Hyundai plans to increase its popularity in the UK, by announcing the launch of 10-15 mobile devices this year. Following the company’s success in Hungary, Slovenia and Germany, Hyundai Mobile UK plans to reach a market share of 3-5% in the next 5 years. Hyundai handsets will use the great image of the brand, one of the 5 greatest car manufacturers...
IDC’s latest study revealed that the mobile phone market is in for an important slowdown next year, as total cellphone volumes will be 2.2% lower than in 2008. This is the first time this has happened since 2001, but we can blame it all on the economic depression. The same study showed that we’ll end this year with a global growth of 7.3%,...
The analysts from J. Gold Associates estimate that we’ll be seeing twice as more business apps on smartphones than on notebooks over the following 3 years. This move will be fueled by the fact that smartphones will be bought more than notebooks in the future. These results were obtained after analysing the data of a poll that included 340 large...
While some of us could have sworn that Windows Mobile was dead and buried by now, the figures published by Canalys for the Q3 2008 smartphone market show that Symbian’s in deep trouble. It had a 21.5% drop of its marketshare and a 12.4% drop in shipments, as you can see in the table below: Windows Mobile surprised everyone with a 42.9% growth...
