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Smartphone Market Grows 79.7% Year Over Year in First Quarter of 2011, According to IDC

FRAMINGHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The worldwide smartphone market grew 79.7% year over year in the first quarter of 2011 (1Q11), driven by a combination of vendors releasing highly anticipated models, widespread availability of older smartphones at lower prices, and sustained end-user demand. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, smartphone vendors shipped a total of 99.6 million units in 1Q11, nearly double from the 55.4 million units in the first quarter of 2010.

“Conditions in the smartphone market are creating a perfect storm for sustained smartphone growth,” says Ramon Llamas, senior research analyst with IDC’s Mobile Phone Technology and Trends team. “First, vendors are increasingly emphasizing smartphones as the key to their own growth. Second, selection has proliferated from mostly high-end devices to include more mid-range and entry-level offerings. Third, pricing has become increasingly competitive, with even high-end devices available at low price points. Finally, users continue to seek greater utility from their mobile phone beyond voice, and smartphones have been the ideal solution. Altogether, these add up to continued smartphone growth throughout the year.”

The strong demand for smartphones also means the market will remain highly competitive and fragmented. “The rise of Android as a prominent mobile operating system has allowed several suppliers to gain share quickly,” adds Kevin Restivo, senior research analyst with IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. “Also, the relatively nascent state of smartphone adoption globally means there is ample room for several suppliers to comfortably co-exist, at least for the short term.”

Top Five Smartphone Vendors

Nokia, despite announcing its intentions to move from Symbian to Windows Phone as its primary smartphone operating system, maintained its leadership position in the smartphone market. Demand for Symbian-powered smartphones remained strong within its traditionally strongest markets of EMEA and Asia/Pacific, and the company continues to announce more devices running on Symbian, including the E6 and the X7. Still, as Nokia transitions from Symbian to Windows Phone, it may find itself in danger of ceding market share as the competition ramps up smartphone production.

Apple reached a new record shipment volume in a single quarter, and inched closer to market leader Nokia with fewer than six million units separating the two companies. The company posted market-beating year-over-year growth and recorded triple-digit growth in two key markets: the United States, with the release of its CDMA-enabled iPhone, and Greater China. Additionally, the company enlisted South Korean Telecom and Saudi Telecom as carrier providers of the iPhone.

Research In Motion remained solidly in third place from the previous quarter, as the company grew its presence outside of its home territory of North America. RIM has launched several 3G devices to the market, and recently announced two new BlackBerry smartphones running on its new BlackBerry 7 OS. Still, the majority of RIM’s shipment volumes have been comprised of older, lower-cost devices. The company expects this trend to continue into the following quarter.

Samsung posted the largest year-over-year gain of any other vendor on the list. With a multiple operating system strategy in place, Samsung has been able to grow its smartphone portfolio to meet the needs of a diverse market. Accounting for the majority of its smartphones and driving shipment volumes higher was the continued success of its Android-based smartphones, including the high-end Galaxy S devices and mass-market Galaxy Ace and Galaxy mini devices. Meanwhile, its bada-powered Wave devices and Windows Phone 7 devices continued to gain traction.

HTC posted yet another record shipment volume, nearly surpassing the ten million unit mark for the first time. Like other vendors, HTC announced multiple new devices, including the Facebook-optimized Salsa and ChaCha. In addition, the company launched several new devices, including its Inspire 4G, WiMAX-enabled EVO Shift 4G, and LTE-enabled Thunderbolt. These, along with its investment and developments on hardware, displays, and its HTC Sense layer have helped HTC differentiate itself further in an increasingly crowded market.

For more information about IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, please contact Kathy Nagamine at 650-350-6423 or knagamine@idc.com.

Samsung is one of best mobile company in india.Let’s discuss the some great features and specification of two superb and latest Samsung mobiles .i.e. Samsung Wave 2 and Samsung Galaxy.

Samsung Wave 2 Price

The new Samsung Wave 2 S8530 carries a 3.7 inch full touch screen display and running on the latest Samsung Bada mobile OS .It is the successor of the popular Samsung Wave mobile phone .It come equipped with a powerful 1GHz processor and supports the Samsung’s new “Super Clear LCD” display screen . It is quite different from the first wave. It has 5 megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash which delivers the good quality of the picture and also supports the 720p video recording as well.

The Samsung Wave 2 S8530 is designed with the slim and solid metal body. It has impressive looks which increases the charm of your personality. Moreover the phone is allied with advanced connectivity options such as Wireless LAN Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n connectivity with WPS support, Wi-Fi tethering. It is also preloaded with the Social network Services (SNS) which help you to stay connected with your friends from anywhere. Samsung Wave 2 comes with the 2 GB of internal storage and has memory card slot for further expansion.

The Samsung wave 2 price in India is near about Rs. 16, 399. Overall the Samsung Wave 2 mobile phone holds the large screen which makes the mobile taller, thicker and solid. It has all the factors of the original’s chick appearance.

Samsung Galaxy Price

The new Samsung Galaxy S i9000 holds a 4 inch AMOLED touch screen and powered with a 1GHz processor. The new Samsung Galaxy S embedded with the HD videos playback, ‘Social Hub’ (always on social networks connectivity), and mDNIe (mobile Digital Natural Image engine) the technology used in Samsung’s best-selling LCD and LED TVs that increases an even more sharp and clear viewing experience for photos, videos, and e-books. It is one of the most admirable smart phones from the house of Samsung.

IDC has just released its numbers for the first quarter of the year and Samsung and HTC have posted the largest growth out of the top five manufacturers. While both still trail Nokia, Apple, and RIM, we’re sure it primarily has Android to thank for the massive growth this past quarter.

Nokia remains the leader for the quarter with 24.2 million handsets shipped, but Apple is close to closing the gap by shipping 18.7 million handsets. Nokia may ship more smartphones than anyone right now, but even at second, Apple makes the most money, which isn’t anything we haven’t heard before. We still have to wait and see if the Nokia/Microsoft proves to be fruitful, as it needs to be for Nokia to remain the leader.

RIM is solidly placed in the third position and it shipped 13.9 million Blackberry handsets in the quarter. It is being trailed by Samsung, which shipped 10.8 million. While HTC sits at number four, the manufacturer has broken previous shipment volume records with 8.9 million handsets.

While Samsung and HTC are the fourth and fifth largest handset makers in the report, both have seen the largest growth from the same quarter last year than any other company on the list. Samsung saw an insane growth of 350% year over year and HTC grew 229%. While both manufacturers have Android to thank for this growth, both HTC and Samsung have released Windows Phone 7 handsets and Samsung also has its Bada-based handset, the Wave.

Handsets like the Thunderbolt and the upcoming Galaxy S 2 will likely increase shipments for both handset makers for this quarter, with more smartphones on the way.

Overall, the entire smartphone market grew nearly 80% since the first quarter of 2010, and, with more and more compelling products from these top dogs, we don’t expect to see this type of growth slow down anytime soon.

With so many great handsets coming down the pipe in the next couple of months, it’ll be a tough choice to decide which smartphone will be the right one for you when you have so many choices at your fingertips.

This is probably the best mobile phone deal of the first half of the year for those looking for a lightweight, affordable contract with plenty of data; Tesco is offering the Samsung Wave S8500 for only £10 on a two year contract.

For this price, you get 100 minutes, 5000 texts and 1GB worth of data but above all, for a total cost of ownership of £240, the deal includes a phone that’s almost the same as the Samsung Galaxy S.

The S8500 however runs on Samsung’s own BADA OS rather than on Android, has a 3.3-inch rather than a 4-inch screen and comes with 2GB onboard storage.

Considering what else it has to offer though, the Wave is probably the best phone you can get south of £250. It has a Samsung Hummingbird system on chip with a Cortex A8 CPU clocked at 1GHz (the same as the Galaxy S) and the PowerVR SGX 540 GPU.

On top of that you get 512MB RAM, Bluetooth 3.0, Wi-Fi, a five-megapixel camera with flash HD recording capabilities, a Super AMOLED display (its successor, the Wave II didn’t), WVGA resolution and weighs in at only 118g.

You will be hard pressed to find a better deal if you are a lightweight user. An alternative handset would be the Orange San Francisco although you would have to pay an upfront cost for the phone (£80), settle for a slower processor and a less capable camera.

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April 29th, 2011, 13:39 GMT| By Cosmin Vasile

PRLog (Press Release) –
Apr 23, 2011 – The latest platform from Samsung BADA is creating a kind of wave since it has been integrated with their ‘Wave’ series of smartphones. And latest smartphone that has come with the BADA platform is Samsung Wave S7230, a powerful smartphone that hands you power of switching between applications without any hassles. Samsung Wave S8500 BADA device which has come before with TouchWiz user interface 3.0 has received a good demand from the customers across the globe.

The Latest Samsung Wave S7230 is a more matured version of their first Bada based device Samsung Wave S8500. The device is quite handy measuring 109.5 x 53.9 x 11.8mm and weights 113.8gm/ 99.5gm. The Wave S7230 offers TFT capacitive touchscreen which offers 256k of colors on a 3.2 inch of touchscreen at a 240 x 400 pixels resolution. It comes with a 5MP (megapixel) camera that has LED flash and autofocus as additional camera feature.

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For the mobile phone users who are keen on music Samsung Wave S7230 offers stereo FM Radio with RDS with another feature of Radio recording.

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PRLog (Press Release) –
May 04, 2011 – UK based game developer Pocketeeers Limited releases its first multi-platform arcade title BattleBallz for iPhone, iPad and Windows Phone 7. Android, Samsung Bada and Blackberry PlayBook versions coming very soon

BattleBallz is a fast paced Arkanoid style arcade title for 1-2 players (on the same screen). Players (real player or AI) face off across a playfield separated by breakable bricks and do battle over 10-30 rounds of increasing difficulty. As the difficulty increases the playfield is littered with hazards such as Gravity Wells, Zappers and Grabbers. Players can power up their own team or put the enemy team at a disadvantage by collecting positive power-ups, whilst collecting negative power-ups will put the players own team at a disadvantage. BattleBallz is designed to support a wide range of skill levels with 4 difficulty modes (easy, normal, hard and insane). An achievements system is integrated into the game giving the player around 80 achievements to obtain and post to their Facebook account (Facebook posting only available on iOS and Windows Phone 7)

Main features:

- Single and 2 player modes allowing you to play head to head against insane AI or an insane friend
- Pick your battle arrangement using AI opponents to help you
- 4 modes of difficulty (easy, normal, hard and insane)
- Progressive difficulty from round to round with new game play features added at various stages such as zappers, black holes and gravity wells
- Around 80 different achievements that can be earned and posted to Facebook
- Pick-ups to help 1255176897  / hinder players such as barriers, shrink enemy, grow player, freeze wave and more
- Slam play to trick your enemies
- 10, 20 and 30 round battles
- Stats tracking to help you measure and improve your performance
- Death match bonus rounds

Video and more information about the game can be found at http://www.battleballz.com

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UK based game developer Pocketeeers Limited releases its first
multi-platform arcade title BattleBallz for iPhone, iPad and
Windows Phone 7. Android, Samsung Bada and Blackberry PlayBook
versions coming very soon

BattleBallz is a fast paced Arkanoid style arcade title for 1-2
players (on the same screen). Players (real player or AI) face off
across a playfield separated by breakable bricks and do battle over
10-30 rounds of increasing difficulty. As the difficulty increases
the playfield is littered with hazards such as Gravity Wells,
Zappers and Grabbers. Players can power up their own team or put
the enemy team at a disadvantage by collecting positive power-ups,
whilst collecting negative power-ups will put the players own team
at a disadvantage. BattleBallz is designed to support a wide range
of skill levels with 4 difficulty modes (easy, normal, hard and
insane). An achievements system is integrated into the game giving
the player around 80 achievements to obtain and post to their
Facebook account (Facebook posting only available on iOS and
Windows Phone 7)

Main features:

- Single and 2 player modes allowing you to play head to head
against insane AI or an insane friend

- Pick your battle arrangement using AI opponents to help
you

- 4 modes of difficulty (easy, normal, hard and insane)

- Progressive difficulty from round to round with new game play
features added at various stages such as zappers, black holes and
gravity wells

- Around 80 different achievements that can be earned and posted
to Facebook

- Pick-ups to help / hinder players such as barriers, shrink
enemy, grow player, freeze wave and more

- Slam play to trick your enemies

- 10, 20 and 30 round battles

- Stats tracking to help you measure and improve your
performance

- Death match bonus rounds

Video and more information about the game can be found at
www.battleballz.com

About Pocketeers Limited

Pocketeers Limited is a UK based game developer founded in 2002
by industry veterans Mat Hopwood and Dave Garrison. Pocketeers
produces and publishes titles for smart phones and tablet devices
using the incredible AirPlay SDK (
www.airplaysdk.com), Java and XNA / Silverlight.
Pocketeers previous work includes titles such as Need for Speed on
Nintendo GBA and Nintendo DS.

The release of the Verizon iPhone and the smartphone’s expansion in China helped boost Apple’s first quarter shipments, pushing it ever closer to Nokia. Samsung and HTC also saw major smartphone gains, with HTC nearly surpassing the 10 million unit mark for the first time.

According to data from IDC, Apple reached record worldwide shipment volumes for a single quarter—18.7 million units shipped, compared to 8.7 million during the same time period last year. With those gains, Apple now trails Nokia by only six million units.

Nokia remained the top smartphone vendor with 24.3 percent of the market, and IDC found that demand for Symbian-based smartphone “remained strong” in Europe and Asia. Nokia, however, is now transitioning from Symbian to Windows Phone 7, which IDC said could hurt Nokia’s market share as competitors ramp up their smartphone production.

Two of those big competitors are Samsung and HTC, which landed in the four and five spots with 10.8 percent and 8.9 percent of the market, respectively. Samsung posted the largest year-over-year gains, from 2.4 million shipments last year to 10.8 million this year. IDC pointed to Samsung’s growing portfolio of Android-based devices like the Galaxy S line, as well as bada-powered Wave and Windows Phone 7 smartphones that continued to gain traction.

HTC, meanwhile, almost hit the 10 million mark for the first time, landing at 8.9 million units shipped. That’s up from 2.7 million during the same time period last year. HTC has had a busy quarter, announcing its “Facebook phones,” the Salsa and ChaCha, as well as the Inspire 4G, EVO Shift 4G, and LTE-enabled Thunderbolt.

“These, along with its investments and developments on hardware, displays, and its HTC Sense layer have helped HTC differentiate itself further in an increasingly crowded market,” IDC found.

Research in Motion, meanwhile, landed in the number three spot with 14 percent of the market, which is down from 19.1 percent last year. It did, however, manage to grow its presence outside of North America. At this week’s BlackBerry World, RIM unveiled the BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9930, as well as BlackBerry OS 7, but IDC found that many of RIM’s shipments were for older, cheaper devices.

Overall, the smartphone market grew by 79.7 percent in the last year thanks to shiny new smartphones, as well as lower prices on older models.

“The rise of Android as a prominent mobile operating system has allowed several suppliers to gain share quickly,” Kevin Restivo, senior research analyst with IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, said in a statement. “Also, the relatively nascent state of smartphone adoption globally means there is ample room for several suppliers to comfortably co-exist, at least for the short term.”

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By: Ian Mansfield | 8th May 2011: 9:29am

The Western European mobile phone market grew 5% year-on-year to 45 million
units in the first quarter of 2011 (1Q11), according to the International Data
Corporation (IDC) European Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker.

During the quarter Samsung shipments increased 5.3% year-on-year to 13.2
million units and became the biggest mobile phone maker in the region with 29.3%
market share. Nokia shipments dropped 10.3% year-on-year to 12.6 million units
and is now the second player with 27.9% market share. In the smartphones
segment,

Apple shipments increased 48.9% year-on-year to 4.4 million units and became
the biggest player with 20.8% market share. Nokia comes second with 19.6% market
share.

“Samsung and Apple achieved outstanding milestones this quarter in the
region. Samsung became the biggest mobile phone vendor in Western Europe and
Apple the biggest smartphone vendor. These results show how volatile this market
is and how important it is not to underestimate the trends. Companies like Nokia
(and Ericsson in the past) may have strong brands and big market shares as Nokia
always had, but can be overtaken by their competitors on a blink of an
eye,” said Francisco Jeronimo, European mobile devices research manager,
IDC.

“Nokia is one of the most recognized and appreciated brands in Europe,
but Samsung was the one understanding the trends first and moving faster.
Samsung understood early the trend on touchscreen devices and became the market
leader on feature-phones by providing a full range of devices at very
competitive prices. On smartphones, Samsung has quickly moved to Android as well
as investing in its own platform, Bada. Flexibility and being able to address
all market segments have contributed to Samsung’s ability to quickly adjust to
the market trends. Apple, on the other hand, coming from nowhere in the mobile
phone business, capitalized on its strong brand and user-experience innovation.
It took years for competitors to come up with devices that could challenge
consumers’ preference for the iPhone.”

During the quarter smartphones shipments increased 76% year-on-year to 21.2
million units to represent 47% of total mobile phone shipments. Android was the
smartphones operating system leader with 35.7% market share. Those vendors
focusing mainly on Android have notably been improving their market positions on
smartphones, which shows how successfully this OS attracts consumers to
smartphones, driving manufacturers’ sales. Secondly comes iOS with 20.8% market
share due the popularity of the iPhone. Symbian slipped to third place with
20.5% market share.

Top Western European Mobile Phone Vendors, Total Shipments
and Market Share, 1Q11

Smartphones and Feature Phones Combined (Units in Millions)

Smartphones Only (Units in Millions)

Source: IDC European Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, May 2011

Note: Vendor shipments are branded shipments and exclude OEM sales for all
vendors.

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