Advertisements Indian computer peripherals maker iBall overtook Samsung to clinch the top tablet vendor spot in fourth quarter of 2014, claims IDC in its latest quarterly tablet tracker report. According to IDC, iBall more than tripled its market share from 4.5 percent in Q4, 2013 to 15.6 percent in Q4, 2014, thus removing Samsung from […]
Advertisements Moto 360 clear leader Android Wear might have piqued consumer interest last year, but the actual device shipments weren’t exactly earth-shattering. According to research firm Canalys, just over 720,000 Android Wear devices were shipped worldwide in 2014, out of the total 4.6 million smart band shipments. Canalys noted that among the Android Wear devices, […]
Advertisements Research firm Canalys earlier today released the fourth quarter smartphone shipment numbers for India and caused a stir in the country’s smartphone market. The research firm claims that Micromax surpassed the Korean manufacturer Samsung to become the number one smartphone vendor in the last quarter. Samsung was quick to disagree with the Canalys report […]
Advertisements Tablets clearly haven’t seen the kind of adoption that the industry was expecting when the original iPad was introduced by Apple in 2010. The reality has now begun to emerge as the worldwide tablet shipments dropped for the first time in Q4, 2014. According to a research report by IDC, the overall shipments of […]
Advertisements Three months after the official unveiling, Google’s Android 5.0 has finally reached enough devices to make an appearance on the Android platform distribution stats. As per the February numbers shared by Google earlier today, Android 5.0 is now present on 1.6 percent of the total active Android devices. It is currently at the second-last […]
Advertisements The latest smartphone shipments numbers are in from Strategy Analytics’ Wireless Smartphone Strategies and they reveal a big milestone for Google. As per the report, Google’s Android OS was present on the over 1 billion of the total smartphone shipments in 2014. There were a total of 1.3 billion smartphone shipments last year and […]
Advertisements Xiaomi co-founder and CEO Lei Jun earlier today revealed on his official Weibo account that the company sold 61.1 million smartphones in 2014 with a year-over-year growth of 227 percent. Xiaomi had sold 18.7 million phones in 2013. Jun also stated that Xiaomi’s 2014 revenue was 74.3 billion yuan (approx. $12 billion), but did […]
Advertisements Xiaomi has announced that it has sold over 1 million smartphones in the Indian market. The company stated that it crossed the milestone sometime this month. While this is not a huge number, it is still a big deal for the company that began selling phones in the country just over five months ago. […]