By Todd Haselton |
BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins recently said that the tablet industry will be dead in just five years. The numbers don’t correlate with those claims, however. IDC published its latest findings on the tablet industry on Wednesday and noted that shipments increased 142.4 percent year-over-year during…
By Todd Haselton |
It’s still pretty tough to get your hands on an iPhone 5 without either pre-ordering it from an Apple Store the night before or ordering it directly from Apple’s website (or your carrier). Apple first dealt with quality control issues, which resulted it in having…
By Todd Haselton |
Samsung, Apple and Nokia are the world’s three largest mobile phone makers, but Samsung and Apple alone are responsible for a stunning 46.5% of all smartphone sales around the globe. The two firms were followed by RIM and HTC. The news is from a report…
By Brandon Russell |
The slow improvement of iPhone 5 manufacturing has dropped shipment times down to between two and three weeks online. That’s the kind of news Apple would’ve wanted to hear going into this and next month’s holiday craze. It’s been a mighty struggle keeping up with…
By Todd Haselton |
Samsung’s Galaxy S III is currently the most popular smartphone in the world, according to a new report from Strategy Analytics. The company said that the Galaxy S III surpassed the iPhone 4S after Samsung shipped 18 million units during the third quarter. Apple, meanwhile,…
By Todd Haselton |
Foxconn’s chairman Terry Gou recently said that his company was having a hard time manufacturing enough iPhone 5 units to meet demand. Another employee also said the phone was the “most difficult device” Foxconn has ever assembled. That, combined with direct orders from Apple to…
By Brandon Russell |
According to the International Data Corporation (IDC), Android devices during Q3 of this year accounted for exactly 75 percent of all smartphone shipments. In contrast, Apple’s iPhone only garnered 14.9 percent of the market pie, while the remaining crumbs were divvied up between other competitors.…
By Todd Haselton |
Every day we report on a brand new connected device that hits the market, whether it’s a smartphone, a tablet or a new computer, connected devices are infiltrating our lives at a super rapid pace. IDC doesn’t see that slowing down anytime soon, either. The…
By Todd Haselton |
Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu increased his September quarter iPhone shipment estimate from 26 million units to 27 million units Tuesday. It’s the second bump in Wu’s estimates since the iPhone 5 was announced. Wu said he’s also upping his December quarter forecast from 46…
By Todd Haselton |
The success of Samsung’s Galaxy S III has helped the company gain a “sizable lead” over other smartphone makers, including Apple, Juniper Research said on Thursday. The research firm said it estimates Samsung shipped a total of 52.1 million smartphones during the second quarter —…
By Todd Haselton |
Apple revealed in its earnings statement on Tuesday that it sold 17 million iPads during its fiscal third quarter of this year. In a report from Strategy Analytics released on Wednesday, the research firm said that the company’s iPad shipments represented 68.3% of the overall global…
By Killian Bell |
It’s been little over two weeks since Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S III in London, and little over one week since carriers in Europe began taking pre-orders. But the Korean company’s long-awaited flagship smartphone has already racked up over 9 million pre-orders with over 100 carriers…
By Todd Haselton |
Apple’s iPhone is now more popular than the BlackBerry in Canada, home of RIM. According to new data from IDC and Bloomberg, Waterloo, Canada-based RIM shipped 2.08 million BlackBerry smartphones in the country last year while Apple shipped a total of 2.85 million iPhone units.…
