When you ask an average consumer about tablets, what kind of response do you usually get? I’m willing to bet that they first mention the iPad. Or possibly they don’t even know what you’re talking about until you bring up the iPad. Now I hope you’ll agree that this is a serious problem. Because the iPad is just one tablet in a sea full of many others…. Read more
Just like Android broke through the phone market and landed on top, it’s doing the same for the tablet market. In December, the Nexus 7 overtook the iPad in sales in Japan, according to Nikkei. Nikkei is Japan’s largest daily, and they reported on a survey of 2,400 electronics stores, finding out sales of their tablets. From the results, the iPad held a… Read more
The statistics for the three month period ending in November were released today by comScore. While nothing much has changed, the gap between the duopoly of Samsung and Apple and the other three in the top five is growing fast. Samsung grew 1.2 percentage up to 26.9%, while Apple grew even more to 18.5%, up 1.4 points. Everyone else has dropped 0.4 to… Read more
In an incredible turn of events, Samsung is predicted to pass Nokia in overall cell phone sales by the end of 2012. While Samsung has controlled global smartphone sales for a while, Nokia still controlled the cell phone market with their massive amounts of dumb phones all over the world. According to information from iSuppli, in 2011, Samsung… Read more
Dell made an Android smartphone, did you know? It was called the Streak, and it had a 5″ display that was deemed too large. Sure, it launched running Donut and had a WVGA display. It was ahead of its time, and Dell released it to a market that was simply not ready for it. Two years later, the Galaxy Note launched and took the world by storm with its… Read more
In a surprising turn of events, Sony has moved up to the number two Android company in the UK. They outsold HTC after their release (and massive advertising) of their Bond Phone, the Xperia TL. Sony sold 500,000 units in Q3 of 2012, while HTC sold 440,000. It’s not a big difference, but this is big news for Sony. Being the second highest selling Android… Read more
According to Kantar Worldpanel, iOS actually overtook Android late October. On the 28th, iOS hit 48.1% market share in the US, dropping Android to 46.7%. With the iPhone 5 launch, it seems that iOS popularity went through the roof, blowing past Android (which had a very sizable lead). This happened last year too. With the launch of the iPhone 4S,… Read more
In the midst of Google’s awesome day of announcements yesterday, there was one more announcement left as Google Play has hit 700,000 available applications. The arrival at 700,000 apps means Google has now matched Apple in terms of sheer volume of games, programs and productivity tools usable on tablets and smartphones. Unfortunately, that number still… Read more
Over the past year, Google has made it a point to communicate the wins of their Android platform. On a daily basis, Android is experiencing 1.3 Million unique activations, Android phones account for 68% of the smartphone market, and the top OEM handset manufacturer, Samsung, has benefited greatly from sales of its Android based Galaxy SIII models…. Read more
This comScore is over a 3 month period ending in August, which is before the iPhone 5 launch, so they are a little irrelevant at the moment. Still, the numbers show the state of the phone ecosystem a month ago. As you can imagine, Google is in first place with a growth of 1.7%, up to 52.6%. Apple had a 2.4% growth up to 34.3%. RIM dropped another 3.1%… Read more
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