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Juniper Research has revealed that global wearable smart glass shipments will reach 10 million per annum by 2018, compared to an estimated 87,000 this year. At the same time, app-enabled mobile smart wearable device hardware market will approach $19 billion by 2018. According to the research firm, the smart glasses retail prices will decline towards…
LG has just released a report that sheds light on America’s smartphone usage, and the results may surprise you. With over 170 million Americans incessantly checking their smartphones for pretty much anything you can imagine, its safe to say that mobile customers are using their mobile devices all the time, wherever they please. The study,…
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…