NewsResearch News 
November 22, 2007
Smartphone sales soaring in the USA
According to The NPD Group, a leading consumer and retail information company, mobile phone sales to consumers in the U.S. reached 38 million units in the third quarter of 2007. This number represents an increase of nearly 16 ...
November 14, 2007
Smartphone sales to go through the roof
Smartphone OS-based phones will grow at more than a 30% compound annual growth rate for the next five years globally, taking an increasing share of the overall phone market that is otherwise growing in single digits, reports In-Stat. ...
November 01, 2007
BlackBerry tops customer satisfaction survey
BlackBerrys rank highest in overall customer satisfaction among business wireless smartphone users, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2007 Business Wireless Smartphone Customer Satisfaction Study released today.The inaugural study measures business customer satisfaction with their wireless smartphone, ...
September 07, 2007
iPhone is top selling handset, but BlackBerry still outsells it 2 to 1
The recent report that the iPhone was the top selling smartphone during July has been clarified by its writers, iSuppli.The iPhone was the biggest selling handset, but BlackBerrys actually outsold Apple's baby 2 to 1 when all models ...
September 04, 2007
iPhone tops US smartphone sales
The iPhone outsold all smartphones in the USA during July, and equaled the sales of the most popular feature phone, according to a study by iSuppli. The iPhone accounted for 1.8 percent of all mobile-handset unit sales to ...
August 29, 2007
Linux to be the fastest-growing smartphone OS
Linux is expected to be the fastest growing Smartphone OS over the next 5 years, with a compound annual growth rate in excess of 75%. A recent study from ABI Research forecasts the Linux-based OS to account for ...
August 22, 2007
Handango upbeat about smartphone software market
Handango has released the 2007 Second Quarter edition of the Handango Yardstick, a quarterly report on the state of the mobile content industry.For the second consecutive quarter, the Motorola Q and BlackBerry Pearl ranked first and second, respectively, ...
August 09, 2007
Nokia tops new ABI Research smartphone vendor matrix ranking
Nokia has been ranked at the top of the latest Smartphone Vendor Matrix released by ABI Research.Motorola and RIM (Research in Motion) claimed the second and third spots in the company's most recent evaluation of worldwide smartphone vendors.The ...
August 04, 2007
iPhone "will not revolutionise the smartphone market"
Estimates of iPhone shipment volumes in the first weekend they were available have ranged from 140 thousand units to 500 thousand units depending upon who was asked. Meanwhile, ABI Research forecasts that the smartphone market segment will grow ...
July 31, 2007
Half of mobile phone revenue to come from multimedia accessories
The market for mobile phone accessories will generate over $32 billion in revenues in 2007, of which more than half will come from accessories that support multimedia features in handsets. This mainly includes mobile phone accessories such as ...
July 31, 2007
Smartphone adoption grows
Sales of mobile phones, including smartphones, dropped 13% to $35.5 in the first quarter of 2007 following a seasonally strong pre-Christmas quarter in 4Q06, according to Infonetics Research in its latest "Mobile and WiFi Phones and Subscribers" report. ...
July 03, 2007
iPhone markup is 55%
Around all the excitement over the public ripping apart of the iPhone, analysis of the components has thrown up interesting information about the gross profit margin that Apple is making on every iPhone sold.55%.Yes, for every iPhone purchased ...
July 02, 2007
Half a million iPhones shift in a weekend
Although many stores were still reporting iPhones in stock 24 hours after it launched, Apple still managed to notch up around 500,000 sales in the first weekend. Piper Jaffray and Global Equities Research put the number of sales ...
June 30, 2007
Japanese smartphone market grows by factor of six in a year
Research and Markets has published a report analysing the smartphone market in Japan. The market size is estimated to have grown to about 600,000 in 2006 from about 100,000 in 2005 thanks to the expansion of the business ...
June 25, 2007
Google tops the SmartPhone hit list
M:Metrics, has announced the rankings of the top mobile Web companies among smartphone users in the United States and the United Kingdom, for the month of April. Google appears to own the mobile web, withover 62% of traffic ...