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Articles tagged with: Sharp and Palm
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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Taiwanese OEMs Switching from Ericsson to Qualcomm for 3G Phones
..in an interview that he had seen a very sharp decline over the past two weeks in inventories of Qualcomm chips held by customers. "They are trying to manage their working capital more carefully. ThereÃ's clearly some lessening of demand, but n more
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Smartphone Makers' Shares Hit on Report of Slowing Sales
.. nearly 16% globally during the second quarter. While strong, that represented a sharp drop from the 55% growth rate in the same period last year. "The current economic environment continues to negatively impact the market, limiting consume more
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3G iPhone to have Tsunami – Like Impact
.. The 10.5% represents a sharp jump from the previous survey in March, and it is the highest percentage of planned smart phone buyers recorded in a ChangeWave survey. "The most likely explanation for such a large-scale projected increase in sma more
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Sales of Handheld Devices Sink 53.2% During Fourth Quarter
The handheld device market, already in the throes of unit decline, failed to post a seasonal sequential increase in shipments during the fourth quarter. According to IDC, vendors shipped a total of 683,004 units in the fourth quarter, marking a 53.2% decrease from the same quarter a year ago and a 6.0% decrease from the previous quarter. For the full year, vendors shipped a total of 3.0 million units worldwide, down 44.3% from the 5.5 million units shipped during all of 2006. 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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Worldwide Handheld Device Market Continues Downhill Slide
The worldwide handheld device market opened the year with its thirteenth consecutive quarter of year-on-year decline as user interest continued to transition towards converged mobile devices and other consumer electronics devices. According to IDC, vendors shipped just over 900,000 handheld devices in the first quarter of 2007, 36.3% less than the previous quarter and 40.6% less than the same quarter a year ago. more
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Motorola Inventory Issues Put Industry On Hold In 1Q
..harp increase in its fiscal fourth-quarter net income helped by sales of its Pearl device, which specifically targets the consumer market. Lehman Brothers analyst Jeffrey Kvall upgraded Palm on Friday, noting that the smartphone market could grow by more
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Linux Poised to Expand Role as Mobile OS
.. the OS space with implementations in both the smartphone and feature phone segments. This is in sharp contrast to Symbian, Windows Mobile and Palm which have focused on the smartphone segment. However, Linux phones still represent a small segment of more
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