According to the latest FirstPartner forecast, the Western European mobile ad market will see revenues grow to 1.1 billion GBP by 2014. The UK will be the leader, maintaining a steady growth rate of 33% to reach 49.8 million GBP in 2010. That’s before growth accelerates in 2011 to deliver revenues of 285 million GBP…
Distimo’s latest report is all about the iPad
Distimo is out with its new monthly report, which unsurprisingly is focused on the Apple iPad. Without further ado, here’s what they’ve found: The number of applications in the Apple AppStore for iPad has reached 4,870 since the release of the device on April 3rd. In the last two weeks alone, the number of iPad…
BlackBerry Ships Fourth-Most Units Worldwide – Reserach
IDC just released their unit shipment projections for Q1 2010, and claim that Research In Motion has bumped out Motorola from the number four spot – an impressive feat since they deal exclusively in BlackBerry smartphones and no feature phones whatsoever. As expected, Nokia is still the king of the hill by a significant margin,…
QWERTY Androids most popular in the US
According to the AdMob report that we showed you a couple of days ago, one of the more interesting things mentioned in the report was that 54% of Android traffic was driven by devices that has a full QWERTY keyboard on it. The top three Android devices in the US are the Motorola Droid, the…
Juniper Research: Shopping by mobile creates an $8 billion opportunity for mobile advertising and coupons
The mobile marketing and retail sector (including mobile advertising, coupons and smart posters) will exceed $8 billion by 2012 globally, according to a new report by Juniper Research. “Mobile Marketing and Retail Strategies” argues that retailers were already starting to exploit the mobile channel through mobile advertising and couponing, and the market for these two…
ABI Research: 487 million people will get HD-quality mobile voice in 2015
According to the latest report from ABI Research, about 487 million mobile subscribers will use HD-enabled handsets in 2015. That may sound somewhat strange considering this market is virtually nonexistent today. ABI argues that growth is expected to ramp up quickly in 2013, and then skyrocket starting in 2014. Initially, it will be mobile phone…
ABI Research shares latest trends in mobile phone design
ABI Research is going through the total number of handsets shipped to discover the trends in the mobile phone design. Last year, global mobile handset shipments totaled approximately 1.15 billion, with enhanced phones and smartphones account for about 81% of all devices (kinda steep figure?). And here’s what ABI has found out: 3.5G – 56%…
Brief: iSuppli: Mobile industry shipped 1.15 billion devices in 2009, the recession is over
iSuppli whipped out their calculators and pegged 2009 industry volumes at 1.15 billion units. That’s down less than 5% from the 1.2 billion of 2008. For an industry that has experienced nothing but growth since the first mobile phone came off the production line, last year was absolutely brutal. This year is looking slightly better,…
Android outpaces iPhone in US web traffic
We had a feeling this day would come. In fact, given previous reports from last month, we knew this would happen. Android has officially passed the iPhone up in the US when web traffic is concerned. AdMob has released the metrics for March, and it’s full of Android goodness. Here are some highlights from the…
Apple iPad Camera Connection Kit plays nice with keyboards, headphones
You’d think Apple’s iPad Camera Connection Kit would be locked down to only work with things like, you know, cameras and stuff. But, you’d be wrong. New reports indicate that the Camera Connection Kit works well with other peripherals, like USB keyboards, USB headphones/headsets, and even USB microphones. The iPad’s Camera Connection Kit is essentially…