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The Retrevo 2010 Gadget Census has been conducted, and the results are in. Very interesting results I might add. As you can see from the infographic above, the spread of iPhone, Android and BlackBerry users is quite varied, with Android taking hold in the heart of the nation… and for whatever reason, the coasts seem…
A new research report from Berg Insight forecasts that the number of mobile subscribers using a turn-by-turn navigation service or application on their mobile phone grew 57% from H1-2009 to H1-2010 and reached 44 million worldwide. In terms of the future use, the analyst firm expects the subscriber base to grow at a CAGR of…
New forecasts from ABI Research suggest just over 11 million tablets and 43 million netbooks will ship worldwide this year. The netbook figure is somewhat lower than observers expected at the end of last year, but the growth is still impressive, though not as meteoric as during the past couple of years. One of the…
Thanks to the strong mass-appeal of the Apple iPad, Gartner is predicting that global tablet sales will reach about 19.5 million this year. The research firm is expecting the tablet market to blow up over the next few years, as it predicts tablet sales will shoot up to more than 54 million units this year…
The analysts and researchers at IDC are cautiously optimistic about the chances of Windows Phone 7 in the smartphone market but it says Microsoft does face a steep challenge. As you know, Microsoft showed off nine Windows Phone 7 handsets earlier this week for its new smartphone platform. The company started fresh from its Windows…
U.S. teens seem to be permanently glued to their cell phones – even in class, inevitably getting themselves in trouble. On average, they send and receive 3,339 text messages or SMS each month. Nielsen has compiled data from 60,000 phone bills and compared usage during Q2 2010 versus the same quarter the year prior. Data…
As part of its “Next Generation Smartphones” report, Juniper Research is investigating the prospects of video calling services. Obviously, Apple’s FaceTime will give some impetus to the market, but it will not lead to it becoming a mass-market technology in the next five years. As a matter of fact, the research company’s senior analyst Anthony…
If you ever plan on selling your mobile phone on eBay, do yourself a big favor and make sure you give it a good old factory reset. Wipe the memory card too while you’re at it. This advice comes from from the mobile and forensics experts Disklabs who purchased 50 handsets from eBay, admittedly a…
Foxconn, the manufacturer of devices like the Apple iPhone and products for Nintendo, Dell and others, is publicly responding to reports which say many of its employees face physical abuse while at work. A government study leaked to the press and found that the abuse rates were up to 50% in some Foxconn facilities and…
It would be impossible to say that the iPad isn’t a runaway hit. Apple has been selling its tablets like hotcakes with no formidable competition currently available but Apple doesn’t have the advantage it had with the iPhone. The times, they are a changing, and at least one analyst believes that some of the predictions…