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7 Billion People on the Planet - How it Relates to Digital Divide?
BUSINESS ANALYSIS
We have reached a big milestone - The planet has now passed Seven Billion People alive at the same time . We're revisiting analysis about the Digital Divide with updated numbers.
On 10/31/2011 by Tomi Ahonen... Comments (0) Read more
ANALYSIS: How the Year 2011 Will Pan Out in Smartphones
APPLE, HARDWARE, BUSINESS ANALYSIS
In this article, you'll find a preliminary projection for full year 2011 in terms of Smartphone market shares, and the separate market projections for the third and fourth quarter of 2011.
On 9/12/2011 by Tomi Ahonen... Comments (0) Read more

Pondering The Blackberry Puzzle: What is Going on Here?
BUSINESS, HARDWARE ANALYSIS
Just when you think you finally have figured out RIM and its Blackberry, it goes all belly up again. But at least it's good to see that others, including the management, admit to confusion about the iconic smartphone maker.
On 8/5/2011 by Tomi Ahonen... Comments (0) Read more
Apple Becomes World's Largest Smartphone Maker: Samsung is New #2
HARDWARE, BUSINESS NEWS
Earlier this morning, Samsung revealed results for the second quarter of 2011, not giving the exact number of sold smartphones. However, big analyst firms pit them at 19 million, 1.3M behind Apple, 2.3M ahead of Nokia.
On 7/28/2011 by Tomi Ahonen... Comments (0) Read more

LG Smartphone Sales Edges Past Sony Ericsson for 6th Biggest
HARDWARE, BUSINESS NEWS
LG, the world's third largest mobile phone manufacturer is still reporting a loss in its handset unit as it is completing its costly return from its Microsoft-powered misadventure and going now full speed to Android.
On 7/28/2011 by Tomi Ahonen... Comments (0) Read more
Microsoft Nokia Best Case Scenario: 8% Market Share in 2013
HARDWARE, BUSINESS ANALYSIS
We take a look at the future of Nokia's alliance with Microsoft and what are the real potentials of such an alliance, given the current market trends.
On 7/25/2011 by Tomi Ahonen... Comments (0) Read more

Nokia Folds: 15 Years After Inventing Smartphone, The King is Toppled
HARDWARE, BUSINESS ANALYSIS
15 years after inventing the smartphone in 1996 with the iconic but outrageously expensive Nokia 9000 Communicator, we have now seen a moment in history: The king has been toppled.
On 7/21/2011 by Tomi Ahonen... Comments (0) Read more
Apple's 20M iPhones Throws the Gauntlet to Nokia and Samsung
BUSINESS, APPLE ANALYSIS
Apple shipped 20.3 million iPhones, putting the quarter as company's best as they continued their Quarter-on-Quarter growth, albeit it slowed down from 15% QoQ to 9%. Who is the biggest smartphone maker?        
On 7/21/2011 by Tomi Ahonen... Comments (0) Read more

Sony Ericsson Reports Record Smartphone Sales, Loses $70M
HARDWARE, BUSINESS NEWS
We have the first results of the big second quarter results season - today we have Sony Ericsson and Google with results. I will keep this short (A short article from Tomi? That's incredible. Ed.)
On 7/15/2011 by Tomi Ahonen... Comments (0) Read more
What The He... iOS Usage Down, BlackBerry Down, Symbian Usage Up?
APPLE, HARDWARE, BUSINESS ANALYSIS
We have received a statistic that is so counter-intuitive and bizarre, but I think we can make some sense out of it. This comes from StatCounter who measure global web and mobile traffic.
On 7/7/2011 by Tomi Ahonen... Comments (0) Read more

Bloodbath Update: Smartphone Market at June 30, 2011
HARDWARE, BUSINESS ANALYSIS
Let's do some Bloodbath news. How is the smartphone market doing mid-way in this Year 2 of Smartphones Bloodbath? The weather report for the summer is sunny for some, shady for others and stormy for some.
On 7/5/2011 by Tomi Ahonen... Comments (0) Read more
Wanna be the CEO of NOKIA? Take the Simple Quiz
BUSINESS ANALYSIS
Take the CEO Quiz: Could you be the new CEO of Nokia? We understand that the Nokia Board of Directors uses a very complex quiz to test out its potential CEOs. Check it here...
On 7/5/2011 by Tomi Ahonen... Comments (0) Read more

VIDEO: How Mobile Money Will Kill Cash by Tomi Ahonen
BUSINESS ANALYSIS
On Telenor Platimo Event in Belgrade, Serbia our resident mobile industry analyst held a keynote which promoted his 12th book, solely dedicated to mobile payment principles.
On 7/3/2011 by Tomi Ahonen... Comments (0) Read more
What Happened to Blackberry? RIM in Crisis as Sales Drop
HARDWARE, BUSINESS ANALYSIS
The wheels ARE coming off RIM's aspirations in smartphones. In 4Q of 2009 the Canadian Blackberry maker reached its peak in market share at 21%, and the drop was gradual. Until now.
On 6/20/2011 by Tomi Ahonen... Comments (0) Read more

The World's Biggest Smartphone Maker in 2Q 2011: Apple? Nokia? Samsung?
APPLE, BUSINESS ANALYSIS
As the second quarter is drawing to a furious sales crescendo in the next two weeks, analysts are coming out with predictions. Nomura says Samsung will be the biggest smartphone maker in 2Q'11.
On 6/15/2011 by Tomi Ahonen... Comments (0) Read more
How to Stop Nokia Channel Boycott And Save The Company
HARDWARE, BUSINESS ANALYSIS
Ok. Let's try to save Nokia. What should Nokia do?
On 6/15/2011 by Tomi Ahonen... Comments (0) Read more

Ecosystem 1-on-1 and Stephen Elop's Alternate Universe at Nokia
SOFTWARE, BUSINESS ANALYSIS
Continuing with our "What's going on in Nokia" series, we now examine how Nokia's own ecosystem is reacting to decision to join anti-dev friendly ecosystem called Windows Phone 7.
On 6/8/2011 by Tomi Ahonen... Comments (0) Read more
Nokia 2011 Analysis: The Heart has Stopped
HARDWARE, BUSINESS ANALYSIS
The Patient Heart Has Stopped. Now the Doctor 'helps' by starting to strangle the patient too (read: Stephen Elop's incompetence).
On 6/7/2011 by Tomi Ahonen... Comments (0) Read more

ANALYSIS: Who's Who in Smartphone Business in 1Q 2011?
BUSINESS ANALYSIS
We finally have the numbers for all four major analyst houses. As always, we calculated the average of their totals to find the quarterly total smartphone sales - which came to 101.2 million, a 2% QoQ growth.
On 5/27/2011 by Tomi Ahonen... Comments (0) Read more
Pyramid Research Debunked: When Analysts Live in Dreamland
BUSINESS ANALYSIS
Analyst firm Pyramid Research released an absolutely outrageous forecast, predicting Microsoft will take over the lead in mobile space by 2015, but their 2010 numbers are misleadingly wrong. Paging the Stats Police!
On 5/17/2011 by Tomi Ahonen... Comments (0) Read more

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