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Smartphone wars: Apple won the quarter, Samsung the year

A pair of reports agree -- more or less -- on the current state of the battle

Click to enlarge. Source: IHS iSupply.

Two reports published Thursday -- one by IHS iSuppli, the other by Strategy Analytics -- describe the global race for smartphone supremacy as high-stakes see-saw.

Basically what happened is that Apple (AAPL) took the lead from Nokia (NOK)...

Will Ultrabooks rule the Windows notebook market in a few years?

Research firm IHS iSuppli is predicting that Ultrabooks will account for 43 percent of worldwide notebook PC shipments by 2015, despite the fact that Windows-centric ultra-thin PCs are just now starting to arrive on the...

iPhone 4S 16 GB costs US$196 to build

Shortly after iFixit tore down the iPhone 4S, iSuppli also took its turn with the iPhone 4S and evaluated the cost of the materials that go into the handset. According to its analysis, the iPhone 4S 16 GB costs US$188 in materials and and extra $8...

iPhone 4S costs an estimated $196 to make

Like clockwork, IHS iSuppli mercilessly tears down new iPhone models and exposes their inner works, looking to devine the secret of their manufacturing and components costs. On Thursday, the firm released its analysis of the latest and greatest, the iPhone 4S.

iTunes grows its (tiny) share of online digital movies

Apple looks like a pretty big fish in the video on demand business -- if you ignore Netflix

Data: iSuppli. Chart: PED

If all you saw was the pie chart at right, produced from data issued Monday by iSuppli, you might think that Apple (AAPL) had succeeded in doing to digital video what it did to...

iSuppli speculates LTE costs and extra chipset will keep Apple away this year

In a note last night, Wayne Lam of IHS-iSuppli made the case against Apple going with 1st generation LTE chips in its next iPhone. “It remains to be seen whether the next Apple iPhone set for introduction in September will support 4G LTE,” said Wayne Lam, senior analyst for IHS. “However, if it does, two things...

iSuppli: Apple bucks decline in smartphone market, edges closer to Nokia

Apple is edging closer to Nokia and poised to assume the leadership position in the smartphone market, according to IHS iSuppli. In the first three months of 2011, Apple shipped 18.6 million iPhones globally, a 14.9% jump from the previous quarter...

iSuppli: Apple will snag 76% of app download market in 2011

Yesterday, iSuppli released new projections for the app download market. In those projections, iSuppli stated that Apple will snag 76% of the app download market in 2011. That market share will garner Apple $2.91 billion in revenue. iSuppli, of cours...

iPad 2 production shortfall cause: LCD and speaker issues

IHS iSuppli cut its forecast for yearly iPad sales following Apple's earnings conference call on April 20. iSuppli predicts the Cupertino company will ship 39.7 million iPads in 2010, a 9.1 percent reduction from its earlier forecast of 43.7 milli...

Why Apple couldn’t build iPad 2s fast enough to meet demand

An IHS iSuppli report is full of juicy details Apple left out of its quarterly earnings call When asked last during Wednesday's earnings call why Apple (AAPL) sold fewer than 4.7 million iPads last quarter -- roughly 1.6 million less than Wall Street expected -- COO Tim Cook ducked the question. "I can tell you...

Why Apple couldn’t build iPad 2s fast enough to meet demand

An IHS iSuppli report is full of juicy details Apple left out of its quarterly earnings call When asked last during Wednesday's earnings call why Apple (AAPL) sold fewer than 4.8 million iPads last quarter -- roughly 1.5 million less than Wall Street expected -- COO Tim Cook ducked the question. "I can tell you...

iPad 2 supply line affected by Japan disaster

As Japan suffers under the weight of a major tsunami and a continuing crisis with the Fukushima nuclear power plants, it's becoming clear that the ripple effects from the combined tragedies are impacting Japan's consumer electronics industry, and of ...