Samsung overtook Apple through a slender 1% lead to secure the top spot in smartphone shipment volumes during the first quarter of 2023, despite the ongoing contraction of the smartphone market, accor
Xiaomi, which has led the Indian smartphone market for three consecutive years, has ceded ground to its long-rival Samsung in the world’s second largest market, according to a new report. According
Gartner’s smartphone market share data for the just gone holiday quarter highlights the challenge for device makers going into the world’s biggest mobile trade show, which kicks off in Bar
Samsung has put out earnings guidance for its Q2 which indicate quarterly growth at its slowest for more than a year — as a lack of new ideas to sell high end smartphones drags on the company&
Global smartphone sales have not been firing on all cylinders for several years now but Gartner's latest figures record the first ever decline since the analyst began tracking the market all the way b
What growth there is left in the smartphone market continues to center on emerging markets where consumers are upgrading from feature phones.
It's no wonder Google is expanding its efforts to broaden Android's reach by working with OEMs in emerging markets, via its Android One smartphone affordability program; the latest global smartphone m
Strategy Analytics has put out its latest smartphone market figures for Q1, and the market watcher has Samsung and Apple both losing share in the quarter.
The number of active smartphones in China exceeded 700 million by the end of 2013, says a new report from analytics firm Umeng. Out of all the devices sold in 4Q 2013, 41% were to people purchasing th
India pushed past Japan to become the third largest global smartphone market in Q1, according to a new report by Strategy Analytics. The analyst notes it's the first time ever that India has moved up
They'd make unhappy bedfellows but -- taken together -- Google's Android platform and Apple's iOS accounted for a record 92 per cent of global smartphone shipments in Q4 last year, according to new fi
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<a target="_blank" href="http://www.kantarworldpanel.com/">Kantar Worldpanel ComTech</a>, a market analysis division of WPP, has today published its latest figures on mobile device sales across a numb
Nielsen today became the latest analyst house to call it for smartphones outnumbering more basic devices in the U.S. The company <a href="http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/?p=31688">says</a> that in
China is already a significant market for companies like Apple, with CEO Tim Cook describing "staggering" and "off the charts" sales of the iPhone in China last quarter. But according to IDC the oppor
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