According to the latest research from Gartner, smartphone sales have surpassed feature phone sales for the first time, with smartphones accounting for 51.8 percent of all mobile phone sales in the second quarter of 2013. Worldwide ...
Tags: Smartphones, Mobile Phone Market
The shake-out of the mobile phone market has continued with the news that Japanese consumer electronics giant Panasonic is to discontinue making smartphones. It comes a week after its rival NEC announced a similar withdrawal. However, ...
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Canalys has published its final second-quarter-2013 smartphone shipment estimates by vendor for the 50-plus countries that it tracks. Some 238.1 million units shipped in the second quarter, an impressive 50% on-year increase. And while ...
Tags: Smartphone Shipments, Top Vendors
Of the top-selling smartphones in the U.S. in the past year, customers ranked two Samsung smartphones higher than the last three Apple iPhone models. The latest American Customer Satisfaction Index, released Wednesday, ranked both the ...
Tags: Samsung Smartphones, iPhones
Facebook turned on a key security feature by default on Wednesday that scrambles data sent by users to the company's servers, following similar moves in recent years by Web services such as Google and Twitter. Two years ago, the social ...
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Nokia has overtaken BlackBerry in smartphones, according to the latest sales figures for its Lumia Windows Phone devices revealed in its second quarter results. However, while the total of 7.4 million sales of Lumia smartphones ...
Tags: Nokia, Blackberry, Smartphones, Consumer Electronics
Nokia sold 7.4 million Lumia smartphones in the second quarter, its best yet for sales of the Windows Phone devices, but still made a net loss. Net sales totalled a!5.70 billion (US$7.48 billion), down 24 percent year-on-year. The company ...
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Apple's iPhone sales are sputtering as rival smartphone makers ramp up their offerings, a market research firm says. The survey by IHS iSuppli said smartphones are still going strong around the world, but that Apple is lagging. "Apple's ...
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Apple will launch its own iPhone trade-in program this month, exchanging older iPhones for in-store credit, according to Bloomberg and other sources. Companies already active in "re-commerce" -- the buying of used consumer electronics ...
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More smartphones will ship worldwide in 2013 than other so-called mobile "feature" phones as the average price of smartphones drops, IDC said Tuesday. The average price of smartphone declined by 8% globally in 2012 and is projected to ...
Tags: Smartphone, Prices
Global technology consultancy ThoughtWorks has launched its latest Technology Radar as part of the company’s commitment to revolutionising the IT industry. The Radar provides insight and advice into the cutting-edge techniques, ...
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Six years after the sale of the first iPhone and 14 years after the first BlackBerry email pager was unveiled, smartphone shipments have outnumbered sales of other types of mobile phones, IDC reported late Thursday. IDC said 216.2 million ...
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The worldwide mobile phone market grew 4% year-on-year in the seasonally slow first quarter of 2013 as smartphones outshipped feature phones for the first time, according to the International Data Corp (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone ...
Chinese handset maker Huawei plans to introduce a new smartphone in the middle of this year, packed with the "best hardware and design," and is preparing to open a slew of new stores in its home market. The upcoming handset was ...
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Consumer electronics giant Samsung has posted record revenues and profits in its first quarter financial results following a surge in sales of mobile phones. The company cut the price of its popular Android smartphones in advance of the ...
Tags: Smartphone Sales, Samsung Storm