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.
Even as smartphone panel resolution continues to rise, and as display sizes continue to grow, panel manufacturers are facing pressure to reduce prices.
In what is traditionally a shipment spike quarter, certified Android shipments fell from 217 million in 3Q 2014 to 206 million in 4Q 2014, mainly due to Apple iOS? 90 percent growth from 39.3 million to 74.5 million iPhones shipped, but also due to forked Android.
Holiday seasonality, strong end-user demand, and a deep selection of models propelled smartphone volumes to a new record level for the quarter and for the year.
Samsung Electronics and Apple remained the top semiconductor buyers in 2014, representing with a combined semiconductor demand of 17 percent, according to research firm Gartner.
The report found that a number of high-profile deployments of biometric authentication techniques would drive wider adoption. It highlighted Apple?s combination of Apple?s Touch ID authentication allied to tokenization in NFC payments as a key case in this regard.
