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Articles tagged with: 3G and Lg
Mobile Handset Market Stays Afloat with 258 Million Shipped in 1Q-2009
Despite tough corporate and unemployment news making the headlines, the mobile handset-buying public did not head to the hills during the first quarter of 2009. Handset vendors had shipped 258 million handsets by the end of the quarter. Although that represents an 11% year-over-year decline, the result significantly exceeded the previous forecast of 253.5 million. "Green shoots are sprouting," is how ABI Research vice president Jake Saunders describes the latest figures. more
Related Tags: abi-research, nokia, tim, , apple, samsung, smartphone, iphone, ericsson, iden, blackberry, rim, touchscreen, sharp, sonyericsson, feature-phones
Voice over LTE Initiative Launched
A group of leaders in the wireless industry comprised of Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Huawei, Kineto Wireless, LG Electronics, Motorola, Nortel, Samsung, Starent Networks, T-Mobile and ZTE have announced a joint effort, referred to as the Voice over LTE via Generic Access (VoLGA) Forum. The joint effort aims to define a set of specifications within the forum for enabling delivery of voice services over LTE access networks based on the current 3gPP Generic Access Network (GAN) standard. more
Related Tags: t-mobile, samsung, motorola, huawei, starent-networks, lte, zte, alcatel-lucent, mts, ericsson, nortel, 3gpp, volga, voice-over-lte, motorola,
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
Related Tags: android, google, orange, windows-mobile, microsoft, nokia, sim, social-networking, samsung, apple, qualcomm, isuppli, ict, huawei, wind, ovi, rim, personal, symbian, smart, operating-system, windows, widgets, google-android, churn, os
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
Related Tags: android, google, t-mobile, windows-mobile, microsoft, nokia, sim, iphone, smartphone, samsung, eu, cisco, cisco, apple, itu, vodafone, smartphones, gps, ibm, wind, ericsson, idc, htc, blackberry, compete, rim, blackberry-storm, touchscreen, blackberry-bold, oem, omnia, operating-system, windows, storm, wave, os, feature-phones, barcelona
Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales Down by 5% in Q4 '08
The global economic downturn had a significant impact on the mobile phone industry as worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totalled 314.7 million units in the fourth quarter of 2008, a 4.6 per cent decline from the fourth quarter of 2007, according to Gartner. Manufacturers continued to struggle against low consumer confidence in both emerging and mature markets. more
Related Tags: sony-ericsson, t-mobile, nokia, smartphone, samsung, motorola, eu, ict, smartphones, gps, driving, lte, verizon-wireless, ericsson, verizon, gartner, iden, blackberry, rim, blackberry-storm, touchscreen, reliance, sony, 3, oem, omnia, walkman, storm, music, africa, motorola,
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
Related Tags: android, sony-ericsson, t-mobile, windows-mobile, nokia, sim, iphone, social-networking, smartphone, samsung, motorola, eu, skype, 3-uk, cisco, cisco, apple, itu, smartphones, wind, open-handset-alliance, ericsson, idc, blackberry, compete, personal, touchscreen, sony, 3, oem, inq1, windows, sanjay-jha, chipset, windows-live, storm, music, global-mobile, barcelona, mobile-world-congress
LG Electronics, Intel Collaborate on Future Mobile Internet Device
LG Electronics and Intel have announced a collaboration around mobile Internet devices (MIDs) based on Intel's MID hardware platform, codenamed "Moorestown," and Linux-based Moblin v2.0 software platform. The LG device is expected to be one of the first Moorestown designs to market. more
Related Tags: intel, edge, ericsson, mobile-broadband, netbooks, lg-electronics, battery, memory, smart, linux, moblin, os, 3g-network, cell-phone
Orange to Sell LG Wrist-Watch Phone
Orange says that it will be the first operator to offer the LG Watch phone (LG G910) in Europe. The wrist watch style phone comes with a blue-tooth headset and features a full touch-screen interface, 3g HSDPA and video-calling capabilities. more
Related Tags: orange, sim, eu, mobile-broadband, lg-electronics, touch-screen, hsdpa
South Korean W-CDMA base exceeds EV-DO in fourth quarter
All three South Korean operators have now reported their Q4 08 results. The South Korean market is one of the most stable in the world, and it was thus no surprise that market shares remained unchanged both quarter-on-quarter and year-on-year, with SK Telecom (SKT) on 50.5%, KT Freetel (KTF) on 31.5% and LG Telecom (LGT) on 18.0%. In fact, barring a minor blip in June, there was no change in market shares on a monthly basis either throughout 2008. more
Related Tags: arpu, cdma, cdma2000-1x, sk-telecom, ktf, cdma2000, kt, kt-freetel, ev-do, lg-telecom, Korea
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