Electronista (Free subscription) | yesterday
Pantech showed its C630 candybar handset to the media on Thursday evening and the handset is scheduled to be offered by provider AT&T starting in December. The handset maker has asked that photos of the device taken on Thursday night be embargoed unt...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | yesterday
... make calls, surf the Web, check e-mail and maybe even watch TV. Smartphones account for 12.6% of handsets in use in the U.S. market and for 19% of recently acquired phones, according to Nielsen Mobile."The smartphone market has plenty of room to grow, and we are well-positioned to benefit from our continued focus on innovation, customer value and partnerships," said Mark Guibert,...
TechNology News By SeveNSize (Free subscription) | yesterday
RIM is trying to gain market share as tech-savvy consumers embrace smartphones, which are hand-held computers that enable users to make calls, surf the Web, check e-mail and maybe even watch TV. Smartphones account for 12.6% of handsets in use in the U.S. market and for 19% of recently acquired phones, according to Nielsen Mobile. "The smartphone market has plenty of room to grow, and...
Raw Story (Free subscription) | yesterday
The BlackBerry maker is trying to gain market share as tech-savvy consumers embrace smartphones, which are hand-held computers that allow them to make calls, surf the Web, check e-mail and maybe even watch TV. Smartphones account for 12.6% of handsets in use in the U.S. market but 19% of recently acquired phones, according to Nielsen Mobile."The smartphone market has plenty of...
Capital Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
... say that service as a company-transformer is unproven: Nokia is hardware (over 38% of the global handset market) with a user base getting on for 450 million. Unfortunately, most of that is in India and China where a €30 phone does not run Nokia Maps. Although the firm no doubt plan to leverage the low end base with cheaper email, net access etc offerings that is a way off. Right now the...
China 3G Telecom Market Report (Free subscription) | 11/15/2008
p2pnet.netApple Not in Top-Five Handset Makers, Despite iPhonea s ...Teleclick.ca, Canada - 3 hours agoNokia remains the worlda s leading cell phone brand by far, with a 39.4% market share, followed by Samsung with 17.3%, and Sony Ericsson, Motorola, and...
New Phones Today (Free subscription) | 11/15/2008
Random Feed wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptp2pnet.net Apple Not in Top-Five Handset Makers, Despite iPhonea s … Teleclick.ca, Canada - 3 hours ago Nokia remains the worlda s leading cell phone brand by far, with a 39.4% market share, followed by Samsung with 17.3%, and Sony Ericsson, Motorola, and LG, [...]
The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
Handset makers collectively will sell fewer mobile phones in 2009 than this year, and sales for 2008 will be lower than previously expected, Nokia warned on Friday. However, Nokia doesn't expect smartphones to be particularly hard hit. The world's largest cell phone maker said that it now expects that total mobile phone sales across the market for 2008 will be 1.24 billion,...
Xinhuanet (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
TOKYO, Nov. 22 (Xinhua) -- Nokia, the largest cellphone handset maker in the world, plans to start mobile phone service in Japan to expand the market share of its own handsets, local media reported Saturday. It would be the first time a cellphone handset maker made inroads into telecommunication services in Japan, the Kyodo News Agency quoted sources close to the...
Nikkei (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Nokia To Launch Mobile Phone Ops In Japan In FebTOKYO (Dow Jones)--The world's biggest mobile phone handset maker - Nokia Corp. - will launch the mobile phone service business in Japan, becoming the first handset maker to provide cellphone services in the country, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported in its Saturday morning edition.
Electronista (Free subscription) | yesterday
With Finnish handset maker Nokia releasing its first touchscreen handset, the 5800 XpressMusic, early last month, now comes evidence the company will focus on a gesture-controlled interface, as per the company's Chief Designer, Alastair Curtis. He hi...
MAC News Network (Free subscription) | yesterday
With Finnish handset maker Nokia releasing its first touchscreen handset, the 5800 XpressMusic, early last month, now comes evidence the company will focus on a gesture-controlled interface, as per the company's Chief Designer, Alastair Curtis. He hinted at the potential of the gesture technology being incorporated into upcoming handsets earlier this week and Nokia already...
Tech News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Technology companies are working with telecommunications carriers and handset makers to help give location-based cellphone applications mass reach.
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Technology companies are working with telecommunications carriers and handset makers to help give location-based cellphone applications mass reach.
TechNology News By SeveNSize (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
China's bid to establish its own next generation mobile phone technology standard got a boost from the world's biggest cell phone maker. China Mobile Ltd (NYSE:CHL), the worlds' largest mobile provider, is getting support from Nokia Corp (NYSE:NOK), to launch handsets by the end of 2009 based on the Chinese 3G technology known as TD-SCDMA. The new dual-band phone will also be compliant...
