1 Million iPads sold!
In barely 28 days after it hit the market, Apple’s latest revolutionary product the iPad has broken the 1 Million mark! Despite what people have been saying against the iPad, these sales figures have proven them otherwise. As comparison, the iPhone took 74 days to hit the same milestone.
Steve Jobs have mentioned that demand will continue to exceed supply. According to reports from WSJ, the 3G version of iPad was release on Friday only to be sold out completely by Sunday. This could be bad news for us folks as supply problems in US was blamed for international shipment delays.
iPad users in total have already downloaded 12 million apps and 1.5 million E-books so far.
Official Press Release from Apple here.
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Blackberry makes it into world’s top five mobile phone makers, knocks out Motorola
Dumbphones are on the way out!
Global marketing intelligence firm IDC has just released its latest findings on the current state of world’s mobile phone market and the numbers are very interesting.
First up, global mobile phone sales have increased to 27.1% in the first quarter of this year – a marked increase from the same quarter last year. Overall, mobile phone makers shipped out 242.9 million devices in the first three months of this year compared to 242.2 units in the first quarter of 2009.
Secondly, IDC says that the strong growth in the sales of mobile phones is fueled by a strong demand for smartphones. This is clearly evident in the fact that for the first time, Blackberry made it into the top 5 devices being shipped in 1Q10. At the same time Motorola, who was once a dominant force in the mobile phone market consistently being ranked in the top 5 of the IDC list, didn’t ship enough devices to make the cut. Motorola ranked as high as number 2 in 2004 and was ranked fifth last year.
For 1Q10 RIM, the makers of Blackberry, pushed 10.6 million units compared to Motorola’s 8.5 million units in the same period.
Apple on the other hand, managed to ship out 8.75 million iPhones in the first three months of 2010. In comparison, Nokia, the world’s number one mobile phone maker, puts out a whopping 107.8 million units in 1Q10; making almost half of the total number of mobile phones shipped in the the quarter.
What does this all mean?
Smartphones are the way of the future. There is a strong demand for converged devices and manufacturers need to pay attention. For us, 2010 will possibly be one of the best years for smartphones ever.
So does this hold true in Malaysia. Will your next mobile phone purchase be a smartphone?
Check out the official numbers right after the jump
P1‘s WiMAX network has had somewhat of an unfortunate reputation of late. Plagued by persistent outages overly, congested networks and poor coverage inside of buildings, Malaysia’s leading WiMAX operator is strugling to deliver a consistently stable network.
Somewhat admitting that it’s subsidiary is having network stability issues, P1′s parent company, Green Packet announced that it aims to enhance network stability considerably by the third quarter of this year. A report in TheEdge states that Green Packet aims to reduce continuity incidences to below 5% by the third quarter of this year and below 2% in 2011.
The numbers may seem low, but the report didn’t state what is the benchmark for “continuity incidences” of a comparable wireless network. More importantly, the report didn’t indicate what is the state of P1′s WiMAX network currently. Specifically, we would like to know what is the percentage of “continuity incidences” right now.
Digital communications and PR company Edelman Digital together with digital brand inteligence group Brantology have just released their third quarterly Asia Pacific Digital Brand Index.
From the period of January to March 2010, Edelman Digital and Brandtology have sifted through over 67,000 mentions of over 50 major tech brands across over 460 influential online channels in the country to reveal the Malaysia’s most talked about brands online.
Despite this being in its third installment, one fact remained consistent throughout, and that is – Malaysia’s top three telcos have always been at the heart of online conversations. From the first APAC DBI, Celcom, DiGi and Maxis have comanded strong top 10 positions on the list of Malaysia’s buzziest brands online (pointing out: DiGi only made it on the list after October 2009. The first APAC DBI was published third quarter 2009).