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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.  more

Related Tags: app-store, smartphone, symbian, nokia, google, microsoft, sony, google-android

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.  more

Related Tags: android, google, windows-mobile, semiconductor, intel, smartphone, apple, ipod, smartphones, wind, netbooks, netbook, mobile-internet, freescale-semiconductor, asus, open-source, operating-system, freescale, linux, laptop

Nokia kick-starts GPS market in Europe

Opinion piece by Tony Cripps and Michele Mackenzie, principal analysts

According to a new ovum forecast, the market for GPS-enabled mobile devices will grow rapidly, from an estimated 163.9 million shipments in 2007 to almost 572 million in 2012. In the early years this growth has been driven by the CDMA players, namely Qualcomm, serving large CDMA markets such as the US, where the E911 mandate stipulates the use of location-based technologies in handsets, and markets such as Korea and Japan where demand for location-enabled services is higher than in other regions.  more

Related Tags: android, windows-mobile, nokia, iphone, apple, apple, qualcomm, edge, gps, wind, cdma, blackberry, oss, symbian, oem, e911, operating-system, chipset

Nokia getting on top of handset media portability

Opinion by Tony Cripps, principal analyst at ovum

Nokia has greatly extended the range of its multimedia codec support in the fifth edition of its S60 platform for Symbian OS, in an effort to overcome the problems of multimedia portability arising from codec proliferation. An important addition to the core is MicrosoftÃ's Windows Media Audio (WMA) format, which largely completes NokiaÃ's audio codec support. However, some gaps still remain, notably the DivX Internet video codec and the popular, and free, Ogg family.  more

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