Apple’s Beats Will Sound Much Better
At this point, Apple reportedly acquiring 'Beats' for $3+ Billion will have noteworthy implications on the mobile & internet industry. This deal…
Q1 2014 : Xiaomi Becomes The Third Largest Smartphone Brand in China
Latest research from our Market Monitor service highlighted, Xiaomi climbing to become sixth largest smartphone brand and eight largest handset brand…
Market Monitor : Q1 2014 :: Handset & Smartphone Markets Landscape
Counterpoint Research team of Analysts have completed preliminary sizing of the global handset and smartphone market as few OEMs have already…
Ecosystem Wars: Content is King, Video is Emperor & Installed Base is Kingdom
Content is King & Video is The Emperor I believe we all agree that even in this digital era, content is king*. However, video is the emperor…
Q1 2014: Apple’s iPhone Mania Steadily Spreading Internationally
Apple announced its Jan-Mar quarter results for 2014 and while the results beat street expectations were inline with Counterpoint Research's…
BlackBerry Q4FY2014 Results : BlackBerry Hardware Becoming Insignificant, Need A Platform Play
BlackBerry today announced its Q4FY2014 results and as expected they were not rosy BlackBerry smartphone shipments dipped to an all-time low of 1.3…
Office for iPad: Advantage Apple… And Microsoft!!
Microsoft's new CEO Satya Nadella yesterday took wraps off an Office suite (client) for iPad broadening its horizontal cloud, software and services…
Samsung Regains Momentum in Global Smartphone Market in February 2014
According to the latest research from Counterpoint, global smartphone demand slowed down slightly sequentially but was up a healthy 51% annually in…
Facebook: Whatsapp Acquisition & Why it Should Also Acquire Spotify
Facebook as a social network has grown by leaps and bounds over the last five years. However, only being a public social network is not going to cut…
Apple CarPlay – Puts Apple In The Dashboard But Challenges Galore!!
The world's second largest smartphone player Apple today forayed into the automotive sector in a much bigger way by announcing its latest offering…
Nokia’s X Factor : Rebuild Smartphone Leadership & Drive Microsoft-Nokia Cloud Services To Mass-Market
Nokia the world's second largest mobile phone supplier unveiled a new family of smartphones at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2014, the Nokia X series…
China Clocks A Record 100 Million Smartphone Shipments in Q4 2013
Global smartphone market continued to grow by leaps and bounds thanks to the fast-growing emerging markets on the cusp of smartphone demand…
Qualcomm’s Quick Charge 2.0: A Meaningful Innovation Growing into a ‘Power-Packed’ Ecosystem
We are now into a Personal Computing 3.0 revolution where computing devices have become highly personal, mobile and consume more content than we…
Market Monitor : Q4 2013 :: Handset & Smartphone Markets Landscape
Counterpoint Research team of Analysts have completed preliminary sizing of the global handset and smartphone market as few OEMs have already…
Apple Floors the Competition in the US during December 2013
According to the latest research from Counterpoint’s Monthly Market Pulse December report, Apple’s smartphone share in the US soared during December,…
Samsung’s Galaxy S4 and S3 Mini Topped the Sales Charts in Germany During 2013
The latest research from Counterpoint Research lists the bestselling mobile handsets for the Germany market for the full year 2013. Samsung dominated…
Samsung’s Galaxy Smartphones Capture 50% of the Top 10 Bestselling models in France during 2013
According to Counterpoint Research’s latest research, the Galaxy S3 mini and Galaxy S4 topped the list of bestselling mobile handsets in France…
Top Mobile Devices Trends in 2014
Technologically speaking there has never been a dull year in mobile industry. Every year promises and brings in new technologies, disruptions,…