Sales of smartphones in China grew 21.9% sequentially in the fourth quarter of 2013, but the growth rate dropped to 15.9% on an annual basis which indicates the smartphone market in China is becoming more saturated, according to Digitimes ...
Tags: Smartphones, Huawei, Coolpad
ComScore said weaker than expected online spending in the final week before Christmas means U.S. retail sites from desktop computers fell short of its expectations for the Nov. 1- Dec. 23 period. ComScore estimated U.S. retail e-commerce ...
Tags: ComScore, U.S.retail e-commerce, online holiday shopping
People are taking more photographs than ever before, nearly 400 billion this year, yet sales of cameras are shrinking. Overall, global shipments of digital cameras have fallen 30 percent this year, according to Christopher Chute, research ...
Tags: Smartphones, Camera
Sales of smartphones in China are expected to grow 137% on year to 189 million units in 2012, buoyed mostly by a take-off in demand for EDGE and TD-SCDMA models in the second half of the year, according to Digitimes Research. Local brands ...
Tags: Smartphone, Smartphone in China, Chinese Smartphone Market
Smartphone subscriptions will triple and smartphone traffic will increase by a factor of 10 between the end of this year and 2019. By that time about two-thirds of the world’s population will be covered by LTE, according to a report ...
Tags: smartphone, sale, triple, 2019, driver
Global shipment of smartphones has increased 39% up to September 30. Strong demand for low-priced Android phones in China eroded Apple's market share. As growth of smartphone sales in the United States and Europe has slowed down, ...
China Mobile, the country’s largest mobile carrier, will release its first voice-over-LTE phones next year as part of its plan to bring a full range of handsets to its upcoming 4G network. The carrier, with over 700 million ...
Tags: China Mobile, 4G Push
There were 90.39 million handsets sold in the China market during second-quarter 2013, slipping 0.2% sequentially but growing 41.8% on year, and 77.11 million of the units sold were smartphones, increasing 2.4% sequentially and 56.8% on ...
Tags: Smartphone, China market
Samsung remains the runaway market leader in smartphones, according to the latest figures from analysts at Gartner. It sold 71.4 million units in the second quarter to claim a commanding market share of 31.7 per cent, while Apple in ...
Tags: Samsung, Smartphone
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
Several smartphone launches are imminent, including next Tuesday's Verizon Wireless event in New York City to unveil what the carrier's calling "the next generation of one of their most popular family of devices." Other smartphones ...
Tags: Computer Products, phone, smartphone
Apple's iOS is closing the gap on rival Android in the US market, according to new statistics released today by Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, which says that the three months that ended in May 2013 saw iOS' share of the American smartphone ...
Tags: Computer Products, software, IOS, Apple
Huawei calls the Windows Phone platform weak despite using it as the foundation for some of the smartphones it makes. “[Windows Phones] are weak but still require a licence fee,” says Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei’s consumer ...
Tags: Windows Phone, Huawei
Analyst concerns that Galaxy S4 smartphone sales are lagging sent Samsung's shares down 6% early Friday. Samsung's Galaxy S4 The decline in Samsung's stock follows analyst worries that a more affordable Galaxy S4 Mini or the rugged ...
Emerging markets and lower prices will push worldwide smartphone shipments close to the billion-unit level this year, according to the latest forecast by IDC. That company is predicting total smartphone sales of 958.8 million for the ...
Tags: IDC, Smartphone Sales