More than 1 billion Android-powered smartphones will ship in 2017, with Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform growing its share to rival Apple’s iOS, according to analyst firm Canalys. This will give Android a 67.1 per cent market share, down slightly from …
NEW ANALYSIS: As 4G-LTE networks continue to expand across mature markets, there is evidence that device choices and usage habits are also evolving in line with the faster network speeds. As Wireless Intelligence‘s recent survey of 4G operators shows, smartphones are dominating …
Global shipments of ‘smart devices’, comprising notebooks, tablets and smartphones, hit 309 million units in Q1 2013, with tablets the fastest-growing segment, according to research firm Canalys. Total shipments of smart devices increased 37.4 per cent year-on-year. Though tablets are the smallest of …
Smartphones make up 58 per cent of operators’ device ranges, compared with just 19 per cent for feature phones, according to a new study by Wireless Intelligence. According to its analysis of more than 50 operators in developed markets that …
NEW ANALYSIS: “China has an unusually large number of potential first time smartphone buyers, and that’s not lost on us,” Apple CEO Tim Cook told investors this week. He added that the firm had recently lowered the price of the …
India and Brazil will see strong smartphone growth in the period to 2017, with China remaining the biggest market, according to a forecast by IDC. According to the company, India will see growth of 459.7 per cent across the five …
Developing markets such as Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia and China (BRIIC) will “drive much of the volume growth” in the global smartphone market in 2013, according to the latest forecasts from research house Canalys. The company said that developing markets …
Apple’s latest iPads generated 4 percent of all iOS tablet sessions for apps tracked by analytics firm Localytics, following the launch of the devices in early November 2012. According to the company, 2 percent of sessions during the month were …
IDC forecast that the worldwide mobile phone market will have grown by 1.4 percent year-on-year during 2012, the lowest annual increase for three years. The slow growth comes despite a record period for smartphones – the research house is forecasting …
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