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Strong Demand for Smartphones and Heated Vendor Competition Characterize the Worldwide Mobile Phone

2013-01-25 18:36:09| MobileTechNews

The smartphone market is still dominated by Samsung (29%) and Apple (21.8%), followed by Huawei (4.9%), Sony (4.5%), and ZTE (4.3%), according to this IDC report.

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Can new smartphones rekindle the BlackBerry fire?

2013-01-25 14:08:27| InfoWorld: Top News

"Not dead yet" could well be the new BlackBerry marketing theme, as the world prepares to hear about two new BlackBerry 10 smartphones to be announced next Wednesday. Days before the announcement, there is fairly wide disagreement among analysts and developers over whether Research In Motion can stop the dramatic decline of its BlackBerry phones. The BlackBerry was the market leader until the iPhone was introduced in 2007 and Android phones after that. Its market share fell to 10 percent in 2010 and has dwindled to 5 percent today.

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Unauthorized unlocking of smartphones becomes illegal Saturday

2013-01-25 13:57:11| CNET News.com

The feds mandate fidelity between carriers and users: New rule under DMCA outlaws unlocking new handsets without carrier permission. [Read more]

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Mobile phone market grows 1.9%, smartphones 36.4% in Q4

2013-01-25 10:05:00| Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) The global mobile phone market grew by 1.9 percent to 482.5 million units in the fourth quarter of 2012, compared to 473.4 million in the fourth quarter of 2011, according to IDC. Shipments for the full year were generally flat in 2012, down 0.2 percent on over 1.7 billion units shipped in 2011. Smartphone shipments rose by 36.4 percent to 219.4 million units in the fourth quarter, accounting for a record 45.5 percent of all mobile phones. For the full year, smartphone shipments rose by 10.1 percent to 545.2 million units. Samsung ranked first for mobile phones and smartphones in the fourth quarter, shipping 111.2 million mobile phones for a 23 percent market share and 63.7 million smartphones for a 29 percent market share. Nokia was the second biggest vendor of mobile phones at 86.3 million units for a 17.9 percent market share, but did not place in the top five for smartphones. Apple was third for mobile phones, shipping 47.8 million units for a 17.9 percent share, and second for smartphones, selling 47.8 million units for a 21.8 percent share.

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Samsung, Apple dominate as 700M smartphones ship in 2012

2013-01-25 05:29:44| CNET News.com

Handset makers shipped a record number of smartphones last year, a market that saw robust but slower growth over 2011. [Read more]

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