Worldwide sales of smartphones to end-users had a record fourth quarter of 2014 with an increase of 29.9 percent from the fourth quarter of 2013 to reach 367.5 million units, according to research firm Gartner.
The combined consumer and enterprise worldwide wireless local area network (WLAN) market segments increased 7.0 percent year-over-year in the fourth quarter of 2014 (4Q14).
As smartphones continued to cannibalize product sales in other small and medium flat-panel-display (FPD) categories, automotive display revenues rose to become the second-highest growth category in 2014, according to research firm IHS.
Android and iOS inched closer to total domination of the worldwide smartphone market in both the fourth quarter (4Q14) and the calendar year 2014 (CY14).
A survey of US and German consumers by research firm Gartner found that 60 percent of consumers are replacing their smartphones because they are interested in additional functionality, or they "just want" a new device.
Consumer and advertising revenue from recorded music in North America and Western Europe is expected to increase for the first time since 2010, according to a new report from research firm IHS.
Tech firm Amdocs has released new research into mobile traffic showing that the ever-increasing demand for data may exhaust the capacity of 4G/LTE network hotspots within the next two to three years.
