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Oh HTC. It’s sad that a company with truly great hardware is heading down the same path as RIM did. (Hasn’t that sloppy mess flatlined yet?) HTC announced its monthly sales for October and the news is quite abysmal to say the least. In 2011, the vendor sold NT$44 billion ($1.5 billion) worth of smartphones.…
Results from a study conducted by Strategy Analytics have revealed that for the first time ever, owner loyalty toward the iPhone has declined. The study shows that 88 percent of iPhone owners in the United States plan to buy another Apple smartphone in the future. In Western Europe, that number is at 75 percent. Both…
SellCell.com, a website service that allows you to find the best buy-back deal for your phone or tablet, released new statistics about tablet trade-ins. It particularly revolves around Apple’s recent unveiling of the fourth-generation iPad and new iPad mini. Since that announcement, it turns out iPad trade-ins have skyrocketed up 500 percent. The Apple iPad…
With 74.1% share, smartphones remain the dominant device in mobile advertising impressions in the UK. However, tablet usage is increasing rapidly with an overall share of 18.9%. According to data from the InMobi mobile advertising network from July 2012 to September 2012, Apple’s iPhone (27.9% impression share) continues to be the most popular single handset…
The conventional wisdom says that smartphone, tablet and to some extent TV buyers are well informed, and that once they enter the store, they know what they want. That apparently is not the case with a significant percentage of US-based smartphone buyers changing their minds once in the store. According to recent research conducted by…
Consumers are migrating away from PC-based Internet usage and are increasingly using mobile devices as their default gateway to the Internet. According to IDC, the U.S. is leading this trend, with Western Europe and Japan only about two years behind. In the United States, the number of people accessing the Internet through PCs will shrink…
Opera Software published its Q3 State of Mobile Advertising report, sharing key data and trends in mobile advertising worldwide. The Opera advertising platform — based on Opera’s subsidiaries AdMarvel, Mobile Theory and 4th Screen Advertising — serves more than 10,000 mobile sites and apps, with 40+ billion ad impressions per month and is on-track to…
Juniper Research estimates that the number of smartphone shipments exceeded 157 million in the third quarter, with Samsung increasing its lead in terms of unit shipments. During the period, the Korean company shipped a record 56.3 million smartphones, which is almost double than what Apple did (26.9 million). Samsung’s flagship device, the Galaxy S3, played…
The low-cost smartphones costing less than $150 present a strong growth opportunity for the mobile phone industry, according to the new NPD DisplaySearch Smartphones: Displays, Designs and Functionality report. These devices are forecast to double every year from 2010 to 2016, increasing from 4.5 to 311 million. As you would expect, 60% of the demand…
In its latest report, ABI Research is looking at prospects of NFC-based mobile payments, forecasting their rise from $4 billion in 2012 to $191 billion in 2017, breaking the $100 billion mark in 2016. According to the research company, the convergence between payment types — proximity, P2P and online — stored on a single NFC…