When there was just a small number of players were available in
the mobile handset market, Nokia gained enough popularity with its several basic handsets which were only having telephony and messaging support.
According to CMR's India Quarterly
Mobile Handset Market Review, 1Q» CY 2017 — Xiaomi, vivo and Oppo featured in the top five list 1Q» CY 2017 ′.
According to the firm's Market Pulse: November Edition, which seeks to provide key insight into current trends in
the mobile handset market, Apple's iPhone 8 flagships are performing much better than we've been lead to believe.
We compare two of Dell's first forays into
the mobile handset market, the Dell Venue and the Dell Venue Pro
Not exact matches
Venture Beat's Evan Blass recently broke the story of how HMD Global Oy, the Finnish manufacturer with exclusive rights to
market Nokia phones, is planning to announce four
handsets at the
Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, with one very specific highlight.
The last week of the month began with One
Mobile Ring publishing a hands - on piece with the Duracell Portable Charger 1800mAh and 1150mAh, where movie rentals arrived on the Android
Market in the UK and Research In Motion BlackBerry Porsche
handset was leaked.
«Considering the fast growing consumer interest in smartphones and the fact that more than three - quarters of the people in the global
mobile phone
market are still buying
handsets with a traditional alphanumeric keypad, we think the new BlackBerry Pearl 3G addresses a substantial
market opportunity.
Not long after the Streak series was discontinued, Dell also made other moves in order to better refocus its
mobile development resources, such as discontinuing support for its previous Windows Phone and Android
handsets in an attempt to try again, but so far this has resulted in an increased focus on the Chinese
market instead of any concrete plans to create more devices for the US and Europe.
Tablet shipments will hit 120 million units in 2012 only after two short years of the device being on the
market, and 340 million systems are expected by 2016 — a magnitude of sales exceeded just by
mobile handsets.
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mobile phone provider in the U.S claim for Samsung
Mobile based upon reported shipment data, according to Strategy Analytics, Q1 2011 U.S. Market Share Handset Shipments Re
Mobile based upon reported shipment data, according to Strategy Analytics, Q1 2011 U.S.
Market Share
Handset Shipments Reports.
In addition to the new
handset, T -
Mobile is continuing the company's 4G onslaught with an announcement that it will be doubling its HSPA + speeds — first in
markets like Las Vegas, New York and Orlando, with Long Island, Northern New Jersey and Chicago close behind.
The BlackBerry Curve 3G (or 9300) is the newest
handset from RIM, pitched at the entry - level, as confirmed by Mike Lazaridis, CEO: «The majority of people in the worldwide
mobile phone
market have yet to buy their first smartphone and the BlackBerry Curve... Read more
The BlackBerry Curve 3G (or 9300) is the newest
handset from RIM, pitched at the entry - level, as confirmed by Mike Lazaridis, CEO: «The majority of people in the worldwide
mobile phone
market have yet to buy their first smartphone and the BlackBerry Curve 3G is designed to provide an extremely attractive and accessible choice that will help convince many of them to make the leap».
At
Mobile World Congress earlier this month Niklas Savander, an executive vice-president at Nokia, told Pocket - lint: «The tablet is an interesting
market for someone like Nokia because it is not cannibalising
handset sales, it is cannibalising PC sales.»
So if you were in the
market for a new BlackBerry
handset, hit up T -
Mobile's website to look for the phone you want and go ahead and place your order.
Both the Virgin
Mobile and Boost
Mobile have announced their first 4G WiMX powered
handsets HTC EVO V 4G and HTC EVO Design 4G respectively for pay - as - you - go
market.
The most common version of the Google
mobile OS found accessing the Android
Market is the «Gingerbread» 2.3.3 build, which has been rolled out now to the largest amount of
handsets — judging by these figures.
Nokia Asha 308/309 The two touchscreen
handsets are pitched at emerging -
market punters seeking
mobile internet access and who might otherwise be tempted by a cheap Android smartphone.
Better still, one of the first new Windows Phone 8
handsets on the
market will be the Samsung ATIV S on T -
Mobile, along with Nokia's new
handsets.
Their judges considered the HTC One to be «the device that holds the most promise for success in the
market this year, providing game - changing features, design and functionality», and they awarded it the «Best New
Mobile Handset, Device or...
Today marks the UK launch of Microsoft's foray into the
mobile market... but good luck finding a
handset.
As people in the U.S continue to line up for
mobile phone launches, the rest of the
handset market is looking pretty...
Check out this stunning Sony Xperia XZ2
market - leading deal.Sony
Mobile's new
handset is the best Sony phone for ages and we've sourced this exclusive deal for Pocket - lint readers - it's the best offer in the
market right now.The refresh to Sony's flagship... Read more
A widely respected figure in the
mobile handset world, Giles will be in charge of global
marketing, retail and open channel development.
The new
handset, which is exclusive to T -
Mobile, is set to bring Android
handsets which have previously been targeted at the high - end of the
market, to a wider set of customers.
Lenovo's Motorola
handset division and Amazon revealed Feb. 27 at the
Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that they are partnering to install the Alexa voice assistant into a set of new Moto Z smartphones that will come into the
market later this year.
With so much competition at the top end of the
mobile market, and flagship
handsets already offering great screens and a whole lot of power for gaming, the Razer Phone is a bold play from a firm well known for its gaming laptops and peripherals, and which is now hoping its legions of fans will buy into its latest device.
The Chinese smartphone maker has a number of
mobile phones in the
market but the company's press invite for its Sept. 1 event hinted at a new
handset line.
Nokia, the world's leading
mobile phone maker, announced it would stop selling and
marketing its
handsets in Japan because the
market share remained flat over too many years (hovering at around 1 % v
But my numbers relied on Windows Phone continuing to sell at least 50 million
handsets per year, in addition to upgrades, for a total of at least 200 million Windows 10
Mobile devices in the
market by 2018.
The idea was to partner with third - party manufacturers to bring low - cost
handsets with the latest version of the
mobile OS to the
market, along with guaranteed on - time Android updates — something most smartphone makers can't promise because their custom software layers and feature support take more time to revise.
Prepaid carrier to launch LG's cheap and cheerful LTE
handset, says @evleaks LG's Optimus F series is all about introducing low - cost, mid-range LTE - capable hardware to the
market, and so a prepaid carrier like Boost
Mobile seems a natural fit for the Optimus F7, the higher - specced device of the two.
We've also got Messages, Contacts, Dialler and
Market, as well as a couple of Three
Mobile widgets, which are the only things that distinguish this
handset from plain Android.
This certainly confirms that the company is set to use its brand name for making new
mobile handsets, but their manufacturing as well as
marketing and sales support will likely to be in the hand of a partner.
2015 was a bonanza year for smartphones, but there's plenty more to come over the next 12 months:
handsets are getting more powerful, designs are getting more innovative, and if you're in the
market for a new
mobile next year you're going to be spoilt for choice.
The Idol 4s with Windows 10 is one of the most most powerful Windows 10
Mobile handsets on the
market right now, trailing behind the HP Elite x3.
HTC has revealed its plans to focus on the mid - and high - end
mobile markets after its CEO confirmed the company wasn't going to pursue low end
handsets.
Cherry said it would launch two Windows 10
Mobile handsets — the Alpha Prime 4 and Alpha Prime 5 — but only the latter has so far made it to
market, going on sale in April.
This is the latest effort by Samsung to reinvigorate its line of
mobile devices after taking a big hit to its operating profit in the second quarter amid falling
market share and a growing smartphone war, especially in China, where Beijing's Xiaomi dominates both Samsung and Apple in the mid - and low - end
handset segment.
The largest advantage of having such technology integrated into a smartphone is providing better VR experiences in cases when users have their
handsets strapped to their faces and while Sony is presently one of the
market leaders in terms of consumer VR solutions, it has yet to attempt replicating the success of the PlayStation VR formula in the
mobile segment.
Google's new Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones represent an important step in the company's
mobile market strategy, as these two devices — unlike the Nexus smartphones — are full - fledged Google
handsets designed by the company inside and out.
Well, fortunately for us, now we have the official pricing offers for the new Note 2
handset, T -
Mobile being the first carrier to offer the device through the US
market.
Lava
Mobiles launched another 4G VoLTE supported
handset in the Indian
markets called the Lava X50 +.
If you're in the
market for a phone that doesn't cost the earth, chances are you might have stumbled across the Acer Liquid E3, a
handset from a manufacturer more associated with computers than
mobile devices.
Along with X9 and X9 Plus Vivo
Mobiles also launched the Xplay6
handset in Chinese
market.
OPPO
Mobiles launched a new
handset in the A Series called the OPPO A59 in the Chinese
markets for RMB 1799 that comes to Rs. 18K approx.
Samsung
Mobiles launched the Galaxy C5 and the Galaxy C7
handset in the Chinese
markets with price starting from RMB 2199 (approx Rs. 22,500).
Shortly after its release, HTC promised that the variant sprinkled with Sense will make the jump to Android Oreo within 30 days of the
handset's
market availability, and sure enough, the Taiwanese tech giant is now making good on its word by releasing Android Oreo on the unlocked model in the United States, with T -
Mobile's variant most likely set to follow in its footsteps soon.
Lava International, an Indian
mobile handset company, has launched their first hybrid tablet in the
market.
Taking HTC's flagship
handset to a new level of high fidelity audio, the HTC Sensation XE offers consumers the ultimate multimedia experience, setting a new standard for audio quality in the
mobile market.