That’s right, according to research firm Gartner, 1.75B phones were sold last year – leading the charge are smartphones, Q4 of 2012 alone saw record smartphone sales of 207.7M handsets which is up 38.3% versus the same period in 2011. But then what’s this? The 1.7B rate of 2012 actually represents a 1.7% decline versus [...]
Every time Apple launches a new iPhone it rolls the die on a calculated gamble for success. Less Steve Jobs at the helm, the odds of losing has increased. If the iPhone fails to drive up sales, then the once shiny, mighty Apple will suffer its first tarnishing. In fact, Apple phone sales have dropped [...]
Samsung recently overtook Nokia’s slot as the top handset maker of the world, but this doesn’t mean that the Finnish phone giant will relinquish the Philippines without a fight. Dharmesh Goshalia, Nokia Philippines General Manager and Head of Sales: “The Philippine market is a very strong Nokia market. It still is a Nokia country. Nokia [...]
Nokia’s 14 year record of being the top provider of mobile handsets has ended, with Samsung taking credit as the world’s new big cheese for cellular phones! Samsung shipped 92M handsets in Q1 of this year which is a moderate far cry versus Nokia’s 83M (according to IHS iSuppli). This would mark the first time [...]
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