According to new data from GfK, Android has surpassed Symbian as the most popular smartphone OS in Asia.
Smartphone sales in Asia have grown 270 percent year-over-year to 4.7 million units.
In defining “Asia,” GfK uses sales from Hong Kong, Macau, South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Cambodia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
“Our Q3 report shows that Android has recently overtaken Symbian as the most popular smartphone OS in the context of Asia as a whole, in both value and unit sales. However, it is interesting to note the difference in OS trends when we look at findings in North and Southeast Asia separately,” says the research firm.
Globally, Android has jumped to second place, with over 26 percent share, behind Symbian at around 38 percent.
Result for: south korea
Apple has announced this morning that they have sold 1.7 million iPhone 4 units in just 72 hours following the device’s launch.
The latest update of the popular smartphone has now become the best selling launch in the company’s history.
“This is the most successful product launch in Apple’s history,” adds Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Even so, we apologize to those customers who were turned away because we did not have enough supply.”
The iPhone 4 sold 600,000 pre-orders on its first day of availability, June 16th, even taking down AT&T’s servers and forcing orders to take minutes instead of seconds to submit.
Apple and a number of retailers sell the smartphone for $199 (16GB model) and $299 for the larger capacity 32GB model.
The phone is available currently in the U.S., UK, France, Germany and Japan and soon in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.
Result for: south korea
Skype has announced this week that they will be offering free calling for a month in countries that have World Cup soccer teams.
The deals vary, but subscribers for the most part will have free minutes or unlimited minutes to call landlines in their countries for 30 days.
If you are American, the deal is better, with unlimited minutes to call mobile phones and landlines for the month.
The deal will likely only last until the end of the World Cup festivities, and you must have a Skype account.
Deals by country:
60 minutes free calls to landlines in Algeria for a month
Unlimited free calls to landlines in Argentina for a month
Unlimited free calls to landlines in Australia for a month
400 minutes free calls to landlines in Brazil for a month
60 minutes free calls to landlines in Cameroon for a month
Unlimited free calls to landlines in Chile for a month
[More]>>
