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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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Dual-Mode Cellular/Wi-Fi Handset Shipments to Double from 2008 Through 2010

..rers trying to deliver more product value, Wi-Fi is quickly becoming ‘table stakes' for smartphones." The user's experience appears to be critical in handset Wi-Fi adoption. While Nokia leads the market in Wi-Fi-enabled handsets due to the sheer more

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Mobile Phone Market Poised for Slowdown in 2009

..xpects converged mobile devices - commonly referred to as smartphones - to grow 8.9% worldwide in 2009. This contrasts sharply against the negative growth expected for the entire mobile phone market. Beyond 2009, growth will return to dou 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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Worldwide Smartphone Sales Grew 16% in Second Quarter of 2008

..om the second quarter of 2007, according to Gartner. In addition, of all mobile device sales, smartphones' share remained stable at 11 per cent. "Although global smartphone sales to end users [in the first half of 2008] reached 64 mill more

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Palm Looks to Keep Pace With New Treo for Sprint

..alm held 2.9% of the global market for smartphones, compared with Apple's 5.3% market share, according to Gartner Inc. Keast, however, argued that the iPhone is going after the consumer market, whereas the new Treo is geared toward corporate c more

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Palm Stock Still Seen as Cheap Despite Gains, New iPhone

..t - primarily overseas - and strong brand to draw upon. Research in Motion meanwhile, has a lock on U.S. business customers, which Palm also caters to, but not nearly as successfully. Samsung Electronics and Motorola, which has its share of pr more

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Antenova Launches New Range of Multi-Band Phone Antennas

.. since 2004 and enable some of the most advanced wireless devices, smartphones and feature phones around the world. HDA antennas can be found in a significant number of handsets from 4 of the top 5 handset OEMs, including Motorola and Samsung,  more

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Motorola to Split Off Handset Business

..igher-end phones, and that mobile devices will still be an attractive market several years from now. -By Roger Cheng, Dow Jones Newswires; 201-938-2020; roger.cheng@dowjones.com (Donna Kardos contributed to this story.) (END) Dow Jones Newswir more

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