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Articles tagged with: Eu and Smartphones
Mobistar Profits Up Despite Price Pressures
Belgium based Mobistar has reported a slight rise in first-quarter revenues of 2.5% to reach euR 371.2 million (US$483.8 million) - although its customer base rose by 6.4% over the same period. The company said the disparity was determined in part by the continuing price pressure in a highly competitive market, by the regulatory decisions (lowering of the mobile termination rates in May and July 2008) and a reduced activity in the business market. more
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Foxconn in Running for Sony Ericsson Android Phone Production
..language Commercial Times newspaper. Recent news reports citing a Reuters interview had suggested that the company would wait some time before launching its first Android based phones. "It does require a lot of evaluation, as well as a lot of tes more
Related Tags: android, google, sony-ericsson, orange, foxconn, , smartphone, tim, ericsson, sony
Next-Generation Mobile Broadband Technologies to Close the Gap With Fixed Broadband
Mobile operators are expected to fully maximise their high-speed packet access (HSPA) deployments before eventually deploying 3G long-term evolution (LTE). Many operators will leapfrog from HSPA to 3G LTE, as the window of opportunity for HSPA Evolved is insignificant when compared to 3G LTE. more
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Dell Reported to be in Talks for Chinese Smartphones
..uot; Citing unnamed analysts, Reuters said that Dell has not confirmed the plans but is understood to be working on handsets with Chi Mei Communications, a unit of Taiwan electronics giant Hon Hai. A report earlier this year in the Wall Street more
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Survey finds smartphones transforming mobile lifestyles of college students
..ntrepreneurial opportunities. "While today's mobile lifestyle has led to new opportunities for marketers to communicate directly with young adults through emerging media applications, there may be a potential cost," Hanley said. Hanle more
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Handset Manufacturers Aiming to Design Their Way out of Recession
.. handset manufacturers clearly see music playback as de rigueur. 85% of handsets logged into our database had mp3 capabilities." They are also determined to undermine the standalone digital camera market. 50% of mobile handset models released more
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Smartphone sales buck the recession
A report by Infonetics Research is forecasting an 8% drop in the total number of mobile phones sold in 2009, to 1.1 billion worldwide (down from 1.2 billion in 2008), in line with predictions from Nokia, among others. Smartphones were the best-performing segment of the mobile phones market in 2008 and the only segment to show unit and revenue growth in the second half of the year as the world economy entered recession. more
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IDC Predicts Worldwide Mobile Phone Shipments To Fall 8.3% in 2009
The worldwide mobile phone market felt the full effects of the economic crisis in the fourth quarter of 2008 as shipments fell 11.6% year over year, marking the first time the holiday quarter has not recorded double digit growth in seven years. This closed out a year that was dismal at best, yet overall 2008 managed to grow 4.3% over 2007. This has set the stage for what IDC predicts to be a very rough 2009, with the most recent market forecast anticipating growth of -8.3% for the year. more
Related Tags: iphone, smartphone, apple, ict, idc, bric, seven, apple-iphone
Nokia Smartphone Sales Fall as RIM, Apple, Samsung Take Market Share
In the fourth quarter of 2008, worldwide sales of smartphones to end users reached 38.1 million units, an increase of 3.7 per cent on the fourth quarter of 2007, according to Gartner. Global sales of smartphones for 2008 reached 139.3 million devices, up 13.9 per cent compared with 2007. 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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