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Articles tagged with: Wind and Lg
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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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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Western European Mobile Phone Market now in Recession
Three consecutive quarters of negative growth have led the Western European mobile phone market into recession. According to IDC's European Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped 53.6 million units in 4Q08, 13.5% lower than the 62 million units shipped in 4Q07. For the full year 2008, vendors shipped 190.5 million units in Western Europe, 5.9% lower than the 202.5 million units shipped in 2007. 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
Related Tags: sony-ericsson, t-mobile, nokia, iphone, smartphone, samsung, motorola, apple, apple, rsa, smartphones, o2, ericsson, gartner, iden, sony, omnia, apple-iphone, walkman, xperia, display, music
Nokia getting on top of handset media portability
Opinion by Tony Cripps, principal analyst at Ovum
Nokia has greatly extended the range of its multimedia codec support in the
fifth edition of its S60 platform for Symbian OS, in an effort to overcome the
problems of multimedia portability arising from codec proliferation. An
important addition to the core is Microsoft's windows Media Audio (WMA)
format, which largely completes Nokia's audio codec support. However, some
gaps still remain, notably the DivX Internet video codec and the popular, and
free, Ogg family.
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Related Tags: microsoft, p2p-, samsung, apple, apple, rcom, ovum, ofta, symbian, windows, display, nokia,, archos, true
Broadcom Claims Qualcomm's Licensing Practices Violate U.S. Law
..t these practices constitute patent misuse that has brought Qualcomm a financial windfall and brought harm to the industry and consumers. The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled on the scope of the patent exhaustion doctrine in Quanta Computer v more
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UPDATE: Sony Ericsson Plans 2000 Job Cuts
STOCKHOLM -(Dow Jones)- Sony Ericsson struggled to break even in the second quarter amid continued weak sales of mid-to-high-end phones and increased competition, and said it would cut costs. more
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Mobile Linux Handset Support Takes a Big Step Forward
Related Tags: broadcom, zte, docomo, telecom-italia, panasonic, nxp, ims-research, ims, mobile-linux, limo-foundation, samsung-electronics, operating-system, linux, panasonic-mobile, mcafee, os, wind-river, motorola,, cagr
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