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It’s early September, and that means Google has updated the version numbers on the Android developer site. Unsurprisingly, Gingerbread is on the rise, virtually everything else is shrinking, and Honeycomb is still barely a blip on the radar. Last month we saw Gingerbread taking up almost a quarter of the pie, and now it’s over…
A study conducted by Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project says 28 percent of U.S. adults consume mobile and location-based services. At least one of these activities (below) were done either on a computer or using mobile phones, with many users doing several of them. The following activities include: 28% of cell owners use phones to…
Digitimes is reporting a few interesting numbers for the mobile industry, particularly Apple’s smartphone business. Their research concludes that total smartphone shipments in 2011 will quite possibly exceed 462 million units. This is a 60 percent increase from 2010, in which 288 million units were shipped. Apple alone is expected to ship over 86.4 million…
According to a new report by Juniper Research, shipments of smartphones with a touchscreen-only interface will surpass 700 million per annum in 2016, representing 72% of total smartphone shipments. The report author Daniel Ashdown argues that such form factor not only provides a superior user experience for many activities, but free-up space on the device…
This isn’t much of a surprise given how adamantly Sprint has opposed the AT&T, T-Mobile merger but a new Sprint-commissioned study said that the potential mega-merger could lead to jobs losses. AT&T is saying that the merger could lead to up to 5,000 new jobs in the United States but the study, done by Professor…
Nielsen just released the latest statistics on smartphone usage in the United States. Slowly but surely, smartphones continue to take over the entire mobile phone industry. As of July 2011, 40 percent of all mobile phones in use are smartphones. The other 60 percent are feature phones, but that number shrinks with every day that…
Ever since Apple introduced the iPhone, everyone and their mama went wanted a touchscreen-equipped handset. Last year, 75% of all smartphones had a touchscreen, up from only 7% in 2006. As you can imagine, this is just a start and by 2016, 97% of all smartphones will have a touchscreen, according to ABI Research. Unsurprisingly,…
ComScore has just released its latest report for the past three months ending in July. In these months, Samsung has managed to grab a quarter of the US mobile market and Android continues to grow faster than any other mobile operating system available today, even with its incredible lead. Samsung, LG, Motorola, Apple, and RIM…
IHS is forecasting that 275.3 million tablets will be sold in 2015, up from its earlier prediction of 242 million units. The estimate for this year is 60 million, so you may wonder what prompted the research company to raise its figures. Yes the tablet prices will further go down and mobile operators will do…
The bean counters at iSuppli have put their thinking caps on, and after analyzing the current trends taking place in the mobile market they’ve come up with the prediction that during the year 2015 there will be 1.03 billion handsets sold, of which 54.5% will be what one might typically call a “smartphone”. To give…