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IDC: The iPhone is once again the world’s No. 1 smartphone

Philip Elmer-DeWitt — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:53:36 +0000

Regained the spot that it took from Nokia in June and gave up to Samsung in September

Click to enlarge. Source: IDC

It will come as no surprise to Apple (AAPL) watchers that the company sold 37 million iPhones last quarter. Tim Cook reported that number two weeks ago.

Getting comparable figures from Apple's competitors is a different matter, and that's where companies like IDC come in. Samsung, for example, used to report MORE

Canalys: Apple led the way as smartphones overtook PCs

Philip Elmer-DeWitt — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:49:14 +0000

Total annual global shipments exceeded PCs (including tablets) for the first time in 2011

Source: Canalys

Canalys singled out Apple (AAPL) for special mention Friday when it announced that by its count, shipments of smartphones in 2011 overtook those of client computers, even when tablets are included.

"Apple's impressive end to the year resulted in it becoming the leading smart phone and client PC vendor in Q4 2011, with shipments of 37.0 MORE

With 8.7% market share, Apple has 75% of cell phone profits

Philip Elmer-DeWitt — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:20:33 +0000

Between them, Samsung and Apple are sucking up 91% of the winnings

Click to enlarge. Source: Asymco.com

Asymco's Horace Dediu on Friday updated his quarterly review of mobile phone profits, and the news for everybody but Apple (AAPL) just gets worse.

As the iPhone's share of the market in terms of units shipped has grown from 3% in second quarter of 2010 to 8.7% last quarter, Apple's share of the profits has swelled from MORE

IDC: iPhone is No. 3 worldwide

Philip Elmer-DeWitt — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:18:47 +0000

Apple's mobile phone shipments nearly doubled in 2011, overtaking LG and ZTE

Click to enlarge. Source: IDC

On the strength of sales of the iPhone 4S last quarter, Apple (AAPL) jumped two spots in IDC's ranking of the world's five largest manufacturers of mobile phones -- smart or otherwise.

In a press release issued Wednesday, IDC reported that weakness in the demand for so-called feature phones dragged down market growth in the MORE

Smartphone wars: Apple won the quarter, Samsung the year

Philip Elmer-DeWitt — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:26:52 +0000

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) in June, lost it to Samsung in September and won it back in December.

"Apple's MORE

Nokia fined in Australia for spam-texting its own customers

Casey Johnston — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:20:27 +0000

Nokia has been fined by Australian regulators for spamming its customers with text messages, Reuters reports. The company will have to pay AUS$55,000 for sending SMS marketing messages for its products and services alongside "t...

Gartner: No one in the world uses more semiconductors than Apple

Christian Zibreg — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:11:58 +0000

With the growing sales of Apple’s mobile devices and the ever-increasing popularity of smartphones (analysts projected 30+ million iPhones for today’s holiday quarter earnings call), it is no surprise that the Mac-maker is rising up the chip-purchasing ladder. According to research firm Gartner, Apple is now the world’s largest buyer of silicon parts, spending an astounding $17 billion on semiconductors [...]

Windows Phone Will Be More Popular Than iOS In Just Three Years… What? [Report]

Ed Sutherland — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:09:15 +0000

It sounds like a plot line straight out of Hollywood: washed-up cell maker teams with down-on-its-luck software giant to overtake a Silicon Valley tech behemoth. But researchers believe 2015 will be the comeback year for Nokia with Microsoft Windows Phone replacing Apple’s iOS as the No. 2 smartphone operating system. According to IHS iSuppli, the [...]

Hands on with Nokia’s Lumia 900

Casey Johnston — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:00:22 +0000

Nokia's Lumia series of phones has been very popular overseas, and the company has finally announced it will be bringing the brand to the US The Lumia 710 (on T-Mobile), 800 (AT&T), and 900 (AT&T) were all on ...

Looking For A Worthy Competitor To Apple? Nokia’s Got The Goods [CES 2012]

Buster Heine — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:54:54 +0000

Las Vegas, CES 2012 — Over the past year Nokia has been making steady incremental improvements to reshape the company’s image by showing the world that greatness doesn’t come to those who merely copy what the best company is doing. Greatness is achieved by setting yourself apart from the competition by taking a radically different path than [...]

Nokia’s luscious-looking Lumia 900 coming to AT&T this spring

Jon Brodkin — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:16:55 +0000

Nokia on Monday showed off the Lumia 900, its first LTE Windows Phone. It was wasn't even the first LTE Windows phone announced at the Consumer Electronics Show, with that honor going to the HTC Titan II. But given Nokia's...

ChangeWave survey finds ‘explosive momentum’ for Apple and Samsung

Philip Elmer-DeWitt — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:07:04 +0000

Interest in the Galaxy Nexus is high, but the iPhone still leads in customer satisfaction

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The next few months should be very good for Apple (AAPL) and Samsung -- and not so good for HTC and Research in Motion (RIMM) -- according to the results of a survey of 4,000 North American early adopters posted Monday by ChangeWave Research.

More than half of the respondents who plan to buy MORE

iPhones beat out Nokia Lumia 800 Windows Phone in browser benchmark, despite earlier reports

Jordan Kahn — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:14:34 +0000

359gsm (via My Nokia Blog) recently pitted the iOS 4.3-based iPhone 4 and the iOS 5-based iPhone 4S against a Windows Phone 7.5 Mango-based Nokia Lumia 800 smartphone in various benchmark tests. In every test, both the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S significantly outperform one of the best Windows Phone options on the market. This [...]

16 predictions for mobile in 2012

Kevin C. Tofel — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:24:21 +0000

As expected, the past year was an exciting one for mobile tech. I did reasonably well on my 2011 predictions, but now it's time to power up the crystal ball and gaze at what 2012 will bring. Here are my 16 predictions for the new year.

The Outsider: Why this top Apple analyst is different

Om Malik — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:10:03 +0000

Asymco.com blogger Horace Dediu has come from no where and become one of the most followed Apple analyst. His accurate track record and his ability to sift through mounds of publicly available data has made him many fans, especially amongst those who follow the phone business.