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HDMI Cutting a Swath Through Consumer Preferences

It was only a matter of time before the HDMI interface caught on for real and, sure enough, here it is just about ready to reach a major sales milestone in just a few years.It appears that, having already secured its place on the digital television segment, the HDMI interface is growing in adoption in every other ma...

15 December 2011
11:17 GMT

250 Million Tablets Will Be Sold in 2017

The tablet market has reached a stage where there is no question as to whether or not it will exist for a long time, to the point where market analysts are already looking five, six or more years into the future.The way tablets have managed to reach a sort of standard price ($500) and are even touching on much lower...

23 August 2011
02:33 GMT

2011 Will See 80 Million USB 3.0 Device Sales

That USB 3.0 devices have been selling well is no real secret, but it still falls to analysts to determine exactly how large a shipment volume they might reach this year, and this is precisely what In-Stat looked into.When it comes to the Universal Serial Bus, the USB Implementers Forum and market analysts seem to t...

20 June 2011
02:42 GMT

Sales of 3D Enabled Mobile Devices Will Reach 60 Million in Four Years

While 3D has just began to spread across the market, it has already reached a point where not just glasses-free screens, but even small devices like handheld Nintendo consoles have adopted it, and sales are thought to be on track to grow substantially.Just a short time ago, Eizo unveiled a 3D display that does not r...

1 December 2010
05:08 GMT

USB 2.0 Losing Momentum Because of SuperSpeed USB 3.0

Though USB 2.0 is mainstream and USB 3.0 still a niche, it seems that the latter has already gained enough popularity as to cause analysts to reach the conclusion that USB 2.0 will quite quickly lose ground to it over the next few years. As end-users no doubt are aware, the Universal Serial Bus (USB) specification h...

21 September 2010
05:11 GMT

Tablets Not a Threat to E-Readers, Says In-Stat

Though some hypothesized that tablets would severely impact existing market segments, like they did on the smartbook front, analysts are now saying that the e-reader front, at the very least, is in no danger of dying from exposure to slates. E-readers have been selling and selling for many months now and they don�...

16 September 2010
08:52 GMT

Analysts Foresee Popularity Rise for Web-to-TV Set-Top Boxes

Internet has begun to be integrated into many types of electronics, and set-top boxes have definitely evolved into hybrids by adopting such connectivity, to the point where analysts are actually predicting that these devices, as they bring a new set of services to TVs, will grow in popularity very quickly.The Intern...

14 August 2010
07:14 GMT

Tablet PCs and 3DTVs to Grow the Most in 2010

Now that the global IT industry is showing renewed signs of life, the general view on the future has shifted towards one that is far less hopeless than the ones formed in 2008 and 2009. In fact, virtually all segments of the IT market are expected to grow over the next few or several years, some more than others. Ana...

27 May 2010
04:19 GMT

High Download Rates Don’t Necessarily Spell Success for Apple’s App Store

In-Stat, a company whose market intelligence combines technical, market and end-user research and database models to analyze the Mobile Internet and Digital Entertainment ecosystems, has conducted a new research based on smartphone user trends. The company has learned that, for free apps, usage is what determines suc...

24 March 2010
11:31 GMT

Mobile 3G Modems Market to Go Up, In-Stat Reports

The market of mobile 3G modems is expected to see growth in the near future, a recent report from In-Stat shows. According to the research firm, the sales will increase mainly due to rapid technology advancements in the area, not to mention that a wider range of devices will come to the market, something that will a...

15 March 2010
14:11 GMT

LTE to Open New Opportunities for Chip Makers

One of the technologies that will see a great adoption in the telecoms industry is the Long Term Evolution standard, which is something that most of you might have learned about already. According to a recent report from In-Stat, the technology is expected to be adopted by a wide range of industry players around the...

1 March 2010
08:34 GMT

In-Stat on Companies Shaping Home Entertainment

In-Stat is in a position to know that three sectors of the digital entertainment ecosystem—device manufacturers and retailers, content producers, and service providers—have much different visions of the home entertainment future, the company reports. In-Stat’s market intelligence combines technical,...

18 February 2010
06:33 GMT

Apple iPad to Serve Everybody Well, In-Stat Says

Unlike Retrevo, In-Stat sees the iPad as a product that promises significant opportunities not just for its makers, but for other parties as well, including an ability to energize the emerging tablet PC segment, while creating a potential semiconductor opportunity of over US$4.1 billion in 2014. The company dealing w...

9 February 2010
04:23 GMT

VoIP to Reach 79% of US Businesses by 2013

A recently published report from the research firm In-Stat shows that one of the technologies that should see a great boost within the following few years is VoIP, especially when it comes to US businesses. According to the report, VoIP is expected to reach around 79 percent of the businesses in the United States by...

2 February 2010
16:41 GMT

WiMAX Chipset Market Dominated by Modems and Gateways in 2013

According to a recently published report from In-Stat, the WiMAX chipset market is expected to be dominated by WiMAX modems and gateways by 2013, as they are said to account for around 50 percent of the available products. However, the research firm also notes that external modules, mobile PCs, base stations, handse...

27 January 2010
03:00 GMT

WCDMA Leads in the Base Station Market

According to a recently published report from In-Stat, even if the worldwide economical climate has been a harsh one lately, the market of base stations has been on the rise due to an increase in demand for smartphones, regular phones, and wireless broadband services. According to the research firm, the total number...

22 December 2009
17:01 GMT

In-Stat Research Predicts Multi-Core CPUs in 88% of Mobile Platforms by 2013

According to a detailed research by In-Stat, single-core processors will become obsolete by 2013 even in handheld computing devices such as smartphones, CE (consumer electronics) devices and MIDs. With notebooks being, currently, the only mobile devices based on multi-core processors (with a few exceptions), multi-co...

9 December 2009
09:06 GMT

15.3% of Mobile Phones in China Are Smartphones

The smartphone market in China has seen strong growth lately, marking a rise of more than 30 percent in shipments in 2008 when compared to the previous year. According to a recent report from In-Stat, smartphones accounted for around 15.3 percent of the total shipments of mobile phones in the country last year, compa...

4 November 2009
05:55 GMT

Nokia Is Losing Market Share in the Wi-Fi Segment

Espoo, Finland-based mobile phone maker Nokia is the largest handset vendor in the world, and is also the leading maker of dual-mode Wi-Fi handhelds. However, it seems that its market share in the Wi-Fi segment has shrunken when compared to the last year, according to a recent report from In-Stat. While in Q2 2008, t...

2 November 2009
06:43 GMT

Smartphone Market Influenced by Mobile OS Battle

According to a recent report from In-Stat, the smartphone market will be influenced by the battle between different mobile operating systems available on handsets today. However, the research firm also says that the competition will soon see a shift from the OS to the functionality and user experience that come along...

27 October 2009
15:01 GMT

PNDs Threatened by GPS-Enabled Phones

The personal navigation device (PND) market is reportedly being threatened by the growing presence of mobile phones that include GPS capabilities. Even so, it seems that the PND market is still expected to see growth during the following year, research firm In-Stat reports, though the growth rate is a very small one....

13 October 2009
06:32 GMT

Research - DisplayPort to See Wide Adoption Across ‘Mobile PCs’

In-Stat has published a report in which the market research firm projects that the DisplayPort will see a significant adoption in “mobile Pcs,” according to the company, particularly as an internal interface between the motherboard and the LCD panel. Put forth by the Video Electronics Standards Associati...

28 September 2009
04:04 GMT

Mobile VoIP Might Change the Mobile World

A recent report published by In-Stat shows that mobile VoIP is expected to change the mobile landscape during the following years, although wireless carriers see it as a direct threat to their revenues. According to the research firm, mobile VoIP, which was used at the beginning as a means of making inexpensive inter...

16 September 2009
02:47 GMT

The App Store Is a Lesson in Application Marketing, Advertising

Thanks to yet another emerging market trend credited to the iPhone, marketers and advertisers now have a new way to reach mobile audiences, says In-Stat, which analyzes the Mobile Internet and Digital Entertainment ecosystems.According to research conducted by the firm whose market intelligence combines technical, ma...

24 March 2009
09:58 GMT

WiFi-Only Phones Might Replace Cells

While WiFi phones could in fact completely replace regular mobile phones, users aren't that excited with this idea just yet. Respondents that participated in a survey regarding WiFi phones and communication devices had only a lukewarm response to the concept. Most of them were slightly interested in WiFi-only mo...

18 April 2007
10:51 GMT


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