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Articles tagged with: Operating System
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, android, os, 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, android, os, smartphone, 3d, dual-core, usa, windows-phone
BlackBerry Overtakes Apple in US Mobile Web Stats
BlackBerry OS overtook Apple's iOS for the first time in the USA in November in terms of mobile internet usage according to web analytics company, StatCounter. The company's research arm, StatCounter Global Stats finds that for the first time in the US BlackBerry OS at 34.3% overtook Apple's iOS which recorded 33% in November. more
Related Tags: blackberry, apple-iphone, statcounter, os, ios, usa, windows-phone,
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, android, os
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, android, os
European Smartphone Market Grows 41 Percent in Past Year
The Symbian platform holds 54.4 percent of the Western European market. Despite Symbian's continued growth in number of smartphone subscribers, its market share has fallen as growth in the Apple OS and Android platforms has surged in the past year, reports comScore more
Related Tags: symbian, android, os, music
Android to Challenge Symbian for Top Operating System Spot by 2014
The worldwide mobile operating system (OS) market will be dominated by Symbian and Android, as the two OSs will account for 59.8 percent of mobile OS sales by 2014, according to Gartner. more
Related Tags: symbian, android, os, motorola,, ios, windows-phone, apple-ios
Android Will Still Lag Symbian in Mobile OS Market in 2013
Shipments of smartphones will reach nearly 400 million units by 2013, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 20.9%, reports IDC. Underpinning the converged mobile device market is the constantly shifting mobile operating system (OS) landscape. In a market that was once dominated by a handful of pioneers, such as BlackBerry, Symbian, and Windows Mobile, newcomers touting open standards (Android) and intuitive design and navigation (Mac OS X and webOS) have garnered strong end-user and handset vendor interest. more
Related Tags: android, symbian, linux, smartphones, navigation, os, webos
Can Google's Chrome OS Challenge Windows in the Fast-Growing Netbook Market?
Google's new Chrome Operating System (OS) represents a direct challenge to Microsoft's hegemony in the burgeoning market for netbook software, according to iSuppli. Google's Chrome OS will launch in the second half of 2010 and will initially target netbook PCs. However, the OS will not only run on netbooks based on Intel's X86 architecture microprocessors, but also those using ARM-based chips, clearly showing the operating system is targeted at very low-cost netbooks. more
Related Tags: google, microsoft, netbooks, chrome-os, chrome, windows, wlan, linux, bell, web-browser, wave, os, target
Nokia Denies Reports it is Working on Android Based Smartphone
A report over the weekend that Nokia is working on a smartphone based on the Android platform has been denied by the handset manufacturer. The UK Guardian newspaper, citing industry insiders reported that the new touchscreen device will be unveiled at the Nokia World conference in September. more
Related Tags: nokia, android, symbian, linux, os, nokia-world
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