There is an interesting article on the NY Times on Research and Motion new development intitiatives. They will present this week a conference where they have to persuade critical applications developers to create new apps for the new generation of BlackBerrys that will use a more capable operating system known as QNX (pronounced CUE-nix) and for the tablet PlayBook. One problem with the Playbook is that there are few apps available now.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/17/technology/research-in-motion-pins-hopes-on-its-next-os.html?src=un&feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjson8.nytimes.com%2Fpages%2Ftechnology%2Findex.jsonp
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com
A blog on the convergence of info-communications industries: communications, computing, electronics, entertainment, publications and education. Strategic, technological and financial analysis. English and French blog. Cette chronique traite de l’évolution des industries de l’information et des communications et couvre des aspects stratégiques, technologiques et financiers, comme l’économie du savoir et de l’innovation. L’auteur est Associé principal de Infocom Intelligence.
Showing posts with label smartphone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label smartphone. Show all posts
Monday, October 17, 2011
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Evolution of the smartphone sector
According to a study by Millennial Media, the smartphone sector is growing quickly.
Thus, it appears that:
-60% of the devices have a touch screen. Only 33 percent of the devices had a touch screen in March 2009.
-Now, all of the 20 top phones are now smartphones.
-The top three manufacturers in 2009 were Samsung (21.6%), LG (12.52%)) and Apple (11.35%). Now its Apple (30.76%), Samsung (14.94%) and RIM (11.76%)
-Mobile ads have evolved: 52% of ad campaigns actions lead to visiting a site compared to 15% in 2009. Click-to-call actions have gone from 1% to 37%. And app downloads surged from 3% to 23%.
-Six verticals — finance, retail/restaurants, pharmaceuticals, automotive, entertainment and travel – experienced triple digit growth year over year from Q2 2010 to Q2 2011. Finance grew by 1,095% while retail/restaurants grew by 956% and pharmaceuticals grew by 426%.
-Smartphones now represent 67% percent of all impressions on devices while connected devices such as tablets and the iPod Touch represent 17% of all impressions.
Louis Rheaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com
Sunday, October 22, 2006
Blackberry Pearl versus Treo 700p: which one is the best?
There is a debate among technology consumers whether the Blackberry Pearl is better than the Treo 700p. Each phone has its own set of features, but it appears that the Blackberry Pear is particularly good with both PDA and cellphone features that work.
You can see a video of 2 reporters that compare each one at:
http://revision3.com/indigital/2006-09-26
The Internet browser of the Treo appears to have some problems.
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
infocom@videotron.ca
www.infocomintelligence.com
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