We conducted a channel check during week 34 in Paris (22nd and 23rd August 2013), to get a precise idea of the state of mobile phone retail just one week before the busy back-to-school period. Since the launch of 4th operator Free Mobile in January 2012, the ...

July handset sell through picks up after a weak June which is encouraging but inventory levels are still high. This still casts a shadow on the second half. The US recovers but China and Europe are still weak compared to previous years. Smartphones were almos...

Apple launched the iPad in 2010 and it quickly became established and sold in large numbers. Although tablets, as portable basic connected devices had been around for several years, the iPad heralded a new era for the portable connected device and a new market...

June sell through was weak as the market dropped 6% compared to May. The US market dropped 5% and the Chinese market dropped almost 10%. It was a mixed picture in Europe as the economy is still weak. Sell-in however was fairly flat and the inventory level is...

Over the last couple of months, Nokia has launched a series of new devices in the smart Lumia range, with the cheaper Lumia 620 and Lumia 520 models garnering lots of attention and debuting with good initial sales in Asia. Things move quickly in the mobile sp...

Emerging Markets like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka etc have long been dominated by established handset vendors like Nokia, Samsung etc. In the last few years, local handset vendors like Micromax in India and Sri Lanka, Qmobile in Pakistan and few oth...

Three years after the introduction of the first generation of iPad, the tablet market has shown an unprecedented success. Seen from the usage perspective, the market dynamics are in favor of tablets, considering an environment where almost all devices are now ...

May sell through was 145 million units, sell through is not picking up in regions like Europe and Asia. US and Latin America sales grew. Inventory is building and this may imply a weaker Q2 than expected. Smartphones were 82 million units, 58% of the market i...

Given its commercial success on tablets, can Amazon ignore smartphones, the most important personal device market for content consumption?  On paper the Kindle smartphone project has more opportunities than challenges.  But penetrate the competitiv...

Good news but a little too soon…we must wait until Q4 Galaxy S 4 took 47% of the $400 premium market in May Our current sell out number for the Galaxy S 4 is 6.9 million units for May. Samsung took 47% of the $400+ premium market. Compared to the...

Mobile Devices and Smartphone Forecast up to 2015 This report contains mobile device data up to the first quarter of 2013. The shipments of major vendors for handsets, smartphones and tablets are gathered at the global level. The data is extrapolated to p...

April sell through was 158M units, some developed markets showed low demand in a low season.Sell-in slow at 154M units reflecting the small excess supply in Q1. And grey market handset shipments continue to grow, as demand for sub $100 smartphones increase. S...

The Global mobile phone market continues to be robust in the face of continued fears about the US economy and the ongoing debt crisis in the Eurozone.  Stable food and fuel inflation in the developing economies so far this year has provided the platform f...

Entering the crowded tablet market has become more difficult and branding efforts less affordable.  Although basic segmentation drivers (ecosystem, screen and data capabilities) are no longer sufficient, it is possible to differentiate through original a...

Facebook Home marks a long awaited move by Facebook to get serious about the mobile space.  It has hitherto offered a mobile app, but the user experience has been uninspired.  Facebook Home reskins the device and makes Facebook the primary functi...

March sell though was 156M units,the highest level in history, slightly higher than even December last year. We increase our Q1 sell in estimates. Grey market handset shipments continue to grow. Smartphones were 56% of the market in March. The $400 price ban...

Apple and Samsung are slogging it out but the result is a bloodbath for all other players who are dwarfed. Apple repeatedly takes 60% of the market profit and Samsung gets next largest share of 35%. 5% of the profit is shared by 300 brands which is pushing ma...

Lenovo is not just a PC company based out of China anymore. 8 years after the acquisition of the IBM personal computer business it is now a close No. 2 in the PC industry. This is one of the few successful acquisitions by an Asian company. With the PC ind...

We are quite impressed with Firefox OS. The demos we saw showed the OS to be solid but relatively unexciting. Some devices running Firefox had a few glitches and some of the transitions weren’t super smooth. However these are devices that are expected...

In February, Grey market phone shipments succeeded to rebound mostly backed by Mediatek's smartphone solution, growth was more than 50% year on year. Smartphones were 54% of the market in February. The $400 price band now starts to shrink and 44% of Andr...