In 2015, 1.3 billion smartphones were sold worldwide. Such data was announced in the report by the research company GfK.

At the end of August, smartphones in Russia for the first time surpassed conventional mobile handsets in terms of the number of devices sold, Vedomosti reports with reference to the Svyaznoy, M.Video and Euroset networks. 

According to a study by Kantar Worldpanel, over the last quarter (December – February), the interest of American consumers in Android-based devices exceeded the share of the iPhone. Now the former account for more than half (51.2%) of sales of all smartphones.

Judging by the worldwide shipments of smartphones for the 4th quarter of 2012, the devices of Chinese vendors are beginning to enjoy great popularity. So far, only Apple and Samsung are ahead of them, according to Canalys. 

The latest study of the American smartphone market demonstrates the weak growth dynamics of the Android platform and the good pace of the “Apple” OS. 

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

Smartphones of these companies account for 63% of all mobile traffic in Canada and the USA. Moreover, 5% is the joint share of Samsung Galaxy III and iPhone 5 flagships.  

MTS has published a report of its retail network on all smartphones sold for the first half of this year.

Two-thirds of mobile phones purchased in the U.S. in the second quarter of 2012 were smartphones. This is one of the results of the latest study of the American smartphone market conducted by Nielsen – see the rest inside.

comScore has published its next quarterly review of the American market of mobile devices and platforms. According to him, 234 million people use mobile devices in the United States, Samsung is slowing its growth, and Android still accounts for more than half of the OS market. 

The new executive director of Samsung once again stated that in order to maintain a leading position in the market, the company needs to take a close look at software.

PopCap has published a report according to which users in the US and the UK spend half of the time they spend on electronic entertainment in general on mobile games.

Today, the first and so far the only conference in Russia on the development and promotion of mobile games – White Nights: Mobile Games Conference – opens in St. Petersburg.

According to the latest All About Windows Phone report, today there are more than 100 thousand different applications in the Windows Phone Marketplace app store.

At the WWDC 2012 event, Apple employees shared impressive indicators of the iOS operating system. 

Euroset told about how many Apple smartphones were sold in Russia, as well as about the volume of the domestic market of gray mobile phones. 

In the near future, the Google corporation platform may not only give way to the conditional palm of iOS, but also lose the mobile device market. 

Analysts from comScore shared the latest data on the American market of mobile phones, smartphones and operating systems. It turned out that Apple is doing the best right now, but Android may soon have to tighten its belt. 

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