Articles tagged with: Smartphones and Open Source

Smartphone sales buck the recession

.. Microwave, and Mobile Devices - Infonetics Research. Bucking the general trend, smartphones are expected to out-perform the downturn and show modest growth in 2009, and will be the only mobile phone segment to maintain annual revenue growth ov more

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Android based Netbooks to Emerge in 2009

..f netbooks starts with netbooks and looks up to smartphones. The two types of device belong to the same mobile Internet device (MID), a term coined by Intel, owing to their Internet browsing/multimedia processing capabilities. Besides netbooks  more

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GPS-Enabled Handsets Expected to Bypass the Economic Downturn

..008. This surprising performance will be driven by the ongoing demand for feature-rich smartphones. Although slowing slightly in 2009, demand for smartphones, a group that includes the Apple iPhone 3G, RIM's BlackBerry devices, and Nokia N ser more

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Vodafone, Sony Ericsson Join Google Phone Alliance

The Open Handset Alliance - which develops the Google backed Android operating system for smartphones - has announced fourteen new members, including Sony Ericsson and Vodafone.  more

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CTIA Wireless Show to Focus on Open Network Opportunities

..d operating system to get its browser on more smartphones. Google eyes the advertising opportunities in mobile as potentially more lucrative than the Internet because of the personal nature of the handset. The carriers will also be demonstrati more

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Microsoft faces Pressure from Smartphone OS Alliances

..s Mobile, while only 4% used Symbian, according to the NPD Group. The No. 2 smartphone player in the U.S. was Research In Motion - which is also a closed system - with 32% of the market share. Globally, Symbian powers 60% of the smartphone marke more

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UPDATE: Nokia, Mobile Cos to Create Symbian Foundation

.. model for the Symbian wireless operating system. The move comes as demand increases for smartphones and other advanced wireless devices, and as Nokia faces a growing challenge from Apple Inc's (AAPL) iPhone, a competing operating system from Mi more

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Mobile Browser Market to Grow to 1.5 Billion Units in 2013

..ge number of phones today still use browsers with very limited web browsing capabilities, many smartphones are incorporating browsers that support the latest capabilities such as AJAX and RSS, as well as websites optimized for viewing on a mobi more

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