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Articles tagged with: android and Microsoft
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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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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Microsoft must fight back in mobile market
Media Analyst Screen Digest has just published its latest company report, which examines the challenges facing Microsoft in the highly competitive and challenging mobile market. According to Screen Digest research, Nokia, Google, Research In Motion (RIM) and Apple pose potent challenges to Microsoft's mobile ambitions. more
Related Tags: google, windows-mobile, nokia, iphone, apple, wind, lte, blackberry, compete, screen-digest, zune, windows, nokia,, backup
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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D2 Tech Shows Off WiMAX Mobile Phone Reference Design
VoIP applications developer, D2 Technologies says that it is offering private demonstrations of a complete reference design for the creation of WiMAX mobile phones. Built around the company's mCUE converged communications client, the reference design provides manufacturers with a turnkey software solution for developing and delivering WiMAX handsets and similar portable devices to market. more
Related Tags: google, texas-instruments, wimax, voip, wind, texas, windows, linux, google-android, dual-mode, d2-technologies
Dell Smartphone Rumours Resurface
The persistent rumours that computer maker, Dell is preparing to launch a range of mobile phones got another boost when it was reported that the firm could launch its first handsets next month. A report in the Wall Street Journal said that Dell has had a group of engineers working on the phones for more than a year from an office in the Chicago area. more
Related Tags: google, windows-mobile, smartphone, motorola, smartphones, wind, wall-street-journal, dell, touchscreen, chicago, windows, razr
More Rumours of a Dell Smartphone
The on-off rumours that Dell Computers is planning an entry into the mobile phone market have resurfaced again - this time thanks to an analyst note from Shaw Wu, an analyst with Kaufman Bros. more
Related Tags: smartphone, motorola, smartphones, wind, td-scdma, cdma, dell, windows, razr
Qualcomm Aiming at Intel's Market
Qualcomm is aiming to move into the territory dominated by the likes of Intel with its Snapdragon chipset platform which is aimed at the mini-laptops more commonly known as netbooks. However, Intel itself is also increasingly moving into the mobile device market, so Qualcomm faces both an opportunity and a risk. more
Related Tags: google, intel, smartphone, qualcomm, wind, netbooks, snapdragon, asus, smart, windows, linux, chipset
Worldwide Smartphone Sales Reached Its Lowest Growth Rate in Q3 '08
In the third quarter of 2008, the global smartphone market reached its weakest year-on-year growth since Gartner began tracking the industry. Worldwide smartphone sales to end-users totalled 36.5 million units in the third quarter of 2008, an 11.5 per cent increase from the same period in 2007. more
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Why Google must expand into mobile, and why it will succeed
According to research just published by Screen Digest, Google's move into mobile will deliver major growth over the next five years. Screen Digest believes a push towards mobile is a crucial for the company, especially in the current economic climate. more
Related Tags: google, smartphone, screen-digest, mobile-advertising, mobile-search, seven, operating-system, os, target
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