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Mobile Handset and Smartphone Market in 2010 and Beyond
ABI Research estimates that two hundred and ninety-one million handsets were shipped during 3Q 2009. While this is down 6.5% YoY (Year-over-Year), the quarter was up 8.1% QoQ (Quarter-over-Quarter). While underlying consumer confidence in the mass-market consumer electronics marketplace is still weak, is the handset market demonstrating the beginning of a return to f...

Frankenstein's Smartphone
Through an elongated period comprising schizophrenic swings from sheer delight to utter frustration, I have been on an extended review period with four different devices. Some clear conclusions have come to mind, probably the most profound being that like people, they all have faults. Some more than others! I feel that all of the vested parties could benefit from l...

Embedded NFC, But It’s Not the Headline Feature
Earlier this year, Malaysian mobile handset manufacturer Fonelabs announced that its new X-Series line of mobile handsets would ship with embedded NFC. Last week the company told NFC World, that it was about to start shipping the devices and by this time next year expects to have shipped 2 million of NFC-embedded handsets. ...

Mobile Handset and Smartphone Market in 2010 and Beyond
ABI Research estimates that two hundred and ninety-one million handsets were shipped during 3Q 2009. While this is down 6.5% YoY (Year-over-Year), the quarter was up 8.1% QoQ (Quarter-over-Quarter). While underlying consumer confidence in the mass-market consumer electronics marketplace is still weak, is the handset market demonstrating the beginning of a return to f...

Frankenstein's Smartphone
Through an elongated period comprising schizophrenic swings from sheer delight to utter frustration, I have been on an extended review period with four different devices. Some clear conclusions have come to mind, probably the most profound being that like people, they all have faults. Some more than others! I feel that all of the vested parties could benefit from l...

Embedded NFC, But It’s Not the Headline Feature
Earlier this year, Malaysian mobile handset manufacturer Fonelabs announced that its new X-Series line of mobile handsets would ship with embedded NFC. Last week the company told NFC World, that it was about to start shipping the devices and by this time next year expects to have shipped 2 million of NFC-embedded handsets. ...
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