This week, RIA Novosti held a round table with a number of experts of the domestic mobile market. We decided to compare the assumptions of specialists with the data of analytical companies.

J’son & Partners Consulting has published a detailed overview of the mobile device market in Russia:  smartphone sales figures, mobile OS market segmentation and the harsh truth about tablets in our country.

By 2016, Apple will still own half of the tablet market, IDC analysts predict.

The presidents of GREE USA, who previously headed Funzio, spoke about the main trends in the mobile games market. 

Western investors believe that the time of crazy money in the mobile app market has passed. Game developers will now be bought with more caution and for much less money.

The average number of daily iPhone downloads after the new Apple device appeared on the market jumped by almost 1.5 million, while the cost of the user fell markedly. 

A third of American teenagers use mobile devices to do their homework. The relevance of training applications is growing. At the same time, no one is in a hurry to make money in this market. What is the reason, App2Top figured it out.

According to the results of the third quarter, the iPad accounts for only 55% of global tablet shipments. Android tablets are eating away an increasing share of the market, analysts at ABI Research found out.

Apple is once again the leader in smartphone sales in the US, but the company’s share in Europe continues to decline under the pressure of Android devices and, attention, Windows Phone.

According to analysts from Gartner, in 2013 Lenovo will become the largest smartphone manufacturer in China. 

Windows Phone users spend much more money on games than owners of iOS and Android devices, according to EEDAR specialists. 

The volume of the Russian mobile games market by the end of 2012 will amount to $392 million, according to the experts of the analytical company J’son & Partners in their study “The Russian mobile games market”.

169 million smartphones were sold worldwide in the third quarter, of which 122 million were devices based on the Android platform, Gartner experts estimate. 

According to MoPub, the price for mobile advertising on the Android platform has increased by more than a quarter in just three months. Advertising on iOS has not become significantly more expensive over the same period. 

The price for installation in the Land of the Rising Sun is much higher than in the United States, said one of the vice-presidents of the Japanese company GREE.  

The Chinese vendor ranked third in the global top manufacturers in terms of the number of deliveries of smart phones in the third quarter of this year. Finnish Nokia may drop out of the top by the new year. 

The App Store is used for promotion by all the largest companies in the world. This conclusion was made by Distimo after analyzing the Apple mobile application market.

The search giant has demonstrated the impact of holidays on the number of search queries and advertising clicks on mobile devices. 

In September, the price of a loyal iPhone user in the United States fell to the level of May 2011, as for the number of downloads, it remained almost at the level of August.