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Video: Symbian Executive Rips into Google’s Android
Yesterday, Lee Williams, executive director at Symbian stopped by in our office to brief me on a new version of Symbian that is going to be released soon. He talked about SEE09, their developer conference in London next week. We discussed a whole bunch of things, some of it on video. Towards the end of [...]
Jan 10th, 2011 | Filed under New Product Launches, New Tech -
Will Handset Makers Lose Their Grip on a Recovering Market?
The worldwide handset market appears to be coming out of its funk, but that’s not entirely good news if you’re a phone maker. The top five worldwide manufacturers saw a combined 7 percent year-over-year decrease in handset volumes during the third quarter, according to a report from Deutsche Bank this morning, with 228 million handsets [...]
Jan 10th, 2011 | Filed under New Product Launches, New TechTags: Bargain Basement, Blackberry, Deutsche Bank, Droid, Feature Phones, Fourth Quarter, Handset Market, Holiday Season, Iphone, Maturation, Percentage Declines, Price War, Shrinkage, Smartphones, Strategy Analytics, Thin Margins, Three Quarters, Verizon Wireless, Worldwide Manufacturers, Worldwide Phone