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A new study by ABI Research has determined that the cellular handset market shipped 353.5 million handsets in Q1 2012, and that Apple - which still claims to be learning about emerging markets - continues to sell $1000 handsets at an alarming rate. ABI notes that the smartphone market produced 142 million shipments ... |
30 April 2012
07:31 GMT |
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Looks like the interest in convenient electronics devices is mounting, with a quarter of US consumers having the intention to buy such a thing before the second quarter of the year is out.ABI Research decided to conduct a survey to see how high smartphones, tablets, HDTVs and other items rank on the priority list of ... |
21 April 2012
06:33 GMT |
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Tablets are something that many people are thinking about nowadays, so it stands to reason that market analysts would look forward to see what may or may not happen.
On this particular occasion, ABI Research is the one publishing the results of its most recent study of the slate IT segment.
Apparently, even though... |
26 March 2012
09:41 GMT |
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ABI Research has released the results of a new Mobile Applications Market study highlighting the huge download rate for Apple’s iPad, and the tough road that lays ahead for Android tablets.
According to the research, iPad users have cumulatively downloaded three billion applications since the launch of the ori... |
5 January 2012
13:01 GMT |
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ABI Research’s new study, “Mobile Application Tracker Database,” says that ever since Apple enabled in-app purchasing for free apps in October 2009, “developers have been remarkably quick to evolve their business models.”The report quotes Aapo Markkanen, senior analyst, consumer mobility... |
21 December 2011
10:45 GMT |
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ABI Research mobile device expert Michael Morgan agreed with Ars Technica testers in that Apple’s battery drain issue is related to software, not hardware, and that Cupertino needs to address the power management problem with a new firmware update.What Morgan doesn’t say (but surely he’s thinking it... |
2 December 2011
09:33 GMT |
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It looks like the competition between Google's “stolen product” (Android) and Apple's iOS is close to resolve and things are not looking well for the latter.Android is gaining market share with each financial quarter and the iOS seems to not be able to catch up with the former.The last battle th... |
25 October 2011
06:30 GMT |
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Tablets haven't managed to actually get close to outselling laptops overall, but they did, apparently, already push netbooks aside, in a manner of speaking, according to ABI Research.
Tablets were described, by some, as a threat to the continued sales of netbooks ever since they first showed up.
At first, ma... |
25 October 2011
03:01 GMT |
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ABI Research, a company that provides in-depth analysis and quantitative forecasting of trends in global connectivity and other emerging technologies, has torn down Apple’s latest iPhone to offer a closer look at the hardware.ABI’s Apple iPhone 4S Teardown provides detailed photos, process evaluation, and... |
19 October 2011
12:51 GMT |
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Led by Apple’s iPad 2, an estimated 37 million ultra-mobile devices (UMDs) will ship into the United States during 2011, according to ABI Research. The company provides in-depth analysis and quantitative forecasting of trends in global connectivity.The research firm forecasts an influx of $24 billion in re... |
7 October 2011
15:51 GMT |
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Turning to ultrabooks and leaving netbooks behind is really starting to look like the only real option that notebook makers have if the figures published by ABI Research are accurate.
Ever since tablets started to sell by the thousands, the effect on the netbook segment has been quite closely monitored.
After ... |
7 October 2011
04:02 GMT |
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Touchscreen displays are expected to gain increased traction on the market in the next few years, especially in the smartphhone area, a new report from ABI Research shows.
The research firm suggests that touchscreens will be present on around 97 percent of smartphones by 2016, enjoying impressive growth when com... |
27 August 2011
09:51 GMT |
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As with so many things, the rate at which tablets have been draining netbooks of their customers may have been a bit overstated, at least this is what an ABI Research survey appears to suggest.Back in 2010, most people didn't expect tablets to take off quite so quickly, but they definitely did, making sure netb... |
23 June 2011
05:50 GMT |
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Google's Android operating system is expected to account for around 45 percent of the total smartphone shipments in 2016, becoming the leading mobile operating system in the world. At the same time, the company notes that Apple’s iOS is expected to be placed on the second position on the market at that ti... |
1 April 2011
12:00 GMT |
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There have been many press releases and rumors about what may or may not occur over the course of next year, so ABI Research figured it would narrow down the list at least a bit with its latest whitepaper.With all that has happened during 2010, some previous assumptions were dismantled in favor of others as far as t... |
18 December 2010
06:13 GMT |
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ABI research has done its job and looked into the future in order to see what is likeliest to happen with the WiMAX wireless solution, and the outlook appears to be quite optimistic, the number of subscribers predicted to reach about 59 million.Current marketing conditions are one of the major elements that companie... |
10 September 2010
11:00 GMT |
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Even though there were, at the start of the year, some concerns that the netbook market was getting saturated, a new batch of graphics and CPU solutions restored interest in this segment. Now, analysts are once again enforcing their previous predictions that this netbook market will keep growing at a rapid pace over... |
24 July 2010
07:04 GMT |
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A couple of days ago, leading research firm ABI Research has published a new forecast, stating that the number of mobile subscriptions is expected to top five billion by the end of 2010. Moreover, the firm notes that the first quarter of the year ended with a number of 4.8 billion connections, and that the impressiv... |
3 July 2010
12:01 GMT |
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A recently published report from ABI Research shows that about 75 percent of all WCDMA-capable base stations around the world are expected to have been upgraded to HSPA+ by 2015. According to the research firm, upgrading to HSPA+ will enable carriers deliver speeds of up to 56 Mbps, at least these are the speeds tha... |
8 June 2010
09:23 GMT |
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In some nations, the economy is getting back on its feet, and this means that hardware makers and PC suppliers may actually start seeing their sales improve. Most companies already proudly reported an on-year revenue and shipment growth during the first quarter of 2010 and expect their market shares to rise by th... |
29 May 2010
05:29 GMT |
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The number of people able to enjoy 4G coverage is expected to reach 1 billion by the fourth quarter of 2012, a recent report from ABI Research shows. According to the research firm, that number will jump up from the 480 million people that were covered by 4G at the end of 2009, courtesy of the more than 170 carriers... |
14 May 2010
12:31 GMT |
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A recently published report from ABI Research shows that the number of downloads smartphone users will make from mobile application stores is expected to reach almost 7 billion in 2013. Most of the mobile software solutions are currently downloaded via app stores, and their number topped 2.4 billion applications las... |
7 May 2010
08:45 GMT |
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The worldwide handset shipments reached 303 million during the first quarter of the ongoing year, a recently published report from ABI Research shows. According to the research firm, this marks an increase of around 19 percent when compared to the first three months of the last year, which shows that the global phon... |
3 May 2010
06:33 GMT |
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The total volume of handset shipments went up to approximately 1.15 billion in 2009, a recent report from ABI Research shows. According to the research firm, almost 81 percent of this amount was represented by enhanced phones and smartphones, showing the great appeal this type of devices enjoys on the global market.... |
23 April 2010
10:52 GMT |
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According to a recently published report from ABI Research, the number of 4G machine-to-machine (M2M) cellular modules (including LTE-compatible models) that will ship around the world is expected to reach 12.6 million by 2015. In contrast, only about 40,000 such devices are expected to ship during the ongoing year,... |
15 April 2010
10:41 GMT |
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A recently published report from ABI Research shows that the number of mobile broadband subscriptions at the end of the last year reached 271 million, which marked an increase of 43 percent when compared to the previous year. However, the research firm also notes that the GSM subscriber growth is slowing down consid... |
25 March 2010
15:01 GMT |
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The data access services revenues from mobile business customers are expected to reach $43 billion by 2014, a recent report from ABI Research shows. Moreover, the study also underlines the fact that the revenues will keep up pace with those from mobile messaging services including SMS and mobile e-mail in the enterp... |
18 March 2010
17:11 GMT |
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A recent report from ABI Research demonstrates that the smartphone market showed a remarkable growth during the fourth quarter of the last year. While the fourth quarter is usually the best one when it comes to sales performance of handsets, last year's final three months period registered impressively strong s... |
15 March 2010
16:51 GMT |
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A recently published report from ABI Research shows that wireless carriers around the world are set to increase the capital expenditure for improving their networks during the ongoing year, after getting through two rather rough years. According to the research firm, mobile CAPEX is expected to register a growth of ... |
9 March 2010
05:02 GMT |
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When it comes to the market of 4G services, there are two technologies that will compete for supremacy, namely LTE (Long Term Evolution) and WiMAX, and a recent report from ABI Research shows that the deployment of the two will go head to head. LTE is just starting to pick up pace, while the roll-out of WiMAX will c... |
3 March 2010
14:01 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has been named the top on-board handset-based navigation software vendor by ABI Research, which has just released its latest Vendor Matrix evaluation. At the same time, the research firm notes that Navigon and ALK Technologies were placed on the second and third positions, respective... |
26 February 2010
04:56 GMT |
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Smartbooks have only recently started selling and they have not exactly reached a stage where they have already established themselves as a product category or a brand. Only recently have companies such as HP and Pioneer begun to market this new type of ultraportable devices, with the late introduction of such device... |
23 February 2010
06:22 GMT |
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According to an update to ABI Research's mobile business vertical markets database, the North American mobile-business customer base decreased by 2.9 percent in 2009. One of the main factors that led to this decrease was the unemployment that had increased drastically in the last period, causing many business cu... |
10 February 2010
09:33 GMT |
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While the media-tablet market is still not among the most sizable, ABI research already predicts a very bright future ahead of such products. While the total sales of 2010 aren't expected to amount to more than four million, the market itself is predicted to increase by a great deal by 2015. ABI says that, even ... |
3 February 2010
07:07 GMT |
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Research firm ABI Research has just announced that Deutsche Telekom is the leader in its latest Operator Matrix, an analytical tool aimed at giving a “clear understanding of vendors’ positions in specific markets.” According to ABI Research, while Deutsche Telekom reached the leading position in th... |
20 January 2010
05:48 GMT |
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The mobile cloud computing market in the enterprise area is expected to boast revenues of around $5.2 billion by 2015, a recent report from ABI Research shows. According to the firm, businesses have already started to use handsets and smartphones more than before, and this will drive revenues for IT and mobile suppl... |
13 January 2010
16:31 GMT |
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According to a recently published report from ABI Research, around 87 of the Wi-Fi-enabled smartphones on the market in 2014 should include the 802.11n Wi-Fi technology. This still marks a great increase in the availability of the standard, which was present on only one percent of the Wi-Fi-capable smartphones last ... |
13 January 2010
06:41 GMT |
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The deployments of 4G services all around the world are beginning to gain momentum, and ABI Research says that 22 percent device subscription revenues should result from operator-branded premium services in the segment. Moreover, the research firm also notes that the total amount of 4G mobile consumer service revenu... |
12 January 2010
14:51 GMT |
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One of the technologies that is said to have a great potential is E-EDGE, or the 'Evolved' improvement of the EDGE mobile network technology, which is currently used by a wide range of carriers all around the world. It seems that the E-EDGE technology has the power of generating around $3.7 billion in CAPE... |
29 December 2009
04:27 GMT |
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The market of mobile devices is expected to experience an impressive growth over the following few years. During the ongoing year, ABI Research expects for a number of 1.2 billion mobile devices to be shipped, while the number is said to almost double by 2014, reaching a total of 2.25 billion. However, it should be ... |
22 December 2009
14:51 GMT |
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Smartphones and smartphone operating systems have started to gain more and more ground on the mobile phone market, also driving the usage of applications on mobile devices. According to a recent report from ABI Research, the number of mobile applications that will be downloaded by 2014 is expected to reach five bill... |
18 December 2009
16:41 GMT |
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According to a recently published report from ABI Research, mobile-phone carriers around the world are looking into 3G network enhancements ahead of LTE's arrival. Since Long Term Evolution deployments aren't yet something to expect in the near future, carriers are improving existing infrastructure to the H... |
23 November 2009
11:02 GMT |
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Mobile voice service revenues are expected to start going on a downward route as soon as 2011 is here, a recently published report from ABI Research shows. According to the research firm, the revenues in the mobile voice area are expected to reach their peak in 2010, which started to decline during the following year... |
21 November 2009
05:38 GMT |
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Worldwide leading communications solutions provider Qualcomm is expected to take the lead in the 4G wireless communications area when it comes to patent holding. According to a recently published report from ABI Research, the company recorded 24 percent of ETSI declarations surrounding LTE, and 16 percent of the tot... |
17 November 2009
03:55 GMT |
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A recently published report from ABI Research shows that the number of femtocells to be shipped on the market during the ongoing year is expected to be of only 350,000. The research firm thus adjusted its previous forecast on the matter, which placed the shipments of femtocells to about 790,000 before the end of thi... |
13 November 2009
15:01 GMT |
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According to a recently published report from ABI Research, the market of mobile phone accessories is expected to top $55 billion by the end of 2009. As declared by the research firm, while the figure is showing a decline, when compared to the value of the market a year ago, it is surprising that the drop wasn&... |
11 November 2009
15:31 GMT |
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The number of smartphones delivered to the market during the ongoing year has increased significantly when compared to last year, yet their prices are said to have diminished. According to a recent report from ABI Research, the number of smartphones that cost under $200 has reached 27 percent of the total number of s... |
30 October 2009
10:49 GMT |
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According to a recently published report from ABI Research, the number of mobile business customers in the Asia-Pacific region is expected to grow at a CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) of 4.2 percent. The research firm also says that the economic growth in India and China are the main factors to influence these fac... |
28 October 2009
07:06 GMT |
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According to a recently published report from ABI Research, the cellular M2M connections are expected to see an impressive growth in number during the following few years, namely tripling the current 75 million by 2014. These connections, which enable machines to make wireless calls between them, are shared equally b... |
23 September 2009
02:49 GMT |
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Research firm ABI Research has recently published a report on the mobile data traffic, showing an impressive growth in usage compared to the current levels. According to the firm, the mobile data traffic registered per month by 2014 will exceed the total data traffic registered during the entire 2008. The report take... |
5 August 2009
07:00 GMT |
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