In 2011, about 73 million tablets were shipped. This is 256% more than in 2010. Analysts are confident that by 2017, tablets will almost catch up with laptops in terms of supplies.

A three-dimensional role-playing action for iOS brought $ 30 million to its creators in a year of sales.

In a year and a half, the number of downloads of applications for the Apple tablet has reached three billion. Android indicators are lagging far behind, but analysts are confident that the situation will radically change in the future.

During the last week of 2011, iOS and Android users made a record number of downloads.

According to the results of last December, Apple products accounted for more than 52.1% of mobile traffic. Android gadgets have only 16.2%.

There are a little less than two days left before the onset of 2012. In the new year there will be new games, new tops, new hits, so it seems to us that now is the time to get acquainted with the best games of the year 2011 according to our portal.

The release of the iPhone 4S significantly affected the number of downloads of free software from the App Store.

There is a version that the next iPad will be shown at the annual iWorld festival on January 26, 2012.

On one day alone – December 25, 2011 – 6.8 million smartphones were activated, while half of the activations were on Android. Microsoft Corporation, in turn, boasted of the number of applications in the Windows Phone Market.

With the introduction of Android 4.0 and Windows 8 on the market, tablets will become the dominant devices in the market of devices with touch screens.

Inside Mobile Apps bloggers tell how big companies manage to stay in the top in the last weeks of the year.

Google is planning to release its tablet. This release may negatively affect sales of other Android-based tablets.

In just a minute, people have time to dig up 1,100 acres of land in FarmVille, generate 38 tons of environmental garbage, and watch porn. And, yes, they also manage to do something with the iPhone 4s.

The number of smartphones used by users may increase from the current 262 million to 800 million. At least, such figures were shared with the public by Flurry. The main driver of growth is the Chinese market; the Russian market may also increase significantly. 

The director of Tetris said that the success of Angry Birds will not last long, unlike the success of the game about the glass and falling cubes.

Users of the Google platform download more work applications and play less on their devices than users of the mobile version of iOS.

Analysts claim that almost a third of viruses for the mobile platform from Google are received by users through the official app store.

According to preliminary data from CrowdStar, the average income from each user in the mobile application market (ARPU) at Amazon is five times more than the same on the Android Market.

The creator of the iconic business smartphones is experiencing financial difficulties. All the major players in the mobile device market have already become interested in buying it.