Worldwide consumer Wi-Fi customer premises equipment (CPE) shipments surpassed 43.3 million at the end of first-quarter 2013, a 16.8% increase from the fourth quarter of 2012. "802.11n...
Low-cost smartphones, defined as smartphones with a wholesale ASP below US$200, are increasingly appearing in OEM and operator portfolios in both emerging and mature markets. The...
Annual shipments of 802.15.4-enabled devices are forecast to grow more than five times from 2012-2018, with a CAGR of over 30%. ZigBee continues to be the primary driver toward standardization...
ABI Research's Device Portal sales channel analysis reveals tough times are ahead for smartphone vendors, as the balance of power remains with Samsung/Android and Apple. The smartphone...
Yota launched the first LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) network in Russia last October; however, with the first compatible handset, SK Telecom was the earliest to make the technology commercially...
Cellular M2M (machine to machine) connections are set to reach over 450 million by 2018. Europe dragged down worldwide connection growth in 2011 and 2012 to the high teens but with...
For the second calendar quarter in a row, smartphone shipments represented more than half (52%) of the world's mobile phone shipments. Led by electronics manufacturer Samsung Electronics,...
Accelerometers, vision-based gesture recognition, gyroscopes, and NFC are predicted to be the feature set big winners in smartphones in 2013, according to ABI Research. "Gesture...
ABI Research has found that the overall 2012 wireless network equipment market was quite challenging for infrastructure vendors, but the incessant demand for 3G and 4G mobile broadband...
ABI Research's latest forecasts for Indoor Small Cells, which are also referred to as Enterprise and Consumer Femtocells, predicts a return to growth after lackluster 2011 and 2012,...
With the first service providers, such as SK Telecom, now upgrading their networks to LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) and China Mobile deploying a TD-LTE network and issuing a huge tender for...
Nearly one-third of US telco TV households are expected to access multi-screen or TV Everywhere services by the end of 2013 – the vast majority of which already use advanced...
In many parts of the world, smartphone shipments account for a larger percentage of mobile handset shipments than feature phones and low-cost handsets. Yet within the smartphone class...
Smart watches have been around for the last decade. The wearable computing device has failed to take off for one reason or another: they looked ugly, were too bulky, had weak functionality,...
In 2013, approximately 150 million tablets are forecast to ship globally, which is estimated to be worth US$64 billion (up 28% from 2012) in potential end-user revenues, according...
