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  • LG and ZTE Battle for the Bronze in Q3, says ABI Research

    Posted on October 28, 2011 | No Comments
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  • Boingo: Smartphones and Tablets Surpass Laptops as Most Frequently Carried Wi-Fi Devices in Airports

    Posted on September 21, 2011 | No Comments
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  • ZAGG Acquires iFrogz

    Posted on June 21, 2011 | No Comments
    SALT LAKE CITY–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ZAGG Inc. (NASDAQ: ZAGG) (www.ZAGG.com) announced today the acquisition of privately held iFrogz, Inc. (www.iFrogz.com), a leading mobile device accessories company specializing in lifestyle ...

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  • Apple iPad Held 85% Media Tablet Market Share in 2010, Says ABI Research

    Posted on April 20, 2011 | No Comments
    NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Apple’s iPad commanded 85% of the market for media tablets in 2010, according to full-year figures reported by ABI Research. The tablet market surged in the second half of...

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  • GSLO: Analysts’ iPhone Predictions Raise Expectations

    Posted on March 29, 2011 | No Comments
    NEW ORLEANS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sales predictions for Apple’s iPhone 4 and forthcoming iPhone 5 have GoSolarUSA even more excited about the prospects for its new iPhone accessory, the Volt Solar Charger. ...

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  • Samsung plans to double its smartphone share by end of year, jump ahead of HTC and Motorola

    Samsung plans to double its smartphone share by end of year, jump ahead of HTC and Motorola

    Posted on June 24, 2010 | No Comments
    More than 10% of worldwide smartphone market share: that's where Samsung plans to be, on triple its current handset volume, by the end of 2010 according to Lee Donjoo, senior VP of the company's Mobile Communications division. Mind you, such a jump would be staggering in terms of growth with Samsung owning less than 5% of global smartphone market share currently. A move to 10% would place them at number 4 globally according to IDC's numbers, behind Nokia, RIM, and Apple. The Android-lovin' Galaxy S / AT&T Captivate is good, but is it that good? We'll see. Regardless, the term "smartphone" can be defined many ways, and we suspect that Samsung's new Bada OS being pushed into devices previously classified as featurephones could help pad Samsung's numbers.

    Samsung plans to double its smartphone share by end of year, jump ahead of HTC and Motorola originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 24 Jun 2010 04:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • The Kindle won

    The Kindle won

    Posted on June 22, 2010 | No Comments
    I’ve been thinking this for a long while: Amazon won the ereader war. They were first to market – not officially, but in terms of mindshare, they offer a software package that is compelling on almost every mobile and desktop platform, and they have an entrenched user base already invested in their product. Nothing else [...]

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  • Forrester Projects Tablets Will Outsell Netbooks By 2012, Desktops By 2013

    Forrester Projects Tablets Will Outsell Netbooks By 2012, Desktops By 2013

    Posted on June 17, 2010 | No Comments
    The tablet era has just begun, but Forrester Research is already predicting tablet sales in the U.S. will overtake netbook sales by 2012, and desktop sales by 2015. At the Untethered conference today in New York City, Forrester analyst Sarah Rotman Epps laid out her projections comparing tablet sales to netbooks, laptops, and desktops. She expects 3.5 million tablets (including the iPad and other tablets) to be sold this year, growing to 20.4 million in 2015. Meanwhile, she expects desktop sales to drop from 18.7 million units in 2010 to 15.7 million units in 2015. As a percentage of overall PC sales, tablets will grow from 6 percent this year to 18 percent in 2012 (when netbooks are estimated to account for 17 percent of sales. The next year, in 2013, tablet sales are projected to outstrip desktop unit sales, 21 percent to 20 percent. By 2015, tablets will make up 23 percent of PC sales in the U.S., while desktops will be 18 percent and netbooks will be 17 percent. Only laptops will sell more in the U.S., with a 42 percent market share.

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  • Nokia downgrades sales forecasts thanks to ‘competitive environment’ (aka, ‘doing business’)

    Nokia downgrades sales forecasts thanks to ‘competitive environment’ (aka, ‘doing business’)

    Posted on June 16, 2010 | No Comments
    Look, Nokia, don't sweat it: no one could've ever predicted that Android would get more awesome, or that Apple would announce another iPhone. Sit down, let us bring you a cup of hot chocolate, you'll feel better... goodness, the mobile industry is filled with more wild plot twists than a Univision telenovela, isn't it? Unfortunately, your shareholders might be a little less understanding of the fact that you still haven't wrapped your noodle around the rapidly-changing smartphone market some three and a half years after the introduction of the original iPhone, or that you're blaming "shifts in product mix towards somewhat lower gross margin products" in part for your forecast downgrade -- even though you've been very candid about your desire to move the company's focus toward emerging markets. Why you can't manage to cobble together a competitive operating system with your overwhelming market share, cash, and resources is a bit of a mystery, but maybe it'll all make sense by the time you release second-quarter earnings on July 22.

    Follow the break for the somber press release.

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    Nokia downgrades sales forecasts thanks to 'competitive environment' (aka, 'doing business') originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • First sales survey indicates iPad is big hit in Japan

    First sales survey indicates iPad is big hit in Japan

    Posted on June 10, 2010 | No Comments
    The iPhone turned out to be a mega-hit in Japan's competitive cell phone market, and the iPad is poised to replicate this success. Tokyo-based market research firm BCN [JP] today said Apple's share of the domestic notebook market more than tripled in May (on a month-to-month basis) to reach 11.5% - thanks to the iPad.

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  • Hey, what about OS X?

    Hey, what about OS X?

    Posted on June 7, 2010 | No Comments
    It’s interesting that this WWDC keynote was all about mobile. Obviously he had a big reveal this year – last year was all about the 3GS and Snow Leopard – but there was a decided lack of desktop talk this year. iOS looks like the horse Apple is betting on, at least this year. The uptake [...]

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  • What happened to the iPad today? A few small things

    What happened to the iPad today? A few small things

    Posted on June 7, 2010 | No Comments
    The iPad just sold 2 million units in two months, a pretty huge number for a device with no track record and it does, in fact, get girls interested in you. The device is in 10 countries today and will be in 19 in July. There are also 8,500 native iPad apps available now. There [...]

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  • ‘iPhone vs Android’ report finds Apple has three times Google’s market share

    ‘iPhone vs Android’ report finds Apple has three times Google’s market share

    Posted on June 5, 2010 | No Comments
    digg_url = 'http://digg.com/gadgets/iPhone_vs_Android_report_finds_Apple_has_three_times_Googl'; It's oftentimes easy for us to get swept up in Android mania and forget that Google's mobile platform is still in its infancy. Then we get cold hard numbers like these -- showing iPhone OS owning 28 percent of the US smartphone market and closing in on RIM's leading 35 percent -- and we face up to the realization that Android handsets still account for less than one in every ten smartphones owned by Americans today. In spite of collecting 28 percent of all consumer smartphone purchases in the first quarter of 2010 (according to NPD), Google's OS was only able to climb up a couple of percentage points in terms of total market share, showing just how long a road lies ahead of its world-conquering plans. Guess that now explains why Apple's response to the earlier numbers was so nonchalant.

    Other intriguing figures include a high rate of loyalty among iPhone OS and Android users, with 80 percent of the former and 70 percent of the latter expressing a preference for the same OS in their next phone -- both rather shaming Microsoft and RIM's numbers, which were a mediocre 34 and 47 percent, respectively. Funnily enough, despite its inflammatory title, this report finds Android and iPhone users are more similar to each other than anyone else -- an uncomfortable fact for both parties to deal with, we're sure. The source link contains some more demographic comparisons, so why not go check them out and drop some sage analysis for us in the comments?

    'iPhone vs Android' report finds Apple has three times Google's market share originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 05 Jun 2010 15:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • IDC and Gartner award smartphone growth prizes to Apple and Google

    IDC and Gartner award smartphone growth prizes to Apple and Google

    Posted on May 19, 2010 | No Comments
    Get ready to rumble, the latest Gartner and IDC smartphone numbers are out to give us a pretty good idea of how things shape up globally. Remember, IDC measures vendor shipments while Gartner measures actual handset sales to end users. So what does the data tell us? Well, to start with, in terms of smartphone devices, Gartner claims a 48.7% increase in smartphone sales of 54.3 million units in Q1 2010 compared to Q1 2009 -- IDC pegs growth at 56.7% on 54.7 million units for the same period. Both estimates easily outpace the 17% or 21.7% growth in worldwide units of mobile phones moved according to Gartner and IDC, respectively.

    IDC's list of top 5 smartphone device makers (pictured above) has Nokia at the number one spot repeating its 39.3% share as it did in Q1 of 2009 while RIM is down slightly from 20.9% in 2009 to a 19.4% market share in 2010. Apple (up from 10.9% to 16.1%) more than doubled its device shipments in the last year as HTC (up from 4.3% to 4.8%) and Motorola (up from 3.4% to 4.2%) all managed to increase their shares on higher volumes.

    Regarding smartphone OS market share, Android's global numbers echo its success in the US jumping from a 1.6% market share to 9.6% in just one year. Gartner claims that sales of Android-based phones increased 707% year-on-year to displace Windows Mobile in the top 5 for the first time. Apple's iPhone OS also saw growth from 10.5% in 1Q09 to 15.4% in 1Q10 as both RIM (down from 20.1% to 19.4%) and Symbian (down from 48.8% to 44.3%) dropped. See the OS numbers broken down into a no-nonsense table after the break.

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    IDC and Gartner award smartphone growth prizes to Apple and Google originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 19 May 2010 04:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • iSuppli finds worldwide cellphone shipments are up 13.8 percent, Motorola’s share slipping

    iSuppli finds worldwide cellphone shipments are up 13.8 percent, Motorola’s share slipping

    Posted on May 17, 2010 | No Comments
    We've already seen Motorola's market share slip a bit when it comes to US cellphone shipments, and it looks like the news is even worse for the company on a global scale. According to iSuppli's latest numbers -- which back up some earlier reports -- while worldwide cellphone shipments rose a healthy 13.8 percent in the first quarter of 2010, Motorola slipped from sixth to eighth spot in the global rankings, selling a total of 8.5 million phones compared to 14.7 million during the same period a year earlier. As you can see in the helpful chart above (with sales indicated in thousands), Motorola's loss came largely at the expense of considerable gains from market leaders Nokia and Samsung, with LG, RIM and Apple also seeing some smaller but significant gains. And, yes, this news also means that Motorola is also now in a neck and neck race with ZTE, for what it's worth.

    [Thanks, Katie]

    iSuppli finds worldwide cellphone shipments are up 13.8 percent, Motorola's share slipping originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 May 2010 19:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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