According to Al Ramadan, senior vice president of mobile and device solutions at Adobe, consumers worldwide demand engaging content and services on their devices. Research by the Boston-based consultancy, Strategy Analytics, forecasts that there are 38 million flash-enabled mobile phone handsets today, but that number is going to grow to 216 million by 2010. The…
Smartphone market 67% increase
Converged mobile device market worldwide recorded sales of 18.9 million units in Q1, an increase of 7.5% over the fourth quarter of 2005 and 67.8% over Q1 of 2005, according to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. Nokia is leading the market with 43.2% share, followed by Panasonic (10%), NEC (9.5%), RIM Blackberry ( 7.7%)…
Mobile user interfaces' new paradigm
3G Portal has a great article written by Olof Schybergson and Mike Beeston of Fjord Ltd, UK, about the mobile user interfaces. At the beginning authors examine the current industry trends where handsets manufacturers race have been one about hardware (more megapixels, size and clarity of screen, battery life, etc), and that with loyalty, churn…
Consumer Demand for Digital Convergence
Nokia Nseries, Nokia’s high performance multimedia range, commissioned research in 11 countries around the globe to discover people’s views on today’s and tomorrow’s multitalented mobiles. According to the research data, consumers are not only embracing convergence but clamoring for more of it. Highlights: Almost one in two people around the world now use their mobile…
Features don't sell phones!?
Advanced features aren’t selling mobile phones in the U.S. even though more users are adopting them, according to a recent survey by research company J.D. Power and Associates. They’ve surveyed 18,740 users in two waves, one last October and one in February with users being allowed to give multiple reasons for the purchase. It’s price…
Nokia 9300 Outperforms Treo 700W and Blackberry 8700c
While Palm Treo 700W was rated highest for style and design, and Blackberry 8700c scored particularly well in terms of handset size, Strategy Analytics’ latest converged device benchmark report finds Nokia 9300 the best overall device.
11.70m Symbian OS shipments in Q1 2006
Symbian Limited, developer and licensor of Symbian OS, today released the following unaudited financial and operational figures for the quarter ended 31 March 2006: Q1 2006 Highlights: Global shipments of Symbian OS phones during Q1 2006 rose to 11.70m; year on year quarter growth of 73% (Q1 2005 – 6.75m) Cumulative shipments of Symbian OS…
The beginning of the end for portable MP3 players?
ABI Research has a great article about the perspectives of pure MP3 players. Now when the hard drives are the part of the mobile phone (as in Nokia N91), this could spell the beginning of the end for the portable MP3 players. Short article, since you have to pay for the ABI Research’s subscription Wireless…
Canalys Q1 2006 global smart mobile device research
The latest market estimates from Canalys show some major changes happening in the worldwide market for smart mobile devices, with new names appearing in the global top five. Highlights High Mitsubishi and Sharp Q1 2006 shipments in Japan boost Symbian Nokia’s year-on-year growth of 60% meant it increased its market share slightly, helped by demand…
The hidden value of the mobile operating system
Symbian’s David Wood insight no.7 covers growing mobile OS debate with a hard look under the bonnets of Linux, Microsoft and Symbian OS and asks which is truly delivering a product purely for the mobile environment and who will ultimately bring smartphones to the mass market? Author suggests six of the problems faced by Linux…