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Articles tagged with: Smartphones and Driving
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
Related Tags: motorola, idc, nokia, samsung, lg, sony-ericsson, ericsson, ovi, rural, sony, sharp, oem, sanjay-jha
New Product Development Critical to US Wireless Market
smartphones and other cutting edge wireless devices will be integral to driving growth in the U.S. wireless market, according to the TNS Global Technology Index (GTI) study. Despite the recession, the GTI study reveals that consumers will demand new and improved products as early as 2010. more
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Korean Handset Manufacturers Targetting 50% of US Market in 2009
South Korean mobile phone manufacturers are expected to take a 50% stake in the US handset market this year, according to Taiwanese market sources cited by DigiTimes. more
Related Tags: t-mobile, smartphone, samsung, tim, cdma, gartner, blackberry, rim, blackberry-storm, storm, USA
HSPA Drives Mobile Infrastructure Market Growth in 2008
..graded networks, along with the doubling of the HSPA device ecosystem, including smartphones, laptops and mobile internet devices were the primary drivers of the WCDMA market's ramp. The prevalence of flat rate data plans was even greater incen more
Related Tags: 3g, base-station, smartphone, wimax, wcdma, lte, cdma, hspa, mobile-broadband, dell, gsm
Smartphones to Account for 23% of All New Mobile Phones by 2013
..t manufacturers to design increasingly ‘smart' and highly personalised mobile devices. A new smartphones report from Juniper Research forecasts that these so-called ‘smartphones' will account for 23% of all new handsets sold per annum by 2013 more
Related Tags: google, nokia, iphone, juniper-research, smartphone, apple, compete, app-store, operating-system, andrew
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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Worldwide Mobile Phone Market Declined by 12.6% in Fourth Quarter
.. 2008 it was that the converged mobile devices segment (commonly referred to as smartphones) grew 22.5% over 2007, clearly outpacing the rest of the industry. "In mature markets, such as North America and EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Afr more
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Mobile security market to hit $889M in 2011, driven by backhaul and data center upgrades
..the Middle East, and Africa)Internet friendly smartphones like iPhones, Windows Mobile phones, and Android-based phones are driving consolidation in the OS market and creating a large number of enticing targets for hackers Infonetics more
Related Tags: android, asia-pacific, windows-mobile, iphone, smartphone, wind, capex, symbian, windows
Strategy Analytics 2009 Wireless Trends Outlook
..face and identify near-to-mid term growth opportunities in the areas of mobile devices, smartphones, wireless network strategies, mobile media and messaging, and enterprise wireless services." For wireless operators, "Strategy Analytics anticipa more
Related Tags: wi-fi, analytics, boost-mobile, strategy-analytics, hspa, mobile-advertising, backhaul, femtocells, andrew, flash
Sprint Nextel Offers Software Upgrade for HTC Smartphones
Sprint Nextel is offering a software update for the HTC supplied Touch and Mogul smartphones to add support for EV-DO Rev. A data speeds as well as Windows Mobile 6.1. The upgrade also includes enhanced GPS capabilities, allowing support of popular applications such as Sprint Navigation. Sprint Navigation provides audio and visual turn-by-turn directions, more than 10 million local listings, and one-click traffic rerouting, similar to an in-vehicle GPS system. more
Related Tags: windows-mobile, sprint-nextel, gps, wind, htc, text-messages, opera, mobile-web-browser, sprint, nextel, ev-do, USA