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by Andrew Martonik
May 10, 2013
Even when counting laptops and tablets, Android powers 59-percent of all devices shipped in Q1
We often get glimpses into how well Android is performing in terms of shipments compared to other m...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 01, 2013
There were more Android-based tablets shipped in Q1 2013 than all others combined, and here's why that matters
The Q1 2013 numbers from IDC, a technology and telecommunications research firm...
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by Casey Rendon
Apr 04, 2013
Google and Apple continue their significant lead over other platforms
After months of increasing growth, Android has hit a small bump in the road. The latest comScore data for the US shows a dec...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 26, 2013
Samsung shipped a hell of a lot of phones last year, and a bunch of them were smart phones -- 213,000,000 according to their latest infographic. That's a number which equates to over 30-per...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 08, 2013
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Canalys is in the business of counting things. Things like how many of each make of smartphone gets shipped, and what operating system runs on them. We're gl...
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by Andrew Martonik
Feb 06, 2013
Research firm comScore has just released its quarterly U.S. smartphone market share numbers, and as expected Android is leading the charge. Comparing Q4 2012 numbers to those of Q3, Android saw...
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by Andrew Martonik
Jan 04, 2013
It's no secret that HTC's worldwide market share in smartphones is small -- and declining -- but CEO Peter Chou seems optimistic for the future of the Taiwanese manufacturer. In an...
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by Simon Sage
Nov 15, 2012
A recent smartphone platform study of China shows that Android is absolutely dominating the landscape with 90.1% market share. Over the last quarter, iOS dropped from 6% to 4.2%, though keep in mind...
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by Simon Sage
Nov 14, 2012
Gartner has released their research numbers for the third quarter of 2012, and they've found that Android accounted for 72.4% of mobile sales worldwide, which is up from 52.5% at the same time l...
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by Simon Sage
Nov 07, 2012
Mary Meeker, an investment partner at KPCB, has given a preview of her annual Internet Trends report recently, and is showing that the growth in Android smartphones is six times that of iPhone. This...
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by Simon Sage
Nov 05, 2012
IDC's quarterly research of the tablet market revealed that Samsung and Amazon have done really well lately at the expense of the iPad. As you might expect, Apple still holds about 50% of t...
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by Andrew Martonik
Nov 01, 2012
IDC (International Data Corporation), a go-to source for worldwide smartphone market share information, has just released its report on Q3 2012 smartphone sales. Android shipments for the quarter br...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 25, 2012
According to the folks at Strategy Analytics, market share for Android based tablets has risen to 41-percent of the total, or just shy of 25 million units. This growth means that double the number o...
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by Simon Sage
Oct 02, 2012
A recent study by Pew examined how folks are using tablets and other mobile tech in the U.S., and revealed that 22% of American adults have a tablet, and of the tablets out there, Android powers 48%...
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by Simon Sage
Oct 02, 2012
comScore published the survey results of their study of the American mobile landscape in the three months leading up to August, and found that Samsung is still the king of the heap with 25.7% share,...
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by Andrew Martonik
Sep 05, 2012
The latest Android platform numbers have just been released on the Android Developers site, showing devices running Android 4.0 and above now making up a 22.1 percent share of the Android market. As...
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by Andrew Martonik
Sep 04, 2012
ComScore has just released their July 2012 analysis of the U.S. phone market, and the results are about what you would expect. On the manufacturer front, Samsung has kept the lead with 25.6 percent ...
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by Alex Dobie
Aug 01, 2012
Analytics firm Comscore has just released its latest stats covering the U.S. smartphone market for the quarter ending in June 2012. Overall, the picture hasn't changed much since they released t...
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by Alex Dobie
Aug 01, 2012
Chinese manufacturer ZTE has hailed its arrival into the ranks of the top five smartphone manufacturers, following the news that it shipped 8 million smartphones in the second quarter of 2012. This,...
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by Kevin O'Quinn
May 24, 2012
According to the IDC, Android accounts for 59% of all smartphone sales worldwide. This is a healthy jump from last year when Android accounted for 36.1% of smartphone sales. iOS is secon...
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by Chris Umiastowski
May 17, 2012
Industry research firm Gartner just released its latest data on mobile phone sales for the first quarter of 2012. There are some interesting points to be pulled out of this report that I wante...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 26, 2012
Data released today by comScore shows that the Amazon Kindle Fire has garnered over 50-percent of the Android tablet market in the U.S. With a 54.4-percent share as of February 2012, it sits alone a...
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by Richard Devine
Apr 14, 2012
We've all seen this picture before right? Well, over in China this is quite literally what is happening in their mobile market. While 1-in-10 people in the worlds most populated country own an i...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 03, 2012
The Comscore numbers for the quarter endng in February 2012 are in, and it's no surprise to see that Android is still out ahead of all the other smartphone platforms in the U.S. The late...
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by Simon Sage
Feb 06, 2012
NPD recently released some interesting data regarding U.S. smartphone sales in the last quarter. While iPhones dominated as the top choices by model, with the Samsung Galaxy S II and Galaxy S 4G tak...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 02, 2012
The latest ComScore numbers are out, and it looks like the predicted death of Android still hasn't happened. During October, November, and December 2011, Android still experienced more gro...
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by Alex Dobie
Jan 23, 2012
Following the reports last October of global Galaxy S series sales topping 30 million, Samsung says that South Korean sales of its flagship device, the Galaxy S II, have exceeded 5 million units. To...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 29, 2011
Analytics firm ComScore just released a new batch of numbers, showing Android extending its lead over, well, everybody in the United States for September through November of 2011.
Out of the 91.4 m...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 24, 2011
Android has grown to capture 27 percent of the tablet market, that just one year ago was 100 percent filled by Apple. With the launch of the original Galaxy Tab things have been on a slow uphi...
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by Anndrew Vacca
Aug 30, 2011
ComScore has released its latest round of data, which tracks the smartphone market during the months of May, June, and July of 2011. During this time period, 82.2 million Americans owned a smart...
