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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung has reportedly managed to sell a great deal of smartphones in the first quarter of the year, and is expected to announce record shipment volumes for the timeframe. To be more precise, the company managed to sell around 25 million devices per month this quarter, which would su... |
27 March 2013
13:51 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics managed to claim the top position on the smartphone market in China in 2012, the latest reports on the matter suggest.
Apparently, the company was capable of tripling its sales in the country last year, reaching 30.06 million units and gaining 17.7 percent market ... |
11 March 2013
20:01 GMT |
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Makers of Android-based devices were first to the market with 5-inch and larger handsets, and are expected to greatly expand the number of smartphones featuring such large screens, but it seems that others will follow suit as well.
According to some of the latest reports on the matter, Apple too is getting ready fo... |
8 February 2013
09:27 GMT |
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Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation is expected to see slower growth in the first quarter of the next year when compared to previous estimates, new reports on the matter unveil.
The company initially expected a growth of 20-30 percent in the first quarter of the next year compared to this quarter, but it h... |
19 December 2012
17:21 GMT |
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Nokia’s Lumia 920 handset, the company’s flagship Windows Phone 8 product, is considered to be the leading smartphone in the UK market. The smartphone has proven to be the top choice for users in various countries around the world already, with retailers running out of stock repeatedly since its officia... |
19 December 2012
04:57 GMT |
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Computer maker Dell will no longer work on the development of smartphones, as it has decided to close its mobile phone business globally.
The smartphone market has seen great expansion lately, and is expected to grow even more in the years to come, but it seems that Dell can’t keep up.
Jeff Clarke, the head... |
13 December 2012
05:23 GMT |
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Chinese mobile phone maker ZTE is expected to make official a high-end smartphone at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
The company has already confirmed such plans, although it did not offer specific info on what the device might pack in terms of hardware specs and features.
However, it seems t... |
12 December 2012
06:31 GMT |
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Mobile phone maker Lenovo is reportedly en-route to become the most popular smartphone maker in China next year, leaving South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung behind.
At the moment, the maker of Galaxy S III is currently the leading brand in the country, yet this might change in the not too distant future, Gartner... |
22 November 2012
18:21 GMT |
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Google’s Android operating system has had yet another great three months in the third quarter of 2012, a recent report from Gartner shows.
The mobile operating system accounted for 72.4 percent market share in the time frame, up from only 52.5 percent in the third quarter of last year.
The overall sales of ... |
14 November 2012
04:29 GMT |
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Japanese mobile phone maker Sony Mobile said to plan on ramping up shipments of smartphones in the coming year, with a target set at 50 million units.
This year, the company is expected to top the 35 million units mark with its smartphone shipments, but it seems that this won’t be enough to bring it back to p... |
7 November 2012
08:21 GMT |
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Google’s Android operating system has gained some more market share in the third quarter of the year, a recent report from IDC unveiled. The platform is said to have grabbed 75 percent of the smartphone OS market in the timeframe, with unit shipments reaching 136.0 million. Moreover, the International Data ... |
2 November 2012
13:51 GMT |
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BlackBerry 10, the next-generation mobile operating system coming from Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion, is already being tested by over 50 carriers around the world, the company confirmed on Wednesday.
The handset vendor is determined to make the first devices running under the new platform available... |
1 November 2012
03:29 GMT |
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Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 platform, set to become official before the end of this month and expected to hit shelves on new devices in early November, should prove a great update when compared to the previous versions of the mobile operating system.
It will be loaded on a nice range of new smartphones coming... |
10 October 2012
14:51 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion is gearing up for the release of its new BlackBerry 10 operating system, as well as of new handsets running under the platform, yet it seems that we might not see them made available for another half a year. The company has already confirmed plans to launch its new dev... |
9 October 2012
09:34 GMT |
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Sony Mobile appears to be finally returning to the battle for supremacy on the smartphone market, at least this is what a recent report from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech shows.
Apparently, the company’s Xperia devices are selling better than RIM’s BlackBerry devices and Nokia’s phones on the old conti... |
6 October 2012
10:51 GMT |
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Computer maker HP has already confirmed plans to enter the smartphone market with a device of its own, yet it seems that we won’t see it put on shelves in the near future.
Meg Whitman, the company’s CEO, has confirmed yesterday that the smartphone wouldn’t be launched next year, though she did say... |
5 October 2012
02:01 GMT |
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Windows Phone 8 is expected to become available in late October on devices coming from various handset vendors around the world, yet it won’t be launched on Microsoft hardware as well, it seems.
Although rumors on a possible launch of a Surface handset have emerged ever since the company unveiled its own Wind... |
3 October 2012
19:01 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion might have its upcoming BlackBerry 10 operating system licensed to other vendors, should it consider this move fit for its business.
The company has been long rumored to plan licensing the new OS, and Thorsten Heins, RIM’s president and chief executive officer, h... |
14 August 2012
06:21 GMT |
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Microsoft might have finally got it right on the smartphone OS market with the upcoming Windows Phone 8 platform. Of course, with no actual hardware to look at, it’s hard to say whether the platform will indeed prove successful or not, but the range of changes the company announced yesterday make us believe t... |
21 June 2012
16:11 GMT |
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Chip maker Nvidia is getting ready for a flurry of smartphones powered by its Tegra 3 quad-core application processor, and it is not shy to talk about it. In fact, the company has just confirmed that it expects the number of such devices to grow up to 30, suggesting that some of them will come with low price tags. ... |
25 May 2012
01:55 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is looking to differentiate in a market saturated with Android and iPhones, but it does not want to bring fragmentation to the Windows Phone platform.
Of course, Nokia devices will have their own specific features that will make them stand up in the crowd, but the company does not ... |
19 January 2012
13:41 GMT |
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Google’s Android operating system has managed to take over the US smartphone market a while ago, and the platform remains on top for another quarter, the latest data from Nielsen shows. On the smartphone segment, Android was leader with no less than 46.3 percent of all smartphones in the US in Q4 2011, the rese... |
19 January 2012
11:26 GMT |
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LTE smartphones are picking up pace. The first handsets to offer support for this 4G technology have landed on shelves roughly a year ago, and they have become increasingly popular since.
During 2012, smartphones that offer support for 4G LTE connectivity are expected to account for around 5 percent of the total sma... |
17 January 2012
14:01 GMT |
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Rumor has it that the Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion plans on putting itself up for grabs, and that it has already kicked off the process.
Apparently, the leading handset vendor hired investment bank Goldman Sachs to look into various strategic options.
The BlackBerry maker has been long rumored ... |
16 January 2012
05:04 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has just made available for purchase its first Windows Phone devices, yet the company seems confident that the platform will prevail in front of Android and iOS devices.
Furthermore, the handset vendor believes that the market has become saturated with such devices, and that users ... |
13 December 2011
15:41 GMT |
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Several weeks ago, Adobe announced that it planned on putting an end to the development of Flash Player for mobile browsers, which leaves many people with only one option when it comes to similar technologies, namely HTML5.
The standard can be used on a wide range of devices without too much of a fuss, which shoul... |
9 December 2011
15:51 GMT |
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Smartphone sales in China are going up, and the market has just claimed the top position in the world, a recent report from Strategy Analytics unveils.
During the third quarter of the year, sales of smartphones reached a record 24 million units in China, which allowed the country to get in front of the United State... |
23 November 2011
16:01 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung managed to secure the leading position on the smartphone market during the third quarter of the ongoing year, and the latest data from IDC brings some more info on the matter.
Samsung shipped over 23.6 million smartphones in the third quarter of the ongoing year, grabbing a ... |
4 November 2011
14:31 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics was already crowned as the leading smartphone maker for the third quarter of the ongoing year, and it seems that the company will remain there at least for a while.
During the three months ended September 2011, Samsung shipped around 27.30 million smartphones, wh... |
3 November 2011
17:11 GMT |
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Japanese-Swedish mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson is set to bring to the market more smartphones than before, the company has just announced. During their third-quarter 2011 earnings call, the company said that smartphones already are an important part of their business, and that they might soon take over their enti... |
17 October 2011
13:21 GMT |
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The smartphone segment is expected to suffer major changes starting with the fourth quarter of the ongoing year, as new, highly appealing devices should hit the market soon.
Apple, Nokia and Samsung are only some of the vendors who will bring new devices to shelves in the coming months, and they might change the... |
3 October 2011
16:11 GMT |
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In the next few months, the first Nokia handsets to run under Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system are expected to hit the market, and they are said to be stunning.
Reportedly, these are the exact words that Nokia’s Conor Pierce, general manager for UK and Ireland, used to describe the future sm... |
30 September 2011
08:10 GMT |
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Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC was once the largest provider of devices running under Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system, yet the company is selling at the moment more Android devices than Windows Phones.
However, it seems that they are still confident that Microsoft's mobile operating syste... |
29 September 2011
15:11 GMT |
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Microsoft is confident that their Windows Phone operating system will conquer more hearts than other mobile platforms out there, and that it will prove one of the top OSes on the smartphone market, the company's CEO has confirmed once again. For the time being, however, things are not as good as Microsoft might... |
15 September 2011
15:21 GMT |
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Analysts are projecting that Apple will have sold no less than 86.4 million iPhone units in 2011, whereas hard-to-beat Nokia will only record 74.4 million smartphones sold by year's end.According to Luke Lin, an analyst for Digitimes Research, Apple’s smartphone shipments are expected to surpass the 86.4 m... |
6 September 2011
07:44 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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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics plans the release of new devices at IFA this year, and some of them will land on the mobile market, helping the company gain more share in the area.While no specific info on what the company intends to release was unveiled, a video teaser that Samsung published on ... |
19 August 2011
05:06 GMT |
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For the first time ever, Google's Android operating system managed to take the crown from Apple's iOS platform on the Australian market. The mobile platform has seen an impressive growth the past few years, and is expected to continue on this ascendant route for the next few years as well. In Australia, th... |
18 August 2011
05:22 GMT |
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A few weeks ago, we learned that Nokia has lost the top position on the smartphone market, when its smartphone sales for the second quarter of the year fell behind Apple's, but it seems that the decline was worse than originally expected.
South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung managed to sell more smartpho... |
29 July 2011
04:16 GMT |
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With sales of smartphones increasing fast, the market is expected to reach new heights in the coming years. By the end of 2016, sales will surpass 1 billion units, a recent report from IMS Research, leading independent provider of market research and consultancy to the global electronics industry, shows.
The com... |
27 July 2011
14:01 GMT |
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While the selling over 100 million Windows Phone handsets a year might seem like a far away dream for Microsoft at times when Android activates over half a million devices each day and is on the rise, having these smartphones drop to under $100 is an achievable goal. In less than a year, the company expects for smar... |
15 July 2011
07:59 GMT |
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Not only is Apple getting ready to achieve an important milestone with the shipping of no less than 100 million iPhone devices over a 12-month period, but the company is also enjoying the highest level of profits on the handset area.
The Cupertino-based company accounted for about 50 percent of the net earnings ... |
9 July 2011
05:51 GMT |
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Espoo, Finland-based mobile phone maker Nokia is expected to hit the third place on the smartphone market during this quarter, the latest analyst reports suggest.
According to Nomura Research, Nokia is about to lose the crown on the smartphone market, after climbing to the top on this segment in 1996.
The lea... |
13 June 2011
18:11 GMT |
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Windows Phone, the new mobile operating system that Microsoft launched on devices in October last year, is expected to become the second platform on the smartphone market in 2015, a recent report from IDC reiterates. The research firm already said that the platform is expected to become a leader on the market, and i... |
10 June 2011
15:11 GMT |
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More and more devices running under Android are being activated each and every day, showing that Google's mobile operating system is actually gaining momentum, the comany unveiled today.The number of new devices being activated is four times larger that last year and, with Symbian out of the way, Android is get... |
10 May 2011
14:33 GMT |
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The global smartphoner market went up 79.7 percent on a yearly basis during the first quarter of the ongoing year, the latest data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker shows. The market is growing due to older smartphones being offered at lower price tags, the availa... |
6 May 2011
15:11 GMT |
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During the first quarter of the ongoing year, Japanese-Swedish mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson has managed to ship a number of no less than 8.1 million handsets, 23 percent lower than in the first quarter of the last year, and 28 percent down from the previous quarter. The company has market a significant decrease ... |
19 April 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Google's Android operating system is expected to become the leading mobile operating system during the ongoing year, accounting for no less than 38.5 percent of all smartphones on the market in 2011, up from only 22.7 percent it enjoyed last year, a recent report from Gartner shows.According to the research fir... |
7 April 2011
15:51 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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The global smartphone market is expected to increase significantly during the next few years, while undergoing a series of changes determined by the recent partnership between Nokia and Microsoft. According to a recent report from Ovum, Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 operating system is expected to become the thir... |
30 March 2011
15:21 GMT |
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