The Mobility News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.

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Apple could double the number of iPads it has sold to date in 2013 alone, with close to 200 million iPhones sold in the same upcoming 12 month period, according to Canaccord Genuity analyst Michael Walkley.  Read Original Content

Global mobile phone vendors shipped a total of 445.7 million units in the third quarter of 2012, compared to 434.1 million units in the third quarter of 2011, according to latest statistics from International Data Corporation.  Read Original Content

Japan's Panasonic has said it will end its brief return to the European smartphone market, pulling out less than a year after launching its first handset outside of Japan since 2005.  Read Original Content

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Microsoft has unveiled its two official Windows smartphones from Nokia and HTC, plus a third from Samsung at its Windows Phone 8 launch event. It also unveiled a host of never-before-seen features that it hopes will pull people away from their iPhones and Android devices and towards Microsoft.  Read Original Content

Last week ZTE told analysts after it reported weak third-quarter earnings that it expects to sell 25 million smartphones in 2012, 10 million fewer than it had initially forecast. ZTE sold around 15 million smartphones in 2011.  Read Original Content


According to the India Mobile Handsets Market Review report released by research firm CyberMedia Research, the smartphone market has grown to 5.50 million units in the first half of 2012.  Read Original Content

ERICSSON, the Swedish telecoms company, is calling on software developers living in sub-Saharan Africa to write applications targeting urban areas in Africa.  Read Original Content

Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman said that while she does not expect her company to release a smartphone until 2014 at the earliest, HP will be a major force in the tablet and mobile PC markets.  Read Original Content

According to a report from Korea Investment & Securities, Samsung is expected to sell 284 million units globally, giving the company a 37 percent share of the worldwide smartphone market in 2013, over Apple's 20.4 percent to 157 million units.  Read Original Content

Smartphones shipments rose 45.2 percent in the third quarter compared to the same year-ago period, says IDC. In total, mobile phone makers shipped in 179.7 million smartphones in 3Q12.  Read Original Content

HTC Corp. warned Friday that its revenue and margins will likely decline in the fourth quarter, as the Taiwanese smartphone maker struggles to compete in a market dominated by Samsung Electronics Co. and Apple Inc.  Read Original Content

Acer will re-enter the smartphone market in India early next year. This is part of the company’s global strategy to get back into the smartphone game with devices at lower price tags.  Read Original Content

Microsoft and Nokia introduce Nokia’s newest smartphone in September. The Lumia 920 runs Windows 8 and will be offered by Verizon in the U.S. The Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 are the ailing company’s first handsets to use Microsoft’s Windows 8 software, launched last week.  Read Original Content

Research undertaken by the University of Leibniz in Hanover and the computer science department at the Philipps University of Marburg examined 13,500 Android apps. The research found that around 8 percent (1000 apps) were unsecure. The phones tested were using Android 4.0.  Read Original Content

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