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Articles tagged with: Rim and Sharp
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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Nokia Smartphone Sales Fall as RIM, Apple, Samsung Take Market Share
In the fourth quarter of 2008, worldwide sales of smartphones to end users reached 38.1 million units, an increase of 3.7 per cent on the fourth quarter of 2007, according to Gartner. Global sales of smartphones for 2008 reached 139.3 million devices, up 13.9 per cent compared with 2007. more
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Worldwide Smartphone Sales Reached Its Lowest Growth Rate in Q3 '08
In the third quarter of 2008, the global smartphone market reached its weakest year-on-year growth since Gartner began tracking the industry. Worldwide smartphone sales to end-users totalled 36.5 million units in the third quarter of 2008, an 11.5 per cent increase from the same period in 2007. more
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Smartphone Makers' Shares Hit on Report of Slowing Sales
SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones) -- Research In Motion, Palm, Nokia and Apple all saw their shares take a hit Monday, retreating following a research report that showed a dramatic slowdown in the sales growth of so-called smartphones. more
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Worldwide Smartphone Sales Grew 16% in Second Quarter of 2008
..Users by Operating System, 2Q08 (Units) Company 2Q08 Sales 2Q08 Market Share 2Q07 Sales 2Q07 Market Share 2Q08- 2Q07 Growth Symbian 18,405,057 57.1% more
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3G iPhone to have Tsunami – Like Impact
The new 3G iPhone from Apple is going to have a tsunami-like impact on the smart phone market, according to a new ChangeWave survey of 3,567 consumers conducted in the aftermath of AppleÃ's June 9th announcement. more
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Smart Mobile Device Shipments Jump 53% to 118 Million in 2007
The latest market data from analyst firm Canalys shows how much the converged device market (all smart phones and wireless handhelds) has grown over the past year. These, typically high-end, devices represented around 10% of the global mobile phone market by units in 2007, with annual growth of 60% making them one of the fastest growing segments of the technology industry. Year-on-year growth climbed every quarter throughout 2007, to reach a peak of 72% in Q4. more
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Windows Mobile Driving PDA Market Growth
Shipments of Windows Mobile PDAs grew 64 percent in the first quarter of 2007, and this strong growth helped propel worldwide PDA shipments to 5.1 million units, a 39.7 percent increase from the first quarter of 2006, according to Gartner, Inc. more
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Over 10 Million Smartphones Shipped in Asia in Q1
..accounted for 17%, or 1.8 million, of all shipments in the region in Q1 2007, compared to 30% in EMEA and 89% in the Americas."Vendors just outside the top six, such as RIM and Dopod, are seeing growing success with their professional-focused de more
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