If you said the iPad was a gimmick when you first heard about it, you are probably keeping it rather quiet now. Apple’s latest portable device has been another success, and possibly its most successful in terms of initial sales. Yes, it has benefitted from those that came before because of the company’s enhanced brand; [...]
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Battle of the Bands: Handset Pricing Categories in Our New Smartphone Report
by Daniel Ashdown on July 20th, 2011
While Apple has released another set of impressive quarterly results, it should not be forgotten that smartphones increasingly come in many forms and, consequently, at many price points. We won’t gloss-over 20 million iPhone shipments in the quarter-ending 25th June 2011, especially for a premium smartphone (see definition below) – but there is plenty of [...]
Adobe Systems, the developer of software for PCs and mobile phones that allows devices to create, display and interact with rich-media content, has revealed that development of its Flash Player software for mobile phones is well underway, in partnership with a growing number of hardware and software firms, including most of the leading handset manufacturers. Read through the press [...]
In Juniper’s recent report examining the trends and opportunities facing operators and handset vendors alike in the fast-growing low-cost handsets field, we found that one of the key hurdles in getting phones into the hands of those on very low or subsistence-level incomes was the total cost of ownership (TCO) of the phones themselves. Over the [...]
By now, most of the major mobile handset manufacturers have announced results for Q209 and, bar any unforeseen developments at late reporters such as ZTE, these results were a little better than I’d been expecting. Nevertheless, with approximately 269 million devices shipping in the quarter just gone, this performance is still around 9% down on [...]
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