While the iPhone remains the key driver at AT&T, sales of other smartphones doubled from a year ago, and made up 40% of total smartphone activations.
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With bandwidth-heavy streaming apps such as Netflix, HBO Go, and Pandora out on the market, users are consuming more data than ever before on their smartphones. According to a new report by Nielsen out today, average U.S. smartphone data usage is up by 89% in the last 12 months. For carriers, as the report indicates, that could have huge implications: How will Verizon, AT&T, and others be able …
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New data from analytics firm Flurry comparing overall video game market share in 2009 and 2010 reveals a similar trend, with iOS and Android combining to take 8% of the overall market and a full 34% of the portable gaming market as measure by revenue. In the overall market, console games continue to dominate, growing from 71% to 76% on only a slight increase in total video game revenue.
From 2009 to 2010, iOS and Android game sales increased from 5% to 8% market share within the U.S. video game market. Specifically, we estimate that iOS and Android game revenue increased from $500 million in 2009 to more $800 million in 2010. Of this, the significant majority of revenue was generated by iPhone games.
But setting aside the console market, the success of iOS and Android (primarily iOS according to Flurry’s data) as gaming platforms is more obvious in the portable market, where the smartphone platforms have increased their share of revenue from 19% in 2009 to 34% in 2010 at the expense of Nintendo’s and Sony’s offerings.
From 2009 to 2010, iOS and Android game sales have spiked significantly, resulting in nearly a doubling of their market share. With both Nintendo DS and Sony PlayStation Portable shrinking in sales, while smart-device game sales simultaneously grew by more than 60%, iOS and Android games now represent more than one third of the portable game category.
It is also important to note that the surge in revenue share for smartphone platforms comes at a significantly lower average price point than for dedicated devices, meaning that even the strong growth from those platforms has eaten into the total portable gaming market, which dropped from $2.7 billion in 2009 to $2.4 billion in 2010. The “race to the bottom” has long been one of the main concerns for smartphone application developers, particularly traditional game developers who have been accustomed to the pricing model for dedicated gaming devices. But users are clearly shifting toward more casual gaming at lower price points on their smartphones, and developers that have embraced that market are in many cases seeing solid results.
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Forbes magazine on Friday said Apple’s next-generation iPhone will indeed support near-field communication (NFC) technology, a mobile standard that lets users pay with their smartphones.
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Forbes magazine on Friday said Apple’s next-generation iPhone will indeed support near-field communication (NFC) technology, a mobile standard that lets users pay with their smartphones.
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Report: Actually, iPhone 5 Will Have NFC
Charlie Miller becomes contest’s first four-time consecutive winner Apple’s iPhone 4 and RIM’s BlackBerry Torch 9800 both succumbed to hackers today at Pwn2Own, but two other smartphones running Android and Windows Phone 7 were unchallenged, the contest’s sponsor said.
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LA Weekly reports (via The Next Web) that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Apple over the iPhone 4 and its claimed propensity for breakage. The lawsuit feeds off the “Glassgate” publicity that has seen the iPhone 4 judged to be more accident-prone than other smartphones due to Apple’s use of glass on both the front and back of the device.
Apparently fed up and pissed off, California resident Donald LeBuhn filed a class action lawsuit earlier this week in L.A. County against Apple, claiming the company knows about the design flaw and refuses to warn consumers that “normal” use leads essentially to a broken phone.
According to his lawsuit, first reported by Courthouse News Service, LeBuhn threw down $252 in September for a new iPhone 4, but three weeks later the glass broke when his daughter accidentally dropped it approximately three feet to the ground while sending a text message.
He previously owned a 3GS version of the iPhone and claims the glass did not break when accidentally dropped from similar heights.
In his filing, LeBuhn cites Apple marketing materials for the iPhone 4, which claim that the “ultradurable” glass used in the iPhone 4 is “20 times stiffer and 30 times harder than plastic”. According to LeBuhn, these claims are misleading at best, and his suit seeks full refunds for customers covered by the class action suit and reimbursement for any repairs made.
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iPhone 4s and other smartphones are being resold in increasing numbers, fetching up to £430, as owners look for quick cash Mobile phone recycling firms have seen a steep increase in the number of phones being cashed in, with the iPhone 4 among the most popular being traded. SellMyMobile.com , a website that compares prices from mobile recycling sites, has seen a 70% increase in inquiries about …
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Augmented-reality applications have promised to revolutionize the way we live on the go with our smartphones, but none have fully delivered yet.
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Computerworld – Verizon Wireless smartphone retail sales data show that Verizon needs the Apple iPhone badly, according to a research note entitled Verizon Strikes Out in Smartphones by a financial analyst at Asymco.
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Verizon needs Apple’s iPhone badly, analyst says