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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
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