Worldwide mobile phone market grew 6.1 percent year over year in Q4 2011. The IDC’s latest report also states that vendors shipped over 427.4 million units in Q4 2011 compared to 402.8 million units in Q4 2010. The 6.1 percent growth year over year was higher than IDC’s forecast of 4.4 percent for the quarter. [...]

Shipments of tablet devices are predicted to grow from 72.7 million units in 2011 to 383.3 million units by 2017, according to the latest NPD DisplaySearch report. Emerging markets, such as Brazil, India and Russia, are expected to account for up to 46 percent of worldwide tablet shipments by 2017, an increase from the 36 [...]

The mobile market is growing in EU5 according to a report from comScore. The Rise of Smartphone and Tablet Devices In the EU5 smartphone adoption has reached nearly 42 percent, an increase of 13 percentage points over the last year. Of these countries, Spain saw the highest penetrtion with 48.4 percent, followed by the UK [...]

Research from Google indicates a clear consumer shift towards smartphones as growth is seen worldwide during 2011. The UK saw the largest increase in smartphone usage from 30 to 45 percent of the total population according to the post on Google’s official mobile ads blog. This rate stands at 38 percent in the US and [...]

Apple has increased it’s UK market share according to new data released by Kantar Worldpanel ComTech. The report states that Apple increased it’s smartphone market share in the UK from 22 percent a year ago to 34 percent. The launch of the iPhone 4S has also driven growth in the US: during the last 12 [...]

Five million people who already own a tablet device will buy a second one in 2012 according to predictions made by Deloitte. As part of it’s annual predictions for the technology industry, Deloitte forecast that increasing amounts of consumers are going to buy an additional tablet device this year; fueling the notion that 2012 will [...]

One in six UK adults will buy a tablet in 2012 according to a recent poll by Sky. The results also found that more than half of all UK adults now owns a smartphone, whilst one in 12 of those who took part in the poll had already received a tablet for Christmas. David Gibbs, [...]

Tablet devices are set to drive eCommerce in 2012 according to a new study. The study, Logan Tod & Co.’s 6th Annual Online Future Shopping Index, found that 14% of the 1,121 respondents said they used an iPad or other tablet device, to make purchases Christmas 2011. Furthermore, 26 percent of online shoppers have stated [...]

The Android Market now has over 400,000 apps available for download according to the latest Distimo report. The total number of active apps worldwide in the Android Market reached the 400,000 at the beginning of January; the 200k and 300k milestones were reached in April and August of 2011 respectively. Distimo state that free apps [...]

The last week of 2011, December 25th to December 31st, has been dubbed ‘power week’ by Flurry after record breaking numbers of device activations and app downloads in iOS and Android history. Flurry estimate that 6.8 million iOS and Android devices were activated and 242 million apps downloaded on Christmas day alone. The week of [...]