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Articles tagged with: Abi Research and Gps
Handset Manufacturers Aiming to Design Their Way out of Recession
The global recession may have drastically slowed many forms of economic activity, but not the efforts of mobile device manufacturers to drive growth by design innovation. more
Related Tags: smartphone, eu, wcdma, smartphones, cdma, ericsson, iden, mobile-music, memory, mp3, music
Global PND Shipments Will Stagnate at 39 Million Units in 2009
The once booming personal navigation device market is grinding to a halt in 2009 with little or no growth expected in most regions. With the European PND market forecast to decline and the North American market remaining flat, Asia-Pacific remains the only growth market. more
Related Tags: nokia, smartphone, eu, lbs, ovi, personal, touchscreen, pnd, pnds, tomtom, tomtom, personal-navigation-device, navigation, navigation-services
GPS-Enabled Handsets Expected to Bypass the Economic Downturn
Shipments of GPS-enabled mobile phones will hit a speed-bump in 2009, but will still manage to post year-to-year unit growth through the current economic downturn, according to a new market study by ABI Research. While global handset shipments are expected to drop by 4-5% in 2009, GPS-enabled phones will climb to 240 million units, an increase of 6.4% over 2008. more
Related Tags: android, google, nokia, iphone, smartphone, apple, ict, edge, smartphones, blackberry, personal, open-source, apple-iphone, smart, chipsets, navigation
Texas Instruments Tops Mobile Internet Device Platform Vendor Ranking
Texas Instruments has been ranked at the top of the latest Vendor Matrix released by ABI Research. Qualcomm and Intel claimed the second and third spots in the company's new evaluation of worldwide MID platform vendors. more
Related Tags: semiconductor, texas-instruments, intel, qualcomm, rsa
GPS Smartphones Generating Renewed Momentum for the LBS Infrastructure Industry
The recent launches of GPS-enabled smartphones with touch screen interfaces such as Apple's iPhone, the BlackBerry Storm, the T-Mobile G1, Nokia's 5800 XpressMusic, and Sony Ericsson's Xperia X1 are fueling interest in handset-based navigation and location based services (LBS) despite the worsening economic climate. In turn this drives both third party LBS application development and the roll out of LBS infrastructure by carriers to support the much needed Secure User Plane Location (SUPL)-compliant Assisted GPS functionality. more
Related Tags: sony-ericsson, wi-fi, t-mobile, nokia, iphone, smartphone, apple, apple, smartphones, ericsson, lbs, location-based-services, blackberry, personal, sony, a-gps, e911, personal-navigation-devices, displays, xperia, polaris-wireless, navigation, option, touch-screen
The GPS Divide: Age Makes a Difference in Navigation Device Usage
Younger and older Americans use GPS devices differently, according to a recent survey of US consumers conducted by ABI Research. more
Related Tags: navigation, in-car
Location Ecosystem Still Looking for Sustainable Growth and Viable Business Model
Despite the relative success of Personal Navigation Devices (PNDs) and industrial GPS applications, the location ecosystem has yet to reach a mature stage as it continues to encounter challenges on its way to continued profitable growth. While penetration levels of consumer telematics and LBS services remain low, the more established product categories suffer from price erosion and dwindling margin levels as evidenced by the recent financial results of PND vendor TomTom. more
Related Tags: wi-fi, social-networking, rsa, wind, lbs, personal, pnd, telematics, pnds, personal-navigation-devices, navigation
82 Million Location-based Mobile Social Networking Subscriptions by 2013
Mobile location-based social networking is expected to become a key driver for the uptake of location-based services as it provides a unifying framework for a large set of applications such as friend finders, local search and geo-tagging. While many LBS applications will include features allowing the sharing of real-time experiences via fixed social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace, fully-fledged mobile location-based social networking sites will also gain momentum with more than 82 million subscriptions expected by 2013. more
Related Tags: intel, social-networking, edge, lbs, pnds, in-car, nissan
Location-based Mobile Social Networking Will Generate Revenues of $3.3 Billion by 2013
The recent emergence of location-based mobile social networking services offered by providers such as GyPSii, Pelago and Loopt is revolutionizing social networking by allowing users to share real-life experiences via geo-tagged user-generated multimedia content, exchange recommendations about places, identify nearby friends and set up ad hoc face to face meetings. more
Related Tags: wi-fi, social-networking, samsung, privacy, skyhook, garmin, us-cellular, instant-messaging, indoor-coverage, indoor, loopt, wi-fi-
Nearly 2.4 Billion Units of Bluetooth-Enabled Equipment to Ship in 2013
A new study from ABI Research forecasts that close to 2.4 billion units of Bluetooth-enabled equipment are expect to ship worldwide in 2013. Of these, more than half will be cellular handsets; adding the accompanying headsets brings that figure to more than 75% of the total market. Notebook computers and portable music devices will run a distant second and third, although the compound annual growth rate for the latter is by far the greatest of any product class. more
Related Tags: broadcom, seattle, bluetooth, texas, notebook
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