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HARDWARE
NEWS
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Two separate analyst reports say that the BlackBerry Z10 sales are anemic or even worse, and BlackBerry called in regulatory bodies to check the "false claims".
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APPLE, HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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We now have the final numbers reported by all four of the 'Big Four' analyst houses: IDC, Canalys, Strategy Analytics and Gartner. As always, I use the average of these four houses as the total market size, and then force a 'best fit' analysis.
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APPLE, HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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As the year draws to a close, we take a look at winners and losers in the Smartphone and Operating System wars. This view is based on our estimates.
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APPLE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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There's no doubt that the smartphones are computers of today. Thus, if we combine smartphones, tablets and regular computers into one, we get almost an billion unit market. Who leads?
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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Recently, Tomi Ahonen introduced the Cliff Theory for mobile phone manufacturers. This infographic shows you how the mighty can fall just within a year or two.
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HARDWARE, ENTERPRISE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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The popularity of BlackBerry-branded handsets has been waning for a number of years now, and with RIM's top two executives stepping down recently after poor sales, it's left us wondering just how long the company can go on for.
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HARDWARE, ENTERPRISE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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At the end of 2011, it seemed like Blackberry had gotten its mojo back, growing 33% from the previous quarter and looked like its market share had stabilized at 9%. However…
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APPLE, SOFTWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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Thanks to Column Five Media, we have received a new infographic that shows the growth of smartphone industry and the associated hardware and software (i.e. apps) ecosystem.
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ENTERPRISE, SECURITY, SOFTWARE
NEWS
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Companies need to balance their product lines. When one product, in this case, the Blackberry Smartphone, is falling from favor, development departments have to cook up something to replace that diminishing income stream.
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APPLE, HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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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.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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HTC just announcing its second large investment in as many weeks. After $300M takeover of S3 Graphics (to counter sue Apple etc.), HTC is investing another $300M in Beats by Dr. Dre.
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BUSINESS, HARDWARE
ANALYSIS
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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.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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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.
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BUSINESS, APPLE
ANALYSIS
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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?
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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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.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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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.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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APPLE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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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.
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BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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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.
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SECURITY, SOFTWARE
NEWS
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Cryptology experts from ElcomSoft just launched Blackberry Backup Explorer, a forensic tool that gives you complete access to all the key information stored in Blackberry backups.
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