phones
Smartphone Market Grew Nearly 80% in First Three Months of 2011
The worldwide smartphone market grew 79.7% year over year in the first quarter of 2011 (1Q11), driven by a combination of vendors releasing highly anticipated models, widespread availability of older smartphones at lower prices, and sustained end-user demand. According to IDC, smartphone vendors shipped a total of 99.6 million units in 1Q11, nearly double from the 55.4 million units in the first quarter of 2010. more
Related Tags: smartphone, nokia, samsung, motorola.-lg, windows-phone, blackberry-7, galaxy
Android Interest Dropping as App Developers Worry about Industry Fragmentation
App developer momentum is shifting back toward apple as fragmentation and tepid interest in current Android tablets chip away at Google's recent gains, according to an IDC survey commissioned by the app software vendor, Appcelerator. more
Related Tags: android, ios, nokia, windows-phone-7, rim, galaxy, appcelerator, xoom, windows-phone
My Blackberry Is Not Working! - The One Ronnie, Preview - BBC One
Brits of a certain age may recall the BBC comedy series The Two Ronnies. Sadly, one of the Ronnies is no longer around, but the remaining one is still making commedy shows for the BBC. more
RIM Co-CEO Slaps Steve Jobs And His "Distortion Field"
Related Tags: jim-balsillie, steve-jobs, research-in-motion
Android Shakes Up U.S. Smartphone Market
The Android operating system (OS) continued to shake up the U.S. mobile phone market in the first quarter (Q1) of 2010, moving past apple for to take the number-two position among smartphone operating systems, according to The NPD Group. The research reveals that based on unit sales to consumers last quarter the Android operating system moved into second position at 28 percent behind RIM's OS (36 percent) and ahead of apple's OS (21 percent). more
Related Tags: android, windows-phone-7, os, wireless, windows-phone,
RCS Announces Top-10 Handsets Traded in First Half 2009
Online trader of cellular phones, RCS has announced its trading data for the first half of 2009 for the global open trading market of cellular phones. According to the rankings, listed below, Nokia retained the top three spots with its Smartphones, N95, 5800 and N96 respectively. The Blackberry Bold 9000 took the fourth place, while the Blackberry Javelin Curve 8900 was in sixth place. These placements for Blackberry Smartphones represent a significant increase in demand for RIM's products. more
Related Tags: nokia, samsung,sony-ericsson, htc, rcs
Blackberry LBS Apps 4-Times More Expensive Than iPhone, Android LBS Apps
Wi-Fi hotspot based location services provider, Skyhook Wireless has released a report on trends in location-aware apps from apple's App Store, Google's Android Marketplace and Blackberry App World. more
Related Tags: skyhook-wireless, iphone, android, google, app-store, seven, hotspot, apps, apple-app-store
Palm Pre Aims at the iPhone, Preliminary Cost Analysis Reveals
Palm is aiming high with its new Pre, a smart phone that rival's apple's iPhone in terms of slickness - and in terms of hardware features - according to a virtual teardown conducted by iSuppli. more
Related Tags: isuppli, palm-pre, palm, iphone, cdma, cdma-evdo, sprint, memory, apple-iphone, smart, operating-system, nand, flash, ces, display, webos, touch-screen, pda
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