According to reports from the Taiwain-based Market Intelligence Center, HTC is on pace to oust RIM as the world’s number four smartphone maker as early as the beginning of next year. Much of HTC’s success has to do with a string of popular Android handsets, which helped propel the company to record profits in its lastest quarter. RIM, [...]

The nerdy past-time of comparing Android and iOS device sales figures is once again at the front of minds, as Nielsen today posted some interesting U.S. smartphone sales figures for the past three months ending in May. After undergoing a tremendous growth spurt, sales of Android devices have flattened out at 27%. Sales of Apple’s [...]

In case you were unsure of Android’s pwnage over every other smartphone OS, well known analyst Gartner is back at it again, releasing smartphone sales figures from Q1 of 2011; and as you can see above, the truth is in the numbers. Android is rocking it with a 36% market share lead — a huge jump [...]

We all know that the Android platform is gaining market share with every new device released, it’s kind of a given. What we don’t actually know is how many devices are activated daily around the world….trust me it’s staggering. The number? 300,000 and counting according to Google’s VP of Engineering Andy Rubin. That’s a 50% [...]

According to comScore MobiLens research, which covered mobile handset usage between October 2009 and January 2010, RIM owns the smartphone market, with 43% market share, up 1.7% from three months earlier. RIM was the only company to gain significantly in total handset numbers, too, up 1.4% to 7.8% share, and that is overall phone numbers, [...]