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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 09, 2010
Andy Rubin, the person at the top of the Android project, just tweeted that there are over 300,000 activations of Android phones per day, up a full 100k per day since Aug 2010. Let's have a look...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 02, 2010
Seems like everywhere you visit on the Internet you see folks tossing out buzzwords like market share, or talking about how many phones are being activated for each of the popular operating systems.&n...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 06, 2010
The pictures tell the story, Android's U.S. market share is growing at a huge rate in all categories. We're pretty big fans here, and most of you are, too. But Quantcast isn't -- they're a...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 25, 2010
Google has updated its mobile Google Finance page, and says they now have unified the experience across the desktop and mobile for Android (and iPhone) users. According to Bryan Shih, Product Ma...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 12, 2010
Gartner's Q2 2010 numbers are in, and the chart above says it all. So do these. And these. And these, you get the point -- Android is showing unprecedented growth, all thanks to peop...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 01, 2010
Android remains the No. 2 smartphone operating system worldwide AdMob -- the company that serves up a good many of the ads you see in mobile applications (about 23,000) and that was bought by Google ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 23, 2010
Another little bomb dropped at the Droid X event came from Google's Andy Rubin. There are now 160,000 Android devices being activated every day -- up from the 100,000 number he gave us at Google IO i...
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by Cory Streater
May 20, 2010
Google is showing off some numbers today: 100,000 devices sold a day, the number two smartphone in the US after BlackBerry, over 1 billion miles navigated with Google Navigator, 28 OEMs, 48 cou...
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by Casey Chan
May 07, 2010
You wouldn't even know there's a big legal brouhaha going down because HTC just keeps on churning. In April, HTC just posted their best financial numbers to date. According to Digitimes, HTC man...
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by Casey Chan
Apr 07, 2010
Is there a company that's on a hotter streak than HTC? Okay fine, maybe Apple. But for a small Taiwanese phone manufacturer to be mentioned in that same breath as the vaunted Apple? Amazing. HTC poste...
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by Casey Chan
Apr 06, 2010
According to a recent survey by Changewave, Android has overtaken the iPhone as the most desirable smartphone on the market. Building on their December 2009 report, Changewave now reports that of thos...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 10, 2010
Take a look at the latest smartphone usage numbers from Comscore, and you're likely to do a double-take -- Android increased by 4.3 percentage points from November '09 through January 2010 over the th...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 26, 2010
Myxer, which delivers mobile entertainment such as videos, ringtones, wallpapers, etc. to mobile devices has come up with some fun and interesting statistics that give more info about Android. F...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 25, 2010
T-Mobile actually did well in the fourth quarter of 2009. They added 371,000 new customers in 4Q compared to losing 77,000 in 3Q. It's still not as good as what they did in 4Q 2008 (added 621,00...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 28, 2009
We already knew the Motorola Droid was going to be popular, thanks to those November AdMob numbers and, well, common sense. But check out these numbers from Flurry Analytics: Droid applicat...
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by Casey Chan
Nov 18, 2009
We're chalking up the DROID as a success and we're sure Motorola and Verizon are too. After reportedly selling 100,000 units in the first weekend, it looks like the DROID followed it up with rou...
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by Casey Chan
Oct 30, 2009
Time for the check up on some Android-related companies who've been struggling in our economic downturn. Will actually having Android devices in their stable eventually help their bottom line? L...
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by Casey Chan
Oct 22, 2009
According to HTC VP of Asia Pacific, Jack Tong, the HTC Hero is enjoying high demand and great sales in the European and Asian markets. Because of such hot demand, it looks like the Hero is in t...
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by Casey Chan
Jun 19, 2009
HTC CEO Peter Chou expects the HTC Magic to ship its millionth unit within "one to two months". Mind you, it's not exactly the same as 1 million units sold but HTC is very pleased with...
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by Casey Chan
May 05, 2009
Another quarter passes, another quarter of losses for the downtrodden carrier which is Sprint. Though this time the news is "less bad" than previous quarters--Sprint held losses to $59...
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by Casey Chan
Apr 23, 2009
Yeah, that mean, mean animal of an economy shows no mercy. T-Mobile only had 415,000 net additions compared to 981,000 additions last year...you don't need an economist to tell you that's a pret...
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by Casey Chan
Apr 02, 2009
T-Mobile has just released some pretty interesting statistics regarding their flagship (and only) Android device, the T-Mobile G1. According to their numbers, among T-Mobile customers who've pur...
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by Casey Chan
Mar 19, 2009
You might have never guessed it. But the T-Mobile G1 is the biggest money making device for T-Mobile. According to a comScore report (via electronista), the G1 brings in the largest profit for T...
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by Casey Chan
Jan 30, 2009
T-Mobile just announced its subscriber numbers for Q4 2008:
“In the fourth quarter of 2008, T-Mobile USA added 621,000 net new customers compared to 670,000 in the third quarter of 2008 and 951,000...
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by Casey Chan
Nov 03, 2008
Medialets has come through with more Android Market stats and as always, they make for a good story. According to Medialets, here are the highlights:
167 Apps have been downloaded between betwee...
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by Casey Chan
Oct 03, 2008
Wow. We definitely did not expect the T-Mobile G1 to be THIS popular. Gizmodo is reporting that the T-Mobile has sold all the G1 units. Even after T-Mobile tripled their production to accommodate f...
