Expert project Hi-Tech.Mail.Ru and IDC conducted a study of the Russian smartphone market in the first quarter of 2013.  According to its results, the share of Android-based devices in shipments for the year increased from 39.7% to 70.9%.

The number of paying mobile players in 2013 will exceed the number of paying gamers using portable consoles, analysts at IDC believe. But the ARPU of the Nintendo 3DS and Sony PlayStation Vita will remain higher. 

Gartner has presented its forecast for the development of the mobile device market for 2017. These data go against the figures prepared by IDC specialists.

In Russia, more Windows Phone devices were sold in the second half of 2012 than on iOS, IDC announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Revenue from games for portable consoles in the 4th quarter of 2012 was more than revenue from gaming applications for iOS, App Annie c IDC reports in its latest report.

According to the results of the fourth quarter of 2012, Chinese smartphone manufacturers, Huawei and ZTE, entered the top five, displacing Korean LG and Taiwanese HTC.

Most developers prefer to develop applications primarily for iPhone and iPad, according to the latest quarterly report of Appcelerator and IDC. 

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

The analytical company IDC has published a fresh forecast for the development of the mobile OS market for 2016. By this time, Windows Phone should occupy 11.4% of the smartphone market.

The analytical company IDC has published a report on the tablet market for the third quarter of this year. According to the results of this study, Apple is rapidly losing the tablet market.

According to the results of the third quarter of this year, 75% of the global smartphone market belongs to Android.

According to the quarterly report of the analytical company IDC, Samsung’s smartphone shipments have doubled Apple’s iPhone shipments.

This, among other things, is due to the rapid growth of the mobile Internet and the growth of spending by home users on mobile devices and applications, reports Cnews with reference to the latest report of the analytical company IDC.

The share of smartphones from the total number of cellular devices delivered to Russia grew to 21% last year, – the analytical company IDC notes in its latest report. 

Global smartphone shipments for the second quarter of this year increased by 47% and reached 158.3 million devices (with China’s share of 27%). Moreover, according to the analytical agency Canalys, Android has only strengthened its leadership in this market.

The share of Android in the American smartphone market has grown to 49% in the first quarter of 2012, according to experts of the advertising company Millennial Media. So Google’s operating system continues to be the “king of the mountain”; also in the US, 15 of the top 20 mobile devices run on Android 

The tablet market is storming, despite Apple’s unconditional leadership. Among the leading vendors, there is a fierce struggle for second place in the market for the supply of devices. Kindle Fire starts to lose, Samsung goes up.