Throughout 2009, smartphones are expected to buck the downward trend that has beset the rest of the handset market as the majority of consumers cut spending in the face of the global economic downturn.
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Global mobile phone sales fell 8.6 per cent year on year to 269.1 million units in the first quarter of 2009, although sales of higher end devices were up.
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The number of smartphone operating systems is on the increase. With a variety of business and development models, from end to end proprietary to true open source, there ought to be something for everybody. While the smartphone sector as a whole is growing, though, not all of the operating systems will enjoy the same levels of success.
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Comsys, an Israel-headquartered supplier of integrated baseband chipset solutions, has announced the launch of its latest ComMAX reference design platform, the CM1125RD. Jointly developed with Signal Processing, it is billed as ‘an optimised multimode mobile WiMAX/GSM-EDGE smartphone reference design platform’.
Despite the global slowdown in consumer spending, handset vendors are expected to reap the benefits of growth in the smartphone segment, with sales of high end handsets on an upward curve over the next five years.
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Handset vendors need to get more involved with the services market and thrive, or stay hardware-focused and wither on the vine. The popularity of the Apple iPhone, despite the introductory price of $499 for the 4GB version in 2007, gave vendors a respite from the steady fall in average handset prices. Here, at last, was [...]
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iPhone To date, the humble mobile handset has evaded the vast majority of security threats now commonplace among PC users. But every so often security experts issue a warning about the multitude of dangers mobile phones will be exposed to at various points in the future. This week, one such report was published by the Georgia [...]
Phones for developing markets Issue 121 May 2005 Featuring: Style and substance on the UI Components mark a handset explosion
For your eyes only: Striking the balance between revenue and responsibility Issue 115 October 2004 Featuring: Push to talk over cellular: Can you believe the hype? Breaking out of the walled garden: Smartphones enable open access
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