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Articles tagged with: Lg and android
LG Re-announces Details of Android Based Smartphone
lg has re-announced the launch of its first Android based smartphone, the lg GW620 which comes with the increasingly commonplace social networking tools built into the operating system. The handset was originally announced in September, and is already on sale in Europe. more
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LG Shows Off First Android Based Smartphone
lg Electronics has shown off its first Android based mobile phone, just a week after it announced plans for three new Windows Mobile based smartphones. The new android OS based lg-GW620 features a 3-inch full touchscreen and slide out QWERTY keypad. more
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Smartphone sales buck the recession
A report by Infonetics Research is forecasting an 8% drop in the total number of mobile phones sold in 2009, to 1.1 billion worldwide (down from 1.2 billion in 2008), in line with predictions from Nokia, among others. Smartphones were the best-performing segment of the mobile phones market in 2008 and the only segment to show unit and revenue growth in the second half of the year as the world economy entered recession. 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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Are Smartphones Immune to the Financial Crisis in Western Europe?
The market for Western European converged mobile devices (commonly referred to as smartphones) experienced a good performance in the last quarter of 2008. According to IDC's European Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped 9.3 million units, 25.9% higher than the 7.4 million shipped in 4Q07. For the full year 2008, vendors shipped 31.9 million units, 36.1% higher than the 23.5 million units shipped in 2007. 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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Nokia in Advanced Talks to Sell Security-Appliances Unit
Nokia is in advanced talks to sell its security-appliances business to a financial investor as it concentrates on consumer Internet services, such as push email. more
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UPDATE: Nokia, Mobile Cos to Create Symbian Foundation
Nokia, Tuesday said it will acquire the remaining stake in Symbian it doesn't already own and with a range of partners create the Symbian Foundation, an open source model for the Symbian wireless operating system. more
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LG Telecom May Adopt Google Platform for 3G Data Services
SEOUL -(Dow Jones)- lg Telecom may adopt Google's Android mobile operating system for its third-generation wireless data services, said the South Korean company's chief executive Thursday. more
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