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Articles tagged with: Symbian
Smartphone sales buck the recession
A report by Infonetics Research is forecasting an 8% drop in the total number of mobile phones sold in 2009, to 1.1 billion worldwide (down from 1.2 billion in 2008), in line with predictions from Nokia, among others. Smartphones were the best-performing segment of the mobile phones market in 2008 and the only segment to show unit and revenue growth in the second half of the year as the world economy entered recession. more
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Devicescape Launches White-Lable Wi-Fi Password Manager
Wi-Fi software developer, Devicescape has announced a new program to customize its "Easy Wi-Fi" application specifically to a service provider's own network footprint and brand. This new program gives service providers their own "locked Easy Wi-Fi" application which automates access only to their own network and roaming partners, in order to deliver a hassle-free experience to their customers. 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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CIOs Can Cut 50 to 80 Percent of Communications Costs
Yankee Group has demonstrated that CIOs and corporate IT departments of small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) can save more than 50 to 80 percent on costs related to corporate wireless, e-mail and messaging by moving to an Anywhere IT environment. more
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Smart Phones Ring in Healthy Growth in 2009 Despite Mobile Meltdown
Although the outlook for the overall mobile handset market continues to dim, smart phones remain a bright spot with global unit growth as high as 11.1 percent in 2009, iSuppli is predicting. iSuppli's optimistic forecast for global smart phone unit shipments calls for 192.3 million units in 2009, up 11.1 percent from 173.6 million in 2008. A more pessimistic outlook calls for growth of only 6 percent this year, reaching 183.9 million units. more
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Nokia Secures European Loan for Symbian R&D
Nokia says that it has completed a EUR 500 million (US$630 million) loan agreement with the European Investment Bank (EIB). The five-year loan will be used to part-finance software research and development (R&D) projects Nokia is undertaking during 2009-2011 to make symbian-based smartphones more competitive. more
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Nokia to Integrate Skype VoIP Services into Nokia Phones
Skype and Nokia have announced a partnership that will bring Skype's VoIP platform to the Nokia range of mobile phones. Under the terms of the cooperation, Skype will be integrated into Nokia devices, starting with the Nokia Nseries. The Nokia N97 device will be the first to incorporate the Skype experience in the 3rd quarter of 2009. more
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Nokia and Qualcomm to Work Together on 3G Phones
Nokia and Qualcomm, who have spent much of the past few years very publicly fighting over their patents have hugged and made up - and are planning to work together to develop UMTS mobile devices, initially for North America. more
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Sony Ericsson Previews 12.1 Megapixel Camera Phone
Sony Ericsson is unveiling a 12.1 megapixel cameraphone W995 Walkman phone at Mobile World Congress. The company is also showing a mobile phone under the concept name Idou giving a glimpse of one of a number of projects that will be launched this year under a brand-name of "Entertainment Unlimited". more
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Qualcomm Targets Sub-$150 Smartphones with Lower Cost Chipset
Qualcomm has announced a new Mobile Station Modem MSM7227 chipset designed to lead towards sub-$150 smartphones. The MSM7227 solution will offer advanced processing and rich multimedia while utilizing HSDPA/HSUPA for broadband data speeds over 3G networks. It also can support all leading mobile operating systems including Android, symbian S60, Windows Mobile and BREW Mobile Platform. more
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