Samsung grabs top spot in USA’s Android smartphone market
Samsung has taken the top spot as the number one Android smartphone provider in the US in Q3 of 2010. According to Gartner, Samsung Mobile captured 32.1% of the U.S. Android smartphone market in Q3 2010 based on retail sales, an increase from 9.2% of the Android smartphone market in Q4 2009.
Samsung Mobile attributes much of the success to its Galaxy S portfolio of premium smartphones, which recently passed the three million shipment milestone in the U.S. Galaxy S smartphones are available with AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless, along with U.S. Cellular and Cellular South.
According to Dale Sohn, President, Samsung Mobile, he wants to personally thank everyone who selected a Galaxy S smartphone as their mobile handset of choice. Neither of these wonderful accomplishments would have been possible without the loyalty and support of their customers. The Galaxy S portfolio has played a significant role in Samsung’s success in 2010 and they are extremely excited to show you what products, services and innovations they have in store for the U.S. market in 2011.
Radvision inks deal with Microsoft
Radvision Ltd, an Israel-based video and telecommunications company has inked deal to provide video conferencing system with Microsoft. As soon as the deal was finalized the company’s shares were up by nearly 8% at US$7.0.
Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
According to Radvision, it will offer a combination of hardware and software products, which will be integrated with Microsoft Lync, the latter’s instant messaging product, which was previously known as Microsoft Office Communicator.
Through this agreement, Radvision will provide advanced connectivity between the Microsoft unified communication platform and standards-based video conferencing solutions extending the video capabilities throughout the enterprise. Both Radvision and Microsoft will invest resources and have stakes in development, sales and marketing of the joint solution. Customers will have access to innovative communications capabilities leveraging the unique expertise of both companies resulting in higher productivity and lower costs of doing business.
According to Scott Morrison, Research Vice President at Gartner, Gartner estimates that there were more than 1.5 million room-based video conferencing endpoints in circulation by 2009. Vendors that do not include video in a coherent UC platform road map are less likely to succeed in the long term. Those that meet the UC needs of their customers are more likely to be able to ‘lock in’ video as part of their UC capabilities.
According to Warren Barkley of Microsoft, Microsoft and Radvision bring customers an interoperable UC solution that allows users to merge their choice of HD video conferencing and tele-presence systems with the simplicity of UC at the desktop. With the Microsoft and Radvision solutions, customers can have confidence that their existing and new investments in video communications will interoperate within the UC environment.
According to Boaz Raviv, Chief Executive Officer of Radvision, Radvision has a long history of providing advanced video conferencing and connectivity capabilities to Microsoft’s real time communications platforms. Through this latest initiative, Radvision and Microsoft will bring together the winning combination of solution features and benefits requested by the market today.
Just 0.67 decline in the global sales of mobiles: Gartner
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: In the latest prediction for the mobile market, market research firm Gartner said that global sales of mobile devices are expected to remain flat at 121 crore units in 2009. Earlier, the firm said that the sale will
go down to 3.7 percent. Gartner also said handset sales will grow by 9 percent in 2010.
Strong sales in Western Europe and acceleration in the grey market during the third quarter of this year are attributed for the not so bad market condition. However, there is a decline of 0.67 percent from that in 2008.
According to Gartner Research Director Carolina Milanesi, although the grey market or ‘white label’ is not a new phenomenon and has been generated by Chinese device makers who do not have a licence to sell and manufacture devices without a valid international mobile equipment identity, today grey- market sales are no longer limited to China and among all this Nokia will be the biggest sufferer of this grey market.
14 percent of total mobile devices sales in 2009 will be represented by smartphones. Milanesi also feel that it is useless to expect more than 20 percent growth, as mature markets are saturated and most growth will come from emerging markets.
Global mobile phone mkt growth slowed in Q2-survey
AMSTERDAM, Aug 24 (Reuters) – Growth of the global mobile phone market slowed in the second quarter of 2006, a survey found on Thursday. Sales of mobile phones to consumers totaled 229 million units, an increase of 18.3 percent from the same period last year, which is a slowdown from the 23.8 percent growth in the first quarter, market research group Gartner said in a report. Gartner said the market was still on track to reach 960 million phones in 2006 and 238 million in the third quarter of 2006. Gartner is the only research group to measure sales to end users. Other research groups, which track shipments from vendors to retailers and not to end-users, reported shipments of around 235 million units in the quarter. The slowdown was mainly in the mature markets. “While mobile operators in the mature markets of Western Europe and North America struggled to keep up the customer acquisition growth seen in previous quarters, mobile operators in emerging markets continued to sign up new customers driving handset sales,” said Gartner analyst Carolina Milanesi. Gartner’s sales data confirmed the trend identified by rival research groups last month that Motorola Inc. (MOT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) was the biggest market share gainer in the quarter, followed by Nokia (NOK1V.HE: Quote, Profile, Research) and Sony Ericsson (6758.T: Quote, NEWS, Research)(ERICb.ST: Quote, Profile, Research) and that Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (005930.KS: Quote, Profile, Research), LG Electronics Inc.(066570.KS: Quote, Profile, Research) and BenQ Mobile had lost market share.
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