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Samsung Shows off its First Android Phone

Samsung Electronics has shown off its first Android-powered mobile phone, the I7500. With a launch of I7500, Samsung became the first company among the global top three mobile phone manufacturers to unveil an Android-powered phone. more

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Game-Changing Moves Strengthen Consumer LBS in North America

The consumer location-based services (LBS) market has steadily evolved over the past few years, always promising significant revenue generation, but never quite delivering the critical mass of subscribers that were expected. Now, a number of factors - including the development of third-party location databases and technologies - are poised to finally drive real LBS market growth on mobile phones. more

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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

Social Networking Usurping Mobile Messaging as Communications Tool

Openwave Systems has published a report highlighting key mobile internet usage trends in North America, based on findings derived from its Mobile Analytics product. Strong themes that Mobile Analytics uncovered included upticks in social networking site usage suggestive of a new preferred method of communication with the potential to unseat traditional forms of messaging such as email for a particular segment of subscribers; an analysis of mobile advertising click-through rates (CTR) that showed clear advantages of targeted promotions; and the growing trend in accessing mobile classifieds via the mobile device. more

iPhone: Not a top 20 handset for browsing and buying on the mobile web

According to statistics released by mobile billing and analytics firm, Bango, when it comes to the most popular phones for browsing and buying content on the mobile web worldwide, the iPhone still sits outside the top 20. The Bango Top 20 handset list, based on Bango's February statistics, puts the Nokia 3110c on top, followed by the Samsung M800 in 2nd and the Nokia 6300 in 3rd. more

Huawei Starting to Win Network Contracts in the USA

China's Huawei is reported to be finally making significant progress in cracking the US market, where it has had problems in the past thanks in part to security concerns over allegations of links to the Chinese government. The company has always denied the allegations. more

Opera Reports Over 20 Million Users of its Java Mini Browser

Norwegian web browser developer, Opera says that its Mini mobile browser userbase has reached 20.5 million, representing 160% growth since February 2008. Opera Mini users viewed 7.3 billion pages, a 290% increase over February 2008. Opera Mini servers processed more than 1.2 petabytes of data in February, generating more than 124 million MB of data traffic for mobile operators worldwide. Since February 2008, data transfers have grown 338%. more

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

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

Vodafone CEO: Mobile Internet Key to Growth

BARCELONA -(Dow Jones)- Vodafone Group Chief Executive Arun Sarin said Tuesday the future of the mobile industry will be defined by who succeeds in developing mobile internet services. more