This year’s Super Bowl included both a Samsung Galaxy Note ad that I didn’t like and a pretty decent Best Buy commercial. While the Galaxy Note clip was too flower power and only showed the stylus as selling point, the Best Buy ad showed us some innovators in the mobile field, including people who invented the camera sensor, Instagram, text...
It’s been a while since we’ve shown you one of these… Krusell, leading case manufacturer for phones released the sales figures for November in the phone sales department. Considering the wide range of products they cover, their figures are a great indication to the evolution of the telecom market and sales.
Krusell covers 70 countries...
Although everyone sees Nokia as the company making huge bucks in developing countries from low end phones and some more profit from high end devices in the West, this direction might change. Executive Chris Weber is saying that the Finns could focus on entry level smartphones, that could be delivered in the States.
These models could be aimed at first...
Amazon has a very cool offer in partnership with Verizon, involving the whole cellphone lineup of the carrier available for a mere penny each model. The offer includes cool devices such as the Motorola Droid Bionic, that usually go for $299.
Paying a penny for these units is a real bargain, but it does tie you to Verizon for 2 years and most likely...
The recent comScore report on the evolution of smartphone adoption in the European area known as EU5 (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK) shows that Android is rocking, while Symbian is descending into agony. As proved by the table below, Android has gained an impressive 16.2% between July 2010 and the same month this year.
Meanwhile, Symbian has lost...
According to a recent J.D. Power and Associates study on US customer satisfaction, Apple is number one in this segment. It’s kind of logical, since they ship the most smartphones and the most popular model on the US market, so there’s a lot of units to go through.
The iPhone gets a score of 838, on second place being HTC with 801 and both...
Here we are again, with some figures that might interest you, courtesy of ComScore. They provide a great insight into the mobile market in the states, as shown by the figures in the table below. Thus, we learn that Samsung is rocking hard, with 25.5% of the total mobile subscribers in the US, applied to the July 2011 time frame.
The number was 24.5%...
Millenial Media (market research company) has provided some pretty interesting data regarding the neck to neck combat between iOS and Android in the ad revenue segment. The data is gathered using ad impressions for each software platform and then resulting into market share for each OS.
Back in April, Android took over the ad market, owning 53% of...
comScore’s monthly smartphone stats are in, with the company reporting predictable results. Android for one is growing rapidly, while iOS passed RIM’s BlackBerry in April. Meanwhile, Windows Phone 7 doesn’t seem to be gaining market share, but rather losing it, going down 0.8% in April.
Android grew 1.7% in April, going from 34.7% ...
After checking out the figures made public by the IDC report available this week, Comscore has released its own report, covering the three months average ending March 2011. Thus, we find out that Samsung is the favorite of the US mobile subscribers ages 13+, according to the studies.
Samsung got 24.8% of the subscribers back in December 2010, while...