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Articles tagged with: Isuppli and Operating System
Palm Pre Stands to Shake Up Smart Phone Status Quo
Palm's new Pre smart phone holds strong potential for robust sales growth, and may have a major influence on other platforms as well as the technology supply chain, according to isuppli Corp. Palm Pre shipments could amount to 1.1 million units in 2009. However, if Palm quickly introduces a new Pre that supports the 3G GSM standard, sales could rise to 1.3 million during the year. Furthermore, if Palm opens up the licensing of its webOS operating system used in the Pre, the software could have a wider influence beyond the company's own products. more
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Palm Pre Aims at the iPhone, Preliminary Cost Analysis Reveals
Palm is aiming high with its new Pre, a smart phone that rival's Apple's iPhone in terms of slickness - and in terms of hardware features - according to a virtual teardown conducted by isuppli. more
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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
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Teardown Report Reveals Manufacturing Cost of BlackBerry Bold
In its first-ever solo television advertisement for a product, Research In Motion touts its new BlackBerry Bold 9000 smart phone as a device that allows users to "Connect to everything you love in life in a bold new way." more
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Can Google's Foray into Mobile Phones Succeed?
The promise: ubiquitous, mobile Internet access for millions of users worldwide. The stakes: a market of 324 million units and advertising revenue of $3.8 billion by 2011. The risk: embarking on an ambitious effort to establish a consortium to promote a new platform for mobile computing/communications, an endeavor that others have tried before - and have achieved only high-profile failure. more
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China Mobile Navigation Market to Grow More Than 10-Fold by 2011
..et adoption of GPS-equipped handsets is their high selling prices," said Kevin Wang, senior analyst for China research for iSuppli. "By the end of 2006, GPS handsets were mainly high-end smart phones costing more than $700."Major suppliers last year more
Related Tags: windows-mobile, china-unicom, china-mobile, gps, personal-navigation-devices, chipsets, chipset