Tag: handsets

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Sony races Apple to deliver integrated TV-mobile experiences

Published: October 28, 2011

Sony said this week that it is acquiring Ericsson’s stake in the 10-year-old Sony Ericsson mobile handset business for $1.47 billion. The move could boost Sony’s role in mobile by allowing it to create content-driven smartphones that integrate across multiple screens.

Will HP’s acquisition of Palm shake up the smartphone market?

Published: April 30, 2010

Hewlett-Packard believes the $1.2 billion it is paying to acquire Palm will accelerate its growth within the $100 billion-plus connected mobile device market. Will the gamble work?

Facebook Mobile surpasses 50M downloads via GetJar

Published: April 13, 2010

In the past six months, more than 50 million people have downloaded Facebook’s mobile application from GetJar, which claims to be the second-largest applications store worldwide.

Fifty-five times more mobile consumer electronics by 2014: ABI

Published: January 6, 2010

ABI Research is predicting that consumers will be extremely more mobile by 2014, 55 times more than they were in 2008.

Smartphone handset market share continues to grow: NPD Group

Published: August 20, 2009

When it comes to sales of mobile phones in the U.S., feature phones still rule the market, even as smartphone sales continue to increase their share of overall handset sales.

Verizon Wireless agrees on temporary exclusives for phone models

Published: July 20, 2009

Verizon Wireless has extended an offer to small and rural carriers -- many of them competitors -- to limit any new handset exclusivity arrangements with its device makers to just six months.

BlackBerry Curve outsells iPhone 3G: NPD smartphone ranking

Published: May 5, 2009

An aggressive buy-one-get-one-free promotion by Verizon Wireless helped RIM's BlackBerry Curve move past Apple's iPhone to become the best-selling smartphone in the first quarter of 2009.

Yahoo offers oneSearch voice platform to BlackBerry, Nokia users

Published: October 16, 2008

Yahoo has expanded its mobile voice search platform oneSearch to various BlackBerry and Nokia handsets.

New Apple iPhone is marketer-friendly

Published: June 10, 2008

Apple Inc. announced the launch of a new 3G iPhone that's not only faster and thinner, but boasts more memory at a better price-point. Good news for the consumer, but better for marketers.

Consumers' mobile experience to improve drastically in coming years: CTIA panel

Published: April 3, 2008

LAS VEGAS -- The consumer mobile experience is going to be drastically different in the next few years, according to a panel yesterday at the CTIA Wireless 2008 show.