The mobile phone segment is very competitive with every quarter bringing some sort of a surprise. Back in May this year, I had written about an IDC report that had listed the world’s five largest mobile phone manufacturers. Nokia, quite unsurprisingly, had the top slot while Research In Motion and Sony Ericsson had their spots [...]

Apple and Google have been fighting a lot over numbers of late. Steve Jobs had recently mocked Google’s claims of activating over 200,000 devices everyday by claiming that Apple was a notch higher – activating 230,000 devices. As both the companies have clarified, this number does not include OS upgrades and is hence a likely [...]

Students are increasingly being lured towards Macbooks, a recent study by Student Monitor has showed. In their recent report, the Ridgewood, NJ based research firm has noted that 47% of the 87% of students who were contemplating a laptop purchase were contemplating the purchase of an Apple Macbook. Consequently, the level of interest on Dell [...]

Men or Women – Who do you think own a majority share in smartphone ownership? Not being chauvinistic, but I found the results from this study entirely along expected lines. A recent study from ComScore shows that over 60% of smartphones in the US and European Union (measured across France, UK, Germany, Italy and Spain) [...]

Till a day before the iPad hit the stores, people asked if this was a form factor consumers will really need. To this date, iPad remains one of the few devices that is a hit despite a majority of the buyers not knowing how this will supplement their lifestyle. However, according to Forrester, this isn’t [...]

Tablet PCs were not considered an ideal form factor until now. However, the success of the iPad has changed it all and every other technology manufacturer is now eyeing a share of the pie. According to a recent study by IDC, the tablet PC market is in for some serious growth. Here are some projections [...]

Semiconductor sales normally see a slump during the March season since a majority of electronic good shopping happens during the Christmas holiday season. However, this year has seen an impressive spike in sale of semiconductor chips during this period. The Semidconductor Industry Association has announced the financials behind the performance of the industry in the [...]

IDC has published their latest report on the state of mobile phone growth worldwide. One of the biggest take-aways from the recent study is the emergence of Research In Motion, the company behind Blackberry as one of the top manufacturers. RIM entry into the top five ranking has pipped Motorola out of the league. Here [...]

In the quarter ending March 2010, Apple shipped 1.69 million iPhone units to Japan. This accounted for 72% of all smartphones shipped to the country in the three months. According to a research by MM Research Institute Ltd, here is how the smartphone market share by shipments stand in Japan at the moment 1. iPhone [...]

Attractive features, the app economy trend, affordable prices and a whole lot of other factors have all helped in expediting the adoption rate of smartphones among the people. At the end of the last quarter, 21% of mobile phone users in the US had a smartphone. In just few more quarters, that number is projected [...]