despite these gains, both OEMs have continued to be locked out of the lucrative Tier 1 LTE market in the United States with Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson winning the Sprint Nextel tende
1 Region for 2010: Asia Pacific (167 contracts)
#1 Country for 2010: India (37 contracts)
#1 OEM for 2010: ZTE (159 contracts)
#1 Mobile Operator for 2010: China Mobile (16 contracts)
RIM's BlackBerry handsets were the best selling smartphones in the UK for 2010
n December 2010, BlackBerry's market share went to a record high of 36 per cent, with a 51.1 per cent share for pre-pay deals and 23.3 per cent for contract free phones
It had sold over 129 million BlackBerry smartphones worldwide
VUDU began by only making their own set-top boxes, (the VUDU Box and the VUDU XL), but it now primarily markets its softwar
April, 2007 VUDU had received $21 million in venture capital funding from Greylock Partners and Benchmark Capital.[5] As of April, 2008 they have raised $40 million more.
number of devices connected to IP networks will be twice as high as the global population in 2015.
In 2010, only 3 percent of Internet traffic originated with non-PC devices, but by 2015 the non-PC share of Internet traffic will grow to 15 percent.
TVs, tablets, smartphones, and machine-to-machine (M2M) modules will have growth rates of 101 percent, 216 percent, 144 percent, and 258 percent, respectively
jostles with games consoles, laptops that can wirelessly transmit what is on their screen to the TV, and similar media players f
$99 price tag marks a recognition of the stiff competition
istances it from the Mac Mini, a small-box computer that some Apple fans saw as a better value
enabled home-sharing in iTunes on my PC to share its content with Apple TV.
Netflix streaming film service, YouTube, Flickr
Being able to access a computer on a home network means anything stored in iTunes can be played or watched on the big screen
Many set-top boxes and Blu-ray players in the US offer Netflix
losest competitor to Apple TV in functionality is Roku’s box.
Roku may lack YouTube but it has more than 85 “channels” of internet content, including Netflix, Amazon’s video-on-demand service, Pandora internet radio, the MOG music streaming service,
Apple TV’s narrower content is its biggest weakness.
s synergies with other Apple devices –
Remote app allows control with touch gestures on an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch.
ame kind of apps as an iPhone or iPad in the future
r current TV programming and the open web into a single, seamless entertainment experience.
Google Chrome and access to the entire Internet, you can easily navigate to thousands of websites to watch your favorite web videos, play Flash games, view photos, read movie reviews or chat with friends—all on the big screen.
vendors shipped a total of 100.9 million
smartphones during the fourth quarter of 2010 (4Q10), up 87.2% from the 53.9
million smartphones shipped during 4Q09
302.6 million smartphones
Top Five
Smartphone Vendors, Shipments, and Market Share, Q4 2010 (Units in Millions)
Game publishers have begun to tie virtual goods or currency to “real world” purchases from advertising partners (spend $50 at the Gap, get 20 Facebook Credits, for example).
Advertisers can also use in-game ads to get in front of consumers before there is purchase intent.