12.12.2013

Mobile banking is the future and retailers will be more and more willing to accept mobile payments, according to Titus Grecescu, general manager of online payment processor Pay&Co. more

10.22.2013

Smartphone sales exceeded feature phone sales for the first time in September and they might hit a record high in December, considering that mobile operators, retailers and producers are all focusing more

09.17.2013

Sales of smartphones have exceeded the sales of feature phones for the first time in Romania this month, Sorin Manea, head the telecom division of Samsung Electronics Romania, told ZF in an interview. more

08.08.2013

The Romanian mobile telephony market is still feeling the impact of reducing termination rates by about 40% in 2012 but will recover as mobile internet services have risen to a level that may offset more

08.05.2013

Romanian mobile subscribers spend an average of 200 lei (EUR45) on smartphones and prefer devices using Android operating systems, according to EuroGsm data, one of the largest retailers in the local more

06.12.2013

Banks which develop mobile phone applications create a new channel of communication with their clients, Markus Lause, enterprise business unit manager at mobile operator Vodafone, said Wednesday at ZF more

06.06.2013

Smartphone penetration rate has reached 17% in Romania, compared to 63% in Europe, Nick Hugh, vice-president and head of Yahoo! Display Solutions EMEA, said Thursday. more

04.15.2013

With a stock of several million smartphones and several hundreds of thousands of tablets in use at the end of last year and with higher sales expectations than for any other IT&C segment, apps are more

04.08.2013

In a few years’ time services widely used at present, such as ordering a taxi by phone from a human operator could disappear from the offer of certain companies amid the smartphone and tablet sales more

04.03.2013

Direct One, a Romanian provider of wholesale communications services to major telecoms, which also launched Seenow video-on-demand service for computers, smart TVs, smartphones and tablets posted more

03.29.2013

The local branch of Sony Europe plans to double market share to ten percent on the smartphone segment by launching new models as top of the line Xperia Z and volume models in the range. more

03.28.2013

Romanians’ Google searches on their smartphones are currently five times more than in 2010 and have come to account for 15% of the total. This comes amid a change in user behavior and amid an more

10.17.2012

The volume of mobile phone sales in Romania might drop slightly in 2012, while the value of this market segment will increase mainly supported by smartphones, Sorin Manea, telecom division manager for more

09.10.2012

Romania’s cell phone sales will stagnate this year, while smartphone sales will continue to increase fast and are expected to peak in December, Sorin Manea, head of the telecom division of the local more

05.25.2012

Samsung Electronics Romania opened Friday its first store in Romania, and presented Samsung Galaxy Beam, a smartphone with a built-in digital light processing projector, launched at the 2012 World more

04.25.2012

Romanian smartphone users paid for about 12% of the software applications they downloaded and stored on terminals, GfK Romania Business Development director Simona Dan said Wednesday. more

04.24.2012

The input provided by users of smartphones contributes to developing new products and enhancing the existing ones, Marc Michelson, general manager of Mobile Marketing Research Association, said more

11.07.2011

Only 8.4% of mobile users in Romania own smartphones, compared to an average 14% in Central and Eastern Europe, according to a survey conducted by GfK in May-July 2011. more

10.28.2011

Huawei Technologies Romania plans to boost its market share from 5% to 6% by the end of the year, by bringing at least three new models to the smartphone segment. more

10.18.2011

Smartphone penetration in Romania is around 5%, compared with the worldwide penetration rate of 8%, higher figures being found in developed states, said Mihai Ghyka, head of Vodafone Romania's more

10.11.2011

Romanian companies Visual Fan and Televoice, which sell various electronic products branded as Allview and Evolio, have expanded their product portfolio with a smartphone and a notebook, in an attempt more

10.10.2011

The share of smartphones in the total cell phone sales in Romania surged from less than 10% in 2010 to about 25% now, Sorin Manea, head of the telecom division of the South Korean company Samsung’s more

05.10.2011

Sales of smartphones, mobile phones that allow users to surf the net, send emails, run games and listen to music, have surged, currently making up a quarter of Vodafone's mobile phone sales, says more