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Mobile Phones Get Smarter at CTIA with Touch Screen Tech

This month's International CTIA Wireless 2009 event in Las Vegas showcased in the mobile handset's industry increasing focus on smart phones, as illustrated by prevalence of announcements related to touch-screen technology, according to iSuppli.  more

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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

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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

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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

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AT&T Appoints Senior Wireless Executive to Lead New Emerging Devices Organization

AT&T has announced that Glenn Lurie, formerly the president of National Distribution for AT&T Mobility, has been appointed to lead AT&T's initiative to introduce wireless capabilities into a wide variety of emerging wireless devices beyond the traditional handset.  more

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AT&T Appoints Senior Wireless Executive to Lead New Emerging Devices Organization

AT&T has announced that Glenn Lurie, formerly the president of National Distribution for AT&T Mobility, has been appointed to lead AT&T's initiative to introduce wireless capabilities into a wide variety of emerging wireless devices beyond the traditional handset.  more

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iPhones Dominate Australian Mobile Data Consumption

An Australian Mobile Internet Insight report published by analytics firm, Amethon has found that browsing habits and data consumption for users of the new 3G apple device is significantly higher than the average mobile device. The report, which provides insight into Australia's mobile web browsing activities for August, says that the iPhone completely dominated data consumption behaviour and iPhone generated traffic was growing at nine percent per day.  more

Related Tags: google, iphone, analytics, mobile-internet, mobile-web, mobile-analytics, Australia


iPhones Dominate Australian Mobile Data Consumption

An Australian Mobile Internet Insight report published by analytics firm, Amethon has found that browsing habits and data consumption for users of the new 3G apple device is significantly higher than the average mobile device. The report, which provides insight into Australia's mobile web browsing activities for August, says that the iPhone completely dominated data consumption behaviour and iPhone generated traffic was growing at nine percent per day.  more

Related Tags: google, iphone, analytics, mobile-internet, mobile-web, mobile-analytics, Australia


2008 Cellular GPS Market Set to Overshadow PND Shipments

A bumper Christmas market is set to make GPS the hottest new feature in the cellular market. Taking the huge CDMA GPS market aside, GPS-enabled handsets are set to greatly outnumber PND shipments in 2008.  more

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Almost 40% of smart phones shipping in EMEA have GPS integrated

A new report Canalys finds that growth slowed in the smart phone market in EMEA in Q2, but total shipments of 12.6 million still made it the second biggest quarter ever in volume terms. Canalys estimates that smart phones represented 13% of all mobile phone shipments.  more

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