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Articles tagged with: Motorola and Driving
Worldwide Mobile Phone Shipments Down by 15.8% in First Quarter
The worldwide mobile phone market began 2009 with an expected sequential downturn, exacerbated by the challenges of the ongoing worldwide recession. According to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped a total of 244.8 million units in the first quarter of 2009 (1Q09), approximately 15.8% lower than the 290.8 million units shipped during 1Q08. The first quarter of a new year is typically characterized by seasonally lower shipment volumes following a busy holiday quarter with channels clearing out excess inventory. But the 1Q09 decline was especially sharp due to weak end-user demand, currency volatility, and lack of credit for merchants as consumers and the supply chain adapt to the recession. more
Related Tags: idc, nokia, samsung, lg, sony-ericsson, ericsson, ovi, smartphones, rural, sony, sharp, oem, sanjay-jha, pace, africa, feature-phones
Beceem Raises US$20 Million for Mobile WiMAX Chip Development
Beceem Communications, a provider of mobile WiMAX chips, says that it has closed a US$20 million financing round that is providing the company with the capital needed to scale production and customer support as demand for its industry leading WiMAX chips is increasing around the world. more
Related Tags: beceem-communications, wimax, mobile-wimax, samsung, intel, , clearwire, tim, ovi, iden, catalyst
80% of Healthcare IT Executives Placing Increased Reliance on Mobility
More than 80 percent of global IT decision makers within the healthcare industry stated that mobile technologies are more important to their organizations today than they were in 2008, according to a recent research study commissioned by motorola. Respondents cited key benefits such as increased order fulfillment accuracy, reduced manual errors and increased employee productivity due to the utilization of mobile technologies within various clinical settings. more
Related Tags: rfid, asia-pacific, eu, itu, tim, ovi, iden, vas, personal, fixed-mobile-convergence, health, bar-code,
Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales Down by 5% in Q4 '08
The global economic downturn had a significant impact on the mobile phone industry as worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totalled 314.7 million units in the fourth quarter of 2008, a 4.6 per cent decline from the fourth quarter of 2007, according to Gartner. Manufacturers continued to struggle against low consumer confidence in both emerging and mature markets. more
Related Tags: sony-ericsson, t-mobile, 3g, nokia, smartphone, samsung, eu, ict, smartphones, gps, lte, verizon-wireless, ericsson, verizon, gartner, iden, lg, blackberry, rim, blackberry-storm, touchscreen, reliance, sony, 3, oem, omnia, walkman, storm, music, africa, motorola,
Chinese Handset Production Growth Down to Single Figures
China's CCID Consulting has reported that after a period of rapid growth over the past few years, the Chinese mobile handset chips market experienced a conspicuous decline in 2008. The research firm predicts that the scale of Chinese mobile phone chips market is expected to reach RMB 110 billion (US$16 billion), up by 6%, down to single-digit growth for the first time. more
Related Tags: broadcom, wi-fi, 3g, nokia, mobile-tv, wcdma, qualcomm, ict, itu, gps, td-scdma, cdma, memory-chips, memory, gsm, smart, ccid-consulting, mp3, freescale, global-mobile, China
Economic Slowdown Accelerates Linux Growth in Mobile Handsets
With deteriorating global economic conditions making their impact felt in the wireless industry, handset OEMs and mobile network operators are looking to Linux-based operating systems to cut costs and diversify their handset portfolios. more
Related Tags: smartphone, open-mobile-terminal-platform, ict, huawei, vodafone, lte, ims-research, ims, open-source, linux, presence, play, motorola,, open-mobile-alliance
Worldwide Mobile Phone Market Declined by 12.6% in Fourth Quarter
The worldwide mobile phone market experienced an unusual downturn in the normally robust fourth quarter of 2008 (4Q08). According to IDC's Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped a total of 289.0 million units, 12.6% lower than the 330.8 million units shipped during 4Q07. For the full year 2008, vendors shipped a total of 1.18 billion units worldwide, 3.5% greater than the 1.14 billion units shipped during 2007. more
Related Tags: android, sony-ericsson, nokia, iphone, smartphone, samsung, apple, itu, smartphones, open-handset-alliance, ericsson, idc, palm, compete, sony, oem, apple-iphone, sanjay-jha, chipset, storm, music
Slowing Mobile Phone Market Weakening Demand for Displays
Coming into the holiday shopping season, worldwide shipments of displays for mobile phones are slowing significantly. According to the latest forecast from DisplaySearch, Q4'08 mobile phone display unit shipments will only be 2.5% higher Y/Y. By comparison, Q4'07 unit growth was up 28% Y/Y, and Y/Y growth has remained in double digits every quarter during since Q3'07. more
Related Tags: iphone, zte, blackberry, displaysearch, displays, display, health
Touch Screens in Mobile Devices to Deliver $5 Billion Next Year
Touch screens have been available for some time and are found in a variety of fixed and portable devices, but it was the launch of Apple's iPhone that refocused the public's attention on them as never before. Shipments in 2007 of touch screen-based mobile devices increased 91% over 2006, and ABI Research forecasts that revenue from the global touch screen market for mobile phones and other handheld devices such as MIDs, UMPCs, and PNDs will reach $5 billion in 2009. more
Related Tags: sony-ericsson, iphone, samsung, apple, abi-research, ericsson, sony, pnds, touch-screen
2008 Cellular GPS Market Set to Overshadow PND Shipments
A bumper Christmas market is set to make GPS the hottest new feature in the cellular market. Taking the huge CDMA GPS market aside, GPS-enabled handsets are set to greatly outnumber PND shipments in 2008. more
Related Tags: samsung, apple, gps, lbs, cdma, lg, pnd, ims-research, ims, telmap, telenav, navigation, nokia,, in-car, motorola,
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