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Articles tagged with: Smartphones
Smartphone sales to overtake standard mobile phones by 2012
..are back above 10%," Webb added. Infonetics Research also noted that smartphones account for an increasing percentage of total mobile phone revenue, driven in part by accelerating HSPA deployments in North America, Western Europe, and deve more
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Survey Identifies Need to Improve Smartphone Customer Care
..ioned by an Over-The-Air (OTA) customer care supplier, has found that the rising popularity of smartphones and data services has led to longer, more complex support calls, which are much more expensive for mobile operators to resolve. The compa more
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iPhone's China Introduction to Boost Smartphone Market
The arrival of Apple's iPhone in China is expected to help accelerate global shipment growth for smart phones in 2010 and 2011, according to iSuppli Corp. more
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EU Scraps Plans for an Import Duty on Smartphones
..nion has cancelled plans for a controversial import tax that could have pushed up the price of smartphones by 14%. In a statement, Swedish Trade Minister Ewa Bjorling said that the majority of member countries of the EU had voted against the pl more
LG Tops Traditional Phone User Satisfaction Ranking
..ates reports. The studies measure customer satisfaction with traditional wireless handsets and smartphones across several key factors. In order of importance, key factors in examining traditional wireless handsets are operation (30%); physical more
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Online Consumers With Web-enabled Phones Adopt the Mobile Internet
Online price comparison website, PriceGrabber.com has commissioned a survey which finds that people are increasingly using price comparison services via their mobile phones. In PriceGrabber's survey, nearly 58 percent of online consumers currently own a mobile phone capable of connecting to the Web. Of the online consumers with Web-enabled phones, 21 percent own a smartphone, 8 percent own an iPhone, and 29 percent own another type of Web-enabled phone. more
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Worldwide Mobile Phone Shipments Down by 15.8% in First Quarter
.. market dropped 15.8% in 1Q09, converged mobile devices (commonly referred to as smartphones) continue to grow year on year at 4.0%. Growth within this segment was evident in Western Europe, North America, and Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan). Mo more
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T-Mobile to Offer Navigation Software on Smartphones
..rmany has announced a deal with navigation service provider, Navigon to port its platform into smartphones sold by the operator from the second half of this year. The smartphones will be sold complete with a copy of Navigon's MobileNavigator 7 more
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Mobile Application Revenues to reach $25bn by 2014 as Apps Stores Hit Mass Market
..oted that, given the fact that app stores currently cater exclusively for smartphones, then operators, developers and content providers would be unwise to ignore opportunities from traditional app and content distribution and monetization chann more
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Mobistar Profits Up Despite Price Pressures
..e of SMS increased the interconnection costs and more mobile phones and smartphones were purchased. There was an increase in the operational network costs as a result of an accelerated deployment of the 3G network in 2008, and an index adjust more
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