Smartphones will represent around 54.5 percent of the mobile phone market by 2015. IHS, a research firm, says global smartphone shipments of 1.03 billion in 2015 versus 478 million smartphones shipped in 2011. At present, smartphones have about 32.5 percent share of the market. Read More »
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In a world where 300,000 Android phones are activated daily, does it make sense for Samsung to keep building its own smartphone platform when it also produces Android phones? Recent sales numbers and growing developer interest say yes; don’t count Bada out of anything just yet. Read More »
Investors will be keeping a close eye on next week’s unveiling of bada, an open mobile platform designed to sit atop Samsung’s proprietary OS. If the company can attract developers to the platform, bada could boost Samsung’s overall phone sales and help shore up diminishing margins. Read More »
Samsung, after unveiling its open mobile platform for touch screen-based mobile phones, bada, earlier this month, and launching a web site, has confirmed the date of its December launch event to deliver the bada SDK: Dec. 8th. Read More »
