Sales of quad-core smartphones reached 40 million units in 2012. Sales of dual-core smartphones accelerated in 2012, reaching an estimated 250 million units, up from 70 million units in 2011. While, the first smartphones with dual-core application processors were released in early 2011, phones ...
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Sales of handsets featuring Near Field Communication (NFC) rose 300 percent in 2012 to 140 million units. Berg Insight said the annual shipments of NFC phone — growing at a CAGR of 48.2 percent — will reach 1 billion units by 2017. Wider adoption of NFC in mobile phones began in ...
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Telecom Lead India: BlackBerry India says 55 percent of its customers are women. The smartphone major wants to encourage its majority customers to come up in education and professional life. Its new initiative is to offer ten full, four year university scholarships to outstanding female ...
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The MobileStore has tied up with Innoviti Embedded Solutions to offer EMI options on debit card to consumers. Innoviti and The MobileStore have also filed a patent for commercialization in India and other markets worldwide. The MobileStore will be able to offer EMI options to over 200 million ...
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Telecom Lead Asia: Lava International has outlined its smartphone strategy to gain market share in India. One of the latest entrants to India’s phone market, Lava International focuses on 4 areas to strengthen its presence in the Indian mobile market which is currently dominated by players such ...
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Adaptxt developer KeyPoint Technologies is planning to set up research and development (R&D) centers in the U.S. and China. The new R&D centers are in line with the company’s plans to tap these two markets in a big way. The other market on KeyPoint Technologies’ radar is Taiwan. The ...
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Finland telecom operator DNA will launch the Jolla smartphone this year. DNA, whose 3G network reaches five million Finns, will be the first telecom operator to launch Jolla phones in the world. Jolla smartphones based on the Sailfish operating system are developed by ex-Nokia team. In 2012, ...
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Telecom Lead India: Apple launched iTunes Radio, a free Internet radio service featuring over 200 stations. Apple iTunes Radio, which offers thousands of new songs every week to music fans, is available on iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, PC or Apple TV. “iTunes Radio is an incredible way to ...
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Telecom Lead India: Intex Technologies on Monday said it would launch 20 new smartphones in the next quarter. Intex has already launched 12 mid-segment smartphones under its Aqua range. Last month, Intex sold 7 lakh mobile phones. Out of this, Aqua range of smartphones contributed over 1 lakh. ...
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Telecom Lead Asia: BlackBerry Q10, the first BlackBerry 10 smartphone with keyboard, has been priced at Rs 44,990 in India. The price of BlackBerry Z10, the first smartphone to be unveiled on the BlackBerry 10 operating platform, in India is Rs 43,490. For comparison, the price of Sony Tablet Z ...
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Telecom Lead India: Tuesday’s U.S. International Trade Commission ruling will not be a major setback for Apple in its patent battle against smartphone rival Samsung. ITC on Tuesday banned Apple from selling its iPhone 4 and a variant of the iPad 2 in the U.S. market after finding the devices ...
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Telecom Lead Asia: 3G smartphones will account for 70.9 percent of all smartphones shipped in 2013, and 50.1 percent of smartphones shipped in 2017. Demand for both 3G and 4G smartphones has resulted into decline in the price of devices. IDC says average selling prices have dropped 8 percent in ...
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Apple’s smartphone market share to dip to 14.1% in 2017 from 19.5% in 2012: Canalys Telecom Lead Asia: Apple’s smartphone market share is set to decline to 14.1 percent in 2017 from 19.5 percent in 2012, according to Canalys. “Apple’s growth will be curtailed by the fact that momentum in the ...
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Telecom Lead Asia: Sistema Shyam TeleServices (MTS India) has priced its MTS Duet smartphone at Rs 4,799. The launch of the dual SIM (CDMA + GSM) smartphone is MTS India’s key strategy to offer greater choice to its customers. The new smartphone is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 processor ...
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Telecom Lead Asia: Indian Income Tax authorities have dismissed phone major Nokia’s appeals over an income tax demand of $370 million. This will be a major setback for Nokia’s efforts to resolve the dispute in a crucial market. Nokia’s India unit was served in March with the tax ...
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Telecom Lead Europe: Samsung will open its research and development (R&D) facility in Finland, phone major Nokia’s home country, on June 13. The new R&D center in Finland will be a branch of the Samsung Electronics R&D Institute UK (SRUK). According to media reports, Samsung spent ...
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