According to data from Counterpoint Research, the global smartphone market returned to growth in October after more than two years…
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LG Electronics mulls exit from smartphone business
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
In assessing Apple’s (AAPL) latest earnings results…
Fueled by Apple’s iconic iPhone, smartphones in use surpass 1 billion, will double by 2015
The number of smartphones in use globally crossed 1 billion…
iPhone 5 may be Apple’s last blowout U.S. bestseller
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
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’
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
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
Even without availability on China’s largest mobile provider…
Taiwan smartphone maker HTC 1Q profit plummets 70 percent, blames Apple’s iPhone 4S launch
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
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
The bad news for Windows Phone market share continues…
BMO ups Apple price target to $590 on higher iPhone sales
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
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
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
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
Apple’s strength is reshaping the entire component market…
ABI: Apple iPhone tops smartphone market as Android suffers its first decline in share
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
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?
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
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
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
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
The worldwide mobile phone market grew 65.4% year over year…
