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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736,247 apps are currently live, but since Apple launched its App Store in 2008, 1 million apps have been approved and made available for download, according to a report by the Next Web, which cites information from Appsfire, an app discovery and promotion platform.  Read Original Content

The smartphone market, it seems, is now moving to gender with women in particular being the target of the new smartphones. Oppo, the Chinese company prepping to introduce a 1080p 5 incher called Find 5, has introduced a new smartphone that targets the ladies dubbed Ulike 2.  Read Original Content

Cell phone thieves accustomed to turning big profits on stolen devices may soon find themselves out of business as a new national system comes on line to render any phone reported stolen permanently inoperable.  Read Original Content

Founded in 1979, DSI is a global provider of Enterprise Mobility Solutions®, helping companies worldwide increase productivity and profitability regardless of data source, device type, operating system or network connectivity.  DSI serves clients globally through its offices in Australia, Canada, China, France, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by DSI.

Worldwide smartphone shipments are expected to grow by 30.2 percent to 865 million units next year, accounting for about 43.9 percent of total cellphone shipments, according to Digitimes.  Read Original Content

Gartner Inc. reported this month that Nokia slipped from number three in smartphone sales in the second quarter to number seven in the third. RIM another phone maker that has had its share of troubles in the last several quarters -- replaced Nokia at number three, with HTC not far behind.  Read Original Content

In an interview with German news site, Financial Times Deutschland, Sony Mobile's sales chief, Dennis van Schie, said the company is preparing a new flagship model, which it will unveil at CES 2013 in January.  Read Original Content


This is the first holiday season in which the iPad faces competitors that have built up a solid footing in the market. Amazon and Google introduced tablets just in time for the shopping rush. As a result many consumers and analysts say the new market of keyboardless computers is quickly becoming as confusing as that of the old-school PC.  Read Original Content

SAP has announced strong support for the Windows 8 platform, including six upcoming mobile apps that focus on business training, recruiting and sales.  Read Original Content

Motorola Solutions has announced the launch of its Enterprise Mobility business in Kenya. It will offer ruggedized mobile computers and enterprise class smartphones, advanced mobile scanning and imaging solutions, and a robust line of barcode scanners and RFID readers.  Read Original Content

Now that forecasts for technology shipments for the year are nearly complete, there's reason to be wary. Third-quarter chip sales were only $74.8 billion, down 4.7 percent from last year in what Semiconductor Industry Association President Brian Toohey termed “a choppy global environment.”  Read Original Content

Google’s Android operating system for mobile devices now commands close to 75 percent of the market for this software, giving the global search giant more sway than ever in determining smartphone and tablet design and use.  Read Original Content

The Nokia Lumia 920 appears to be in reasonably high demand and has already jumped to the top of Amazon’s AT&T best seller list. While there are quite a few unique reasons to consider the Lumia 920, did you know the 4.5-inch PureMotion HD+ screen is actually the fastest smartphone screen on the market?  Read Original Content

The Droid DNA has Android 4.1 Jelly Bean on board, with HTC’s Sense 4+ UI running on top. There’s also a quad-core 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage (non-expandable), and a 2020mAh battery.  Read Original Content

Worldwide sales of mobile phones to end users reached almost 428 million units in the third quarter of 2012, a 3.1 percent decline from the third quarter of 2011, according to Gartner, Inc.  Read Original Content

Annual mobile data revenues in Africa will reach $18.5 billion by 2016, a recent Industry Outlook survey commissioned by Informa Telecoms & Media has indicated.  Read Original Content

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