In the first half of 2016, 7.5% more smartphones were sold in Russia in unit terms than in the same period a year earlier.

According to the Strategy Analytics report, the Korean company accounted for 95% of the total revenue from sales of Android smartphones in the first quarter of 2013.

According to analysts from Gartner, global sales of smartphones to end users in the first quarter of 2013 reached 210 million units, which is 34.8% higher than in the same period last year (147 million) and 44% higher than in the fourth quarter of 2012.

Yesterday, January 30, a presentation of RIM took place in New York. At it, the Canadian company announced its own rebranding, and also officially introduced two new devices. 

The other day, Mozilla Corporation announced two of its own smartphones running on Firefox OS. Both models are demo models and were created specifically for mobile software developers. 

This is the conclusion reached by Nielsen analysts, assessing the level of smartphone penetration in emerging markets, including Russia.

In the first days of the new year 2013, a loud announcement was made. Canonical has officially presented the mobile version of the Ubuntu operating system.

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.

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

The Chinese company has officially announced that it plans to introduce a giant smartphone with a screen diagonal of 6.1 inches.

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.  

The Russian company “M.Video” has published statistics on smartphone sales of its retail network. Android accounts for more than half of all mobile devices sold.

Speaking at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco, Google Play Technical Director Chris Yerga reported that 67% of all Google Play revenue is generated outside the United States.  

This conclusion was reached by analysts from Frank N. Magid, who conducted a study of trends in the mobile market – Magid Media Futures: Mobile 2012, commissioned by PlayFirst. Special attention was paid to tablets and the behavior of their users.

Zynga shares have fallen almost 12% in just one day. The reason for the fall was a study Cowen & Co, according to which it became known that in just one month, Zynga lost 5 million of its users who traded Facebook games for mobile entertainment.

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. 

It turned out that the younger models of Nokia smartphones with Windows Phone on board do not support a number of the most popular applications of the platform. Including Angry Birds and PES 2012.

Nielsen briefly described how much the mobile software market in the United States has changed over the past year, sharing a curious infographic. 

Yesterday in London, the world’s largest manufacturer of mobile phones and smartphones presented its new flagship Samsung Galaxy S III: a totally new design, four processors, a 4.8-inch screen and 1 GB of RAM on board. Will he be able, following his predecessors, to blow up the mobile device market?