Last week, three of Japan’s largest consumer electronics companies agreed to combine their mobile handset businesses in a stand-alone joint venture. The stated aim is to help the three companies – Casio, NEC and Hitachi – to make significant savings in production and marketing costs and to improve their positions in the cut-throat domestic market. The [...]
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By now, most of the major mobile handset manufacturers have announced results for Q209 and, bar any unforeseen developments at late reporters such as ZTE, these results were a little better than I’d been expecting. Nevertheless, with approximately 269 million devices shipping in the quarter just gone, this performance is still around 9% down on [...]
Canada-based smartphone-maker Research In Motion (RIM) has unveiled its fourth quarter and year-end results for fiscal 2008 (year ending February 28, 2009), wherein it has achieved a much better than expected performance in terms of revenue and customer growth. The earlier news from semiconductor maker Texas Instruments that demand for components is beginning to recover has prompted a [...]
It’s Friday, so it must be time for another story about Nokia. Or LTE. This time it’s both, as it happens… Reports are emerging that the smartphone maker is developing a high-end ‘data-intensive’ touchscreen-based device that will work on the LTE (long term evolution) network soon to be rolled out by Verizon Wireless across the US. [...]
Motorola has revealed ambitious plans to focus more on high-end mobile devices, such as smartphones, to rescue its ailing mobile handset business. Its strategy – if such it is – is to ‘develop innovative new products’, particularly high-end devices using the new Android operating system (OS). Although the company will continue to support the Windows Mobile OS, news that [...]
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