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Tag: smartphone market

LG Electronics mulls exit from smartphone business

Wednesday, January 20, 2021 10:54 am1 Comment

LG Electronics may exit the smartphone business after losing about 5 trillion won (US$4.5 billion) over the past five years. Its CEO…

Apple’s problem in one chart

Wednesday, January 29, 2014 12:26 pmWednesday, January 29, 201433 Comments

In assessing Apple’s (AAPL) latest earnings results…

Fueled by Apple’s iconic iPhone, smartphones in use surpass 1 billion, will double by 2015

Wednesday, October 17, 2012 9:29 am10 Comments

The number of smartphones in use globally crossed 1 billion…

iPhone 5 may be Apple’s last blowout U.S. bestseller

Thursday, September 20, 2012 12:32 pmThursday, September 20, 201246 Comments

The iPhone 5 hasn’t even hit stores yet and it’s already blowing the doors off the competition…

Android loses ground to Apple iOS in Q212 U.S. smartphone market share

Monday, July 30, 2012 2:32 pmMonday, July 30, 201218 Comments

Android lost ground to Apple iOS and Android’s market share fell…


Growing anticipation for next-gen Apple iPhone creates ‘mother of all handset pauses’

Friday, July 20, 2012 12:32 pmFriday, July 20, 201221 Comments

With Apple Inc. widely expected to launch the iPhone 5 sometime this fall…

Analyst: Apple iPhone 5 will be last smartphone hurrah as market nears peak

Monday, July 16, 2012 3:10 pmMonday, July 16, 201242 Comments

The great smartphone boom is about to end. That’s according to one savvy tech prognosticator…

China smartphone market grows 164% YOY, Apple’s iOS takes 17.3% share

Monday, July 9, 2012 12:39 pm2 Comments

Even without availability on China’s largest mobile provider…

Taiwan smartphone maker HTC 1Q profit plummets 70 percent, blames Apple’s iPhone 4S launch

Tuesday, April 24, 2012 11:30 amTuesday, April 24, 20128 Comments

Taiwan smartphone maker HTC Corp. reported a 70 percent drop…

40% of U.S. teens plan to buy an iPhone, 80% plan to buy an iPad within next 6 months

Wednesday, April 4, 2012 8:56 amWednesday, April 4, 20126 Comments

34% of U.S. teens own an iPhone and a whopping 70% own iPads…

Windows Phone market share is so tiny, Nielsen doesn’t even list it

Friday, March 30, 2012 8:44 pmSaturday, March 31, 201224 Comments

The bad news for Windows Phone market share continues…

BMO ups Apple price target to $590 on higher iPhone sales

Monday, February 27, 2012 4:44 pmMonday, February 27, 20124 Comments

BMO Capital’s Keith Bachman, who has an Outperform rating on shares of Apple…

Gartner: Apple took top smartphone vendor crown in Q411 and for all 2011

Wednesday, February 15, 2012 9:00 amWednesday, February 15, 20128 Comments

Worldwide smartphone sales to end users soared to 149 million units…

comScore: Apple’s iPhone now matching Android in growth rate; beleaguered RIM BlackBerry continues swoon

Thursday, February 2, 2012 5:20 pmThursday, February 2, 20129 Comments

Apple maintained its #2 position, growing 2.2 percentage points to 29.6 percent of the U.S. smartphone market…

IDC: Apple vaults into #3 spot of global mobile phone vendors

Thursday, February 2, 2012 9:33 am8 Comments

In North America, smartphones held the spotlight with the launch of the Apple iPhone 4S…

Entire high-end handset/tablet component market may soon be completely at Apple’s mercy

Thursday, February 2, 2012 9:12 am12 Comments

Apple’s strength is reshaping the entire component market…

ABI: Apple iPhone tops smartphone market as Android suffers its first decline in share

Friday, January 27, 2012 3:24 pm18 Comments

Apple’s iPhone 4S cut Samsung off at the knees and outpaced Samsung…

Lumia a loser: Brokerage firm slashes sales estimates on Nokia’s flagship Windows Phone

Friday, December 16, 2011 1:36 pm23 Comments

Nokia‘s ambitious and expensive launch promotion for the Lumia 800 has fallen flat…

Who gets hurt most by Apple’s amazin’ elastic iPhone 3GS?

Tuesday, November 22, 2011 4:04 pmTuesday, November 22, 201121 Comments

iPhone 3GS, which Apple last month began offering to its partners for an ASP of…

Apple ousts beleaguered RIM’s BlackBerry as top business smartphone

Wednesday, November 16, 2011 5:01 pmWednesday, November 16, 201114 Comments

Apple has ousted Research in Motion’s BlackBerry as the top smartphone for mobile workers…

Gartner: Smartphone demand stalled in Q311 ahead of iPhone 4S

Tuesday, November 15, 2011 10:23 am11 Comments

Worldwide sales of mobile devices totaled 440.5 million units in the third quarter of 2011…

HTC warns of weak holiday quarter; struggles to compete against Apple iPhone, others

Tuesday, November 1, 2011 2:40 pm3 Comments

HTC Corp warned its sales in the fourth quarter, traditionally a bumper sales season for smartphones, would be weak…

IDC: Apple now the world’s #1 smartphone vendor

Thursday, August 4, 2011 3:02 pmFriday, August 5, 20116 Comments

The worldwide mobile phone market grew 65.4% year over year…

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