Gartner: Cell phone sales up 13.8 percent for Q2, HTC enters top ten in market share rankings
Posted By admin On Thursday, August 12th 2010 In Android News Tags: apple 2, Auto, cell, cell phone sales, Draft, Gartner, global cell phone, HTC, market share, motorola 2, os market, percent, Phone, position number, share, sony ericsson, worldwide cell phone
Research firm Gartner is reporting that global cell phone sales for the second quarter of 2010 totalled 325.6 million units, an increase of 13.8 percent when compared with the second quarter of 2009. Smartphones accounted for 19 percent of phones shipped, which is a 50.5 percent increase over last year, according to the company.
Gartner also published its worldwide cell phone market share rankings for Q2, 2010. The most interesting change is the addition of smartphone maker HTC to the list, where it debuts at position number 8 after posting growth of 139.1 percent in volume over Q2, 2009.
Nokia maintains the number one position with 34.2 percent share. Samsung is number 2 with 20.1 percent share, followed by LG (9.0 percent), RIM (2.3 percent), Sony Ericsson (3.4 percent), Motorola (2.8 percent), Apple (2.7 percent), HTC (1.8 percent), ZTE (1.7 percent), and G’Five (1.6 percent).
Of the top ten manufacturers, only Samsung, RIM, HTC, and ZTE showed growth in market share compared with the second quarter of last year.
In terms of smartphone OS market share, Symbian still holds the top spot with 41.2 percent (25.4 million devices). BlackBerry OS holds 18.2 percent share, Android 17.2 percent, Apple iOS 14.2 percent, and Microsoft’s Windows Mobile slides to 5 percent from the 9.3 percent it held this time last year.
While it still maintains the top spot, Symbian’s market share fell a significant 10 percentage points, even though it sold over 4.5 million more devices this quarter than in Q2, 2009. BlackBerry OS dropped slightly from last year, while Android’s share grew 9.5 times over the the 1.8 percent it held last year. Apple’s iOS gained slightly.
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Playstation phone will run Android Gingerbread
Posted By admin On Thursday, August 12th 2010 In Android News Tags: Android, Auto, Draft, engadget, gaming provider, iphones, mobile scenario, open source os, Phone, square buttons, traditional triangle
INTERNET RUMOURS have it that Sony Ericsson is working on a Playstation smartphone that will run the Android 3.0 operating system codenamed “Gingerbread”.
Engadget has spoken with trusted sources who said Sony Ericsson is working on Google’s open source OS to develop a hybrid smartphone with handheld console graphics.
The device is described as a cross between a PSP Go and a Samsung Captivate. Apparently it will have a landscape slider with gaming controls instead of a QWERTY board. The mock up has a similar button layout to Sony’s PSP with a four-way navi-pad and the Playstation’s traditional triangle, circle, cross and square buttons. While there isn’t a joystick, there is a “long touch pad” instead, so we’ll probably get games designed for touchscreen playability.
The leak even has a list of alleged specifications. The screen will be 3.7 or 4.1-inches with WVGA resolution or higher. The smartphone will also be powered by a 1GHz Snapdragon processor.
It makes perfect sense. The Android OS has hardly been the place to go for portable gaming and Apple has somehow created a name for itself as a gaming provider with its Iphones. Sony needs to take back some of that space from Apple and Google wants Android to be taken seriously as an OS that can deliver any mobile scenario. Especially portable gaming which could coin lots of cash from punters downloading online games and apps.
We reported in May that Sony was beavering away on boosting its online games infrastructure and wanted to charge for premium services.
Sure enough, at E3 Sony announced the PSN Plus premium subscription service. The company needs new hardware to attract users into its extended gaming network and a Playstation phone might be just the ticket.
Source : theinquirer.net
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Sprint picks up Samsung Intercept
Posted By admin On Wednesday, July 14th 2010 In Android News Tags: Auto, Draft, evdo, google, intercept, microsd card slot, mobile services, Phone, qualcomm, video recording
Sprint is launching the Samsung Intercept QWERTY smartphone,they are adding it to thier portfolio. Some of its features are :
Samsung S3C6410 processor
Qualcomm’s QSC6075 CDMA chip for EVDO Rev.0 support
A 3-inch 240×400 touchscreen display
A slide-out QWERTY keyboard
A 3.2 Megapixel camera with video recording
Bluetooth, WiFi 802.11b/g
A microSD card slot
It is GPS-enabled and offers turn-by-turn directions
The phone runs Android 2.1 and offers access to Google’s mobile services.
They Will offer the phone for $99.99 after a $100 mail-in-rebate with a two-year contract
Source : itechnews
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Google says Half of Android app users onto 2.0
Posted By admin On Thursday, June 17th 2010 In Android News Tags: Android, app, applications, Auto, capabilities, developers, development, devices, Draft, Droid, google, google maps, moderate pace, numbers don, released, slim majority, usage statistics
After months of breakneck development, Google’s Android team has succeeded in getting a slim majority of its users into the Android 2.0 world.
Google released usage statistics Thursday showing that 50.4 percent of all Android devices that accessed the Android Market in the past two weeks were running Android 2.0 or higher. Android 2.0 was released last October along with the Motorola Droid, which has become one of the best-selling Android devices yet released.
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