Important updates this week in Mobile. Gartner released new figures and placed Apple as the world biggest smartphone seller and Cisco revealed the Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2011-2016. Windows remains the last chance for Nokia, and they are confirming it. In the meantime, Mobile Gaming continues to do well which Zynga surely isn't complaining about.

Gartner: Apple’s iPhone Stole The Smartphone Show In Q4, 2011

Date 15th February, 2012

We’ve seen handset makers like HTC, LG and Nokia all warning of declines in smartphone sales. But if there is a slowdown affecting some, it’s not because people are not buying smartphones; it’s because they’re all buying iPhones. Figures out from Gartner today say that smartphone sales totalled 149 million units in Q4 2011.

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Smart phones, tablets were a big part of holiday shopping: report

Date 14th February, 2012

Marketers know that smart phones and tablets are increasingly part of the "path to purchase" for many consumers, but how big a role did they play in purchasing decisions this past holiday season? According to Google, a big one. For smart phones, Google says that 46% of device owners researched a product or service on the device and went on to make a purchase offline and that 37% did smart phone-based research followed by a desktop computer purchase.

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Apple requests U.S. preliminary injunction against the Samsung Galaxy Nexus based on four high-power patents

Date 11th February, 2012

Apple has brought a motion in the United States for a preliminary injunction against the Galaxy Nexus, the official Android 4.0 ("Ice Cream Sandwich") lead device developed by Samsung in close cooperation with Google. A public redacted version of the filing, which was made on Thursday with the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, became available late on Friday. I believe the court will rule on this motion within a matter of months.

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Mergers: Commission approves acquisition of Motorola Mobility by Google

Date 13th February, 2012

Brussels, 13 February 2012 - The European Commission has cleared under the EU Merger Regulation the proposed acquisition of Motorola Mobility, a developer of smartphones and tablets, by Google, the world's largest internet search and search advertising company and developer of Android, one of the most popular mobile operating systems. The Commission approved the transaction mainly because it would not significantly modify the market situation in respect of operating systems and patents for these devices.

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Zynga Mobile Grew Five-Fold To More Than 15 Million Daily Users In 2011

Date 14th February, 2012

As we mentioned in our coverage of Zynga’s fourth quarter earnings, mobile has been one of the fast-growing parts of Zynga’s business. On the company’s earnings call, CEO and founder Marc Pincus revealed that mobile users have grown five-fold to 15 million daily active users in 2011. That’s up from 13 million in December.

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No Longer An Awkward Teenager? Gamification Grows Up

Date 12th February, 2012

Over the last year, you may have noticed that a once-niche trend not only crept into the mainstream, but is starting to really make a big splash. Gamification has become one of the hottest buzz words in the industry and is probably in the process of taking over a website or user experience near you.

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Nokia and BlackBerry ‘biggest losers’ in 2011, says GSM Exchange

Date 14th February, 2012

Trading platform says Lumia 800 didn’t make it into its top 25 most requested devices last year, with demand for BlackBerrys in the European open market dropping International mobile phone trading platform the GSM Exchange says the demand in the European market for high-end Nokia devices has plummeted to new lows.

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Nokia admits that they don’t have a “Plan B”, if Windows Phone fails then so shall they

Date 14th February, 2012

Victor Saeijs, Senior Vice President at Nokia Europe, told Swedish newspaper Dagens Industri that Nokia doesn’t have a backup plan should their marriage with Microsoft fall to produce any meaningful results. His exact quote: “Plan B is for Plan A is to succeed.”

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Cisco Visual Networking Index: Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update, 2011–2016

Date 14th February, 2012

The Cisco® Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update is part of the comprehensive Cisco VNI Forecast, an ongoing initiative to track and forecast the impact of visual networking applications on global networks. This paper presents some of Cisco's major global mobile data traffic projections and growth trends.

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