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Articles tagged with: Smartphones and Gps
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
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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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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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Egypt Lifts Ban on GPS Capable Mobile Phones
..civilian use of GPS which had blocked the (official) import of most mid to high end mobile and smartphones. However, the NTRA will still need to authorise each type of GPS device imported into the country and will control any local manufacturing more
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Handset Manufacturers Aiming to Design Their Way out of Recession
..stered with ABI Research's Global Mobile Device Tracking Database (OD-DBHA) were smartphones, up from 6% just a year ago. While clamshell device form factors are still popular with the manufacturers (25% of new devices released), slider-type ha more
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Comsys Mobile Offers WiMAX-GSM Handset Reference Platform
..m Comsys Mobile's partners, it incorporates all the features and functionalities required of smartphones, from antennae up to application processor. In addition to multimode mobile WiMAX/GSM-EDGE, the CM1125RD integrates WLAN, BT, FM radio and more
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Dutch Railways launches mobile context-aware travel application
..ess context-aware services for Dutch train travelers. "The growing market penetration of smartphones opens up new possibilities for bringing a better service to our travelers" says Corine van Drunen, Innovation Manager, NS. "We believe Reisplann more
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Are Smartphones Immune to the Financial Crisis in Western Europe?
The market for Western European converged mobile devices (commonly referred to as smartphones) experienced a good performance in the last quarter of 2008. According to IDC's European Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped 9.3 million units, 25.9% higher than the 7.4 million shipped in 4Q07. For the full year 2008, vendors shipped 31.9 million units, 36.1% higher than the 23.5 million units shipped in 2007. more
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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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Acer Announces Plans for Four Smartphones.
..rgest vendor in the global PC market is, as widely touted last week, introducing a new line of smartphones. No prices or launch dates were provided. "The smartphone market is the natural direction of our long-term mobile strategy as our ambition more
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