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Chip maker Nvidia is getting ready for a flurry of smartphones powered by its Tegra 3 quad-core application processor, and it is not shy to talk about it. In fact, the company has just confirmed that it expects the number of such devices to grow up to 30, suggesting that some of them will come with low price tags. ... |
25 May 2012
01:55 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is looking to differentiate in a market saturated with Android and iPhones, but it does not want to bring fragmentation to the Windows Phone platform.
Of course, Nokia devices will have their own specific features that will make them stand up in the crowd, but the company does not ... |
19 January 2012
13:41 GMT |
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Google’s Android operating system has managed to take over the US smartphone market a while ago, and the platform remains on top for another quarter, the latest data from Nielsen shows. On the smartphone segment, Android was leader with no less than 46.3 percent of all smartphones in the US in Q4 2011, the rese... |
19 January 2012
11:26 GMT |
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LTE smartphones are picking up pace. The first handsets to offer support for this 4G technology have landed on shelves roughly a year ago, and they have become increasingly popular since.
During 2012, smartphones that offer support for 4G LTE connectivity are expected to account for around 5 percent of the total sma... |
17 January 2012
14:01 GMT |
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Rumor has it that the Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion plans on putting itself up for grabs, and that it has already kicked off the process.
Apparently, the leading handset vendor hired investment bank Goldman Sachs to look into various strategic options.
The BlackBerry maker has been long rumored ... |
16 January 2012
05:04 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has just made available for purchase its first Windows Phone devices, yet the company seems confident that the platform will prevail in front of Android and iOS devices.
Furthermore, the handset vendor believes that the market has become saturated with such devices, and that users ... |
13 December 2011
15:41 GMT |
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Several weeks ago, Adobe announced that it planned on putting an end to the development of Flash Player for mobile browsers, which leaves many people with only one option when it comes to similar technologies, namely HTML5.
The standard can be used on a wide range of devices without too much of a fuss, which shoul... |
9 December 2011
15:51 GMT |
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Smartphone sales in China are going up, and the market has just claimed the top position in the world, a recent report from Strategy Analytics unveils.
During the third quarter of the year, sales of smartphones reached a record 24 million units in China, which allowed the country to get in front of the United State... |
23 November 2011
16:01 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung managed to secure the leading position on the smartphone market during the third quarter of the ongoing year, and the latest data from IDC brings some more info on the matter.
Samsung shipped over 23.6 million smartphones in the third quarter of the ongoing year, grabbing a ... |
4 November 2011
14:31 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics was already crowned as the leading smartphone maker for the third quarter of the ongoing year, and it seems that the company will remain there at least for a while.
During the three months ended September 2011, Samsung shipped around 27.30 million smartphones, wh... |
3 November 2011
17:11 GMT |
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Japanese-Swedish mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson is set to bring to the market more smartphones than before, the company has just announced. During their third-quarter 2011 earnings call, the company said that smartphones already are an important part of their business, and that they might soon take over their enti... |
17 October 2011
13:21 GMT |
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The smartphone segment is expected to suffer major changes starting with the fourth quarter of the ongoing year, as new, highly appealing devices should hit the market soon.
Apple, Nokia and Samsung are only some of the vendors who will bring new devices to shelves in the coming months, and they might change the... |
3 October 2011
16:11 GMT |
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In the next few months, the first Nokia handsets to run under Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system are expected to hit the market, and they are said to be stunning.
Reportedly, these are the exact words that Nokia’s Conor Pierce, general manager for UK and Ireland, used to describe the future sm... |
30 September 2011
08:10 GMT |
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Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC was once the largest provider of devices running under Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system, yet the company is selling at the moment more Android devices than Windows Phones.
However, it seems that they are still confident that Microsoft's mobile operating syste... |
29 September 2011
15:11 GMT |
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Microsoft is confident that their Windows Phone operating system will conquer more hearts than other mobile platforms out there, and that it will prove one of the top OSes on the smartphone market, the company's CEO has confirmed once again. For the time being, however, things are not as good as Microsoft might... |
15 September 2011
15:21 GMT |
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Analysts are projecting that Apple will have sold no less than 86.4 million iPhone units in 2011, whereas hard-to-beat Nokia will only record 74.4 million smartphones sold by year's end.According to Luke Lin, an analyst for Digitimes Research, Apple’s smartphone shipments are expected to surpass the 86.4 m... |
6 September 2011
07:44 GMT |
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Touchscreen displays are expected to gain increased traction on the market in the next few years, especially in the smartphhone area, a new report from ABI Research shows.
The research firm suggests that touchscreens will be present on around 97 percent of smartphones by 2016, enjoying impressive growth when com... |
27 August 2011
09:51 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics plans the release of new devices at IFA this year, and some of them will land on the mobile market, helping the company gain more share in the area.While no specific info on what the company intends to release was unveiled, a video teaser that Samsung published on ... |
19 August 2011
05:06 GMT |
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For the first time ever, Google's Android operating system managed to take the crown from Apple's iOS platform on the Australian market. The mobile platform has seen an impressive growth the past few years, and is expected to continue on this ascendant route for the next few years as well. In Australia, th... |
18 August 2011
05:22 GMT |
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A few weeks ago, we learned that Nokia has lost the top position on the smartphone market, when its smartphone sales for the second quarter of the year fell behind Apple's, but it seems that the decline was worse than originally expected.
South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung managed to sell more smartpho... |
29 July 2011
04:16 GMT |
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With sales of smartphones increasing fast, the market is expected to reach new heights in the coming years. By the end of 2016, sales will surpass 1 billion units, a recent report from IMS Research, leading independent provider of market research and consultancy to the global electronics industry, shows.
The com... |
27 July 2011
14:01 GMT |
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While the selling over 100 million Windows Phone handsets a year might seem like a far away dream for Microsoft at times when Android activates over half a million devices each day and is on the rise, having these smartphones drop to under $100 is an achievable goal. In less than a year, the company expects for smar... |
15 July 2011
07:59 GMT |
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Not only is Apple getting ready to achieve an important milestone with the shipping of no less than 100 million iPhone devices over a 12-month period, but the company is also enjoying the highest level of profits on the handset area.
The Cupertino-based company accounted for about 50 percent of the net earnings ... |
9 July 2011
05:51 GMT |
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Espoo, Finland-based mobile phone maker Nokia is expected to hit the third place on the smartphone market during this quarter, the latest analyst reports suggest.
According to Nomura Research, Nokia is about to lose the crown on the smartphone market, after climbing to the top on this segment in 1996.
The lea... |
13 June 2011
18:11 GMT |
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Windows Phone, the new mobile operating system that Microsoft launched on devices in October last year, is expected to become the second platform on the smartphone market in 2015, a recent report from IDC reiterates. The research firm already said that the platform is expected to become a leader on the market, and i... |
10 June 2011
15:11 GMT |
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More and more devices running under Android are being activated each and every day, showing that Google's mobile operating system is actually gaining momentum, the comany unveiled today.The number of new devices being activated is four times larger that last year and, with Symbian out of the way, Android is get... |
10 May 2011
14:33 GMT |
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The global smartphoner market went up 79.7 percent on a yearly basis during the first quarter of the ongoing year, the latest data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker shows. The market is growing due to older smartphones being offered at lower price tags, the availa... |
6 May 2011
15:11 GMT |
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During the first quarter of the ongoing year, Japanese-Swedish mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson has managed to ship a number of no less than 8.1 million handsets, 23 percent lower than in the first quarter of the last year, and 28 percent down from the previous quarter. The company has market a significant decrease ... |
19 April 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Google's Android operating system is expected to become the leading mobile operating system during the ongoing year, accounting for no less than 38.5 percent of all smartphones on the market in 2011, up from only 22.7 percent it enjoyed last year, a recent report from Gartner shows.According to the research fir... |
7 April 2011
15:51 GMT |
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Google's Android operating system is expected to account for around 45 percent of the total smartphone shipments in 2016, becoming the leading mobile operating system in the world. At the same time, the company notes that Apple’s iOS is expected to be placed on the second position on the market at that ti... |
1 April 2011
12:00 GMT |
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The global smartphone market is expected to increase significantly during the next few years, while undergoing a series of changes determined by the recent partnership between Nokia and Microsoft. According to a recent report from Ovum, Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 operating system is expected to become the thir... |
30 March 2011
15:21 GMT |
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Today, Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia and Redmond-based software giant Microsoft announced a strategic partnership that would result in the availability of Nokia smartphones powered by the Windows Phone operating system. Somehow expected, the alliance will create new opportunities for both companies, while driving... |
11 February 2011
03:15 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics is confident that it would manage to sell over 60 million smartphones during the ongoing year, three times more than the number of such devices it managed to move last year.The popularity of the company's Galaxy devices is increasing, and the same applies to h... |
11 January 2011
10:02 GMT |
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Google's Android mobile operating system is gaining more and more ground in its attempt to climb at the top of the US smartphone platform market, nearing Apple's iOS, which is currently the leading platform in the country. November data from The Nielsen Company, shows that Android is appealing even more to... |
4 January 2011
11:51 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has been through some pretty tough months lately, with the launch of the new Symbian^3 OS, followed by the loss of its CEO and of other top executives, but it seems that the company is quite optimistic about the future.Still the largest phone maker in the world, Nokia has been losing... |
16 November 2010
16:37 GMT |
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The global smartphone market reached a number of 81.1 million units during the third quarter of the ongoing year, marking an increase of 89.5 percent when compared to the 42.8 million units that were shipped during 3Q 2009, a recent report from IDC shows.According to the research firm, mobile phone makers posted dou... |
5 November 2010
14:31 GMT |
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Hewlett Packard, the leading computer maker all around the world, recently confirmed that it would focus solely on webOS when it comes to its future smartphones. According to the company, it does not plan on coming to the market with such devices powered by Microsoft's upcoming Windows Phone 7 platform, nor by ... |
26 July 2010
08:28 GMT |
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Finland-based mobile phone maker Nokia has had some difficult times lately on the handset market. Although the manufacturer is still the leading company in the area, it started losing market share in various countries and segments, including the high-end smartphone area, where the fiercest battles for supremacy... |
2 July 2010
10:20 GMT |
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The launch of a Symbian^3-based Nokia handset has been delayed, it seems. The Finnish mobile phone maker will bring its first such device to the market only in the second half of the ongoing year, pushing its launch back from the second quarter, recent reports unveiled. Moreover, the company has reportedly lowered t... |
23 April 2010
05:43 GMT |
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Leading Taiwan-based mobile phone maker HTC Corporation is reportedly considering the possibility to launch smartphones powered by its own mobile operating system. The company is known for the smartphones launched on the market with Microsoft’s Windows Mobile or Google's Android platform, and the launch o... |
13 April 2010
10:50 GMT |
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Kyocera Communications Inc., the provider of wireless devices under the Kyocera and Sanyo brands, announced today the launch of its first mobile phone powered by Google's Android operating system, the Kyocera Zio M6000. The new handset, announced at the CTIA Wireless 2010 trade show in Las Vegas, sports an eleg... |
23 March 2010
07:43 GMT |
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A recent report from ABI Research demonstrates that the smartphone market showed a remarkable growth during the fourth quarter of the last year. While the fourth quarter is usually the best one when it comes to sales performance of handsets, last year's final three months period registered impressively strong s... |
15 March 2010
16:51 GMT |
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The competition on the smartphone market is expected to increase significantly during the ongoing year, with the Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation being said to lose market share to rivals like Motorola, Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics (LGE) and Sony Ericsson. The handset vendor is already known as be... |
8 February 2010
05:50 GMT |
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The smartphone shipments in the fourth quarter of the last year have reportedly increased by 30% on a yearly basis, reaching a record of 53 million units and marking the strongest growth since the third quarter of 2008, a recent report from Strategy Analytics notes. According to the research firm, this also shows th... |
1 February 2010
12:31 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics unveiled recently a series of bold plans for the ongoing year, including the fact that it aims at releasing around 10 smartphones that will run under Google's Android OS. According to the company, it intends to sell no less than 140 million phones during 2010, with... |
14 January 2010
05:53 GMT |
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The global mobile phone sales to end users during the ongoing year are expected to top 1.214 billion units, driven mainly by the stronger sales in the Western European market and by an increase in handsets sold via the gray market, a recent report from Gartner shows. According to the research firm, the total sales wi... |
15 December 2009
15:41 GMT |
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Computer maker Acer has just unveiled a few more details on its plans for the smartphone market for the next year. Not to long ago, the company stated that it planned on launching mode devices in 2010, and that the lineup would be more balanced between the operating systems featured by the handsets, and now the comp... |
11 December 2009
06:37 GMT |
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Computer maker Acer is one of the newcomers on the smartphone market, this is something most of you might already know. The company launched 10 handsets during the ongoing year, 9 of which were powered by Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system, while one of them, the Acer A1 Liquid, has just reached the ma... |
28 November 2009
05:36 GMT |
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According to a recent report from The NPD Group, the average purchase price for mobile phones on the US market has been dropping lately. The latest buy-one-get-one (BOGO) offers, as well as other price cuts, have led to a drop of 3 percent in the average selling price for mobile phones in the third quarter of the on... |
24 November 2009
04:42 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Smasung has been rumored recently to plan removing Symbian from its future smartphone roadmap. However, some news site went even further, stating that the company is also intending to stop the support for the OS, due to the launch of its own mobile phone platform, called bada. While th... |
13 November 2009
04:38 GMT |
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