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In 2012, the two horse race between Android and iOS reached to peak in smartphone segment, despite Microsoft's Windows Phone platform showed off tremendous year-over-year (Y/Y) growth. This time, Microsoft and BlackBerry have finally planned to step up their games...

Although, Android is now quite ahead of Apple in both segments--Smartphone and Tablet-- in terms of shipments, but the platform still lags behind the Apple's mobile OS while there's a talk about the mobile web traffic. According to a...

At present, Android is undoubtedly the most dominating mobile platform in the world, and Samsung is unilaterally leveraging on the platform for the prevalence of its mobile business. Almost half (42.5%) of the Android market share is being commanded by the South...

Over the last couple of years, smartphones have seen staggering growth in emerging markets especially in India and China. In India, smartphones have now become one of the dominating trends. Till the end of last year, there were approximately...

Android is still a global leading smartphone OS platform in terms of shipments. However, the OS' market share dropped to 69.2% in Q4 2012, despite of strong shipments of Android devices. Undoubtedly, Samsung is the biggest Android vendor, controlling...

Last year, smartphone sales reached to a distinct level; the most important role was played by China in overall smartphone shipments among all emerging countries. According to an independent analyst firm--Canalys--Samsung topped in terms of smartphone shipments in Q4...

Microsoft couldn't keep itself away from hardware business; the company jumped into the money-making segment with Windows Tablet last year. It's said that 1.25 million units of  'Surface RT' were sent to distribution channels during the last quarter, but...

Apple and Google are currently fighting neck-to-neck with each other in mobile battlefield. Undoubtedly, Google's Android is now clear winner in both segments--smartphone and tablet--in terms of shipments. But Apple's iOS is ahead of Android in terms of mobile...

In last quarter, a big shift was seen in tablet segment; Android tablet shipments surpassed Apple's iPads during the quarter. Apple shipped 22.9 million tablets during Q4 last year, while in comparison, 29.6 million Android tablet were shipped during...

On January 30 this year, BlackBerry unveiled its two smartphones--BlackBerry Z10 and BlackBerry Q10. We have already discussed how these devices could be one of the biggest gifts for corporate users from the company this year. Last week, BlackBerry's...