Survey : 41% of US Mobile Phone Users Planning to Buy iPhone 5

According to InMobi, the mobile ad company, that a new survey expecting that 41 percent of US consumers are planing to buy iPhone 5. Fifty percent from those planning to buy iPhone 5 will buy it in the first six months.

If consumers put their money where their mouths are, these numbers could go a long way to bumping up Apple’s overall market share in the UK and the U.S.. According to figures from Kantar Worldpanel, in Q2 Apple had an 18.3 percent share of the UK smartphone market; another research group, comScore, puts it around 20 percent. If people follow through with their purchasing intent, InMobi says this share would go up to 40 percent. In the U.S., the market share would grow to 41 percent.

According to the Survey, that few consumers will buy the next generation if Apple releases iPhone 4-like device which is iPhone 4S. So that the survey percentage is based on a new and redesigned device, the iPhone 5. But if Apple released the both devices iPhone 4S and iPhone 5, I think the demand will exceed the 41%. What do you think ? Are you from the 41% ?
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HTC Wants To Purchase webOS To Compete With iOS

When it comes to Android, we know that it is the only strong competitor to iOS in the market. While iOS devices are solely manufactured by Apple only, Android devices are manufactured by host of companies, HTC being the market leader in that segment. So obviously, HTC sees iOS as competition and now it wants to purchase webOS in order to take over that competition.

Cher Wang, who is the Chairwoman of HTC has said that the company wants to buy its own mobile operating system. Once it does that, HTC will turn down the development of Android handsets a bit and focus on developing and improving the operating system that they buy.

The Chairwoman has revealed that the company has set its sights on webOS, an operating system that HP acquired from Palm back in April 2010 for $1.2 Billion. It is possible that HP may sell webOS as they have already liquidated all stocks of webOS based products and have cancelled any further development of webOS based devices.

Nevertheless, if HP does intend to sell webOS, a lot of buyers will be lined up for it, including HTC's rival Samsung. Cher Wang states that the Board of Directors have thought this through and are absolutely sure of the decision that they want to make. The question here is, if HTC does end up being successful in buying webOS, what will it do with it that will save HTC from a fate like that of HP?