#mobile market

The clarification comes after a report from Android Headlines claimed that Oppo, OnePlus’ parent company, was closing the brand’s mobile operations. India and China, which make up most of OnePlus’ sales, were also cited as problem areas, with shrinking market share and retail partners reportedly pulling back. Had this interesting discussion the other day about the mobile landscape -- had Apple not invented the iPhone and Google didn't get into the mobile OS market and developed the Android platform. Of course we will still have Symbian OS, Windows Mobile 6.5, BlackBerry OS, Samsung Bada and a host of other mobile OSes. We've got over a hundred submissions from our recent poll on mobile 3G services. Quite a number of users have already been using their new uMobile SIMs too (7.19%) while fledgling Sun Cellular 3G is still down there. Surprisingly, very few people are using PLDT WeRoam -- a service which has practically been supplanted by SmartBro Mobile 3G. Sun Cellular may get additional share by end of this year once they market their 3G services. Read more in our articles including "OnePlus denies reports of shutdown" and "If we didn't have the iPhone and Android...".