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Articles tagged with: Smartphones and Sony Ericsson
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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Foxconn in Running for Sony Ericsson Android Phone Production
Sony Ericsson is likely to out-source the production of its initial Android based smartphones to Taiwan's Foxconn Electronics, reports DigiTimes, citing a report in the Chinese language Commercial Times newspaper. more
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Advanced Mobile Services Attract "Media Techies" and Others
..he Strategy Analytics Global Wireless Practice. "Well-designed, mid- to high-end smartphones could be very well received." Tom Elliott, Director of EMCS and the report's author cautions, "They're not afraid to spend money. However, the ‘Select 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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Sales of Smartphones to Reach 300m by 2013
High-end mobile handsets (so-called 'smartphones') are expected to account for a growing proportion of mobile phones sold each year, potentially sustaining the performance of key brands such as Nokia at a time of economic uncertainty. A new report from Juniper Research forecasts that, between 2008 and 2013, annual sales of smartphones will rise by 95% to over 300 million. 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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Economic Downturn Sparked a Battle for 3rd Place in Mobile Phone Market
Worldwide sales of mobile phones to end-users reached more than 309 million units in the third quarter of 2008, a 6 per cent increase compared to the third quarter of 2007, according to Gartner. Growth dipped back into single figures, representing less than half the 16 per cent growth rate of the same period in 2007. more
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GPS Smartphones Generating Renewed Momentum for the LBS Infrastructure Industry
The recent launches of GPS-enabled smartphones with touch screen interfaces such as AppleÃ's iPhone, the BlackBerry Storm, the T-Mobile G1, NokiaÃ's 5800 XpressMusic, and Sony EricssonÃ's Xperia X1 are fueling interest in handset-based navigation and location based services (LBS) despite the worsening economic climate. In turn this drives both third party LBS application development and the roll out of LBS infrastructure by carriers to support the much needed Secure User Plane Location (SUPL)-compliant Assisted GPS functionality. more
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