Today, Canalys predicted that a billion Android smartphones will ship in 2017, and that Microsoft's market share will grow five-fold as it closes in on Apple's iOS.
Beijing-based Analysys International reckons Android took 76.7 percent of China's smartphones sales in the first quarter of 2012, while Charlie Wolf of Needham & Company says Android took 69.5 percent in the second quarter. Either way, Android has grown rapidly to take the majority of sales.
Don't be too original: a study of smartphone buyers in two English cities has found that people are more confident about their purchases when products resemble each other.
Today's Kantar's Worldpanel ComTech report shows Windows Phone has made gains but Android still dominates the European market. "The real battle now is among the Android manufacturers," it says.
FixYa has identified the top five issues with a number of popular smartphones -- including the iPhone 4S, Galaxy S3, Galaxy Nexus, Lumia 900, HTC Titan II, and BlackBerry Curve -- based on input from some of the 25 million users of its problem-solving site
Samsung, which is now the world's largest mobile phone supplier, will become China's largest mobile phone supplier in 2012, overtaking Nokia, according to Digitimes Research. It also predicts that smartphones will take almost a third of the handset market, and 70 percent of those will run Android.
Fixya has just published a report on owners' most common complaints about four leading smartphones: the Galaxy S4, Moto X, iPhone 5S, and HTC One.
Smartphone shipments will fall by 5 percent compared with the end of last year, when suppliers pushed to capitalise on the holiday selling season. But TrendForce predicts quarterly growth for the rest of this year…
Canonical is hoping to raise $32 million from enterprises and enthusiasts who are willing to pay for a limited edition Ubuntu for Android phone that has the specification of a laptop and delivers the "full desktop experience" when plugged into a big screen.
Android now has 83 percent of the smartphone market, with Chinese vendors benefiting from market growth and a slump in Samsung's sales. Apple also did well, but Windows Phone lost ground on flat sales.
