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 [...]

IDC’s smartphone forecast: 55% increase this year, reckons 1 billion will ship by 2015
Right then, here’s some useful information for anyone who’s having to get their presentations sorted for the next quarterly board meeting. The chaps over at IDC have released their latest forecast and it makes for stimulating reading. You won’t be surprised by the Symbian statistics, will you? IDC has their marketshare for 2011 at a [...]

Nokia N8 – The Ultimate Test
This is Momchil here wrapping up the discussion on the mighty Nokia N8. As mentioned before, I am a Nokia supporter and I always use a Nokia as my primary handset. I have been closely following the development of Nokia touchscreen smartphones since the 7710 made it to the market. This leads me to my [...]
The Smartphone Obsession in Marketing, Part 6
The Smartphone Obsession Here’s Part 5 of the Smartphone Obsession Series that I’m producing thanks to the support of mobile messaging giant, OpenMarket. In the final episode, I sat down with InMobi’s top man in Europe, Rob Jonas, to find out what he thinks about the smartphone obsession issue. Over to Rob… Download M4V Video [...]
The Smartphone Obsession in Marketing, Part 5
The Smartphone Obsession Here’s Part 5 of the Smartphone Obsession Series that I’m producing thanks to the support of mobile messaging giant, OpenMarket. This time I’ve put OpenMarket on the spot — I sat down with their European Sales Director, Adrian Sarosi, to find out what he thought of the smartphone obsession issue. Over to [...]
The Smartphone Obsession in Marketing, Part 4
The Smartphone Obsession Here’s Part 4 of the Smartphone Obsession Series that I’m producing thanks to the support of mobile messaging giant, OpenMarket. I managed to get Carl Martin of Mobsessed to talk on camera about his perspective on the mobile marketing industry’s obsession with smartphones. Over to Carl… Download M4V Video | Subscribe to [...]
The Smartphone Obsession in Marketing, Part 1
The Smartphone Obsession Here’s Part 1 of the Smartphone Obsession Series that I’m producing thanks to the support of mobile messaging giant, OpenMarket. In this first episode, I talked with Alex Meisl, Chairman at mobile marketing specialists, Sponge Group. Alex is also joint-Chairman of the Mobile Marketing Association so I thought it would be fascinating [...]
TerreStar’s first satellite-terrestrial smartphone
Fancy a smartphone that works with a ‘virtual handshake between satellite and a next-generation terrestrial network’? This piqued my interest… TerreStar’s service will enable users to be reliably and securely connected to the network through a virtual handshake between the satellite and a next-generation terrestrial network. Integrating these technologies will create an unparalleled network-based communications [...]
Microsoft’s very own Smartphone at MWC
The rumours of Microsoft releasing it’s very own smartphone at Mobile World Congress continue apace. This week, it’s Doug Freedman of Broadpoint AmTech — which sounds very much like an analyst firm — reckoning that Microsoft will announce their own smartphone at Mobile World Congress shortly. If they brought one out running Android, I’d certainly [...]
RumourMill: DELL’s Smartphone
Sources at various titles have picked up news that DELL is on the brink of announcing a Smartphone, most likely at Mobile World Congress. The Wall Street Journal has it the PC maker has been designing a prototype of an iPhone and BlackBerry ilk, for over a year now. They even have news that it [...]
RumourMill: New Palm phone
News of a new Palm mobile has been doing the rounds, with CrunchGear apparently having the exclusive lowdown on what’s what. The site has it from a trusted source the latest Palm Smartphone will be of a slider phone design, with a full QWERTY keyboard in a portrait formatted touchscreen. To our knowledge the case [...]
Christmas Wish: The Ultimate Smartphone
Josh over at Engadget made an editorial posting about all he wants for Christmas is a good Smartphone, which we’re sure most of us can relate to. It goes on to highlight just how no one has really got it entirely right so far, from out of the box. Engadgets Editor-in-Chief goes on to state [...]
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