Articles tagged with: Rim and Smartphones
Korean Handset Manufacturers Targetting 50% of US Market in 2009
South Korean mobile phone manufacturers are expected to take a 50% stake in the US handset market this year, according to Taiwanese market sources cited by DigiTimes. more
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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
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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
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Are Smartphones Immune to the Financial Crisis in Western Europe?
The market for Western European converged mobile devices (commonly referred to as smartphones) experienced a good performance in the last quarter of 2008. According to IDC's European Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped 9.3 million units, 25.9% higher than the 7.4 million shipped in 4Q07. For the full year 2008, vendors shipped 31.9 million units, 36.1% higher than the 23.5 million units shipped in 2007. more
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Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales Down by 5% in Q4 '08
The global economic downturn had a significant impact on the mobile phone industry as worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totalled 314.7 million units in the fourth quarter of 2008, a 4.6 per cent decline from the fourth quarter of 2007, according to Gartner. Manufacturers continued to struggle against low consumer confidence in both emerging and mature markets. more
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Smartphones Take a Third of Mobile Advertising Impressions
Mobile advertising agency, AdMob has highlighted explosive iPod Touch growth and smartphone Operating System (OS) market share in its December 2008 Mobile Metrics Report. more
Related Tags: android, windows-mobile, iphone, smartphone, ipod, wind, palm, admob, symbian, operating-system, windows, latin-america
Worldwide Smartphone Sales Reached Its Lowest Growth Rate in Q3 '08
In the third quarter of 2008, the global smartphone market reached its weakest year-on-year growth since Gartner began tracking the industry. Worldwide smartphone sales to end-users totalled 36.5 million units in the third quarter of 2008, an 11.5 per cent increase from the same period in 2007. more
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BlackBerry Users Seem Keen on MySpace
.. MySpace for BlackBerry smartphones integrates MySpace's primary social networking components with the BlackBerry platform to provide instant, push-based messaging to users. The application is available for a wide variety of BlackBerry smartpho more
Related Tags: social-networking, smartphone, blackberry, storm, email
Rising Popularity of Smartphones Drives Higher Mobile Phone Satisfaction
As smartphones and feature-rich mobile phones continue to grow in popularity, customer satisfaction with wireless phones has increased, despite higher costs for handsets and service, according to a J.D. Power report. more
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As Mobile Web Usage Explodes, Full-Featured Browsers on Smartphones See Strongest Growth
One of the undisputed bright spots in 2008 has been the continued rapid growth of web usage on mobile devices. While growth of web usage is up across all mobile device classes, one of the biggest areas of growth has been smartphones. ABI Research sees this growth continuing over the next five years, with highly capable Internet browsers on smartphones expanding from 130 million in 2008 to 530 million by 2013. more
Related Tags: google, microsoft, iphone, social-networking, smartphone, rsa, abi-research, admob, opera

