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Articles tagged with: Sanyo
Panasonic begins tender offer for Sanyo takeover
Panasonic said Thursday it has begun a tender offer to take over smaller rival Sanyo Electric for an estimated $4.4 billion, moving closer to create one of the world's biggest electronics makers. more
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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
Related Tags: fractus, samsung, lg, rim, pantech, kyocera, palm, htc, sharp, utstarcom, patents, inventions, lawyer
Consumer Demand Steady for iPhone, BlackBerry - But What About the Palm Pre?
In recent years, ChangeWave consumer surveys have chronicled a seismic shift to smart phones, with Apple and Research In Motion locked in a two-horse race while most of their competitors have been caught in a downward spiral. more
Related Tags: 3g, sim, iphone, apple, steve-jobs, driving, tim, rcom, ovi, verizon, palm-pre, palm, htc, blackberry, compete, rim, research-in-motion, blackberry-bold, sprint, apple-iphone, smart, operating-system
Warehouse Fire Blamed on Overheating Mobile Phone Battery
The owners of a warehouse which recently had a serious fire has decided to sue a phone network and handset manufacturer after they decided that an overheating cellphone battery was the cause of the blaze. more
Related Tags: kyocera, battery, USA
U.S. Mobile Phone Unit-Sales Declined 22% YoY in Q1
According to The NPD Group, mobile phone handset sales to consumers in the USA reached nearly 31 million units in the first quarter of 2008, which is a 22 percent decline since the same period a year ago. NPD estimates total first quarter 2008 consumer sales of nearly $2.7 billion, down from $2.9 billion a year ago. more
Related Tags: samsung, bluetooth, verizon-wireless, verizon, motorola, blackberry, rim, USA
Qwest Offers Military Grade Mobile Phone
The USA based, Qwest Communications says that it has added the ultra-rugged sanyo SCP-7050 to its lineup of mobile phones. The sanyo SCP-7050 meets official U.S. Military Standard 810F specifications for vibration, dust and shock and features a speakerphone, tough rubber Dura-Grip and voice-activated dialing. more
Related Tags: bluetooth, qwest, qwest-communications
US Mobile Web Use Surges Ahead, Increasing 3-Fold over the Last Year"
The UK based mobile billing company, Bango has published statistics which confirm that the United States is at the forefront of mobile web growth with a three fold increase in usage over the last year, taking it to second position behind the UK. The increasing popularity of mobile search as a way of finding new content and services is fueling this rapid rise in mobile web usage. more
Related Tags: bango, mobile-search, mobile-billing
Longer Contracts are Slowing the Handset Upgrade Path
The average reported length of time a customer owns their cellphone has increased by 5 percent since the autumn of 2006, according to J.D. Power. The study finds that customers are keeping their mobile handsets for an average of 17.5 months -- an increase from 16.6 months since the last reporting period (November 2006). This marks the first increase in the reported ownership cycle since 2002, when the average was 18.4 months. The increase in ownership tenure is roughly equal across major handset brands. more
Related Tags: battery, j.d.-power, free-mobile
Mobile Phone Display Shipments Reached a New High
DisplaySearch has released its quarterly mobile phone display shipmentsupdate, which revealed Q4'06 shipments of 297.6 million main displays and 67.9million sub-displays for a combined growth of 3% Q/Q and 7% Y/Y. Worldwidesubscriber penetration achieved over 36% in 2006, reaching over 2.3 billionsubscribers, up 23% Y/Y. more
Related Tags: oled, sharp, displaysearch, lcd, displays
Samsung Benefiting from the iPhone Effect
Analysts from Merrill Lynch have carried out another of their fascinating visits to phone retailers in the USA to see how the market is reacting, at the front face of the operators, visiting 80 stores in 5 different markets. They report that sales volumes appear to be seasonally in line with expectations for 1Q07. more
Related Tags: t-mobile-usa, cingular