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The Japanese handset market spits out another victim. Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ), the world's largest handset maker, said it would stop selling cellphones in the country, except for its high-end luxury Vertu model, Reuters reports. The news comes days after another report from Japanese newspaper Yomiuri...
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If you haven't heard about the widget wars yet, you are about to. Last week, I moderated a panel at the Open Mobile Summit. The subject was "Apps in the Cloud," which explored the difference between accessing content through applications, which are downloaded to the phone, and content that...
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In UK, a television ad touting the speed of Apple's 3G iPhone has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority for misleading consumers, the second time this has happened there. It's easy to see from the commercial itself, created by ad agency TBWA/London, why the watchdog ruled against...
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Another handset maker, another warning about growth in cellphone sales. Samsung said today that worldwide market growth on a unit basis "could come short of our initial forecast for 9 percent growth" in 2008, according to Reuters . James Chung, a spokesperson for the Korean electronics giant...
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A week after Research In Motion (RIM) rolled out its MySpace for Blackberry application, which gives Blackberry users easier access to the social network, the two companies are reporting that the app has "shattered" download records for both MySpace and RIM ( NSDQ: RIMM ) with more than 400...
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Cellphone makers are heading straight into a cold, dry winter as sales are expected to drop to their lowest point since the beginning of the decade, WSJ reports . Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ), Qualcomm ( NSDQ: QCOM ) and Vodafone ( NYSE: VOD ) have all come clean and warned that the outlook looks grim for the...
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AT&T ( NYSE: T ) Mobility starts selling Nokia's 6650 smartphone today, a small, but significant step for the Finnish handset maker. Though Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ) is the world's leading handset maker with a total market share of 39 percent, it has struggled to crack the US market, where it was...
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In a bid to increase the amount of data its customers consume, Three UK launched its so-called "Facebook Phone" today--the INQ1--which Britain's smallest carrier and its handset partner INQ Mobile are calling the world's first social mobile phone. While the handset does indeed give...
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The original iPhone generated a lot of interest in India, selling well on the grey market, so it went to reason that when the 3G version launched officially in the world's fastest growing wireless market, that it too would sell well. But apparently, that's not what happened, with sales of the...
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Hutchison Whampoa is rolling out a 3G Facebook phone in the UK and Australia next week, just in time for the holiday season. The handset, which will have the social net integrated into it as well as instant messaging, email, and Skype, is being built by Hutchison's new mobile device subsidiary INQ...
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Sales of the iPhone helped generate 44 percent growth in new mobile subscribers in the third quarter, compared to the first two quarters, for Swiss telco Swisscom, but the boost came at a price. Core profit dropped 3.6 percent in the third quarter to 1.19 billion Swiss francs ($1.03 billion), when iPhone...
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First, the good news: SingTel reported in a filing to the Singaporean exchange today that it had sold 170,000 iPhones since launching the handset in early July in Australia, and Singapore, the Philippines and India in late August. In Singapore, where SingTel is the iPhone's exclusive carrier, approximately...