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Articles tagged with: Symbian and Blackberry
Android and iOS Surge to New Smartphone OS Record in Second Quarter
Android and iOS powered 85% of all smartphones shipped in the second quarter of 2012 (2Q12), establishing a new combined high for the mobile operating systems from Google and Apple. Meanwhile, BlackBerry and symbian, two pioneers and former leaders of the smartphone market, both saw their market shares fall below five percent. more
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Shift in smartphone market with lower-end devices to dominate by 2016
The smartphone market will see a huge shift over the next five years, moving from predominantly premium devices aimed at advanced users towards cheaper, mass-market devices. According to the latest research from Informa Telecoms & Media, 81% of all smartphones shipped in 2011 were sold at a wholesale price above US$300; however, this proportion is expected to decline to below 50% in 2016. more
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RIM handset testing dominates while Android development is on the rise and Symbian falls
Despite an overall decline of 13.6% over the past 12 months, RIM continues to have the highest total share of smartphone testing time (45%), according to internal statistics from the remote testing vendor, DeviceAnywhere. RIM still accounts for almost twice as much testing time as Android, who hold the number two spot. more
Related Tags: deviceanywhere, rim, android, nexus
BlackBerry Becomes Dominant Platform on Handango Apps Store
Mobile applications retailer, Handango is reporting that for the first time ever, BlackBerry displaced Windows Mobile to become the dominant platform within the Handango content catalog, constituting 44% of all apps sold in the first half of 2009, up from its 31% share in 2008. more
Related Tags: handango, windows-mobile, android, apps-store, palm, ea, email, palm-os, os, backup, mobile-apps, 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, iphone, smartphone, samsung, smartphones, wind, verizon, palm, htc, rim, htc-dream, admob, blackberry-storm, touchscreen, sprint, operating-system, windows, storm, os
CIOs Can Cut 50 to 80 Percent of Communications Costs
Yankee Group has demonstrated that CIOs and corporate IT departments of small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) can save more than 50 to 80 percent on costs related to corporate wireless, e-mail and messaging by moving to an Anywhere IT environment. more
Related Tags: android, windows-mobile, microsoft, iphone, apple, driving, wind, iden, seven, yankee-group, windows, cell-phone, the-cloud, cloud
Handango Publishes Top Mobile Applications Chart for 2008
Mobile applications retailer, Handango has published its 2008 Handango Yardstick. For the first time, Handango is releasing 'Handango's Top Ten' list identifying the top ten downloaded applications across all operating platforms and devices and sold through Handango's multiple distribution channels. more
Related Tags: android, windows-mobile, nokia, sim, smartphone, samsung, smartphones, gps, wind, texas, palm, 3, omnia, weather, handango, ea, email, 3-mobile, palm-os, os, gold, backup, apps
Mobile software retailer, Handango hss announced the promotion of Alex Bloom from vice president of content and international to CEO and president, succeeding current CEO and president Bill Stone, effective from next month. more
Related Tags: android, windows-mobile, smartphone, qualcomm, itu, wind, verizon, personal, windows, handango, wap, true
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
Related Tags: android, windows-mobile, microsoft, nokia, iphone, smartphone, apple, apple, smartphones, wind, ofta, gartner, htc, rim, sharp, touch-screen, 3, operating-system, windows, presence, danger, sidekick, symbian-foundation, storm, nseries, os
Nokia kick-starts GPS market in Europe
Opinion piece by Tony Cripps and Michele Mackenzie, principal analysts
According to a new Ovum forecast, the market for GPS-enabled mobile devices
will grow rapidly, from an estimated 163.9 million shipments in 2007 to almost
572 million in 2012. In the early years this growth has been driven by the CDMA
players, namely Qualcomm, serving large CDMA markets such as the US, where the
E911 mandate stipulates the use of location-based technologies in handsets, and
markets such as Korea and Japan where demand for location-enabled services is
higher than in other regions.
more
Related Tags: android, windows-mobile, nokia, iphone, apple, apple, qualcomm, edge, gps, wind, cdma, ovum, oss, oem, e911, operating-system, windows, chipset, music, emergency, emergency-services, true, series-40
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