Smartphone shipments continued to increase at a torrid pace in 4Q and for full-year 2011, fueled by the introduction of Apple’s iPhone 4S and models covering the gamut of feature and price points. Vendors shipped 157.8 million smartphones in 4Q…
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XFINITY Mobile App Now Available on BlackBerry
Comcast has now covered all the mobile app bases with yesterday’s announcement that the XFINITY Mobile app is now available on RIM’s BlackBerry devices. The Xfinity mobile app is already up and running on Apple’s iPhone and iPad, as well…
Nielsen: Smartphones Are Majority of New Mobile Phone Purchases
Smartphone penetration continues on an upward trajectory in the US – 38% of US mobile phone customers owned smartphones as of May, while 55% who purchased a new handset in the last three months purchased a smartphone as opposed to…
AT&T Drops Pricing on Smartphones
Dallas, Texas, March 28, 2011 — AT&T is putting an extra spring into the steps of customers this season with limited time pricing on five premier smartphones from its industry-leading portfolio. AT&T customers can now get the Samsung Captivate™ for…
RIM Adds Android Apps to BlackBerry Tablet
Waterloo, ON – Developers wanting to bring their new and existing apps to the highly anticipated BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet will soon have additional tools and options to enhance and expand their commercial opportunities. Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX:…
Android Overtakes BlackBerry, Apple iOS for Mobile OS Market Share
At 31.2% market share of the US market, Google’s Android is now tops in terms of mobile OS market share, according to the latest quarterly statistics compiled by comScore for its MobiLens service. Samsung topped the ranks of mobile handset…
comScore: 63.2 Million Americans Own Smartphones
The number of Americans 13 years and older who own smartphones surged 60% year-over-year in Q4, reaching 63.2 million. As far as the operating systems which control smartphones, RIM’s Blackberry OS captured a 31.6% share of the U.S. market, while…
Three-Way Tie for Mobile OS Market Share Leadership
Statistically, it’s a three-way tie for mobile OS market share leadership, according to the latest research from The Nielsen Co., though Google’s Android has greater momentum among recent mobile phone acquirers. Android OS-based mobile phones accounted for 40% of purchases…
U.S. Smartphone Adoption Momentum is Accelerating
U.S. mobile subscribers are increasingly opting for smartphones over standard feature cell phones. Twenty-eight percent of U.S. subscribers had smartphones as of Q3’s end, according to The Nielsen Company, with new product introductions from Apple, RIM and handset manufacturers making…
RIM Offers Latest iPad Competitor, the BlackBerry Playbook
Looking to ‘out-iPad’ Apple in the fast-growing tablet computer market Apple created, RIM unveiled its own contender for tablet glory yesterday, the BlackBerry Playbook. With the Playbook, it looks like RIM’s trying to be all things to all people. In…
BlackBerry Looking to Torch Smartphone Competition
RIM introduced the Blackberry Torch 9800, its latest smartphone and its first with a combined touchscreen and QWERTY slide out keyboard yesterday, teaming up with AT&T to do so. AT&T, of course, also happens to be the exclusive US carrier…
BlackBerry Remains as Smartphone King
Motorola was the top mobile handset original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and Research in Motion (RIM), maker of the BlackBerry platform, was the top developer of smartphone platforms in the U.S. during 4Q 2009, according to comScore’s latest MobiLens research service….
