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Articles tagged with: Global Mobile and Smartphone
Orange to Charge for Smartphone Customer Care Services
Orange has announced that it is to charge its smartphone customers who seek support for handset specific issues. This chargeable, dedicated hotline assistance will also include a remote assistance service which allows orange agents to remotely connect to a customer's device and offer real-time, technical set-up and support. more
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Western European Mobile Phone Market now in Recession
Three consecutive quarters of negative growth have led the Western European mobile phone market into recession. According to IDC's European Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped 53.6 million units in 4Q08, 13.5% lower than the 62 million units shipped in 4Q07. For the full year 2008, vendors shipped 190.5 million units in Western Europe, 5.9% lower than the 202.5 million units shipped in 2007. more
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3G Should Keep the Mobile Phone Market Ticking Over in 2009
The global mobile handset market went into a tailspin in October and November, which will result in a nearly 5% YoY decline in unit shipments in Q4. While 2009 is likely to see more stormy economic weather, there are a few rays of sunshine. more
Related Tags: wcdma, smartphones, abi-research, cdma, usb-modem, mobile-broadband, cdma2000, modem, modems, 2g
The Financial Crisis and the Mobile Device Industry
Opinion piece by Detlev G. Pinkus, President & CEO of United Design
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The financial crisis and it affects causing far-spread consequences by
reaching all economic areas more or less worldwide. The Mobile Device Industry
will pass trough an extended painful education phase that the market will be no
longer governed by the handset industry thus by consumers.
more
Related Tags: android, google, samsung, motorola, dell, boston, music, boston-consulting-group
Visa to Bring Mobile Payment Services to Google Phone
NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Visa said on Thursday it will bring mobile payment services to the new G1 smartphone, the first device to use Google's Android operating system. more
Related Tags: android, google, deutsche-telekom, t-mobile, t-mobile-usa, mobile-payments, tim, operating-system, visa, mobile-wallet,
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