Smartphones using either Apple’s iOS or Google’s Android mobile operating systems (OS) continue to dominate the global market. Taken together, 85% of all smartphones shipped in 2Q were equipped with one or the other, a new combined high, according to…
NBC Universal is making a huge effort not only to cover and distribute more Olympic Games coverage than ever before, but also, is undertaking a major research effort into the results of its coverage; using multiple outside research providers to…
Totaling 24 million units, U.S. smartphone shipments dropped 5% annually in 2Q, according to the latest results from Strategy Analytics’ research. “Smartphone shipments fell 5 percent annually to reach 23.8 million units in the United States in Q2 2012, commented…
Some 36 million mobile apps will be downloaded worldwide via smartphones in 2012— which works out to an average of nearly 37 native apps for the average smartphone subscriber over the course of the year, according to a new forecast…
The ‘phone’ part of the word ‘smartphone’ is doing a disservice to today’s mobile devices, according to a new report commissioned by wireless operator O2. According to O2, “smartphones have become a digital ‘Swiss Army Knife’” as making phone calls…
Are people getting compulsive about their smartphones? The results of a survey released yesterday by mobile app developer Lookout suggests so. Analyzing trends in emotions and behavior related to smartphones in its “Mobile Mindset Study,” Lookout found that as people…
Apple and Samsung continue to dominate the global smartphone market. According to the latest stats from ABI Research, Apple and Samsung accounted for 55% of global smartphone shipments and more than 90% of the market’s profits in 1Q 2012. Smartphone…
iPhone users, on average use more data than any other smartphone user, accounting for 80% of the top 10% of heaviest data users, according to new research from Analysys Mason titled “Consumer smartphone usage: key findings from an on-device tracker.”…
The percentage of American mobile telecom service subscribers who own smartphones continues to grow, reaching 50.4% in March, according to the latest Nielsenwire report. That’s up from 47.8% in December 2011. New buyers were picking smartphones more often than feature…
Global handset shipments will increase 29% between 2012-2016, from 1.7 billion to 2.2 billion, driven by smartphone sales, low-cost smartphone sales in particular. Smartphone shipments will exceed shipments from the “ultra-low cost, low-cost, and feature phone segments” combined come 2016,…
New research from International Data Corporation (IDC) underscores the dramatic growth of media tablets since their inception just a couple of years ago. Worldwide media tablet shipments into sales channels rose to 28.2 million units in the fourth quarter of…
Almost 50% of American adults (46%) owned smartphones as of February this year, according to a Pew Internet & American Life survey, an increase of 11% from the 35% Pew recorded as of last May. According to Pew’s latest smartphone…
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