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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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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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Western European Mobile Phone Market now in Recession

.. 4Q08 it was that the converged mobile devices segment (commonly referred to as smartphones) grew 25.9% over 4Q07, clearly outpacing the rest of the industry. For full year 2008, converged mobile devices saw growth of 36.1%, representing 17. 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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Financial Crisis Hits Mobile Phone Sales as Q3 Shipment Growth Slows

.. to last year, the market for converged mobile devices (commonly known as smartphones) posted strong gains," added Ramon T. Llamas, senior research analyst with IDC's Mobile Devices Technology and Trends. "The worldwide release of the A more

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PND Shipment Growth Decelerates as Alternatives Gain Ground

..6 percent in 2009. iSuppli defines navigation-enabled smartphones as multifunction mobile handsets that can serve as PNDs due to their inclusion of GPS receivers and navigation application software. Navigation-enabled mobile handsets are E911  more

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Huawei and ZTE Expected to Launch Smartphones in 2008

Both Huawei and ZTE are expected to launch smartphones next year according to sources within Taiwan's handset industry. The two companies are generally targetting the low to mid end of the handset market, although Huawei has been shipping 3G mobile phones to Vodafone under an OEM agreement.  more

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