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Articles tagged with: Rim and Lg
Fractus Sues Ten Cellphone Manufacturers for Patent Infringement
Ten mobile phone vendors are being sued for allegedly infringing patents relating to internal antennas used on their handsets. Spanish antenna manufacturer, Fractus says that is has sued Samsung, LG, rim, Pantech, Kyocera, Palm, HTC, Sharp, UTStarcom, and Sanyo for infringing nine different patents. more
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Mobile Handset Market Stays Afloat with 258 Million Shipped in 1Q-2009
Despite tough corporate and unemployment news making the headlines, the mobile handset-buying public did not head to the hills during the first quarter of 2009. Handset vendors had shipped 258 million handsets by the end of the quarter. Although that represents an 11% year-over-year decline, the result significantly exceeded the previous forecast of 253.5 million. "Green shoots are sprouting," is how ABI Research vice president Jake Saunders describes the latest figures. 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 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
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Top 10 Mobile Phones Used in the USA During Q3 '08
According to a report from the Neilson Group released last month, the following are the top ten phones used in the USA during the third quarter of 2008. more
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Motorola Maintains US Mobile Phone Dominance - but is Fading Fast
A report from MultiMedia Intelligence is projecting that Motorola will remain the most successful mobile handset manufacturer in the US market in 2008, but that share is rapidly fading. According to their research, Motorola is projected to provide 21% of all handsets consumed in the consumer market in the US. Samsung and LG are closing fast and promise to surpass Motorola in 2009. more
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Apple's iPhone Now Top Phone for Mobile Advertising Traffic
AdMob, the world's largest mobile advertising marketplace, has announced the iPhone is now the top device worldwide for mobile advertising traffic, displacing the Motorola RAZR, and in a regional feature focus highlighted traffic from Latin America and the Caribbean has more than doubled in the last year. The iPhone experienced strong traffic worldwide to become the number one device, with 37 percent of requests coming from outside of the US. more
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Rising Popularity of Smartphones Drives Higher Mobile Phone Satisfaction
As smartphones and feature-rich mobile phones continue to grow in popularity, customer satisfaction with wireless phones has increased, despite higher costs for handsets and service, according to a J.D. Power report. more
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Emerging Markets Drag Down Global Handset Growth Rate
According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global mobile handset shipments grew a disappointing 5 percent year-over-year, to reach 303 million units in Q3 2008. A marked slowdown in sales to emerging markets caused the industryÃ's weakest growth rate since 2002. more
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