It may not matter soon what mobile operating system takes third place. Android and iOS already dominate the smartphone market and the latest numbers show that Android shows no sign of relinquishing the top spot any time soon. Market research firm Strategy Analytics reports that global smartphone shipments topped 230 million in Q2 2013 and that Android accounted for 80 […]
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Google: 56% of Canadians now using smartphones
A survey recently completed by Google Canada has found that not only are more and more Canadians are using smartphones but they are also using them increasingly frequently. 56% of Canadians are now using smartphones, up sharply from 33% in early 2012. At the same time, Canadians are using their smartphones more than ever before. 80% of Canadian smartphone users […]
Samsung ships 72 million smartphones in Q2 2013 to remain world leader
Market analysis firm IDC has released its latest Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker and, no surprise, Samsung remains the world’s largest smartphone manufacturer. Overall, the worldwide smartphone market saw shipments hit 237.9 million units, a 10% increase over the previous quarter and a 52.3% increase over the same quarter a year ago. “The smartphone market is still a rising tide […]
Mobile App Market Worth US$27 Billion in 2013
The companies behind mobile operating systems like to brag how many apps are available for their operating system. There is a good reason for it: ABI Research estimates that the mobile app market will be worth US$27 billion in 2013. Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android operating systems dominate while competitors such as BlackBerry and Windows Phone continue to struggle to […]
Google Android Jelly Bean adoption continues to inch up
Google has once again updated its “Platform Versions” report showing the distribution of various Android versions across devices that have accessed Google Play within a 14-day period. Jelly Bean (including both 4.1 and 4.2) continues to inch up (about 3% over the last month) with version 4.1 accounting for the lion share of the increase. At the same time, the […]
Record tablet shipments in Q4 2012
Worldwide tablet shipments set another record in the last quarter of 2012. According to IDC, 52.5 million tablets were shipped over the quarter, an impressive 75.3% increase over the same quarter a year ago and a 74.3% increase over the previous quarter. Apple continued to dominate but its overall market share fell again as Android tablets continued to make gains. […]
Samsung and Apple account for half of smartphone market in Q4 2012
The smartphone market continued to show impressive growth in Q4 2012 with 219.4 million units shipped in the quarter, a growth of 36.4% over the same quarter a year ago. They also accounted for 45.5% of all mobile phone shipments, which themselves topped 1.7 billion units. Samsung and Apple together now account for 50.8% of the smartphone market (up from […]
Worldwide 3G/4G connections top 1.6 billion
There are now over 1.6 billion 3G and 4G connections in the world, according to the latest numbers by Wireless Intelligence, the research arm of the GSM Association. Put another way, use of mobile broadband now account for nearly one quarter of the world’s total connections. HSPA now makes up the majority of mobile broadband connections and is the fastest […]