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App-y Holidays


by Howard Wilcox on December 11th, 2009

Ok I apologise but I couldn’t resist that one! If you asked me what is different about this year’s holiday season then I’d say the profusion of apps. Not just apps from retailers either. Of course there are more and more of those, such as House of Fraser just announced.
It’s more than these though. I’ve noticed [...]

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Nokia Smartphones: Will half as much prove to be twice as good?


by Patrick Fairlie on December 8th, 2009

Last week, Jo Harlow head of Nokia’s Smartphone division announced that Nokia will be halving their smartphone portfolio in 2010. In the past, Nokia has always profited from having a large selection of handsets so this decision was surely made with much thought involved. But will halving the portfolio prove to be a winning strategy? [...]

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Japan: Handset Merger Plan Signals Change of Tactics?


by Andy Kitson on September 21st, 2009

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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Handset Sales Down 7.6%; Annual 10% Fall Still Likely


by Andy Kitson on August 3rd, 2009

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 [...]

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Recent Goverment Actions Will Lower Handset TCO


by Andy Kitson on June 22nd, 2009

Over the last fortnight number of announcements have been made that I think are worth examining in the context of Juniper’s recently-published report on low-cost handsets and how we expect operators and vendors to concentrate on this potentially massive market.
Pakistan has just reduced the mandatory SIM Activation Tax from Rs500 per connection to Rs250, while ‘regulatory [...]

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