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Most handset makers are struggling these days. According to ABI Research‘s senior analyst Michael Morgan, global handset shipments decreased YoY for the second consecutive quarter, depicting the global economic crisis of 2008-2009. Even Apple experienced a 26% QoQ decline in Q2 shipments as consumers withheld purchasing an iPhone in anticipation of the new model to…
According to ABI Research, the world’s smartphone subscribers will download about 36 billion apps in 2012, resulting in almost 37 native apps through the year for the average smartphone subscriber. That’s nearly 6% increase to the 35 apps downloaded per smartphone subscriber on average in 2011. However, the average download count will not increase substantially…
Samsung has taken a sizeable lead in the smartphone market in terms of unit shipments. According to Juniper Research’s estimates, the Korean giant shipped 52.1 million smartphones in Q2 2012, just over double the number shipped by Apple – 26.0 million. What’s more, Samsung has also doubled its lead over Apple quarter-on-quarter, with its flagship…
The 2008 presidential election season marked the first time that candidates allocated substantial campaign resources to mobile marketing. Now in 2012, sharp growth in smartphone adoption coupled with improvements in mobile apps and mobile ad technology, it’s easier to reach and connect with voters through their phones. According to a study by Localytics, 70% of…
Juniper Research (and many other research firms for that matter) is bullish on the prospects of NFC-based contactless payments. According to them, the NFC retail payments market will exceed $180 billion globally by 2017, which is more than a seven-fold increase over 2012. The leading regions of North America, Western Europe and Far East &…
Around three-quarters of the world’s population now have access to a mobile phone, according to a new report from the World Bank and infoDev, its technology entrepreneurship and innovation program. The number of mobile subscriptions in use worldwide, both pre-paid and post-paid, has grown from fewer than 1 billion in 2000 to over 6 billion…
Although many carriers have started offering some sort of unlimited data plans, the truth is that most of us don’t need all that data. In fact, it seems that half a gig is enough a majority of U.S. mobile subscribers. The information comes from Nielsen that says that in the first quarter of 2012 the…
In its latest report, Juniper Research is looking at the mobile search and discovery market, forecasting that it will reach $15 billion by 2017, nearly three times it is expected to generate this year. According to the report, the clickthrough and cost-per-click rates for search & discovery, including web search, local search, augmented reality search…
China is already the world’s largest smartphone market and by the 2017, 80% of the population could own a smartphone. The forecast comes from research2guidance, which points to two factors that could lead to such an increase in smartphone adoption: the country’s buoyant middle-class and the availability of low-end, one-thousand Yuan (about $150) smartphones. Continuous…
A survey conducted in May and June by Harris Interactive and Skyfire reveal shocking results about smartphone users’ preferences for the videos they watch on their devices. Over 900 U.S. and 1,000 British smartphone owners participated. Almost seven out of every eight respondents — 86 percent — say they prefer standard definition video over high definition…