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What a difference a year makes in the booming smartphone market. A year ago, the world's leading smartphone operating systems, Android and iOS, owned a little over half the market. Now they own more than 80 percent of it. Of the 152.3 million smartphones ...
May 24, 2012 at 20:01 | Source: PC World
Google sees its mobile OS skyrocketing in usage every year, but so does Apple. The latest IDC study reveals that it is a two horse race when it comes to the mobile OS market. In the first quarter of the year, Android accounted for 59 per cent ...
May 25, 2012 at 14:52 | Source: Itproportal
“Global sales of mobile devices declined more than expected ... and users delayed upgrades in the hope of better smartphone deals arriving later in the year.” In the smartphone market, Android accounted for more than half of all smartphone sales ...
May 17, 2012 at 00:28 | Source: YAHOO!
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May 16, 2012 at 15:46 | Source: TMCnet
Have the smartphone wars been won? Research firm IDC's latest smartphone OS numbers show that Google's Android OS and Apple's iOS now own 81 percent of the global smartphone market, a dramatic change from last year. No other OS has more than a 7 percent share.
May 24, 2012 at 15:29 | Source: PC Magazine
The Korea Herald--Samsung Electronics has become the biggest seller of mobile phones, smartphones and LTE phones in the world, according to reports. In the global smartphone market, Samsung continued to show its prowess, edging out Nokia for the first time ...
May 21, 2012 at 19:00 | Source: China Post
During the first quarter some 152.3m smartphones were shipped. These gains mean Android and iOS have successfully distanced themselves from previous market leaders Symbian and BlackBerry, as well as Linux and Windows Phone 7/Windows Mobile. Android ...
May 25, 2012 at 08:11 | Source: Silicon Republic
Research firm Gartner released its numbers today for “Worldwide Mobile Device Sales” during Q1 2012. There are not many surprises in the report when it comes to Apple, but Gartner estimated Samsung sold 38 smartphones during the quarter ...
May 16, 2012 at 18:45 | Source: 9TO5Mac
Google has released new 2012 research data from its Mobile Planet initiative, launched last October - "a resource enabling anyone to visualize the ways smartphones are transforming how people connect with information, each other and the places around them".
May 16, 2012 at 09:33 | Source: ElectronicsWeekly.com
Approximately 40 percent of the Android-based smartphones sold during the first quarter were produced by Samsung, according to new stats from Gartner. No other vendor nabbed more than 10 percent of the global market. Overall, some 81 million Android-based ...
May 16, 2012 at 16:43 | Source: PC Magazine