Telecommunications companies spend billions of dollars for hardware repairs of Android phones every year, a new study says.
The study was done by wireless services company WDS which looked at over 600,000 technical support calls made by consumers to the company’s support team over the course of the past 12 months.
According to WDS, “The return and repair of Android smartphone devices is costing mobile operators as much as USD$2 billion per year”.
That figure is significant given the …

Apple’s Safari still leads as the most popular mobile Web browsers followed by Android, Opera Mini and Symbian for the month of October.

The Safari Web browser on an Apple iPhone. (Image: Clemson (CC-BY-2.0), via Flickr)

According to data provided by Web analytics firm Net Applications, Safari had 62.2 percent share of the mobile browser market, which includes smartphones and tablets.
Google’s Android came at a distant second with 18.7 percent share of the mobile browser market for the …

The iPad is losing market share, seeing its virtual stranglehold on the market share plunging to “just” 66.6 percent for the third quarter of the year, a report from Strategy Analytics reveals.

The iPad saw its market share fall to 66.6 percent during the third quarter. Image: Yutaka Tsutano / Flickr (CC)

The move in iPad market share is significant considering that the Apple tablet held 95.5 percent market share during the third quarter of 2010.
Despite the iPad shaving off almost 29 …

Five days was all it took for iOS 5 – the newest mobile operating system used in Apple devices like the iPod Touch, iPad and iPhone – to account for 20 percent of all web traffic coming from iOS devices.

Chitika Insights reports that iOS 5 had 20 percent of all iOS web traffic in just five days after the new OS was launched. Image: Chitika

The news comes from data analytics company Chitika which monitored web traffic share of the iOS 5 devices compared to all web traffic from iOS …

The worldwide market shares in the smartphone market will see a major shift in the fourth quarter of the year because of pending major released by tech giants, a new report suggests.

The pending release of smartphone models from major manufacturers will cause a shift in global smartphone markets shares during the fourth quarter, a report says. Image: steefafa / Flickr (CC)

Citing unnamed “industry sources”, frequent industry whistleblower DigiTimes is saying that “the launch of next …

Devices running Apple’s iOS platform dominate the mobile internet market share, a new report from Net Applications reveals.

Devices running on the iOS platform take more than 50 percent of mobile internet market share for the second quarter, a report from Net Applications reveals. Image: NET-BUSINESS / Flickr (CC)

According to the report, iOS devices account for over half (54.65 percent) of all mobile internet browsing for the second quarter of the year based on the approximately 40,000 …

Contrary to popular belief, Symbian is still dominating the smartphone platform market in the five leading European markets, with Android moving up a spot at second and iOS dipping to third, research firm comScore reports.
According to the report from comScore, Nokia’s Symbian OS still leads by a wide margin in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK for the three months ending in July 2011.
However, the rising Android OS from Google jumped to second, which means Apple’s iOS now takes the …

Motorola Xoom tablet with Android Market. Image: Civa61 (CC-BY-SA-3.0), via Wikimedia Commons

Google’s Android OS will top close rival iOS from Apple in app downloads at double the amount five years from now,  projected analytics firm Ovum.
According to Ovum analyst Nick Dillon, a 189 percent year-on-year increase will happen in Asia Pacific alone, which is equivalent to over five billion downloaded apps, and the region will expectedly reach the 14 billion mark by 2016.
Unfortunately, at …

Gaming equipment retailer GameStop will soon be offering the whole line of iOS devices from Apple, a report from 9to5Mac reveals.

GameStop will soon sell the entire iOS line from Apple which include iPods, iPhones and iPads. Image: Moe_ / Flickr (CC)

According to the publication, it has “received a word from several sources” about the plans of GameStop to sell the entire iOS line by Apple which includes iPhones and iPads.
The iOS range also includes iPods which includes the original iPod, …

Android, apparently, is making a difference in all mobile platforms and services, as shown in the recent mobile browser market statistics from web traffic analytics firm StatCounter.
According to the latest figures, Norwegian software company Opera Software ASA still leads the race with its Opera Mini and Opera Mobile browsers at 22 percent market share, followed by Google’s Android browser with a very close 20 percent share, which, as expected, will clinch the top spot really soon, …