IDC Sees Windows Phone Passing Apple’s iOS in Smartphone Share by 2015

Over the next five years, both Android and Windows Phone will continue to gain, according to the market researcher, while Apple is seen as maintaining its roughly 15 percent share of the smartphone market.

Econalypse No Deterrent to Smart-Phone Purchases

Given the havoc the econalypse has played with other industries, the smart-phone market is in extraordinarily good shape. Shipments of the devices rose 4.2 percent to 43.3 million globally compared with 41.5 million shipped in third quarter of 2008.
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Q1 Mobile Phone Shipments Frankly Just Awful

The econalypse is playing hell with the mobile phone market. Handset vendors world-wide shipped 244.8 million units in the first quarter of 2009, 15.8 percent fewer than the 290.8 million units shipped during the same quarter in 2008.
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Q1 Mobile Phone Shipments Frankly Just Awful

The econalypse is playing hell with the mobile phone market. Handset vendors world-wide shipped 244.8 million units in the first quarter of 2009, 15.8 percent fewer than the 290.8 million units shipped during the same quarter in 2008.
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