Articles tagged with: Qualcomm and Social Networking

Mobile Applications Stores: A Virtual 'Farmer's Market'

The mobile content market with the advent of the applications store has brought a new model of mobile content distribution. The applications store gives an opportunity to capitalize on direct relationships with consumers, linking them to the brand and offering an easy-to-use way of purchasing a variety of applications. It is like on a farmer's market, where people can purchase fresh products and homemade food eliminating the middleman and the additional costs associated with buying through an intermediary. more

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

Cell Phones Are Helping Kids Learn in the Classroom

Educators, policymakers and wireless industry leaders joined together last week at the Mobile Learning Conference 2009 (MLC09) in Washington, D.C. to discuss the promising future of educational technology in America and the key role the application of cellular technology and devices can play in helping kids learn in the classroom. more

Mobile Phone Market Poised for Slowdown in 2009

The impact of the global economic crisis will spread to the mobile phone market resulting in a downturn in shipments in 2009. According to IDC, total mobile phone volumes will be 2.2% lower in 2009 than 2008 levels, the first downturn in annual shipment volumes since 2001 when shipments declined 2.3%. Over the past several years, the mobile phone market has enjoyed double-digit annual growth due to an increased emphasis on emerging markets. However, emerging market growth has been steadily slowing as these markets mature. IDC now expects worldwide growth to be just 7.3% in 2008 before slipping into negative growth in 2009. more

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Hutchison Whampoa Launches Handset Subsidiary

Hutchison Whampoa has launched its own mobile phone subsidiary, INQ Mobile to develop phones for its 3G networks worldwide. The company aims to launch a range of low to mid-priced handsets based largely on free operating systems, likely to be either Linux or the Google backed Android OS - and will be based on qualcomm chips. more

Related Tags: android, google, skype, voip, seven, facebook, hutchison, inq-mobile, linux, os, 3g-network

T-Mobile Android Phone Release Seen Bringing 'Avalanche'

SAN FRANCISCO -(Dow Jones)- With Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile USA preparing to ship out its first cellphones built on Google's open Android platform later this year, wireless carriers are expecting an avalanche of innovation from users - and radical changes to what customers expect and demand. more

Third of Portable Navigation Devices Will Offer Two-Way Connectivity by 2013

The emergence of connected navigation services such as real-time traffic, live local search and map updates is prompting many PND vendors such as Magellan, Mio, TomTom, and Dash to develop connected personal navigation device (PND) solutions with two-way real-time connectivity based on cellular or Wi-Fi technology. more

Qualcomm Launches Single HSPA+ Chipset

qualcomm has introduced a new single-chip solution, the QSC6295 which leverages 45 nanometer CMOS process technology and combines rich multimedia, power-saving innovations and broadband data speeds. The chip offers support for downloads of up to 10.2 Mbps, uploads of up to 5.76 Mbps, along with integrated multimedia content and Bluetooth/FM/GPS. New innovations in power consumption enable up to a full day of talk time and more than a month of standby time. more

Related Tags: bluetooth, gps, mts, hspa, battery, umts, modem, cmos

Wide-ranging Mobile Video Services and Content Attract More Users in the USA

Compelling content, multiple application types, social networking, mobile advertising and mobile broadcasting services are some of the developments that influence the mobile video services market. New analysis from Frost & Sullivan finds that premium revenues from mobile video content services estimates to reach $1.62 billion in 2011. more

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Qualcomm Shows Off Low-Power Consumption 3G Chipsets

qualcomm has launched a new range of WCDMA chipsets which the company says will enable a dramatic reduction in the cost of WCDMA based mobile phones. The products, sampling now, also feature new power-saving features that will enable better performance and longer battery life, with standby time of more than 37 days. more

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