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Articles tagged with: Ovum and Os
Smartphones: the silver lining of the declining handset market
Opinion by ovum's Adam Leach, Devices principal analyst
Smartphone shipments will reach 406.7 million by 2014
During 2008, in a first for the mobile industry, consumer demand for third-party
applications started driving both handset sales and revenues for developers and
OEMs. Apple’s success with the App Store has prompted other players to focus
on devices that can enable third-party developers to easily bring applications
and services to mobile phones.
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Related Tags: app-store, smartphone, symbian, nokia, google, microsoft, sony, windows, google-android, nokia,, cagr, 2g
Android based Netbooks to Emerge in 2009
Opinion by Laurent Lachal, ovum Open Source Research Director
Upwards view: Linux is losing ground
The upwards view of netbooks starts with netbooks and looks up to laptops. It
leads to two conclusions. First, the laptop market is becoming increasingly
complex, with market segments catered for by a growing variety of low-cost
netbooks and laptops. Second, after a strong start, Linux netbooks have now been
overtaken by Windows netbooks and Linux is lagging increasingly behind in terms
of sales - although Linux's performance in the netbook segment is still
outstanding compared to its overall performance in the desktop market.
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Related Tags: android, google, windows-mobile, semiconductor, intel, smartphone, apple, ipod, smartphones, wind, netbooks, netbook, mobile-internet, freescale-semiconductor, asus, open-source, operating-system, windows, freescale, linux, laptop
Nokia's S60 goes into stealth mode
Independent analyst comment - Tony Cripps, senior analyst at ovum. more
Related Tags: microsoft, telecom-italia-mobile, telefonica, telecom-italia, touch-screen, symbian, qt, smart-mobile
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