Monthly Archive: June 2011

Jun 30

Nielsen: iPhone driving smartphone growth, Android sales flat

Although Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is now activating 500,000 new Android devices each day, research firm Nielsen reports that Android smartphone sales to U.S. subscribers have flattened over the last three months. Android phones made up 27 percent of U.S. smartphone purchases between Mar. 1 and May 31–Android also accounted for 27 percent of new smartphones during …

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Jun 30

Smartphone sales continue to surpass those of feature phones, Nielsen says

Smartphones are once again outselling other mobile phones, according to the Nielsen research group. From March to May, 55% of new cellphones purchased were smartphones, pushing about 38% of all U.S. cellphone users to app-running, email-sending devices, Nielsen said in a blog post on the growing popularity of smartphones. Over the same three-month period a …

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Jun 30

Study Highlights Consumer-Smartphone Link

<!– 0.015893inurl:newsitem_dd.asp smartphone exact target –> June 29, 2011 News Release INDIANAPOLIS — A new study released today by ExactTarget finds that more than half of U.S. consumers whove made at least one purchase on their smartphone have done so based on a marketing message delivered via mobile email. However, as our Mobile Dependence Day …

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Jun 30

Android Smartphone Activations Hit New Heights

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Jun 29

BlackBerry PlayBook 10-inch Ditched for QNX Smartphone

Well the rumour hitting the net waves is apparently Research In Motion may not be putting out a 10-inch version of the BlackBerry PlayBook as first though, the reason apparently is that RIM has decided to ditch the larger BlackBerry PlayBook in favour of pushing out the first QNX based BlackBerry smartphone. According to an …

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