Kantar Worldpanel ComTech just released their quarterly update showing operating system share of smartphone sales. Their stats always make interesting reading. Here’s what Kantar has to say: Apple’s iPhone 4S launch has helped the company regain global momentum with the US driving growth, according to new data from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech. In the latest 12 [...]
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1.2 billion handsets sold in 2009, Nokia & Symbian still top
Gartner released their market research on worldwide smartphone sales today. Needless to say Nokia, is still the runaway market leader with a whopping 441 million devices sold, garnering a respectable 36.4%. But that’s down 2 percentage points over 2008. Samsung came next with 236 million devices sold, followed by LG (122m), Motorola (58m), Sony (55m) [...]
LGPradaWatch: Naming of the phone, sales and miscellaneous musings
Several notable points came to light in the press briefing. The first of which was the handset will also be known as the LG Prada phone, the exact same moniker the first phone went under. Not LG Prada II, or LG Prada: The Next Generation. In fact nothing to separate it from the first phone [...]
Condom sales soar in India because of ringtone
Back in August we told you about this. Now the results are in: NEW DELHI (AFP) – A media campaign featuring a mobile phone ringtone that sings “condom condom” has pushed up sale of the contraceptive by 85 million in six months, India’s AIDS control body said Friday. ADVERTISEMENT The campaign, which included television and [...]
6.9 million iPhones sold in Q4 2008
Apple’s Q4 Conference Call announcement brought us some astonishing iPhone news today. While the company posted a profit of $1.14 billion on revenues of $7.9 billion for the quarter, their sales figures for their devices were off the roofs. In the Q4 of 2008, Apple managed to sell 6,892,000 iPhone 3Gs compared to the 1,119,000 [...]
Orange says they didn’t pay actors, sales are strong
This had to happen, didn’t it? If you thought Orange paid Polish actors to make fake queues outside their shops just so that it would seem that they were having a good sale, then you are wrong my friend. Or at least that’s what Orange wants us to believe! After the furor that was caused [...]
Orange promises better network, more sales staff
Orange has decided it’s time for a change and has announced a new strategy that it hopes will mean improvements in everything from its network to its sales staff. Here’s the summary of what’s happening from Orange: • new customer service strategy implemented including 500 new customer- facing roles in UK customer centres & shops; [...]
Apple iPhone sells out again after O2 price cut
After O2 cut the price of the iPhone, it seems like it’s provoked a surprising phenomenon: Mobile Today reports people are once again queuing to buy the device. So much so, it seems, that the device is once again selling out. Mobile Today quotes one Carphone Warehouse staffer as saying “it’s like launch day again”. [...]
Ofcom cracksdown on mobile misselling
After it warned the mobile industry last year that mandatory regulation could be on the way if it didn’t clean up its act, Ofcom is hoping to introduce new rules to clamp down on mobile misselling. The mobile watchdog said it was pressed to do so after “some mobile phone companies and third party sales [...]
India hands down massive fines for unwanted mobile calls
It looks like India’s regulator has come up with a cracking way of putting off annoying telemarketers from making unwanted calls to mobiles. According to reports, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has adopted a system of tough fines to deter them. Now if an individual on the country’s ‘do not call’ register finds themselves [...]
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