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VR headsets top 1 million shipments for the first time, but can Microsoft take the field?
by Surur
1 year
Virtual reality has been a very slow burner over the last few years, with high prices and high hardware requirements preventing many who are interested from trying out the technology. We have however recently seen major price drop...
After Phone, Band and Groove, Microsoft’s Surface may be next for the chopping block says Lenovo, Dell a...
by Surur
2 years
Satya Nadella’s penchant for scrapping money losing products is causing many to ask which device or service is next. While some speculate about Bing and Xbox, if you ask PC OEMs they are very clear that Microsoft’s Sur...
Canalys: Windows Phone growing strongly in India, ahead of Apple, but still only 3-4% market share
by Surur
4 years
The International Business Times have posted some stats on the performance of Windows Phone in India, and it appears the OS is doing quite well there. The analyst company revealed 3.8 million Windows Phones have been sold over the...
Windows Notebook Shipments Surpassed Those Of Tablets Once Again In The Post PC Era
by Pradeep
5 years
Ever since Steve Jobs coined the term Post PC era, it became the buzz word and many analysts claimed that tablets will dwarf the sales of notebooks in couple of years. We are in 2014 now, notebook shipments are still more than tha...
Motorola overtakes Nokia in India on strength of cheap, well-specced devices.
by Surur
5 years
The Economic Times of India reports on the recently published results from Canalys’s look at the Indian smartphone market. According to the analyst company Motorola has overtaken Nokia to become the 4th biggest smartphone OEM in...
Microsoft Surface Devices Sales Are Now Above Google Nexus Sales In The UK Tablet Market
by Pradeep
5 years
According to market research firm Canalys, Microsoft is now at 4th place in the UK tablet market with their Surface devices. Apple, Samsung and Amazon are above them and Google Nexus devices is following them in sales. Microsoft s...
Canalys awards Windows Phone 8.4 million shipments in Q1 2014
by Surur
5 years
We have seen some wildly divergent numbers for Windows Phone sales in Q1 2014, including ABI Research, which estimated more than 13 million handsets. UK market research company Canalys have now weighed in with their Q1 numbers, an...
Canalys: Windows Phone Was The Fastest Growing Platform In 2013
by Pradeep
5 years
Canalys today published their smart phone shipment estimates for more than 50 countries and they revealed that 998 million smartphones  were shipped in full year 2013. And the numbers were dominated by Android with about 785 m...
Canalys confirms Nokia now the 4th largest OEM in USA in Q3
by Surur
5 years
The full Canalys report is now available, and it confirms the recent report by Counterpoint Research that Nokia is now the 4th largest smartphone OEM in USA, with Research Director Nicole Peng, saying: ‘Samsung was the leading v...
Canalys: Windows Phone ahead of iOS in 19 countries, grew 185%
by Surur
5 years
Canalys has now also weighed in with their Q3 2013 numbers, and it confirms, like others, that Windows Phone growing well. According to Canalys iOS and Android market share remained static, but Windows Phone grew 185% to take 4% m...
Canalys predicts Windows Phone and iPhone to be neck and neck in 2017
by Surur
6 years
Analyst companies are pretty far from prescient, and their predictions more accurately reflect their sentiment regarding an OS now rather than what will actually happen. If that is the case Canalys must be having some pretty good ...