While Nokia is reporting a 66% decrease of its quarterly revenue and Motorola’s not doing so well (for the past 2 years actually), Sony Ericsson is also sinking into the depression, since they’ve just posted another quarterly loss. This is the fourth consecutive quarterly loss and it’s now very clear why LG surpassed the company,...
Nokia has just announced some stunning figures, that show a 66% collapse of its net quarterly profit, caused by lower phone sales and decreased prices. This incredible news made the Nokia shares fall 8.65%, which is not something any company would want during depression. Meanwhile, the phone manufacturer’s market share fell to 38%, from 40% one...
An excellent Wired.com article reveals why Nokia handsets get no love in the US, providing 7 reasons for their lack of popularity in the States. We’re dealing with a country where Nokia’s market share is declining, down to 8% in 2008, from 15%, 2 years ago. Among these reasons there’s the fact that Nokia is a weak brand in the US,...
Smartphone ownership is increasing, or so says a ChangeWave survey research that took place on June 9-15. 37% of the respondents said that they own a smartphone, while 14.4% of all people questioned mentioned that they plan on buying one in the next 90 days. The survey comprised 4063 respondents and also determined that, as far as market share is concerned,...
Rumours are floating around, claiming that Orange might be trying to attempt a T-Mobile UK buyout. This takeover theory surfaced in the moment when Orange started a series of talks with Deutsche Telekom over their UK network. Orange didn’t confirm this info just yet, at least not officially and their representatives claim that the company is...
Reuters claims that, according to the web analytics firm StatCounter Opera’s browsers were used more than iPhone’s Safari in May. Turns out that 24.6% of the web pages downloaded last month, were accessed using an Opera Browser, compared to the 22.3% using Safari. Opera has the huge advantage of being pushed forward by numerous carriers...
A study recently performed by AdMob shows that Apple’s handsets generated 59% of the U.S. smartphone traffic in April. Surprisingly enough, the percentage favours Apple worlwide, 43% of the mobile web traffic coming from iPhones. This info is included in the AdMob Mobile Metrics Report for April 2009, released just yesterday and it confirms the...
Economic depression has started showing its effects in Asia as well, since just yesterday Japanese electronics group Toshiba announced that it plans on ending the production of mobile phones in Japan, according to Reuters. The production will end in October and Toshiba will outsource to other countries and manufacturers, in an attempt to cut costs....
In spite of the economic depression, job cuts and low profits of most handset manufacturers, handset vendors still managed to ship 258 million phones by the end of the quarter. That stands for a 11% year over year decrease, but it’s still good news, since it surpassed the specialists’ prediction (253.5 million units).] Samsung and LG did...
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 placed than Sharp. Nokia continues to lead the pack,...
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