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Steady movement expected in Android and Smartphone market

Sheuli — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 16:20:45 +0000

In a recent Nielsen report, the mobile operating environment has stabilized over the past several months. Although Androids enjoyed steady growth as the market leader in 2010, Apple and Blackberry are holding on to their market at 26% and 23% of the market share respectively.

The study also reveals that Android users consume the most data at an average of rate 582 megabytes of data per month versus 492 megabytes of Apple iOS users. In regards to application downloads, 79% of Apple iOs users download apps per month versus 74% of Android users. Blackberry users only download at a rate of 42% per month.

After utilizing data resources and application downloads, smartphones’ next popular activity is streaming online music, an activity that pushes services like Pandora and MOG to soar in the Android and iOS marketplace,

Windows Mobile is still a strong presence in the market, holding at 9%, with Windows Phone 7 claiming 1% of the market.

iPhone 4 in June

Sheuli — Wed, 26 May 2010 19:02:27 +0000

AT&T confirms that the new iPhone will be available for purchase in late June.

Wireless-Only

Sheuli — Sat, 15 May 2010 09:49:37 +0000

According to the latest data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – one out of four households in the U.S. is now wireless-only. Only about 15% of households still have a landline, however those households report that they now receive almost all of their calls on their wireless phone.

Data shows that younger adults under 35 are more likely to have cut their landlines. Half of all adults aged between 25 and 29 now live in households that has only wireless, though only 5.2% of adults aged over 65 have cut their landlines.

You can read the report here: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhis/earlyrelease/wireless201005.pdf

Smartphones global market share

Sheuli — Sun, 02 May 2010 08:28:04 +0000

Global sales of smartphones surged by 50% from 35.9 million units in 2009 to 54 million units in the first quarter of 2010. Smartphones now make up 18% of all mobile phone sales globally.Nokia has 40% global market share among all mobile phone makers, RIM has 20%, Apple with its iPhone 16% and Motorola has 4%.