In its latest report, International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts further expansion of the business mobile email around the world with revenues set to grow at CAGR of 13.2% over the 2009-2014 forecast period. The number of subscribers, on the other hand, will grow at even faster pace of 36.5% (CAGR). IDC argues there are multiple…
Study: Android soars at Microsoft, Apple, RIM expense
A new report from comScore said that Google’s Android operating system is gaining market share like crazy and this could be bad news for Apple, Microsoft and Research In Motion. The comScore report said that there were 53.4 million people in the United States with smartphones in the second quarter, which was an 11% increase…
Study: Android Will be Number 2 Platform Before 2011, Challenge Symbian by 2014
A recent study from Gartner is forecasting mobile platform market share up to 2014, and echoes the results of earlier studies regarding Android’s current momentum. Specifically, Gartner says Android will just barely squeak ahead of BlackBerry’s number two spot in 2010, and have a significant lead by 2011. Despite a steady decline, Symbian will still…
Strategy Analytics: Superphone shipments to reach 100 million units by 2015
Strategy Analytics is out with new study results, suggesting that global superphone shipments will grow 550% to reach 100 million units by 2015. Superphone is defined as a high-end smartphone with 4-inch or larger display and superfast processor running at 1GHz or more. Among the handset makers that currently offer such devices are HTC (Evo…
Survey: Android Users Twice as Likely to Tap Ads in Apps than BlackBerry Owners
Another tidbit from that Nielsen survey last week is that a whooping 33% of Android users had opened an in-application advertisement in the last 30 days. The other platforms trailed at 29% of Windows Mobile users, 26% for iPhone owners, 24% in other (presumably made up mostly of feature phones), 22% of Palm OS users,…
Dual SIM Motorola EX115 and EX128 hitting Europe in October
This fall, Motorola will be launching its first dual SIM phone, actually two them, in Europe. The two models are Motorola EX115 and EX128 and according to European retailer Germanos they will hit the stores on October 18th. Pre-orders have already started (here are the two links), but that doesn’t mean we have all the…
In-Stat: Mobile TV may still be a niche market, but it does make billions
We’ve been hearing about the promise of mobile TV for quite some time now. Most (optimistic) plans and projections missed the target as the service is still not widely used outside of Japan and South Korea. However, there are plans to push it to the masses and eventually make some money along the way. According…
Study: iPhone Users Download Average of 40 Apps, Android 25, BlackBerry 14
The last we had heard in mobile app research was a forecast that there would be 25 billion downloads by 2015, and along the same vein, Nielsen has released the results of a survey of some 4,000 mobile users about their application downloading habits. As you’d expect, iPhone users were the most active, with an…
ABI Research: Mobile modem vendors are already on the 4G starting line
The number of mobile broadband subscribers is expected to surpass 1.5 billion by 2015. Although the majority of the folks will connect to the Internet using their smartphones, a number of them will do so via their tablet, netbook and laptop computers. The mentioned non-phone products sport cellular modems that allow users to connect to…
Survey: More Shoppers Concerned About iPhone on Verizon than Antenna
Analyst firm Piper Jaffray did a survey of 258 Minneapolis cell phone owners about their purchasing decisions, and 20% of those who had heard of it said that the whole Death Grip / Antennaegate situation on the iPhone 4 affected which phone they ended up buying. That’s nice and all, but the real news is…