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Mobile augmented reality user base is set to increase dramatically from 60 million unique users this year to nearly 200 million in 2018. According to Juniper Research, the market will expand from the early adopting gaming segment and navigation based utility to become an integral part of the consumer’s ecosystem. The research firm argues that…
LG is launching a new device loaner program that will directly benefit developers around the world. LG announced today that the LG G2 will be the first phone to be loaned out to developers via the program, with attendees of last week’s LG Android Developers’ event in San Francisco got a peek at LG’s newly…
Jelly Bean is now the most popular version of Android with platform versions 4.1-4.3 running on 52.1% of all active devices, up from 48.6% a month ago. In comparison, Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.x) holds 19.8%, Honeycomb – 0.1%, Gingerbread – 26.3% and Froyo – 1.7%. These are the figures from devices that use the…
Huawei has killed it in the third quarter of this year, with shipments securing it the third position, behind Samsung and Apple. According to Strategy Analytics, the Chinese vendor shipped 12.7 million smartphones globally in Q3 2013, representing a 67% increase on the same period in 2012 while giving the company a 5% market share.…
Intelligent Voice has commissioned a poll of over 2,000 Americans to see whether they had used Siri in iOS7, what they thought of its capabilities, and whether they had been “oversold” by Apple. And the results were a little shocking, to say the least. The company surveyed two different groups of people to rate Siri,…
We know that everyone’s talking about smart watches and smart glasses these days. So we’re not surprised to learn about Juniper’s forecast, suggesting this market will reach $19 billion by 2018, up from $1.4 billion this year. Revenues will be driven by high price points for these devices allied to their anticipated strong market demand.…
According to a new report from Berg Insight, sales of smart glasses, smart watches and wearable fitness trackers reached 8.3 million units worldwide in 2012, up from 3.1 million devices in the previous year. Growing at a CAGR of 50.6%, total shipments of these products are expected to reach 64 million units in 2017. At…
LG is beginning mass production of flexible OLED panels for smartphones, helping to usher in the age of flexible displays on our mobile devices, tablets and even wearable tech. “The flexible display market is expected to grow quickly as this technology is expected to expand further into diverse applications including automotive displays, tablets and wearable…
The heads behind Google’s Android team updated the platform distribution numbers going into the month of October. As expected, adoption for the Jelly Bean operating system has continued to grow as it now approaches 50 percent of all Android devices (48.6% to be exact). Keep in mind, this doesn’t mean that half of all users…
Juniper Research is on a verge of being kinky in its latest report, forecasting that by 2017, a quarter of a billion people will use their mobile devices to access adult content, up by more than 30% on current usage. The report argues that this was attributable to an emphasis on high-definition, niche-centric product, as…