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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has been losing market share lately, mainly due to the transition from the Symbian OS to Windows Phone, but it appears that it still managed to retain the top position on the mobile market.
The latest data coming from IDC shows that Nokia remained the top handset vendor in the worl... |
2 February 2012
16:01 GMT |
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Nokia might have lost the battle for supremacy on the smartphone market, but they did not lose the war on the mobile phone area, that's for sure.
At 24.5 percent market share, Nokia is still in front of Samsung, at least this is what the Q2 2011 numbers from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwid... |
30 July 2011
05:37 GMT |
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Slowly but surely, Samsung is gaining more ground on the mobile phone market, greatly helped by its smartphone lineup, a quite impressive one, that's for sure.
The company managed to impress a lot of end-users with its latest flagship handsets running under Google's Android operating system, and might ... |
18 July 2011
05:38 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics has unveiled today that it managed to sell a number of more than 2.34 million mobile phones on the market in its homeland country during the month of May.According to the leading handset vendor, this amount of sales would bring the total number of sales up by over ... |
1 June 2011
04:59 GMT |
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The mobile phone market around the world has been greatly affected by the economic turmoil during the last year, that's no secret. Handset sales were slower than before, users consumed less services from wireless carriers, driving revenues downwards, and many players in the telecoms industry registered great lo... |
7 July 2010
06:50 GMT |
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The mobile phone market in Western Europe has registered impressive growth during the first quarter of the ongoing year, a recent report from IDC states. According to the research company, the market went up 8.1 percent year on year to 42.7 million units in 1Q10, helped by a 57 increase in smartphone shipments in th... |
2 July 2010
09:21 GMT |
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A recently published report from Gartner, Inc. shows that the mobile-phone market will continue to have as its leader the Finnish handset vendor Nokia, which sold 441 million phone units in 2009, and that registered a 2.2-percent drop in market share when compared with the previous year. The research firm also notes ... |
23 February 2010
14:01 GMT |
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The mobile phone market reportedly showed some recovery during the fourth quarter of the last year, after registering a series of slow quarters during 2009. According to a recently published research from Strategy Analytics, the handset shipments in the time frame went up by 10 percent when compared to the fourth qu... |
29 January 2010
14:51 GMT |
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A recently published report from IDC shows that the worldwide mobile phone market went up by 11.3 percent in the fourth quarter of the last year, with a number of 325.3 million units shipped during the time frame when compared to 292.4 million units shipped in the same period a year ago. According to IDC's Worl... |
29 January 2010
03:02 GMT |
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Leading custom research company TNS has recently announced the results of its annual Global Telecoms and Insight Study, and has stated that the recession is ended when it comes to the mobile phone market in 2010. The study, conducted on over 24,000 consumers in 35 markets, shows that around 53 percent of Americans (... |
5 January 2010
14:51 GMT |
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The market of mobile phones in Western Europe has started to grow, something that happens for the first time in the last four or five quarters. According to a recent report form IDC, the Western European market grew 5 percent on a yearly basis during the third quarter of the ongoing year. The research firm also show... |
7 December 2009
06:04 GMT |
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According to a recent report from Gartner, the total number of mobile phones sold during the third quarter of the ongoing year reached 308.9 million units, marking a 0.1 per cent increase when compared to the same time frame in 2008. At the same time, the research firm also shows that smartphone sales managed to top ... |
12 November 2009
07:29 GMT |
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The global mobile phone maker has seen improvements in the third quarter of the ongoing year, yet it seems that the same does not apply to the Canadian handset market. According to a recent report from IDC, the sales of mobile phones in Canada went down by 8 percent in Q3 2009, marking the third quarterly decline it ... |
7 November 2009
07:08 GMT |
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The smartphone market in China has seen strong growth lately, marking a rise of more than 30 percent in shipments in 2008 when compared to the previous year. According to a recent report from In-Stat, smartphones accounted for around 15.3 percent of the total shipments of mobile phones in the country last year, compa... |
4 November 2009
05:55 GMT |
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The worldwide mobile phone market, as many of you might already know, has been greatly impacted by the financial downturn, and it was said on some occasions to be shrinking by about 10 percent during 2009, when compared to the previous year. The third quarter of 2009 has shown some signs of improvement for the market... |
2 November 2009
14:31 GMT |
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The global mobile phone market has reportedly seen some increase in the third quarter of the ongoing year, although it still remained lower than in the third quarter of last year. IDC’s Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker shows that the mobile phone shipments in the time frame totaled 287.1 million units all around ... |
30 October 2009
11:09 GMT |
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The mobile phone market seems to begin its recovery after the financial downturn that affected it during the past few quarters, at least this is what IDC says that happens in the Western European countries. The IDC European Mobile Phone Tracker shows that, compared with the second quarter of the last year, handset ma... |
19 September 2009
06:51 GMT |
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AT&T won't be the only US carrier that FCC plans to investigate in the near future, it seems, as the commission has announced recently that it intends to take a closer look into the business practices among US wireless carriers. The issue that surfaced with AT&T, Apple, and the iPhone Google Voice application se... |
31 August 2009
06:39 GMT |
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IDC has recently published its Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, which unveils the fact that the global mobile phone market has been shrinking in the second quarter of the ongoing year when compared to the same time frame a year ago. Even so, while year on year the drop was of 10.8 percent, the market registe... |
31 July 2009
07:37 GMT |
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According to the latest news on the Wed, South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics plans to release to the market in 2009 a number of 80 handsets, 12 of which will be smartphones. In addition, the company's vice-president of marketing strategy for Mobile Communications, Ma Chang-min, is also reported to hav... |
12 June 2009
08:06 GMT |
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According to a recent market research report from ABI Research, the mobile phone market has seen a decline during the first quarter of the ongoing year and is expected to follow the same trend throughout the entire 2009. The report shows that 35 million fewer units were shipped around the world during the first three... |
12 June 2009
04:39 GMT |
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ZTE is a leading telecommunications equipment maker from China, yet it also has a strong position on the mobile phone market, and it is expected to grow even more in the future, so as to become one of the top five phone vendors in the world during the ongoing year. Putting the company's name beside other ones in... |
8 April 2009
03:00 GMT |
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14 new companies are announced to have joined the Symbian Foundation, this way transforming Nokia's Symbian camp into a bigger organization than Google's Open Hand Alliance, which includes 47 members since December last year. The new members of the team include HP, Qualcomm, MySpace and SanDisk, as well as ... |
13 February 2009
03:59 GMT |
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According to a report recently published by ABI Research, the number of handsets featuring GPS support will continue to rise this year, given the fact that smartphones see more and more traction from consumers, while the location-based service area is getting crowded. According to the report, the number of phones wit... |
22 January 2009
05:35 GMT |
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A new study coming from the Centre for Telecoms Research (CTR) in London reached the conclusion that the number of mobile phone subscribers will be of 600 million by 2011.The result of the study reveals a large number of expected subscriptions, as there are currently more than 100 million such phone contracts current... |
7 May 2007
06:30 GMT |
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