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Android Will Still Lag Symbian in Mobile OS Market in 2013

Shipments of smartphones will reach nearly 400 million units by 2013, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 20.9%, reports IDC. Underpinning the converged mobile device market is the constantly shifting mobile operating system (OS) landscape. In a market that was once dominated by a handful of pioneers, such as BlackBerry, Symbian, and Windows Mobile, newcomers touting open standards (Android) and intuitive design and navigation (Mac OS X and webOS) have garnered strong end-user and handset vendor interest.  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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Dell Reported to be in Talks for Chinese Smartphones

..ndows operating system with a 3G data card and Dell computers. The smartphones are however understood to be based on OMS (Open Mobile System) - which is China Mobile's own in-house smartphone operating system - not on Windows Mobile. One vers more

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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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Smartphone Market Share Increased Rapidly Worldwide According to AdMob

Mobile advertising agency, AdMob has reported that despite challenging economic conditions, smartphones continued to gain significant market share worldwide over the past six months, rising from 26 percent to 33 percent of hits to its adserver platform in February 2009.  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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Nokia Smartphone Sales Fall as RIM, Apple, Samsung Take Market Share

In the fourth quarter of 2008, worldwide sales of smartphones to end users reached 38.1 million units, an increase of 3.7 per cent on the fourth quarter of 2007, according to Gartner. Global sales of smartphones for 2008 reached 139.3 million devices, up 13.9 per cent compared with 2007. more

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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

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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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T-Mobile's Google Phone Coming to More European Countries

..ot;, but declined to offer any sales numbers. It is anticipated that the smartphones will include a software upgrade which will offer an on-screen keyboard to compliment the existing physical keyboard. A software update will be offered to exis more

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