YouTube Mobile Uploads Fuelled by iPhone 3GS Launch

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

The mobile version of YouTube has known a huge growth in uploads in the last 6 months, 1700% to be more precise. Perhaps more impressive is the 400% growth in the 6 days following the launch of the iPhone 3GS, associated with the impact of the new handset. It's all due ...

Sharp Plans to Sell More Handsets Outside of Japan

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

As recession gets tougher for Japan, major companies like Sharp start thinking about expanding their reach, into the neighbouring countries and even further, to territories like America. Turns out that Sharp plans to sell more handsets internationally, instead of focusing on their home country. This intention was announced yesterday during a ...

HTC Records Great 2008 Sales, 50% of all Windows Mobile Devices

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

HTC has just posted its 2008 financial results, which include a $4.5 billion revenue and $931 million profit. The revenue is up 29%, comparing to the previous year and HTC managed to sell 12.03 million devices, 70% of them with 3G support. 1 million of these devices had Android on board, ...

Apple Does Better than Expected, Goes Past 1% Market Share in 2008

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

ABI Research firm revealed recently that Apple went past the 1% market shared they estimated they would achieve in 2008, actually reaching 1.1%. The iPhones now stand for 1.1% of all phones in the world, a significant growth from 0.3% in 2007. This performance makes Apple equal to HTC and better ...

Market Crash in the Mobile Phone Industry Coming Soon

Friday, November 7th, 2008

A Reuters poll shows that analysts think we'll soon witness the first crash of the mobile phone market since 2001. The experts expect the global growth to be 3% in Q4 and 2009, which is really bad when compared to the 10% of recent years. There is however an expectation ...