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...

One of the remarkable things about an otherwise fairly unremarkable Mobile World Congress, was the absence of non-smart phones. Nokia was the only manufacturer that was loud and proud about its feature phone line-up. The borderline between smartphones and feat...

Aggregated from the top 1,000 models sold in 22 countries and  500 brands with Price data (transfer price) this database provides the full list of Global hit models of handsets and smartphone along with the actual sales data. It is a powerful tool for ...

January sell through was similar to December at 153M units, due to the Chinese New year. Grey market phone shipments were strong growing 50%MM. And Smartphones were 57% of the market in December. Samsung's market share slumped a bit, but Apple and LG'...

December sell through was slightly lower than November but-in shipment grew during the month so inventory is rising. And Smartphones were 53% of the market in December. Apple's market share was weaker than November. We take a look at what's going on i...

To recap 2012, we can probably say it was the Year of Apple vs. Samsung. Apple shows chinks in the armor and Samsung takes advantage. Android showed huge dominance and tablets continued to grow silently in the background. Predictions on the other hand are...

To recap 2012, we can probably say it was the Year of Apple vs. Samsung. Apple shows chinks in the armor and Samsung takes advantage. Android showed huge dominance and tablets continued to grow silently in the background. Predictions on the other hand are...

We take a look at the Mobile Device Market in November this time. First we take a glance of the OverallGlobal Landscape and draw Key Takeaways This month’s topic is the iPhone 5 and Sailfish OS. We also supply the key performance indexes in the market...

We take a look at the Mobile Device Market in Ocober. First we take a glance of the Overall Global Landscape and draw Key Takeaways This month’s topic is Microsoft’s new Surface and Windows 8. We also supply the key performance indexes looking v...