The global mobile phone industry shipped 455 million unit mobile phones in Q1 2015, a growth of 4.8% over Q1 2014.   Shipments increased double digit in some regions while in other regions decreased slightly. Asia accounting for the slightly over h...

Mobile commerce in India has evolved rapidly to become a huge trend in recent years. It will continue to gain traction with rising smartphone penetration in a country of almost half a billion mobile phone users. According to our latest Market Monitor report, s...

Developing Market Analysis-Vietnam -Overview  -Mobile Operators, Subscribers & Connections.  -3G Penetrations -Mobile Handsets Shipment-Q4-2014 -Smartphone Shipments Q4-2014 -Retail Presence    Overview ...

Mobile is eating the world. The platforms (i.e. iOS & Android) empowering this trend have revolutionized once more, by making mobile devices smarter with an abundance of mobile driven apps and services satisfying plethora of use-cases. But iron...

MWC 2015: Partnerships Hold The Key To Future Competitive Landscape:: Devices & Platforms Counterpoint Research team of global analysts attended this year’s Mobile World Congress event at Barcelona Spain. MWC 2015 drew in more than 90,000 atte...

Alternative Operating Systems – Breaking the iOS / Android Monopoly One of the questions we were frequently asked at MWC was regarding the prospects for alternative mobile operating systems.The motivation for this question is coming from a general vie...

Samsung showcased the new Galaxy S6 at MWC in March 2015. Samsung has implemented almost all that consumers have been asking Samsung a long time for and more. It has added a unique feature only Samsung can pull-off at the moment – the curved edge display...

Counterpoint’s team of global analysts attended this year’s Mobile World Congress event at Barcelona Spain. MWC 2015 drew in more than 90,000 attendees and almost 2000 exhibitors. It is the key industry event for product announcements, launche...

Our Quarterly Infographic for the Q4 2014 Market Monitor report has been published. Market Overview         1. Steady Growth of Mobile Industry            Global handset shipments grew 12% ann...

The global mobile phone industry reached 527 million units phones shipments in Q4 2014, a growth of 12% over Q4 2013. Shipments increased in all the regions with Asia accounting for the slightly over half of the total shipments in the quarter followed by Europ...

Analyzing Sales of 3,000+ Handsets in 2014 We held a webinar on 24th February 2015, providing detailed understanding of hot trends, strategies and competitive dynamics in the smartphone industry. We answered the following questio...

Pre-Chinese New Year Sales Sales in January 2015 in China were mostly driven by 4G Smartphones. Overall china growth is very muted as total YoY sales grew by only 1% and MoM sales decreased by -3%. Domestic brands were the dominant force for Pre Chinese N...

The Consumer Electronics Show that kicks off the year in resounding style was larger than ever. Its size and diversity mirrors the rapidly developing state of the technology space.  There were few show-stopping new product announcements. Instead there wa...

Our Quarterly Infographic for the Q3 2014 Market Monitor report has been published. This quarter in Q3 2014, handsets grew 7% compared with last year. With the help of the iPhone 6 series launch, Apple topped value share with approx. 33% of industry revenu...

* This is a complimentary report from our Outlook service. Counterpoint’s Market Outlook provides short and long range forecasts of the total addressable market size in both volume and value. In this report we provide vendor level shares, by quarter f...

This report centres on recent happenings in the mobile Industry. We expect about what happen in the mobile industry in 2015 and organized in 10 sentences.   Tablet of contents 1. Commoditization in the extreme – Only brand is l...

Hot on its heels after the announcement of its new flagship BlackBerry Passport, BlackBerry also announced its fiscal Q2 2015 (June-Aug 2014) quarter performance results. As expected the results continues to be challenging as the company tries to figures out h...

Google’s Android One program is a great strategy by Google to regain control over the Android platform and overcome the AOSP fragmentation problem as well as push the Google cloud services to the bottom of the pyramid. For OEM partners this is a way to g...

We conducted a channel check in the US (August 4 - 13, 2014), to get a precise idea of the state of mobile phone retail shortly after the LG G3 launch.  Our main observations are as follows. Leasing a success story Phone leasing programs have been...

We research 5 countries (Brazil, UK, China, India, USA) Top smartphone models. Brazil is the first one. Brazil Top Smartphone Models Samsung Galaxy S5 and iPhone 5S are the most desirable devices in Brazil. Samsung’s Galaxy S5 was launched in Ap...