The online incarnation of the UK-based newspaper, the Guardian, carries an interesting article today in which it cites unnamed sources as saying that Nokia is planning to launch a new touchscreen handset that will use the Android open-source Operating System (OS) software. Said to be unveiled at the Nokia World shindig in September, the Android-based [...]
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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 [...]
This week, Apple and AT&T each released results for Q1 2009. Naturally enough, both were keen to talk up the continued vigorous growth in sales of iPhones. AT&T has the exclusive rights to sell the iPhone in the US and sold more than 1.6 million units to customers during Q1. Overall, Apple shipped nearly 3.8 million units over [...]
I suppose it was inevitable, given the intensity of the media focus on the handset industry’s collective leap onto the smartphone bandwagon, but it seems that hardly a day can go by without another technology company getting in on the act. It’s been announced that Taiwan-based PDA and computer equipment maker ASUSTeK Computer is teaming [...]
Computer makers Acer and Dell are said to be developing high-end mobile phones to complement their successful laptop and desktop computer portfolios. Such a move would not only help to sustain growth during the recession, but also put them in a better position to counter the growing threat of rival Apple, which has enjoyed enormous success in this [...]
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