Worldwide smartphone shipments appear to show no sign of slowing in 2013. According to IDC’s latest Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, shipments will top the one billion mark in 2013, a 39.3% jump over 2012. With growth slowing in a number of mature markets, emerging markets are now driving the demand thanks in large part to steadily declining average selling […]
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Smartphones account for more than half of all phones sold in Q3 2013
Worldwide sales of mobile phones continue to climb with smartphones accounting for over half of the 455.6 million handsets sold in Q3 2013 according to market research firm Gartner. Taking a 55% share of sales, smartphones hit their highest share to date as sales grew to 250.2 million units, up 45.8 percent over the same quarter a year ago. Much […]
IDC: 258.4 million smartphones shipped in Q3 2013
Market research firm IDC yesterday published the latest edition of its Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, revealing that smartphone shipments set a new world record by growing 38.8% year over year. They hit a total of 258.4 million units, up 9.0% over the previous record high of 237.0 million set in the previous quarter. The overall mobile phone market also […]
Smartwatch market to top 373 million units shipped annually by 2020?
Market research firm NextMarket Insights predicts that smartwatches are here to stay. Current models may leave us wanting more but advances in displays, such as flexible ones, and mobile processors, could see the market grow from an expected 15 million shipped in 2014 to an impressive 373 million by 2020. “The watch industry ships over 1 billion watches a year, […]
Android on 43 percent of Canadian smartphones
Android is one of the two most popular smartphone operating systems in the world and Canada is no exception. According to market research firm comScore, Android took the top spot and accounted for nearly half of the Canadian smartphone market in June 2013. Android’s market share hit 43 percent, up 3 percent from the previous quarter while Apple came in […]
Mobile app downloads to top 100 billion in 2013
Following market research by ABI Research that found that the mobile app market could be worth as much as US$27 billion this year, Gartner has weighed in with its own study and found that some 102 billion apps will be downloaded from mobile app stores this year. This is nearly 40 billion more apps than were downloaded only a year ago. […]
IDC: Tablet shipments to pass PC shipments in Q4 2013
Market research firm IDC predicts that the overall smart connected market, made up of PCs, tablets and smartphones will grow 27.8% over last year with tablets and smartphones driving that growth as PC sales continue to slow. As a result, it predicts that tablet shipments will pass PC (including desktops and laptops) shipments for the first time in the last […]
Android mobile app revenues to hit US$6.8 billion in 2013
Android mobile app revenues are expected to nearly double this year from last year. ABI Research expects that they will reach almost US$6.8 billion by the end of the year. While iOS still dominates this space, estimated to be worth US$27 billion in 2013, Android is catching up quickly thanks in large part to dominant smartphone sales. For example, Android accounted […]