Android and iOS Capture a 92% Share of Global Smartphone Shipments in Q4 2012

According to Strategy Analytics, it seems that Google's Android and Apple's iOS , together, have covered in the fourth quarter of 2012, as many as 92% of the smartphone market, leaving really only the crumbs to competitors, such as from Microsoft and RIM, hoping that the new Windows Phone 8 and Blackberry 10 OS should turn the tide.

Android claims 48% of U.S. tablet market share

The Android table segment is getting stronger and taking more and more market share, however still long way to reach the smartphone market share , that Android is enjoying at the moment , now what is told and retold, but it seems that the trend is slowly changing, at least in America, but with the aid of Amazon's Kindle Fire.

According to Nielsen over half of U.S. teenagers now own a smartphone

Time after the summer break, it is time to take stock and Nielsen certainly does not wait, with a small table showing which are the trends of new subscribers in the United States. We start from the first point underlined by the agency, which sees a significant number of new smartphone owners now on U.S. soil, which went from 41 to 55.5% of the population in a single year.

HTC does not exclude the possibility of ​​creating a BlackBerry 10 smartphone

A HTC smartphone equipped with the operating system BB10 hypothesis is less likely than you might imagine, according to a statement from Graham Wheeler, director of product management for EMEA of HTC. Although no lack of explicit confirmations about it, the manager of HTC has not ruled out the possibility of using the new operating system from RIM alongside with Android and Windows Phone 8.

ComScore confirms the leadership of Android in USA

ComScore has released the final report for the market for producers and their piattafome for the period February to May in the U.S. market, photographing what was the situation of this first part of the year now coming to an end, which devotes more than a few surprises .Confirming the trend that has been dragging on for months, IOS and Android are now vying for the smartphone market with almost 80% market share with Apple off of almost 20 points compared to Google's system, for both regiostrando in the period under review a gain of between 0.8 and 1, 7%.

BlackBerry Curve 9320 officially unveiled: BB 7.1 and 2.44 inch display

A few weeks ago RIM launched the cheap Curve 9220 in India. Today it announced the Curve 9320 with QWERTY keyboard and dedicated button to BB Music Service.  BlackBerry Curve 9320 will hit the market with OS 7.1 and support for tethering, which calls via Wi-Fi. The display is typical of the curves, a 2.44 inches with resolution 320 × 240.

The smartphone has a particularly light seen only 103g and a battery of 1450mAh .Among other features found 512Mb of internal memory (expandable) and the same amount of RAM, a 3.2 megapixel camera (in the model 9220 is only 2 megapixels), 3G connectivity and FM radio.

The availability has not yet been announced and the price will be around $ 220 .

NPD - Android has 61% of U.S. smartphone market, iOS declining since the beginning of the year

NPD Group has published the latest data on the distribution of current operating systems for smartphones for the U.S. market and the report shows a system Android still in the midst of its growth at the expense of his arch rival iPhone OS since the beginning of the year shown a continuous decline, yielding market share to the Google platform.

Apple and Samsung share the 99% of the profits of the global smartphone market

Horace Dediu of Asymco has made ​​available the data in its possession about the operating profits extracted from the eight major manufacturers of smartphones in the world in the first quarter of 2012 and from that data we can see Apple and Samsung flying high.

It seems, in fact, that Apple and Samsung together possess 99% of total industry revenue , with Apple that makes the lion's share with its significant 73%, although its share has declined slightly, compared to 75% the previous quarter. Samsung, meanwhile, has increased its share from 16% to 26%, totally demolishing all other manufacturers.

Kantar WorldPanel:WP7 grows 450% YoY in UK, mostly due to Nokia Lumia sales

The research firm Kantar Worldpanel regularly calculates smartphone sales carried out worldwide over the past 12 weeks to trends. This time the firm has paid special attention to the release of Nokia Lumia 800 in the UK market and gives some information about this very interesting. Kantar reports that for the first time smartphone users outnumbered feature phone users, with more than 50% of cellphone users owning some kind of smartphone, and 71% of sales in the holiday season from November 2011 to 22nd January 2012 being for smartphones.

Kantar notes Windows Phone which managed to capture 2.2% of sales in this period, with the Lumia 800 taking the majority of this market share.

“Windows Phone 7 is also creeping up, taking over 2% of the market for the first time with the Nokia Lumia 800 taking the lion’s share. This looks set to continue with the expected launch of at least two new models at the Mobile World Congress conference," said Dominic Sunnebo, global consumer insight director at Kantar Worldpanel ComTech.

"A really positive thing for the mobile OS from Microsoft is how users seem to use their smartphone. Of 81% owners of a Windows Phone have used social networks on their devices during the previous month, as more users Android and IOS. Moreover, three quarters of the owners of a 800 Lumia used the GPS, indicating that the choice to include free Nokia Nokia Drive was a relevant investment. "

He noted Nokia has been at least somewhat successful in converting its Symbian users to Windows Phone, with a quarter of users of Windows Phone 7 having used Symbian phones in the past.

He predicted Windows Phone could grow its market share to 8% by the end of 2012.

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Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute (MIC) predicts 80 million Windows Phones will be sold in 2012

According to Taiwan’s Institute for Information Industry Windows Phone will grab 13% of the market share, that means around 80 milion handsets of total 416 million.

Android`s share is expected to rise to 50% in 2012, MIC said, compared to iOS` 19% In the pursuit of higher subscriber numbers, MIC said, the market is expected to be dominated by Apple, Google and Microsoft camps, with fierce competitions also between non-telecom companies such as Amazon and Facebook. 

Currently, the penetration of smartphone subscribers globally is about only 14%, but the rate is expected to grow clearly when budget-priced, or under-US$300 smartphones hit the emerging markets. In 2012, the penetration is estimated to reach 17% and jump to 40% in 2016, MIC said.



Also according to MIC market shares of Nokia and RIM will continue to drop to 15.6% and 8.6%, respectively, with that of Apple and HTC to rise to 18.7% and 10.9%, respectively. Samsung is expected to win a market share of 21.7% in 2012.


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RIM will license BlackBerry 10, HTC and Samsung among stakeholders?

The black period for RIM continues  but the company seems to want to keep persisting. After the rumors about the possibility of dismissing the two CEOs now comes the news that the BlackBerry 10 may be licensed to other manufacturers.

Sacrificing the hardware division to save the software seems to be RIM's plan appears to be in talks with manufacturers such as Samsung and HTC.

The rumor is to be taken with the tongs as both Samsung and HTC have already in the catalog Android and Windows Phone, as well as one for the Samsung Bada. The manufacturer of the Galaxy S2, however, could abandon Windows Phone the end of 2012 and, if this rumor were true, the BlackBerry 10 may be adopted by Samsung.

We'll see how the situation will evolve and if the rumors are denied or confirmed.

BlackBerry PlayBook available from Rs 13,490 till Dec 31 in India

Consumers wanting to buy a BlackBerry PlayBook can snag one for as less than Rs 13,490 as a part of Research In Motion’s (RIM’s) limited period offer that is valid till December 31, the company told BGR India. Under this offer, the 16GB PlayBook will be available for Rs 13,490; 32GB for Rs 15,990 and the 64GB variant for Rs 24,490 ($254.38).

This is not the first time RIM is offering a special deal on the PlayBook – it gave away a BlackBerry Curve 8520 free with the PlayBook as a Diwali offer. RIM booked a one-time pre-tax charge of $485 million against poor PlayBook sales and unsold inventory in the third quarter

Via:BGR.in