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Microsoft and RIM Seeking to Grab Share from Android for Enterprise Subscribers

­New data from ABI Research estimates that by 2017, 2.4 billion employees will be using smartphones. This is a growth rate of 17% and represents nearly 3 times more smartphones than used by today's employees.  more

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In the USA, 62% of First-Time Smartphone Owners Buy Android

Nearly half of USA feature phone subscribers who acquired a device during April 2012 switched to a smartphone, an increase of 9.5 percentage points from the previous year, as smartphone adoption continues its upward climb in the USA.  more

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RIM Launches Free Version of BlackBerry Sync Software

Research In Motion has launched a free server software platform - the BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express - that synchronizes BlackBerry smartphones with microsoft Exchange or Windows Small Business Server.  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

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Nokia Smartphone Sales Fall as RIM, Apple, Samsung Take Market Share

In the fourth quarter of 2008, worldwide sales of smartphones to end users reached 38.1 million units, an increase of 3.7 per cent on the fourth quarter of 2007, according to Gartner. Global sales of smartphones for 2008 reached 139.3 million devices, up 13.9 per cent compared with 2007. 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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Worldwide Smartphone Sales Reached Its Lowest Growth Rate in Q3 '08

In the third quarter of 2008, the global smartphone market reached its weakest year-on-year growth since Gartner began tracking the industry. Worldwide smartphone sales to end-users totalled 36.5 million units in the third quarter of 2008, an 11.5 per cent increase from the same period in 2007.  more

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As Mobile Web Usage Explodes, Full-Featured Browsers on Smartphones See Strongest Growth

One of the undisputed bright spots in 2008 has been the continued rapid growth of web usage on mobile devices. While growth of web usage is up across all mobile device classes, one of the biggest areas of growth has been smartphones. ABI Research sees this growth continuing over the next five years, with highly capable Internet browsers on smartphones expanding from 130 million in 2008 to 530 million by 2013.  more

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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

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