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Android US Smartphone market share
The story of Android has been one of a dramatic rise. While Apple have largely held their market share in Smartphones, Blackberry, Nokia and Windows Mobile have lost out to Android. However, new data from Needham suggest that this trend is changing in the US for now at least. The reason? The iPhone coming to … Continue reading
Motorola Xoom sales figures
The Motorola Xoom Android tablet launched to great reviews, winning the prestigious best in show at CES 2011, standing out among a host of tablets. But how many have they actually sold? According to an estimate from Deutsche Bank it was only 100k by April. Compare that to 300k iPads on its first weekend of … Continue reading
Global Smartphone sales statistics
A new report from Gartner showed a 19% growth overall in all mobile handset sales, but what about Smartphones? With Smartphones increasingly becoming the default phone in the major economies, it’s no surprise to see sales increase by 85% year-on-year, but this could have been even higher according to Gartner: manufacturers announced a number of … Continue reading
Global mobile phone sales statistics
In the latest of a series of posts covering elusive statistics on mobile phone market share, we have good data from Gartner on global device sales in Q1 2011. The big number: 424.85 million mobile devices sold in Q1 2011 versus 359.61m in Q1 2010, a modest 19% increase overall compared to the real growth … Continue reading
Android vs Apple Smartphone market share statistics
Reliable market share statistics are often hard to come by. Do you mean share of new phones, share of unit sales, share of actual handsets owned, Smartphones, feature phones or all phones and everything in between. And then this quarter, the year as a whole or indeed this month? No wonder it’s confusing. This week … Continue reading
Smartphone market share
It’s not surprise to learn that Smartphone market share has grown rapidly over the past year. In the developed and in a growing number of parts of the developing world, the Smartphone is becoming the default device with a mobile phone contract. But which vendor has the biggest market share and whose share has been … Continue reading
Tablet market share statistics
Gartner have provided updated statistics this month on the market share of tablets. It’s no surprise that the iPad remains the dominant player having created a market out of very little. In 2010, it had a massive 84 percent of the market worldwide. However, that figure is predicted to reduce by 15% to 69% in … Continue reading
How to create a WordPress mobile theme
While it may have its limitations, free WordPress remains an excellent blogging CMS. So, it’s no surprise to see it moving with the times and introducing an option to instantly create a mobile theme for your blog. You simply go to your dashboard, scroll down to ‘Appearance’ on the left and then ‘Extras’. Once there … Continue reading
Water, iPhone and brown rice
I have something of a conversation piece on my desk – a bowl of brown rice. Not a week goes by without someone commenting on it, bemused by its presence, with only a solitary person recognising what it is there for (a mobile veteran). Having dropped one iPhone in the bath and another in the … Continue reading
WordPress mobile app review
Having only recently taken the mothballs off the blog, I’m late to the party on discovering the immensely useful WordPress app. I can do the likes of moderating comments, editing pages and even adding a post with video and images captured on the phone. Post scheduling is available and intuitive and I was pleasantly surprised … Continue reading
