Rapid growth in smartphone market

The worldwide market for smartphones in the first months of the year compared to last year grew by nearly half. Market research firm Gartner figures published Wednesday on the market for mobile phones.

A total of 314 million mobile phones sold. This was more than 17 percent one year earlier and the fastest growth in four years time. Among them were 54.3 million smartphones.

Nokia maintained its lead in the market. The Finnish mobile phone producer has a market share of 35 percent of the total market and market share of over 44 percent of the smartphone market. Here occupy blackberry manufacturer Research in Motion, Apple and smartphones with Google's Android operating system places 2 through 4.

Android smartphones are booming. In the first quarter were in the United States with Android smartphones sold than iPhones, the Apple phone. Gartner expects Android Apple in the short term the world over strive for it.

Gartner raised its growth forecast for the worldwide mobile phone market. The researchers now rely on 14 percent growth versus a previous expectation of 11 percent.

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New York - The growing number of healthcare professionals using mobile medical applications, or apps in daily activities is to contribute to a rapid growth in this emerging smartphone market segment. Although much smaller than other popular mobile app segments, mobile medical applications Slowly gaining market share as revenues are expected to more than double in 2010 over 2009, according to research publisher Kalorama Information report new health care market, "global market for Mobile Medical Apps."

The market for mobile medical apps worth approximately $ 41 million in 2009, which translates to about 1.5% of the total mobile app market and Kalorama 2010 sales estimates to arrive at $ 84,100,000. Medical apps compete for market share with very large app and popular categories like gaming, entertainment, social networking, and navigation. Despite the higher price tag for most medical applications (average $ 15 per app), the number of downloads fail - the creation of medical applications at the bottom of the sales compared to other categories.

However, the use of smartphones is growing rapidly in the health sector because they offer a range of programs, ease and efficiency that can not be achieved with traditional computers and pocket drug references. It was estimated that in 2004 approximately 25% of practicing physicians in the U.S. uses a PDA or smartphone.Deze increased to about 35-40% in 2008. By 2010, more than 50% of physicians using smartphones or PDAs on a regular basis for the treatment of daily activity.

"Not only is the medical community using smartphones and their applications for basic tasks, but they report to use a portion of the work that previously would have done on a desktop or laptop computer to complete," said Melissa Elder, an analyst by Kalorama Information and author of the report. "With one of the main focuses in healthcare today aimed at reducing costs, any tool that can help medical staff more efficiently is a boon for the industry."

Smartphone applications can be developed for many types of processes, including education, healthcare, data management, health information and other workflow processes. There are literally hundreds of thousands of apps available for smartphones users. The Apple App Store offers more than 250,000 apps for its users. Within specific categories, such as management of health care, some providers offer smartphone apps to 2,000. These help monitor heartbeat, diabetes management, record exercise schedules, and link to larger systems for management of medical records.

"The use of smartphones in professional healthcare is still taking shape, but some providers have seen the potential and are using the technology," said Elder.

Kalorama Information "global market for Mobile Medical Apps" gives a detailed overview of the PDA and smartphone use in health care, with market size and growth estimates leading smartphone operating systems and applications providers, handheld device technology adoption by physicians and issues facing IT in healthcare

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Samsung saw its market share in the global smartphone market last year to grow more than Apple. The manufacturer sold in the last quarter of 2008 138 percent more smartphones than one year earlier, Apple grew by 111 percent.

The large growth in the smartphone market, Samsung is due to the sales success of its touchscreen Omnia i900 phone, concludes research firm Gartner, which has compiled the figures. Gartner defines smartphones phones equipped with a "smartphone OS ', ie Symbian, Windows Mobile, Blackberry OS, Palm OS, a Linux distro or Mac OS X.

Samsung sold in the fourth quarter, according to Gartner, 1.6 million smartphones, while Apple managed to sell 4.1 million. This latter had a market share of ten percent in the smartphone segment. Besides Samsung and Apple Blackberry maker RIM saw its market share rise sharply, by 85 percent. RIM continues with a market share of 19.5 percent the number two behind leader Nokia: still has four of the ten selling a Nokia smartphones. That is considerably less than the end of 2007, when half of the Finnish-made devices were sold.

HTC grew not as hard as Apple, Samsung and RIM. This manufacturer sold in the last quarter according to Gartner, 1.6 million smartphones. That draws the analyst firm, however, that only devices which count not the name of a state provider. The devices that HTC T-Mobile sells, for example, do not count for these figures.

Gartner estimates that until the end of 2008 approximately 775,000 Android phones are sold. The total sales of smartphones in 2008, according to research firm 139 million. That is considerably less than that provided by analyst firm ABI Research has published , stating that in 2008 approximately 171 million smartphones were sold.

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Apple recalls 2.3 percent market share in Western Europe

If you look around your immediate environment might think that surely at least one in ten people has an iPhone. But the reality is different: in 2008 the iPhone a market share of 2.3 percent in Western Europe. The figures from IDC, who also calculated that in 2008 Apple sold 4.4 million iPhones. That is 2.3 percent of the iPhones worldwide over the counter went.

The IDC European Mobile Phone Tracker did a lot of numbers. For example, in the fourth quarter of 2008 53.6 million units sold, which is 13.5 percent less than in the fourth quarter of 2007. The fourth quarter was the worst ever. According to research manager Francisco Jeronimo has a number of factors to be: lack of retail demand, currency fluctuations and limited credit options.

Nokia remains the market leader, thanks mainly to "traditional" mobile phones. When did especially smartphones, the Nokia E71 well. Market share in 2008 was 39.8%.

Samsung rose from 21.9 to 25.5 percent but had to contend with lower margins. Touch Screen Phones like the Samsung F480 and convertente phones like the i900 Omnia turned the buoy.Even midrange camera phones like the J700 and E250 did well. Samsung is going to focus on it in 2009. Market share in 2008 was 25.5%.

Sony Ericsson remained at the third place in Western Europe, but fell towards global spot 4. IDC dedicates it to an unfavorable product mix. The company invests the current market share of 14.9% to raise more integrated entertainment and phone services PlayNow. The market share was 14.9% in 2008.

LG faced a decline in Western Europe. New phones like the LG KC910, KS360 KP500 and were in demand in the fourth quarter it will increase again. Digital convergence is planned which will create 10 new models with a mix of operating systems: Windows Mobile, Android and LiMo, mostly with touchscreen. With a market share of 5.4%, they are at number 4.

Motorola's market share has never been so low, there were 75.6% fewer units sold compared to previous years. IDC believes that it is difficult for Motorola to 2013 for the old position back.Surviving the coming years the biggest challenge.

Apple is number 6 with - as said - a market share of 2.3 percent in 2008. Most devices were sold in the third quarter. Even when Apple was a more difficult fourth quarter (1 million units sold). IDC is concerned that the lack of an Apple product with several units in the coming quarters down the road. Still, Apple was the success story of 2008, IDC found.

Market research firm IDC also had comforting news to report: The mobile industry is in Western Europe through difficult times, but the whole industry, the financial crisis well. There will be less money available for network infrastructure, devices, chipsets and software, but the industry can make profits with mobile applications and services. Growth has tended to get in India and China, where the penetration of telephones is still below 50 percent.

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IPhone grabs 10% share of smartphone market

The global market share of the iPhone in the first quarter of this year increased to 10.8%.Last year this was 5.3%. Gartner made these figures announced yesterday.

Even Research In Motion (RIM), maker of the BlackBerry, saw market share rise from 13.3% to 19.9%. Largest player in the smartphone market, Nokia, though the company lost 4% market share.

Nokia, RIM and Apple are now the largest smartphone vendors in the world, according to Gartner.

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GARTNER: IPHONE AND ANDROID WIN MARKET SHARE

According to figures from Gartner iPhone and Android have their position in the smartphone market strengthened. The market shares of both operating systems grew, while other major players were down. The total smartphone market grew over the first quarter of 2009 with 48.7 percent.

Gartner calculated how many phones in the first quarter of 2010 were sold and what the relationship between the various operating systems for smartphones. Symbian, the operating system mainly for use Nokia is still the largest globally. The market share of Symbian devices sold or dropped, from 48.8 percent to 44.3 percent now. The operating system of RIM (Blackberry) is in second place with 19.4 percent (previously 20.6), and the iPhone OS takes third place with 15.4 per cent (was 10.5).

Google's Android operating system was Linux and Windows Mobile and was therefore beyond the fourth best-selling operating system for smartphones in the first quarter of 2010. Android increased from 1.6 percent in the first quarter of 2009 to 9.6 percent in 2010.

In total, smartphones in the first quarter of 2010, 17.3 percent of mobile phones sold. In the same period in 2009 was still 13.6 percent. Apple's iPhone was in the first quarter accounted for 2.7 percent of all phones sold worldwide.That's an increase of 1.2 percentage points compared to 2009. The number of phones in the first quarter of 2010 also increased significantly compared to last year, more than 269 million to over 314 million. Among those 314 million were 54 million smartphones.

The figures show that Android is the largest growth. More and more smartphones that run on this operating system. At the same time the growth of the iPhone is still impressive. Apple is now the world's seventh largest manufacturer of mobile phones. However, several other manufacturers produce phones, while Apple has this place due to the sale of just one phone.

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4 iPhone is launched in China

In China, this week the 4 iPhone launch and it was a madhouse. More than 1,000 people stood alone on the new Apple store in Beijing waiting. And some were there for over 2 days to wait. That is too ridiculous for words. But much has changed in the world. China has a real factor and it is not strange, because as there are in the country over 800 million people with a mobile phone. The size of the market and slightly easier entry into the market faster everything goes.

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2 years ago with the introduction of 3G models were given the Chinese the only option to purchase such equipment in China. Now with the introduction of the iPhone, this phone is already available in April after three months after the device was launched in America. So that's a nice difference, but yes the commercial opportunities are great in the country. Signed as many as 50,000 people just on the first day on the new phone from Apple and that is 10x as much as with the 3G. On the 3G model, then just signed almost 5,000 people. There is so much in recent times have changed.

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iPhone loses market share in fourth quarter 2009

In the last quarter of 2009, the share of the iPhone world wide slightly decreased . According to research from ABI Research.

The market share fell from 18.1% in the third quarter of 2009 to 16.6% in the subsequent quarter. Sales of iPhones have also increased in this period (18%), but the entire market for smartphones grew faster (+26%), so Apple had to surrender market share. In total in the fourth quarter were 8.7 million iPhones were sold.

The slight decrease in market share can be attributed to competition from Android and Nokia. These brands have recently introduced new models, while a new version of the iPhone is expected until the summer

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Here's a new market study on the iPhone , carried by the Solutions Research Group, which aims to profile the people most interested in the iPhone. thriller ... Will you recognize you? 

According to the study, if you are: 

• You are a man (72%)
• You are aged a little more than thirty years. But in fact it is much more divided since the iPhone addicts are between 15 and 24 to 31%, 32% 25et between 34 and 32% between 35 and 49. Apparently, beyond fifty, ca not seem to be folly, since only 6% belong!
• You hold a higher degree (58%)
• You earn $ 75 000 annual income (normally after this line, I lost a lot of readers ;-)). This represents 26% more than the national average American.
• to 48% you do not already have an iPod
• Finally, and here I have more people (?) to 43% you live in New York or California! 

Come on, if you're an old woman, poor, under graduate and live in the wilds of the Creuse (beautiful region incidentally) then know that there is so far no reason why Apple refuses to sell you.

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Google Android OS: Market shares in the USA to more than doubles

US market study company the comScore communicated that googled Android OS its market share under the Smartphone operating systems in the USA from 2,5 per cent to 5,2 per cent more than doubling could. As basis the comScore numbers of the latter and the next to last Quatals 2009 compared.

At the point of the Smartphone operating systems up-to-date Research stands in Motion (RIM) with a portion of 41,6 per cent, followed of Apple with 25,3 per cent and Microsoft with a portion of 18 per cent. Over auf's “Treppchen” to come must Googles Android OS beside Microsoft also still at Palm past - their market share is according to the study about 6,1 per cent.

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