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Articles tagged with: 3G and android
Smart Phones Ring in Healthy Growth in 2009 Despite Mobile Meltdown
Although the outlook for the overall mobile handset market continues to dim, smart phones remain a bright spot with global unit growth as high as 11.1 percent in 2009, iSuppli is predicting. iSuppli's optimistic forecast for global smart phone unit shipments calls for 192.3 million units in 2009, up 11.1 percent from 173.6 million in 2008. A more pessimistic outlook calls for growth of only 6 percent this year, reaching 183.9 million units. more
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Despite Recession - US Smartphone Market Still Growing
According to The NPD Group, consumer sales of smartphones to U.S. consumers represented 23 percent of all handset sales in the fourth quarter (Q4) 2008 compared to just 12 percent in Q4 2007. Led by the release of Apple's iPhone 3g at $199, the average price for a smartphone fell 23 percent from $216 in Q4 2007 to $167 last year. more
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Are Smartphones Immune to the Financial Crisis in Western Europe?
The market for Western European converged mobile devices (commonly referred to as smartphones) experienced a good performance in the last quarter of 2008. According to IDC's European Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped 9.3 million units, 25.9% higher than the 7.4 million shipped in 4Q07. For the full year 2008, vendors shipped 31.9 million units, 36.1% higher than the 23.5 million units shipped in 2007. more
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Weak Forecast for Taiwan's Smartphone Shipments in Q1 '09
According to statistics compiled by Taipei-based MIC - Taiwanese smart cellular device shipment volume (including Smartphones and PDA phones) reached 9.61 million units in the fourth quarter of 2008, up 46.4% year-on-year, but down 12.8% sequentially. The industry was affected by the global economic downturn and the reduction of Apple iPhone 3g production after the shipment peak in the third quarter. more
Related Tags: t-mobile, iphone, smartphone, apple, smartphones, htc, mic, apple-iphone, smart, os, pda, Taiwan
Deutsche Telekom Surprises with a Fourth-Quarter Loss
Deutsche Telekom has reported a surprise fourth-quarter loss on an impairment charge and shaken up its management team to focus on regions as opposed to industry segments. The company reported a loss of €730 million (US$920 million), compared to a loss of €750 million a year ago. The loss was blamed on a write down of the value of Greece's Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE). more
Related Tags: deutsche-telekom, t-mobile, iphone, eu, t-mobile-usa, apple, lte, ote, apple-iphone, telekom, true
Western European Mobile Phone Market now in Recession
Three consecutive quarters of negative growth have led the Western European mobile phone market into recession. According to IDC's European Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped 53.6 million units in 4Q08, 13.5% lower than the 62 million units shipped in 4Q07. For the full year 2008, vendors shipped 190.5 million units in Western Europe, 5.9% lower than the 202.5 million units shipped in 2007. more
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Qualcomm Targets Sub-$150 Smartphones with Lower Cost Chipset
Qualcomm has announced a new Mobile Station Modem MSM7227 chipset designed to lead towards sub-$150 smartphones. The MSM7227 solution will offer advanced processing and rich multimedia while utilizing HSDPA/HSUPA for broadband data speeds over 3g networks. It also can support all leading mobile operating systems including Android, Symbian S60, Windows Mobile and BREW Mobile Platform. more
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Industry Big Guns with no Bullets to Fire
After a devastating end to 2008, the future is looking bleak. At the start of 2009 the mobile industry is starting to implement strategic job cuts and closing of overseas offices. This is just the beginning. The New Year started with Nortel Networks filing for Chapter 11. Many companies are not far behind. The question remains: how will some of the largest blue chip companies fare this year? Based on recent findings, Frost & Sullivan expects several firms to have a tough time fighting this year's projected internal and external challenges. more
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