In a new market study ABI Research analyst Dominique Bonte expects that the global market for consumer navigation devices, services and systems will triple between 2010 and 2015, representing a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 25% over the next five years. In 2015 the market should experience shipments of 267 million...

A new report by ABI Research indicates that handset-based navigation shipments are expected to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 43% over the next five years, rising from 30 million in 2010 to 181 million in 2015. According to telematics and navigation practice director Dominique Bonte, “The handset...

The Android operating system (OS) has moved past Apple to take the number-two position among smartphone operating systems in the first quarter 2010 in the United States, according to market research company The NPD Group. NPD’s research reveals that based on unit sales to consumers last quarter the Android operating...

The growth of the smartphone market was 56.7 percent in the first quarter of the year said research firm IDC in a new report. Vendors shipped a total of 54.7 million units; in contrast, the overall mobile phone market grew 21.7%. Converged mobile devices accounted for 18.8% of all mobile phones shipped during the first quarter...

Penetration of consumer and commercial telematics systems in passenger cars and commercial vehicles respectively will evolve from less than 10% in 2010 to 23% in 2015, according to a new report by market monitoring firm ABI Research. “Decreasing hardware and connectivity costs as well as increasing awareness about the...

According to a new report from market research firm Canalys, “Smart phone volumes continued their climb in Q1 2010 as volumes reached 55.2 million. The sector weathered the period of economic uncertainty well, and growth has fully rebounded at 67% year-on-year, which is the highest growth rate seen since the end of 2007.”...

According to a new report from IDC, The worldwide mobile phone market grew 21.7% in the first quarter of 2010, a strong rebound from the market contraction in Q1 2009. “Growth was fuelled by increased demand for converged mobile devices, more commonly known as smartphones, and the global economic recovery”, wrote the market...

According to a new survey by the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) and its research partner, Luth Research, 26 percent of adult cell phone owners have used a "map, navigation or some other mobile phone service that automatically determines your current location." In that group 10 percent use location services at least once a...

According to data released on Friday from the ComScore MobiLens Survey, the use of mobile mapping and directions across Europe increased 68% in the last year. In February 2010, more than 21 million mobile users age 13 or older in the EU5 countries (U.K., France, Germany, Spain and Italy) used their mobile handsets for...

According to IMS Research, the GPS chipset market capped 300 million units in 2009. The research firm also published an optimistic outlook for the GPS chipset market in 2010 in their recently released quarterly tracker. Tom Arran, a research analyst working on the service, explained “2009 has been a year of tremendous...

Last week at the Where 2.0 conference in San Jose, Michael Halbherr, vice president Ovi Experience at Nokia, gave a speech summarizing Nokia’s latest developments for Ovi Maps. He said that Ovi Maps passed the 7 million downloads mark since the turn-by-turn navigation product was made totally free to Nokia's smartphone...

ABI Research forecasts just under six Billion mobile applications to be downloaded in 2010, up from an estimated 2.4 billion in 2009. “The rapid adoption of smartphones, registering a sales growth of 20% in 2009, as well as the proliferation of application stores are the major drivers for this expansion”, explained ABI...