If your household income is $60,000 or more in the U.S. it’s a safe bet you own an iPhone. But the fastest growing sales segment is for those earning $30,000 or less. Might there still be big opportunity for Motorola, HTC and others?
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Kevin C. Tofel
Feb 20, 2014 - 12:23 PM PST
Aided by the launch of the iPhone 4S, the number of U.S. smartphones embedded with mobile broadband connectivity jumped in 2011, increasing from 6 percent of at the end of 2010 to 35 percent by the close of the year, according to the NPD Group.
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Kevin Fitchard
Mar 13, 2012 - 8:32 AM PST
Android held on to its title as the most-popular smartphone platform in the U.S. in the last quarter, but when it comes to sales of specific…
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Ingrid Lunden
Feb 6, 2012 - 11:38 AM PST
What do you have to be willing to do in order to gain traction in an Apple-dominated tablet market? Give your product away at a huge loss. T…
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Tom Krazit
Nov 22, 2011 - 5:52 PM PST
Some interesting stats out today from the NPD Group underscore just how fast-moving the evolution is in devices today. Although fast mobile…
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Ingrid Lunden
Oct 12, 2011 - 9:45 AM PST
Some interesting stats out today from the NPD Group underscore just how fast-moving the evolution is in devices today. Although fast mobile…
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Ingrid Lunden
Oct 12, 2011 - 9:45 AM PST
Given how low the sales figures have been for Windows Phone-based devices up to now, it’s hard to believe that purchasing intent can be enou…
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Ingrid Lunden
Sep 20, 2011 - 9:23 AM PST
Yesterday, when NPD released its latest figures for mobile phone sales in the U.S., they showed that Google’s Android saw huge growth over t…
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Ingrid Lunden
Aug 23, 2011 - 9:58 AM PST
Much has been made of Google’s main interest in buying Motorola (NYSE: MMI) being patents, patents, patents, which could help save Google (N…
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Ingrid Lunden
Aug 22, 2011 - 9:39 AM PST
Two reports out Wednesday cautioned mobile professionals to think twice about the speed at which tablets are taking over our lives. For one…
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Tom Krazit
Jun 1, 2011 - 1:05 PM PST
NPD has released its quarterly results for mobile phones sales in the U.S. among consumers: smartphones are now outselling feature phones, a…
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Ingrid Lunden
Apr 28, 2011 - 10:10 AM PST
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may still be shipping more devices than any other mobile phone maker, but worldwide, it’s now losing in the smartphone pla…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 31, 2011 - 9:23 AM PST
Even the record-breaking sales of Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 weren’t enough to bring the video game industry out of its sal…
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Tameka Kee
Dec 10, 2009 - 10:43 PM PST