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First, a round-up of the quarter’s numbers: For comparison, here are a select few vendors’ smartphone reported shipments. RIM is the first to report and we’ll be hearing the the rest by the end of January. The number…
Andy Rubin, the executive in charge of Google’s mobile software effort, said that international expansion lay behind the latest advance. Speaking in an interview with the Financial Times, he also predicted that a boom in…
[Goldman Sachs analyst Bill] Shope also expects both iPad and iPhone sales to exceed expectations in 2011; he sees sales of 37.2 million iPads next year, “which could potentially make Apple one of the largest vendors in…
[Updated] [ITG sent an explanation of their methodology and there is no indication that the data represents inside information.] Assuming the data is accurate, we are going to dive into it but I will state up-front that…
When comparing smartphone platforms it’s tempting to consider the global market as unified and commonly addressable. However, when you look at individual countries some strange patterns of behavior emerge: Although some…
The difficulty in analyzing the smartphone market lies in its extremely rapid growth. With the market growing at 90% (and 400% in some areas like China) the forces of demand and supply are disconnected. It’s impossible…
When the iPhone vs. Android rhetorical war heats up, both sides bring up the history of Macs vs. Windows PCs. The commonly held thesis is that Windows triumphed as the PC was commoditized (and modularized). This triumph…
Apple has been contemplating a SIM card that would make carrier switching a lot easier. Sounds great, doesn’t it? “Apple is relenting,” said Rodman Renshaw analyst Ashok Kumar. “They are now completely backing away from…
Garriques will leave Dell at the end of January after nearly four years on the job. Prior to Dell, Garriques had been the mobile device chief at Motorola until early 2007. via Dell’s Device Plan Reboots, Exec is Out –…
The UPhone will run on a “totally new” operating system that Unicom developed based on Linux, Zhang Zhijiang, who heads the company’s technology department, said in an interview today at the Mobile Asia Congress in Hong…