IDC has new Worldwide statistics that show for Q1 2013 Android and iOS represented 92.3% of all smartphone OS Shipments. Android had a 75% market share, iOS 17.3%, Windows Phone 3.2% and BlackBerry 2.9%.
 

From my perspective, as predominantly an Android developer, I can see Android has ‘grown up’. Companies are no longer going iOS first […]

Google has some new free research, conducted by M/A/R/C Research and the Google Shopper Marketing Agency Council, into the use of mobile when people shop in-store. The research covers topics such as pre-shopping, shopping categories, time spent in store, consumer needs, self help and how mobile sites are preferred over apps…

The report shows that retailers […]

Mobiquity has a recent infographic on the connected traveller showing the findings of an independent study of 1000 people using smartphones and tablets to plan and book travel with 19 top travel brands. While it’s all about travel, the learnings are probably just as applicable to other industries.
The main factors that cause poor mobile experiences […]

Nokia has revealed more about the new Asha platform. There’s a new phone and OS platform aimed at the low end, developing markets evidenced by the Nokia’s product announcement in Delhi.
What’s in it for developers? Well, it’s "a new software platform, which fully leverages Nokia’s investments in Smarterphone, which it acquired in 2012". Apps are […]

Security Week has an interesting article on Android anti-virus software. In summary, most Android anti-virus software relies on signature based analysis that’s easily fooled using simple obfuscation techniques. Obfuscation is more usually used by developers to hide source code from hackers but it can be used by the hackers themselves to transform code into new […]

IDC has some new statistics on Q1 tablet shipments showing that Android is, for the first time, more popular (56.6%) than iOS (39.6%). These market share numbers are similar to those previously reported by Strategy Analytics and also demonstrate that Microsoft’s tablet strategy was flawed.
 

Last March I wrote about choosing Android devices for testing and explained how this should partly depend on the geographic region you are targeting. Consequently, I always find it interesting to see what vendors, other than my immediate clients, are seeing as the most popular phones in particular geographic regions.
Animoca has some useful new […]

Strategy Analytics has useful new research that shows that global tablet sales increased by 117 perent in Q1/2013 compared to the Q1/2012. Android is catching up with iOS…

For some reason Strategy Analytics have chosen to exclude white-box tablets in the above figures. If you include white-box tablets, "Android market share of the total tablet market […]