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Articles tagged with: Symbian and Samsung
Samsung Retains Top Spot in USA Mobile Phone Market
Samsung has retained its title as the top handset manufacturer overall in the USA with 25.9 percent market share, according to comScore. Google Android continued to grow its share in the U.S. smartphone market, accounting for 50.8 percent of smartphone subscribers, while Apple captured 31.4 percent. more
Related Tags: android, motorola, USA
Samsung Overtakes Apple as Top Smartphone Vendor - According to IDC
The worldwide mobile phone market declined 1.5% year over year in the first quarter of 2012 (1Q12), as Samsung ousted longtime leader Nokia to become the world's top mobile phone vendor. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped 398.4 million units in 1Q12 compared to 404.3 million units in the first quarter of 2011. more
Related Tags: apple, nokia, rim, htc
Samsung Drops Support for Symbian Smartphones
Samsung has announced that its developer platform is to stop offering support for symbian developers at the end of the year as it focuses on its own Bada, Android and the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 operating systems. more
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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, iphone, smartphone, wimax, motorola, eu, w-cdma, ict, smartphones, tim, cdma, hspa, ericsson, lg, infonetics-research, open-source, wimax,, gsm, operating-system, 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, iphone, smartphone, smartphones, wind, verizon, palm, htc, blackberry, rim, htc-dream, admob, blackberry-storm, touchscreen, sprint, operating-system, windows, storm, os
Smart Phones Ring in Healthy Growth in 2009 Despite Mobile Meltdown
Although the outlook for the overall mobile handset market continues to dim, smart phones remain a bright spot with global unit growth as high as 11.1 percent in 2009, iSuppli is predicting. iSuppli's optimistic forecast for global smart phone unit shipments calls for 192.3 million units in 2009, up 11.1 percent from 173.6 million in 2008. A more pessimistic outlook calls for growth of only 6 percent this year, reaching 183.9 million units. more
Related Tags: android, google, orange, 3g, windows-mobile, microsoft, nokia, sim, social-networking, apple, qualcomm, isuppli, ict, huawei, wind, ovi, lg, rim, personal, smart, operating-system, windows, widgets, google-android, churn, os
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, smartphones, gps, wind, texas, palm, blackberry, 3, omnia, weather, handango, ea, email, 3-mobile, palm-os, os, gold, backup, apps
Global smart phone shipments rise 28% - Apple Takes #2 Position
Despite the gloomy economic picture and the problems being experienced by some of the leading mobile handset vendors, global shipments of smart phones hit a new peak of just under 40 million units in Q3 2008, according to the latest estimates from leading analyst firm Canalys. more
Related Tags: android, t-mobile, microsoft, iphone, motorola, apple, apple, gps, wind, tim, htc, blackberry, rim, windows, symbian-foundation, storm, maps, os, copyright, touch-screen
Nokia getting on top of handset media portability
Opinion by Tony Cripps, principal analyst at Ovum
Nokia has greatly extended the range of its multimedia codec support in the
fifth edition of its S60 platform for symbian OS, in an effort to overcome the
problems of multimedia portability arising from codec proliferation. An
important addition to the core is Microsoft's Windows Media Audio (WMA)
format, which largely completes Nokia's audio codec support. However, some
gaps still remain, notably the DivX Internet video codec and the popular, and
free, Ogg family.
more
Related Tags: microsoft, p2p-, apple, apple, wind, rcom, ovum, ofta, lg, windows, display, nokia,, archos, true
CommonTime Offering Free Lotus Notes Upgrade to Intellisync Users
Jumping on to the business bandwagon following Nokia's decision to pull out of enterprise email services, the Lotus Notes mobile messaging and applications vendor, CommonTime has announced that it is offering free upgrade licenses to existing Intellisync customers looking for a new vendor. more
Related Tags: sony-ericsson, windows-mobile, intel, mobile-messaging, smartphone, motorola, smartphones, wind, ericsson, sony, email
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