For the first time ever smartphone sales have reached a billion in a single year, as the final reports for 2013 come in and the numbers are crunched. It is an indication of how more affordable smartphones, such as cheap Android run devices from multiple manufacturers has impacted the market. […]
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Gartner, IDC reports confirm that PC Shipments continue to shrink
It appears that PC shipments are not doing quite well over the last years. The numbers continue to drop and the latest reports that just came out today from Gartner and IDC confirm this trend. Compared to the same semester of the last year the shrink is quite drastic, 11 […]
Android overtakes iOS in the latest IDC tablet shipments report
After they revealed last week how mobile phone shipments did in the first semester of 2013, IDC released this week the estimates for tablet shipments. The biggest surprise is that iOS tablets(altogether) fall behind Android tablets in terms of OS market share worldwide. In the first semester of 2013, Android […]
Feature Phones shipments under Smartphones for the first time ever
As of today, IDC reports that in the past quarter there were more smartphones shipped than feature phones. In the first quarter of 2013, for the first time ever, there were 216.2 million smartphones shipped from a total of 418.6 million cellphones worldwide. So 51.6 percent of the cellphones shipped […]