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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Taiwan's MediaTek announced a new quad-core ARM chip made for mid- to high-end Android devices that the company hopes will keep it competitive as rival chip makers also come out with their own quad-core chipsets. The MediaTek MT6589 chip ...
Samsung shipped nearly twice the number of smartphones as Apple during the second quarter, as potential buyers of Apple's phones and operators hold off purchases in anticipation of a rumored new iPhone 5 by October, research firm Strategy ...
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Mobile startup Ting, which delivers its voice, text and data offerings over Sprint Nextel's network, has become the newest LTE service provider by shipping its first device that uses the fast 4G technology. Ting is now shipping Samsung ...
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Nokia reported a 39% year-on-year drop in the number of smartphones it sold in the second quarter, to 10.2 million, while its net loss more than trebled. The company's total revenue for the quarter fell 19% year over year, to 7.54 billion ...
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Taipei,Oct.17,2012(CENS)--MediaTek Inc.'s consolidated revenue of NT$11 billion(US$366 million at US$1:NT$30)for September hit a 29-month high,in line with expectations that the company would have more than NT$10 billion(US$333 million)in ...
Taipei, Oct. 11, 2012 (CENS)--Industry executives estimated MediaTek Inc.'s earnings per share (EPS) for the second half of this year at the range of NT$8.06-NT$9.18, citing the better-than-expected 25.73% quarter-on-quarter increase of the ...
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Nokia continues to expand its line-up of advanced feature phones with the Asha 205,with a dedicated Facebook button allowing users to more easily access the social networking site. While Nokia is trying to revive its fortunes in the ...
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Nokia unveiled Tuesday two new models in its Asha Touch family which it claimed as its most affordable capacitive touchscreen devices. The company also debuted Nokia Life+, a free Web application, which provides content on education, ...
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Chinese telco equipment and smartphone maker ZTE is struggling to sell its wares in a sluggish market, and in face of EU and US government investigations. Chinese telco equipment and smartphone maker ZTE is struggling to sell its wares in ...
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Nokia shipped 10.2 million smartphones in the second quarter of 2012 – 39% less than the same period last year. The company reported its results for Q2 today, which revealed only four million of the 10 million handsets sold were ...
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Nokia has announced its second quarter results for 2012 - and they didn't make pleasant reading. A 19% drop in sales, a 39% fall in smartphone shipments and just four million Lumia devices shipped – compare with Apple, which sold 35 ...
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