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Google is now activating 850,000 new Android devices daily, increasing its number to 300 million total devices — 12 million of which includes tablets. These stats are according to Andy Rubin, when he addressed reporters at this year’s Mobile World Congress. Rubin allocated the number of devices by counting activations once per device ID; this process…
According to data from Berg Insight, smartphones equipped with dual-core processors reached 60 million units worldwide in 2011. The first such smartphones were unveiled at the beginning of 2011 with sales starting in February 2011. One year later, several handset makers are expected to announce their first smartphones with quad-core processors, eventually pushing dual-core phones…
In a new report, Juniper Research talks about so called MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) devices built into mobile phones and tablets, suggesting annual revenues for this market will exceed $6 billion by 2016. According to the research company, there are three different categories for MEMS devices: those already deployed (accelerometers, magnetometers and gyroscopes), those currently in…
Android has taken over in the United Kingdom as the #1 smartphone operating system in terms of market share. Kantar Worldpanel ComTech measured smartphone usage between January 2011 and January 2012 to find that Android had a 36.9 percent share while Apple’s iPhone had 28.5 percent. In fairness, this should be expected. It technically compares software…
The wildly popular social networking giant, Facebook, plans to generate $1.2 billion from mobile advertising, according to UK-based analyst firm Mobile Squared. This bit of news has circulated for some time now, as we recently reported the social networking site was working on bringing ads to smartphones and tablets in the near future. The $1.2…
Apple may have broken sales records last quarter selling 37 million iPhones, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the company’s mobile phone business is booming everywhere around the world. iPhone market share dropped in China for the second quarter in a row, while cheap, locally-produced smartphones take over. Apple’s smartphone market share in China fell to 7.5…
Android will rule the world, we already know that. However, we were still surprised to read NPD’s findings that suggest smartphones running Google’s mobile platform will reach a penetration rate of 80% of total smartphones in Africa, India and China by 2015. NPD defines low-cost Android smartphones as those running Android 2.2 (Froyo) or 2.3…
Apple has become so ridiculously successful that it competes with itself. The Cupertino-based company saw its tablet market share trimmed in the fourth-quarter, as the new iPhone 4S proved to be the strongest competitor for the iPad during the final three months of 2011, according to a new study from IHS iSuppli Research. Apple shipped…
Apple’s iPad 2 and Amazon’s Kindle Fire are two of the top-selling tablets on the market today. FixYa, the product Q&A web destination, surveyed its users to discover the issues they have with the two popular products, and here’s what they’ve found: Top 5 Kindle Fire problems Can’t Turn Off One-Click Shopping – 30% –…
In its latest report, Juniper talks about the future of mobile ticketing, forecasting that 1 in 8 (13%) of North American and Western European mobile users will use their NFC-enabled mobile phone as a metro rail or bus ticket by 2016. That’s a significant rise from today when only 1% of folks are doing so.…