Nokia, BlackBerry maker RIM and Apple all saw strong growth during the fourth quarter of 2009, in which the worldwide smartphone market grew by 30 percent. Strategy Analytics expects 2010 to be the year of “smartphone wars” which will be good for consumers but a challenge for vendors. - While inexpensive netbooks helped keep the PC industry afloat through the recession, feature-rich smartphones,...

Depending on what analyst you listen to, Android shipments are going increase a lot this year. Strategy Analytics predicts global Android smartphone shipments will grow 900 percent in 2009.  While IDC predicts a meager 420% growth rate for Android smartphones in 2009. Strategy Analytics believes ealthy support from operators, vendors and developers is driving Android adoption.They also expect...

A record 53 million smartphones were shipped globally in the fourth quarter of 2009, research firm Strategy Analytics reports. Read the full story here.

Do you know that RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis carries the BlackBerry Bold circuit board around with him in his pocket? Do you know what new hardware feature will be supported by all post-Bold BlackBerrys? You’d know these things if you were Andy Brown, analyst for Strategy Analytics, who has spent the past decade covering RIM

Did handset makers break out of their slump in the third quarter? Not quite, but there appears to be growth on the horizon. Now that Motorola and Samsung have released their quarterly handset numbers, it's time to take stock of the situation. Research firms IDC and Strategy Analytics released separate, detailed breakdowns of the market. What were their thoughts? Special feature

Cellphone sales rose 10% year over year and 11.3% last quarter according to two research firms, Strategy Analytics and IDC. Strategy Analytics said global handset shipments reached 324 million units last quarter, which represented a 10% gain over the same quarter in 2008. Nokia, Samsung, and LG held the top spots in global market share

Since late 2008, the smartphone market has been on the slide, most likely due to wider economic problems. But new estimates for the last three months of 2009 show a strong recovery, with overall sales up 30% on the same time the previous year. According to Strategy Analytics, 53 million smartphones were sold worldwide during the ...

The smartphone shipments in the fourth quarter of the last year have reportedly increased by 30% on a yearly basis, reaching a record of 53 million units and marking the strongest growth since the third quarter of 2008, a recent report from Strategy Analytics notes. According to the research firm, this also shows that smartphones are leading the handset...

Worldwide GPS smartphone shipments will grow 34 percent from 57 million units in 2008 to 77 million units in 2009, reports the latest research from Strategy Analytics GPS adoption in smartphones is being fueled by widespread consumer acceptance of portable navigation devices in Europe and the United States, and the increasing presence of mapping applications among mobile vendors such as Nokia, App...

The latest research from Strategy Analytics says that the global smartphone shipments grew 30% year-over-year, to reach a record 53 million units in Q4 2009. The research company says this is the strongest period of growth since Q3 2008, and now we have smartphones effectively leading the handset industry out of recession. Some of the findings