Tag Archives : mobile

Well, the numbers are in and Q2′s proved to be a mixed bag for the mobile market. According to IDC, cellphone makers shipped a total of 365.4 million units last quarter, a year-over-year increase of 11.3 percent. Nokia, while still the world’s largest handset maker, suffered a significant blow, with shipments dropping from 111.1 million in Q2 2010 to 88.5 million; the company’s [...]

XVision’s smartphone usage monitoring apps, DataMan Pro and VoiceMan, have gone through a few significant phases since their releases, but the company is determined to make a set of utilities customers will find essential to their iPhone. Yesterday, XVision released updates to both apps, adding a few highly requested features, including the ability to set peak hours. What was a feature [...]

In the last year, without introducing a new handset model, Apple has gone from being responsible for half of the mobile industry’s profits, to accounting for two-thirds of that growing pile of cash. The analysts over at Asymco came to that conclusion after compiling all major handset makers’ second-quarter 2011 earnings data, and posted some great graphs depicting the mobile profit landscape [...]

A splinter group composed of two veteran and former id Mobile / Method Solutions designers have left their respective studios' roosts to form their own independent studio, Pixel and Texel. In an age-old and familiar press release, the studio announced its intentions to develop for everything under the sun, including mobile devices. It’s first game will actually be for our beloved platforms, [...]

By Daniel Eran Dilger Published: 01:00 PM EST Apple’s share of the mobile phone industry’s profits has swelled to around two thirds, as the company’s iPhone sales have remained profitable while achieving the top spot in sales. Even before displacing Nokia as the world’s top smartphone maker in the most recent quarter, Apple has long consumed a disproportionate [...]