Apple may have no choice but to make sure that its next model sports a larger display. According to research firm Canalys, more than a third of smartphones shipped in Q1 2014 sported a display measuring at least 5 inches. Underlying their growing popularity, while the smartphone market gew 29% year-over-year, those with 5-inch or more displays grew 369% over […]
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Android captures 62% of global tablet market in 2013
The Apple iPad and iOS have dominated the tablet market since their introduction. Despite some predictions by Gartner that it would not relinquish the top spot until 2015, iOS was pushed down into second spot by Android last year. While sales rose again, they could not match Android’s 127% growth over the previous year. Gartner attributed Android’s success to the […]
Apple continues to dominate U.S. smartphone market with 42% share
Samsung may be the world’s largest smartphone manufacturer it remains a distant second to Apple in the U.S. smartphone market. According to market research firm Comscore, Apple took nearly 42% of the U.S. smartphone market in the last three months of 2013 with Samsung following with a 26.1% share. Motorola, LG and HTC closed out the top five but showing […]
IDC: 2013 worldwide smartphone shipments top one billion
IDC’s prediction has come true: Over a billion smartphones were shipped across the world for the first time ever in 2013. According to the latest instalment of IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, worldwide smartphone shipments hit 1,004.2 million units last year. It’s an impressive increase of 38.4% over 2012 when 725.3 million smartphones were shipped. “The sheer volume and […]
Smartphone shipments to fall in Q1 2014?
For the past two years, smartphone shipments have grown higher every consecutive quarter. But this trend could come to a halt in the first quarter of 2014. TrendForce reports that worldwide smartphone shipments reached 265 million units in Q4 2013, a growth of 6.5% over the previous quarter. But it expects shipments to drop about 5.1% in Q1 2014 due […]
Gartner: Android to top 1 billion users in 2014
What do you do for an encore when you hit the milestone of 1 billion device activations in 2013? According to market research firm Gartner, if you’re Android, you set your sights on getting 1 billion active users in 2014. The firm expects that Android will remain the “OS of choice across all devices” and will reach 1.1 billion users […]
Smartphone and tablet ownership to displace PCs in Canada in 2014
2014 may be the year where Canadian smartphone and tablet ownership finally overtakes the PC market (desktops and laptops). So predicts IDC Canada as it sees Canadians increasingly adopt multiple devices both at home and at work. “We are right now at the cusp of the great inflection point when tablets and smartphones together outnumber the install base of PCs,” […]
Forbes: Microsoft to surpass Apple in smartphone market share in 3 years
Market analysts love to gaze into their crystal balls and predict the future. While they sometimes get it right, they also get it wrong more often than not. With Apple riding high and currently the most valuable technology company in America, many want to know who will dethrone them and when. The latest to make a prediction is Forbes’ Mark […]