In first-quarter 2013, mobile phone shipments grew 12% year-on-year (YoY) to an estimated 405 million handsets, according to market analyst firm ABI Research’s Mobile Handset Markets database service. However, this was due to the ...
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Yahoo is giving itself a bit of a makeover. Earlier this week it launched two new mobile apps for email and weather; now it's ditching numerous longstanding products, including Deals and SMS Alerts, in an attempt to sharpen its focus, the ...
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In many parts of the world, smartphone shipments account for a larger percentage of mobile handset shipments than feature phones and low-cost handsets, yet among smartphones segmentation is increasing to three price tiers (low, mid, and ...
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The crisis at mobile phone maker Nokia is intensifying as sales of its once-bedrock feature phones fell by more than 21 per cent in the first quarter, according to the company's latest financial report. Feature phones have kept the ...
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IT spending remained broadly strong throughout a difficult end to 2012, as business confidence waned in the shadow of the "fiscal cliff," economic growth declined in much of Europe, and economies in Asia/Pacific struggled to cope with ...
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According to the IDC report released today, global smartphone sales will surpass feature phones, mainly because smartphone prices fall and 4G networks becomes widespread. IDC estimates that 2013 smart phones shipments will be 918.6 million, ...
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Nokia has expanded its Lumia portfolio with the 520 and 720. The Lumia 520 is the company's cheapest Windows phone to date at $184, and comes as the company is under pressure to increase sales volumes. The struggling phone vendor's switch ...
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Huawei Technologies has expanded its device portfolio with the LTE-equipped Ascend P2 as the company hopes to climb upwards in the smartphone market. The phone supports the latest version of the high-speed LTE data networking system ...
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Mozilla has revealed that LG, ZTE, Huawei and TCL will all be producing handsets for its Firefox OS for mobiles. In an event at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, it also said that 18 operators, including Deutsche Telekom and ...
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Samsung Electronics has launched REX, a new series of "smart feature phones" that it will sell in emerging markets. Countries such as Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia and China will drive much of the volume growth in the global phone ...
Samsung has launched a new series of “smart feature phones” called REX, which the firm will sell in emerging markets. Countries such as Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia and China will drive much of the volume growth in the ...
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Global smartphone sales skyrocketed by 38% in the fourth quarter year over year. Meanwhile, Samsung ended 2012 in the top position for both smartphone sales and overall mobile phone sales, Gartner reported Wednesday. Even with the ...
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Global smartphone sales went up by 38 percent in the fourth quarter year over year, Gartner reported on Wednesday, with Samsung ending 2012 in the top position for both smartphone sales and overall mobile phone sales. Even with the ...
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Global mobile phone shipments grew a modest 2% annually to reach 1.6 billion units in 2012, according to a report from Strategy Analytics’ Wireless Smartphone Strategies (WSS) service. “Ongoing macroeconomic challenges in ...
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Nokia's net costs for adopting Windows Phone as its smartphone operating system platform are set to rocket as Microsoft's "platform support payments" to Nokia start to decline, while Lumia sales have failed to ramp up sufficiently to cover ...
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