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Articles tagged with: Htc and Motorola
Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales Down 6% - Smartphones Up 27% in Q2
Worldwide mobile phone sales totalled 286.1 million units in the second quarter of 2009, a 6.1 per cent decrease from the second quarter of 2008, according to Gartner. Smartphone sales surpassed 40 million units, a 27 per cent increase from the same period last year, representing the fastest-growing segment of the mobile-devices market. more
Related Tags: gartner, nokia, apple, samsung, lg, sony-ericsson,research-in-motion, windows, presence, three
Q1 Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales Declined 9.4% - Smartphones Grew 12.7%
Worldwide mobile phone sales totalled 269.1 million units in the first quarter of 2009, a 9.4 per cent decrease from the first quarter of 2008, according to Gartner. Smartphone sales surpassed 36.4 million units, a 12.7 per cent increase from the same period last year. more
Related Tags: gartner, nokia, apple, samsung, lg, sony-ericsson,research-in-motion, touchscreen, sony, oem, play
Flagship Phones are Driving Sales on Network Operator Websites
Industry analytics firm, comScore has published data from its monthly wireless e-commerce dashboard, which tracks consumer shopping and purchasing behavior, including handsets and mobile data plans, at all of the major wireless carrier sites. more
Related Tags: t-mobile, iphone, mobile-data, analytics, samsung, apple, verizon-wireless, verizon, iden, vas, comscore, lg, blackberry, sprint, USA
HTC Maple Phone Rumoured to Make Debut at CTIA Show
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Related Tags: windows-mobile, sim, samsung, wind, cdma, blackberry, gsm, windows, ctia
BlackBerry, iPhone Battle Raging On
Research In Motion and Apple continue to dominate the consumer smart phone market, according to the latest ChangeWave survey. The survey shows Apple enjoying another good quarter in the aftermath of its 3G iPhone release. more
Related Tags: nokia, iphone, samsung, apple, apple, lte, palm, blackberry, rim, blackberry-storm, battery, apple-iphone, smart, storm, USA
Apple Poor at Converting iPhone Queries into iPhone Sales
Nielsen Mobile has estimated that there are 3.6 million mobile subscribers 13+ actively using the Apple iPhone, as of October 2008. While some sources suggest that the iPhone has overtaken MotorolaÃ's RAZR in sales, their analysis of Q3 acquisitions shows a very close race at the top. Among those subscribers who acquired their phone in the past three months, iPhone had a 3% market share in Q3 2008, behind the Motorola RAZR V3 series which still had a 5% share of recently acquired devices. more
Related Tags: iphone, apple, apple, seven, nielsen, USA
Taiwanese OEMs Switching from Ericsson to Qualcomm for 3G Phones
Taiwan's handset manufacturers are increasingly switching from the Ericsson mobile phone platform to Qualcomm's own handset platform - report local industry sources. Sources told DigiTimes that because htc has had good success with its Qualcomm-based 3G handsets, other major handset vendors such as Motorola, LG Electronics, Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Palm all intend to adopt the Qualcomm platform for their 3G products. more
Related Tags: qualcomm, ericsson, cdma, lg, palm, stmicroelectronics, hewlett-packard, nxp, sharp, asustek, modem, Taiwan
Global smart phone shipments rise 28% - Apple Takes #2 Position
Despite the gloomy economic picture and the problems being experienced by some of the leading mobile handset vendors, global shipments of smart phones hit a new peak of just under 40 million units in Q3 2008, according to the latest estimates from leading analyst firm Canalys. more
Related Tags: android, t-mobile, microsoft, iphone, samsung, apple, apple, gps, wind, tim, blackberry, rim, symbian, windows, symbian-foundation, storm
Financial Crisis Hits Mobile Phone Sales as Q3 Shipment Growth Slows
The worldwide mobile phone industry felt the impact of the global financial crisis in the third quarter of 2008 (3Q08) as total handset shipments were down significantly over previous quarters. Mobile phone manufacturers shipped a total of 299.0 million handsets in 3Q08, up 3.2% from last year, and down -0.4% over 2Q08. The third quarter of the year has historically been a ramp-up quarter as manufacturers load their sales channels with handsets in preparation for the holiday season, producing year-over-year growth rates as high as 20% as a result. This year has not witnessed a similar ramp up, largely due to the current economic situation. more
Related Tags: google, sony-ericsson, iphone, smartphone, samsung, apple, apple, qualcomm, smartphones, ericsson, idc, lg, compete, touchscreen, sony, oem, apple-iphone, sanjay-jha, xperia
HTC Expects to Sell Up To 2 Million Google Phones by End 2009
Taiwan's htc is expected to sell some between 1.5 and 2 million Android based "Google Phones" to T-Mobile USA, with up to 500,000 being sold before the end of this year. Sources say that the new handset should boost htc revenues by NT$18 billion (US$560 million) next year. more
Related Tags: android, google, t-mobile, microsoft, iphone, analytics, smartphone, t-mobile-usa, apple, apple, smartphones, strategy-analytics, chunghwa-telecom