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Articles tagged with: Gartner and Symbian
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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Motorola Expected to Announce "Google Phone" Plans this Week
The new head of Motorola's mobile phone division, Sanjay Jha has decided that the company should focus the bulk of its efforts on developing phones based on the Google backed Android system. Spurces close to the issue told The Wall Street Journal that the plans will be formally announced on Thursday and could result in thousands of job cuts. more
Related Tags: android, google, windows-mobile, microsoft, motorola, wind, wall-street-journal, operating-system, windows, sanjay-jha, linux, os
Motorola Reported to be Working on a "Google Phone"
It has been reported that Motorola is ramping up development of mobile phones based on the Google backed Android Operating System. The company is understood to have 50 staff working on Android phones and is ramping up its team to 350 people. more
Related Tags: android, google, windows-mobile, microsoft, smartphone, motorola, qualcomm, smartphones, wind, verizon, mobile-linux, operating-system, windows, linux, os, fingerprints
UPDATE: Google Unveils Android Smartphone for T-Mobile
NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Google, Tuesday unveiled its first Android-powered smartphone for T-Mobile USA as the Internet giant hopes to shake up the wireless industry. more
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Worldwide Smartphone Sales Grew 16% in Second Quarter of 2008
Worldwide smartphone sales totalled 32.2 million units in the second quarter of 2008, a 15.7 per cent increase from the second quarter of 2007, according to gartner. In addition, of all mobile device sales, smartphones' share remained stable at 11 per cent. more
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Handango Signs Mobile Games Deal with EA Mobile
Mobile software retailer, Handango has announced a deal to distribute mobile games from the mobile division of Electronic Arts. The EA mobile titles including Madden NFL 08, The Sims 2, The Sims Bowling, MONOPOLY Here & Now, TETRIS, Bejeweled, and many more, are now available on leading smartphone platforms including Windows Mobile, BlackBerry and Symbian UIQ through Handango's web properties and Handango's on-device client, InHand. more
Related Tags: sony-ericsson, windows-mobile, wind, ericsson, blackberry, mobile-games, sony, handango, mobile-content, ea
Apple iPhone's Halo Effect Yet to Reach Software Developers
SAN FRANCISCO -(Dow Jones)- Sliding software prices have damped the halo effect many music and software companies expected from selling their products through Apple's iPhone software store. more
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Microsoft faces Pressure from Smartphone OS Alliances
NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- With the smartphone world increasingly shifting toward an open operating system model, Microsoft and its Windows Mobile face another obstacle in trying to penetrate the consumer market. more
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Gartner Changes its Mind on the iPhone for Business Use
Apple's iPhone will soon receive a more enterprise-friendly version of firmware and security enhancements, resulting in gartner recommending "appliance-level" support status once the improvements are released. During the initial launch of the iPhone, gartner analysts expressed concern over some security issues with the device, but recently announced enhancements, expected to be delivered in June 2008, have caused gartner to change its recommendation. more
Related Tags: windows-mobile, microsoft, cisco, backup
Windows Mobile Driving PDA Market Growth
Shipments of Windows Mobile PDAs grew 64 percent in the first quarter of 2007, and this strong growth helped propel worldwide PDA shipments to 5.1 million units, a 39.7 percent increase from the first quarter of 2006, according to gartner, Inc. more
Related Tags: windows-mobile, gps, palm, rim, sharp, cingular, navigation, os, pda
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