In recent months, I’ve been looking at the flipside of the smartphone phenomenon. Smartphones accounted for 13% of all mobile device shipments in 2008 and, by 2015, such devices will likely represent around one-third of all annual new mobile phone sales, we believe.
Giddying numbers. Especially for pressurised device vendors keen to stabilise their balance sheets and [...]
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It says something about the robustness of Nokia that, when the Finnish company unveiled a 90%-plus dip in profits for the first quarter of 2009, shareholders and analysts alike all breathed a collective sigh of relief that the results hadn’t been worse.
Plus, with CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo expecting that the next quarter will see a stabilisation – [...]
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 revival [...]
Mobile network operators, keen to raise data consumption levels, are increasingly offering heavily subsidised mobile computers to subscribers, either as a stand-alone proposition or as part of a ‘bundle’ of features alongside a standard mobile telephony service.
This trend isn’t new, by any means, particularly in Europe, but it’s interesting to hear rumours that Verizon Wireless of the [...]
“May you live in interesting times.” That’s one euphemism that many of the leading players in the mobile handsets market could live without hearing at the moment.
This week alone, we’ve seen Nokia announce sweeping job cuts and operational streamlining, rumours have surfaced that Motorola may offer up its handsets division to private investors and that Sony might buy out its [...]
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