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Articles tagged with: Operating System and Iphone
Apple and Android Devices See Strongest Relative Usage of Mobile Web Sites
Mobile advertising agency, AdMob, has compared smartphone market share to mobile Web usage to determine that smartphones accounted for nearly 3 times more usage than their relative market share in its April 2009 Mobile Metrics Report. The report also compares usage of mobile Web sites to usage of HTML sites on mobile devices, finding that relative usage of both is highest on Apple and Android devices. more
Related Tags: admob, android, symbian, 3, os, mobile-web
Android Smartphone Shipments to Grow Faster than Apple's iPhone
According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global Android smartphone shipments will grow 900 percent in 2009. Healthy support from operators, vendors and developers is driving adoption. Apple iPhone OS will be the next fastest-growing smartphone operating system in 2009, with a 79 percent growth rate. more
Related Tags: android, apple, strategy-analytics, apple-iphone, os, motorola,, cloud
LG Tops Traditional Phone User Satisfaction Ranking
Apple ranks highest in customer satisfaction with smartphone manufacturers, while LG ranks highest among traditional mobile phone users, according to a couple of J.D. Power and Associates reports. The studies measure customer satisfaction with traditional wireless handsets and smartphones across several key factors. In order of importance, key factors in examining traditional wireless handsets are operation (30%); physical design (30%); features (20%); and battery function (20%). Among residential smartphone owners, key factors are ease of operation (30%); operating system (22%); features (21%); physical design (18%); and battery function (9%). more
Related Tags: j.d.-power-and-associates, lg, apple, gps, smartphones, personal, sony, landline, battery, j.d.-power
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, apple, blackberry, cdma, cdma-evdo, sprint, memory, apple-iphone, smart, nand, flash, ces, display, webos, touch-screen, pda
Consumer Demand Steady for iPhone, BlackBerry - But What About the Palm Pre?
In recent years, ChangeWave consumer surveys have chronicled a seismic shift to smart phones, with Apple and Research In Motion locked in a two-horse race while most of their competitors have been caught in a downward spiral. more
Related Tags: 3g, sim, apple, steve-jobs, driving, tim, rcom, ovi, verizon, palm-pre, palm, htc, blackberry, compete, rim, sanyo, research-in-motion, blackberry-bold, sprint, apple-iphone, smart, california, life, wave, health, os, cell-phone
Smartphone sales buck the recession
A report by Infonetics Research is forecasting an 8% drop in the total number of mobile phones sold in 2009, to 1.1 billion worldwide (down from 1.2 billion in 2008), in line with predictions from Nokia, among others. Smartphones were the best-performing segment of the mobile phones market in 2008 and the only segment to show unit and revenue growth in the second half of the year as the world economy entered recession. more
Related Tags: android, nokia, smartphone, samsung, wimax, motorola, eu, w-cdma, ict, smartphones, tim, cdma, hspa, ericsson, lg, infonetics-research, symbian, open-source, wimax,, gsm, nokia,, os, apps
Smartphone Market Share Increased Rapidly Worldwide According to AdMob
Mobile advertising agency, AdMob has reported that despite challenging economic conditions, smartphones continued to gain significant market share worldwide over the past six months, rising from 26 percent to 33 percent of hits to its adserver platform in February 2009. more
Related Tags: android, windows-mobile, nokia, smartphone, samsung, smartphones, wind, verizon, palm, htc, blackberry, rim, htc-dream, admob, blackberry-storm, touchscreen, symbian, sprint, windows, storm, os
Apple Adds MMS and Copy/Paste to the iPhone
Apple has previewed an upgrade of its operating system for the iPhone handsets, along with the immediate availability of a beta software release to registered developers. The iPhone OS 3.0 beta release includes an updated Software Development Kit (SDK) with over 1,000 new Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) including In-App Purchases; Peer-to-Peer connections; an app interface for accessories; access to the iPod music library; a new Maps API and Push Notifications. more
Related Tags: google, wi-fi, mms, apple, ipod, bluetooth, iden, parental-controls, maps, os, music, apps
Nokia Smartphone Sales Fall as RIM, Apple, Samsung Take Market Share
In the fourth quarter of 2008, worldwide sales of smartphones to end users reached 38.1 million units, an increase of 3.7 per cent on the fourth quarter of 2007, according to Gartner. Global sales of smartphones for 2008 reached 139.3 million devices, up 13.9 per cent compared with 2007. more
Related Tags: android, google, t-mobile, windows-mobile, microsoft, nokia, smartphone, samsung, eu, apple, smartphones, wind, gartner, htc, rim, touchscreen, sharp, omnia, windows, linux, danger, nseries, os, africa
Smartphones to Account for 23% of All New Mobile Phones by 2013
Rising demand for complex multimedia-centric applications is forcing handset manufacturers to design increasingly ‘smart' and highly personalised mobile devices. A new smartphones report from Juniper Research forecasts that these so-called ‘smartphones' will account for 23% of all new handsets sold per annum by 2013. more
Related Tags: google, nokia, juniper-research, smartphone, apple, smartphones, driving, compete, app-store, andrew, nokia,, rooted
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