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Android's US Market Share Increases to 41.8%, comScore Says

Google's Android platform is indeed rocking the party in the United States, at least this is what the latest reports from research firms show. The mobile platform already managed to gain over 40 percent of the US market, and is expected to increase its share even more in the near future. The latest report from ...

1 September 2011
18:21 GMT

Smartphones to Dominate the Mobile Market in 2015

Smartphones are already highly popular among mobile phone users today, but it seems that they will become even more popular in the coming years, at least this is what a recent report from iSuppli shows. More than half of the mobile phone market in 2015 will encompass smartphones, the IHS iSuppli Mobile Handset M...

31 August 2011
14:21 GMT

The Future of Mobile Phones Looks Amazing

Today's mobile market is already amazing, but it seems that more will be coming in the next several years or so. Handsets have already started to play a great role in the life of users, especially smartphones, which now replace even the computer at home, or the wallet in one's pocket. Undoubtedly, t...

22 July 2011
15:11 GMT

Nokia Believes in Symbian at the Low End of the Market

Symbian, the mobile operating system that has been powering Nokia's smartphones for the past several years, is set to exit the mobile market in the near future, but the handset vendor still believes that it would prove successful in the low-end segment.Later this year, the company would launch its first mobile ...

3 June 2011
13:41 GMT

15% Multi-Core Smartphones This Year, 45% in 2015

Late last year, South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics announced officially the launch of its first smartphone to pack a dual-core application processor inside, the LG Optimus 2X, and other vendors made similar moves at CES 2011 in Las Vegas in early January.The number of multi-core smartphones is expected t...

21 January 2011
03:22 GMT

Samsung Accounts for 34% of Android Shipments

Today, South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung announced officially that it managed to sell a number of more than 10 million Galaxy S smartphones, and also confirmed that it accounts for a big chunk of Android shipments out there. Over all, 34 percent of Android handsets being sent to end users out there come from t...

3 January 2011
10:48 GMT

Samsung and LG to Increase Market Presence in 2011

With a new year almost upon us, mobile phone makers in the world are revising their plans for gaining more ground on the market in the next 12 months, and South Korean handset vendors Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics are among those considering new strategies to increase their share on the market.The two compa...

28 December 2010
07:00 GMT

Palm to Release Impressive webOS Devices, Jon Rubinstein Says

Sunnyvale-based mobile phone maker Palm is expected to come to the market with some pretty appealing devices in the near future, and the company's chief has just confirmed that.Palm was bought by HP several months ago, as the company lacked the necessary resources to remain an active player on the mobile phone ...

17 November 2010
05:23 GMT

Nokia to Get New CEO

Espoo, Finland-based mobile phone maker Nokia is reportedly seeking a new chief executive officer. The largest handset vendor in the world is having hard times with maintaining its market share and keeping the mobile phone market crown over its head, it seems, and is said to have already decided to search for a new ...

20 July 2010
06:08 GMT

Ballmer: Microsoft Missed a Generation of Windows Mobile

Redmond-based software giant Microsoft is getting ready to bring to the market a new mobile operating system, dubbed Windows Phone 7, following the release in October last year of another mobile platform, Windows Mobile 6.5. The first handsets running under Windows Phone 7 should land in the fourth quarter of the on...

13 July 2010
06:16 GMT

Mobile Sector, the Fastest Growing Market in Telecoms

The mobile segment of the telecommunications market is seen as the fastest sector in the area, as it showed growth during the past years, and is expected to rise even more in the future. According to a recent report from IDC, the area is now an $850 billion global market, accounting for around 57 percent of the worl...

11 February 2010
15:21 GMT

Handset Accessories Market to Reach $55 Billion This Year

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

China Mobile Launches App Store This Year

China Mobile has recently confirmed that it has plans to release its own application store before the end of the ongoing year, based on the fact that it is making great progress with the roll-out of its 3G networks, built on the China-developed standard called TD-SCDMA, says IDG News. A company spokesperson is report...

22 April 2009
05:49 GMT

Mobile Phone Sales to Go Down in 2009

“Thanks” to the ever so popular and much discussed international crisis, which is said to get much worse next year, mobile companies have had to develop survival and also profitable plans to get through such rough times. Nonetheless, the fact that sales are going to drop is well known and recognized ...

18 December 2008
10:49 GMT


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