Mar 15
We are a data hungry country and we have the numbers to prove that. The US is on track to cross the $100 billion mark for revenue stemming from mobile … Continue reading
Jan 22
Word this afternoon comes from Timothy Arcuri of Cowen and Company that Apple’s next iPhone – tentatively called the “iPhone 6” – will certainly be working with a 4.8-inch display. … Continue reading
Oct 16
Apple’s iPhone 5s is outselling the cheaper iPhone 5c by more than two to one, market watchers estimate, amid reports that the Cupertino firm has slashed production of the plastic-bodied model. Demand for the iPhone 5c, which replaced the iPhone 4S at the $99-on-contract price point, has fallen significantly short of Apple’s expectations, it’s claimed, […]
Oct 09
This this Fall 2013 season the Piper Jaffray analyst known as Gene Munster has released a report that spans several seasons into the past, covering the USA-based teen device wants and ownership in tablets and smartphones. What you’ll find here is a collection of results very much centered on the Apple universe – with just […]
Jul 15
We wouldn’t be too surprised if Apple launched a new iPhone later in the fall, but the start of production for the new device could let us in on when we might expect the iPhone 5S to officially arrive. It’s said that production of the next-generation iPhone will begin sometime this month, with a launch date sometime in September or October.
According to Jefferies & Co. analyst Peter Misek, Apple will begin production of the iPhone 5S towards the end of this month with a release in the fall. This goes right alongside reports that recently stated that Foxconn was on a hiring spree due to ramped up production, meaning that a new iPhone was about to begin its journey through the factory floor.
Furthermore, Misek expects shipments in the fall quarter to reach between 25 million and 30 million iPhones, and then the holiday time period will see between 50 million and 55 million units shipped for the Cupertino-based company. These numbers aren’t too far-fetched, but Misek isn’t making any original ground-breaking predictions either.
Of course, we would take these predictions from Misek with a grain of salt. This is the same analyst who predicted that iPhone 5S production would begin in March with a June or July release window. He’s also the one that predicted very generous stock prices for the company back in May.
The iPhone 5S is tipped to come with a faster processor, a better camera, and maybe even a fingerprint scanner. The overall design of the phone may stay the same, with only internal design changes being made for the 5S model. This is what the company has done for the iPhone 4S and the iPhone 3GS, and we wouldn’t expect that to change soon.
VIA: Business Insider
iPhone 5S production this month for fall release, says analyst is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Jul 01
Samsung will need to shift from relentlessly chasing Apple to simultaneously defending its smartphone userbase, analysts have warned, with the Korean company facing an unexpected challenge from Sony in what has so far been a European stronghold. Samsung devices now make up almost half of all smartphones sold in Europe, according to Kantar Worldpanel ComTech
Jun 24
Tablets and Android drive Post-PC world (but ignore Apple’s ecosystem at your peril)
Posted in: Today's ChiliThe post-PC era continues to see tablets and smartphones drive overall growth, researchers claim, with traditional PC shipments predicted to decline more than 10-percent this year. 2013 sales of computing hardware – including tablets, smartphones, and PCs – are expected to grow 5.9-percent year on year in 2013, Gartner calculates, but that will be predominantly
May 15
Samsung took a whopping 95-percent of global Android smartphone profits in the first quarter of this year, one analyst firm claims, with no other manufacturer using Google’s OS coming close to the South Korean behemoth. The global Android phone business saw profits of $5.3bn, according to Strategy Analytics‘ sums, of which $5.1bn was sunk straight into Samsung’s wallet, the firm calculates.
In second place, trailing Samsung by a huge margin, was LG according to the research firm’s figures. LG took 2.5-percent of the overall Android smartphone profit, or $100m, according to the stats, while a similar amount was shared out between all other manufacturers of phones running the platform.
“An efficient supply chain, sleek products and crisp marketing have been among the main drivers of Samsung’s impressive profitability” Strategy Analytics suggests. As for LG, “it currently lacks the volume scale needed to match Samsung’s outsized profits.”
In fact, the analysis firm argues that Samsung probably makes more revenue and profit from Android than Google itself does, and warns that its dominance could pave the way for a skewing in power dynamics as time goes on. Samsung might “request first or exclusive updates” of the Android OS, it’s predicted, gaining a further advantage over its rivals.
Samsung’s smartphone sales this current quarter could well be even more impressive than Q1 2013, since that period did not include the new Galaxy S 4. That only began shipping at the tail-end of April, with Samsung supposedly shipping 4m units before the month was through. Internal predictions are of blasting through the 10m mark by the end of May.
It’s not only smartphones – the only metric these particular figures looked at – that Samsung did well in last quarter. The company’s profits overall climbed 42-percent quarter-on-quarter, with mobile sales in particular driving performance.
Samsung dominates 95% of Android phone sales say analysts is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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May 06
A rise in convertible and slider touchscreen form-factors will offset the “post-PC era” slide of notebooks, but will be unable to fend off the full might of tablets, new research suggests. Tablet shipments will rise to 579.4m units by 2017, NPD DisplaySearch projections indicate, while traditional notebooks will drop to 183.3m units by the same point. However, a new breed of touch-enabled notebooks will step in to help arrest some of the slump.
NPD suggests hybrids, sliders, and convertibles will all break into the segment, straddling the line between traditional portables and tablets by pairing QWERTY for text entry with a touchscreen. Although a minority niche in 2012, the projections claim touch-enabled models will outsell their non-touch counterparts by 2017.
Helping that acceleration will be ultrabooks, NPD claims, which are most likely to gain touch-sensitivity. Intel has already confirmed that third-gen ultrabooks based on Haswell processors will require touch in order to be certified, though whether manufacturers will step beyond the traditional touchscreen-on-a-clamshell – or, indeed, if consumers will actually buy the more outlandish form-factors – remains to be seen.
Perhaps disappointing to Microsoft, the research company claims that Windows 8 has had a “limited impact on driving touch adoption in notebook PCs”; that, it suggests, is down to a paucity of apps that actually take advantage of the display technology.
Nonetheless, several manufacturers have attempted to integrate touch in interesting ways into their Windows 8 machines. The Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga, for instance, has a hinge with extra range, so that the keyboard can be completely folded back behind the touchscreen. Meanwhile, Acer’s Aspire R7 borrows elements from a tablet and from an all-in-one PC for its folding/twisting notebook.
Touch-notebooks to suck some tablet sting from Post-PC says NPD is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Apr 16
It’s been rumored for a while now that Apple will be releasing a lower-cost iPhone at some point this year — most likely sometime in the fall, which now begs the question of how many of these low-cost iPhones will sell. Since they’ll be cheaper than a regular iPhone, it makes sense that Apple will sell a ton of these, and analysts agree.
According to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, Apple is projected to sell a whopping 75 million low-cost iPhones in 2014. That’s quite the figure, and it would blow the iPhone 5 out of the water as far as sales go, which would be impressive considering that the iPhone 5 was said to be the top-selling smartphone during Q4 2012.
Apple sold 47.8 million iPhones during Q4 2012 alone, but that included both the iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S. That’s just for a single quarter, so sales for the iPhone were much greater if you count all of 2012, so 75 million seems like a reasonable number for a low-cost iPhone, which would average out to just under 19 million units sold per quarter.
Of course, a low-cost iPhone would cannibalize the company’s regular iPhone, but it would still allow Apple to gain market share, especially in the low-cost smartphone market. However, I don’t think Apple is too worried about cannibalization, especially after the fact that CEO Tim Cook mentioned it during the company’s Q1 2013 financial earnings call.
[via CNET]
Apple said to sell 75 million low-cost iPhones in 2014 is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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