Mobile Phone Industry
New Phone manufacturer Neo brings concept phones to life
Posted on 12/12/2006
Seems there's a new mobile phone manufacturer in town, and they're gunning for those designer phones that are currently all the rage. Called Neo, the company is showing off its brand new Neo 808i, which...
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Half a billion mobile TV users by 2011?
Posted on 09/08/2006According to a report by IMS Research, there will be nearly 500 million mobile TV users around the world in just five years' time. They reckon that once people see other people's handsets showing mobile...
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How many components must Nokia handle to ship 1 million phones a day?
Posted on 07/08/2006Nokia is huge. Everyone knows it's the world's largest mobile phone manufacturer, and so that automatically makes it huge. But how huge is huge? Well, try getting your head around these figures:
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Mobile TV comes to RAZR, and other Motorola innovations
Posted on 29/07/2006After announcing the new Motorola SCPL line of mobile phones, Motorola also described its plans for the now-ageing, but still-popular, RAZR line. Chief amongst its announcements was a demonstration of...
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A peek inside Nokia’s flagship Hong Kong store
Posted on 21/07/2006
Nokia recently opened a flagship store in Hong Kong. According to the company, in addition to showcasing the complete portfolio of Nokia products and services, the Flagship Store allows customers to...
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Motorola Guns for Nokia
Posted on 21/07/2006
Motorola is currently the number 2 mobile phone manufacturer - and how that title must hurt!
Despite record quarterly sales announced yesterday of $10.9 billion, and some 52 million handsets sold in...
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Motorola earns $10 billion in just 3 months
Posted on 20/07/2006Motorola have proved that painting old phones new colours is an extremely lucrative business, with record quarterly sales of $10.88 billion, with $7.14 billion of that coming from mobile devices. Motorola...
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Pantech in “extremely strong position”
Posted on 17/07/2006After my previous post commenting on VK Mobile's bankruptcy, and the possible difficulties some of the other smaller Korean handset manufacturers may have, one or two interesting things happened.
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VK Mobile goes bust, Pantech may follow, Helio wobbles
Posted on 08/07/2006
VK Mobile, a second-tier Korean mobile phone company who briefly held the title of world's thinnest phone, has filed for bankruptcy. Despite more than 2 billion GSM handsets now connected worlwide, the...
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Mobile phones hit 2 billion connections
Posted on 28/06/2006To say that mobile phones are a global phenomenon is a massive understatement. According to the GSM Association, June 2006 saw the total number of GSM mobile phone connections across the world reach an...
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