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IDC raised its 2010 smartphone sales growth forecast to 55 percent from 44 percent earlier. Citing booming smartphone demand it also lifted its forecast for overall cellphone market growth to 14.1 percent from 12.6 percent. via Cellphone market growing faster than expected -IDC | Reuters. Keep in mind the 55% growth figure when reviewing analyst [...]

Many comments on and off this blog raise the specter of the inevitable decline in Apple’s margins due to two forces: The iPhone begins to reach into more markets or points of distribution without exclusivity. The Android surge will apply competitive pressure forcing Apple’s pricing and hence margins. The first claim can be countered by [...]

The cellphone maker will unveil its new flagship model E7, which comes with a large touchscreen and full keyboard, at the show in London, two sources with direct knowledge of Nokia’s plans told Reuters. via PREVIEW-Nokia bets on new smartphones for recovery | Reuters. Analysts have been saying that Nokia has one last chance to [...]

Thirty days after the launch of the iTunes App Store, Apple announced that 60 million apps were downloaded in the first month of operations generating sales of $30 million. “This thing’s going to crest a half a billion, soon,” Jobs said adding that it may be a “$1 billion marketplace at some point in time.” Mr. Jobs [...]

At the September 1st music event, Apple announced that 6.5 billion apps were downloaded and that there had been 120 million iOS devices sold. This works out to 54 apps per iOS device. On June 7 Apple reported 5 billion apps over 100 million iOS devices or an average of 50 apps for iOS device. [...]

I went to the link below to look at some of the apps. I clicked Top Free tab and scanned through the featured apps. As Google puts it: “This is a showcase for some of the featured and top ranked applications and games available on Android Market”. Note the spelling in some of these top [...]

Sometimes you come across such a simple yet clever app that it changes the way you do the most basic tasks. I’ve relied on the calculator widget on my Mac thousands of times to get quick answers to basic analysis questions. It’s much easier to press the F4 button than launch a spreadsheet. However you [...]

According to Gartner, mini notebooks constituted less than 18.0% of the total mobile PC market in the second quarter of 2010, down from 20.0% of the total market at 2009-end. Gartner expects mini notebooks market share to drop to approximately 10.0% by 2014. However, worldwide PC shipments are projected to total 367.8 million units for [...]

“In our view, investors are missing the way BlackBerries are eating into Nokia’s messaging phone share in Europe, Latin America and Southeast Asia now that the E-series demand is slowing,” he writes. “We believe the Torch is on pace for 500K units in August, via Research In Motion: MKM Still Bullish; Cites Growth Outside U.S. [...]

If we add Apple’s 230k “activations”, Android’s 200k, Symbian’s 300k and estimating 130k for RIM adds up to 860k per day. It won’t be long before we’ll see smart mobile devices selling at the rate of 1 million per day (I’d bet by the holidays this year.) Gartner is estimating the global PC market to [...]