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 venture, a [...]
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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 the [...]
We’ve seen some significant announcements recently across the industry by people like Verizon, Motorola and Ericsson who have indicated that they are offering products or services that include bundled mobile broadband via embedded modules in netbooks, for example. Technology-wise, of course, we’re seeing this across HSPA, WiMAX and LTE.
Dongles are surely an interim solution [...]
Apple appears to have inadvertently exposed its plans for 3G-enabled personal computers, after eagle-eyed technology analysts spotted a (now-withdrawn) job advert on Apple’s website that sought an engineer with “experience of 3G Wireless WAN” technology.
The implication is that Apple is planning to bring its popular Macintosh personal computers into the mobile broadband space by embedding 3G-standard wireless [...]
We knew it would get worse before it starts to get better, but the first-quarter results that deluged the industry this week pretty much confirmed earlier warnings from industry-leaders such as Nokia and Samsung that the handset market could contract by 10% or more this year.
The worst of the pain should already be over, though, with the [...]
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