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 [...]
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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 [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
Excuse the pun, but the code-name of the long-awaited next-generation Palm OS lends itself very well to the smartphone pioneer’s current predicament. Palm – best known for its popular Treo and Centro smartphones – plans to unveil at January’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) some ‘Palm New-ness’ that we’ve apparently been waiting for. Though the company [...]
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