According to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped a total of 244.8 million units in the first quarter of 2009 (1Q09), approximately 15.8% lower than the 290.8 million units shipped during 1Q08. The worldwide mobile phone market began 2009 with an expected sequential downturn, exacerbated by the challenges of the ongoing worldwide recession.   The first quarter o...

With the smartphone market expected to outshine the overall mobile phone market for the foreseeable future, the growing influence of new devices and platforms, including Apple, RIM, Android, Palm, etc. and the ever-present hybrid user model where personal and professional lines are blurred, the critical nature of the individual-liable business device is evident. IDC splits converged mobile devices...

Nokia still leads the world mobile phone market, followed by Samsung, LG, Sony Ericsson and Motorola. Nokia increased their smartphone sales while Samsung grew from its converged mobile devices with its Omnia II. LG profited from their enV and Android smartphones. According to IDC's Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker,  the worldwide mobile phone market grew 11.3% in the fourth quarter of 2009 (4Q...

Smartphones have been reported to gain more and more market share in the mobile phone segment during the past years, and they are also expected to gain even more traction from users in the future, even if the market is greatly influenced by the financial recession. And while we already reported that the first place in the best-selling smartphone top in th...

According to IDC, due to the financial crisis, phone shipment growth is only 3.2% year on year when last year this figure was 20%. However, this the interesting part for mobile developers… "While the overall mobile phone market registered small growth compared to last year, the market for converged mobile devices (commonly known as smartphones) posted strong

Nokia Corp. said Wednesday it expects the global mobile phone market to grow by 10 per cent in 2010, suggesting the industry is recovering from a global recession that has also hit handset sales.However, the world's largest cellphone maker cautioned that its own market share volume, currently...

IDC's latest Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker results found that Australian converged device (smartphone) shipments surged 29% year-on-year (Y/Y) in the first half of 2009, with data-centric converged devices (those with a touchscreen or QWERTY keyboard) up 235% Y/Y.

IDC's Asia/Pacific Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, 2Q 2009 results show that the Thailand mobile phone market began to show signs of recovery in second quarter of 2009 (2Q09) with a 5% quarter-on-quarter growth in shipment volumes.

The mobile phone market seems to begin its recovery after the financial downturn that affected it during the past few quarters, at least this is what IDC says that happens in the Western European countries. The IDC European Mobile Phone Tracker shows that, compared with the second quarter of the last year, handset makers shipped six percent less devices (42 million units) in the area in Q2 2009, w...

Nokia Corp. said Wednesday it expects the global mobile phone market to grow 10 percent in 2010 compared with this year, suggesting the industry is recovering from a global recession that also hit handset sales.However, the world's largest cell phone maker cautioned that its own market share,...