Articles tagged with: Wind and Music

Mobile Phones Get Smarter at CTIA with Touch Screen Tech

This month's International CTIA Wireless 2009 event in Las Vegas showcased in the mobile handset's industry increasing focus on smart phones, as illustrated by prevalence of announcements related to touch-screen technology, according to iSuppli. more

Recession to cut mobile entertainment growth by nearly $13 billion over next 5 years

Growth in user spend on mobile entertainment services will slow dramatically over the next two years unless key markets emerge from recession, according to a new report from Juniper Research. In addition, the report argued that slower deployment of content services meant that revenues were likely to be lower than previously forecast even after markets emerged from the downturn. more

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Recession Causes Mobile Entertainment Growth to Decline to 7% p.a.

A new report from Juniper Research warns that, while its best case forecasts estimate that the mobile entertainment market will reach nearly $36bn in 2010, revenue growth will be markedly lower if the global recession fails to bottom-out over the next twelve months. 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

Mobile Music Revenues to Reach $14.6bn by 2013 Despite Fall in Ringtone Sales

A sharp fall in ringtone revenues will be more than offset by growth in full-track downloads, streamed music services and ringback tones, according to a new report from Juniper Research which forecasts that global revenues from mobile music services will reach nearly US$14.6 billion by 2013. more

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HTC SHows Off Two New Smartphones

Taiwan based HTC Corp. has unveiled two new flagship devices, the HTC Touch Diamond2 and HTC Touch Pro2, which both support HTC's latest TouchFLO 3D interface. more

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Gold-Plated Phones with Built in Mechanical Clocks

..tions per hour, has 28 hours of power reserve, and is a self-winding automatic mechanism with ball-bearing. When the keypad lights up, both movements are illuminated, allowing the watches to be viewed in low light conditions. The Discovery mecha more

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Nokia kick-starts GPS market in Europe

Opinion piece by Tony Cripps and Michele Mackenzie, principal analysts

According to a new Ovum forecast, the market for GPS-enabled mobile devices will grow rapidly, from an estimated 163.9 million shipments in 2007 to almost 572 million in 2012. In the early years this growth has been driven by the CDMA players, namely Qualcomm, serving large CDMA markets such as the US, where the E911 mandate stipulates the use of location-based technologies in handsets, and markets such as Korea and Japan where demand for location-enabled services is higher than in other regions. more

Rumours of Microsoft Mobile Phone Reappear

A research note has renewed suspicions that Microsoft could be working on an own-branded mobile phone to shore up support for its windows Mobile platform in the face of competition from other smartphone operating systems. 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