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Gartner Says Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales Declined 1.7 Percent in 2012 Feb 13, 2013 – Huawei Reached No. 3 Spot in Worldwide Smartphone Sales Ranking, Apple and Samsung Increased Share to Control 52 Percent of Worldwide Smartphone Sales. Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users... Read the rest Dealnews: Does Anyone Actually Need a 128GB iPad? Feb 4, 2013 – On Tuesday, Apple announced that it would start selling a fourth-generation iPad with a 128GB storage capacity, doubling the size of the previously-largest model. The bigger devices will be available... Read the rest Dealnews: Twitter Thoughts on Amy Poehler's Best Buy Super Bowl Ad Feb 4, 2013 – Best Buy did not have a good 2012. The once-powerful electronics retailer has been closing stores, trimming costs, and cutting personnel. However, the retailer is hoping to pivot for a... Read the rest Dealnews: Can BlackBerry's New Smartphones and OS Save the Company? Feb 1, 2013 – On Wednesday, BlackBerry (née RIM) announced to the world its new BB10 OS, as well as a pair of new touchscreen phones. But on the minds of many is the... Read the rest iSuppli: New Phones and OS Improve BlackBerry’s Chances in Longshot Bid for Smartphone Comeback Jan 31, 2013 – It’s the fourth quarter in the Smartphone Bowl, and the company formerly known as Research In Motion (RIM) is up against bigger, tougher competition as precious seconds tick down to... Read the rest Wireless Watch: BlackBerry won’t be a smartphone major again, but BB10 could shine elsewhere Jan 31, 2013 – After a year of build-up, a glitzy launch and more column inches than any mere piece of metal and silicon merits, BlackBerry 10 and its first smartphones made their debut,... Read the rest Ovum: Analyst view: The Blackberry 10 platform offers a differentiated user experience in today’s crowded and homogenous smartphone market Jan 30, 2013 – BB10 has launched. Adam Leach, principal analyst at Ovum, provides his initial reaction: “The Blackberry 10 platform offers a differentiated user experience in today’s crowded and homogenous smartphone market. The Blackberry... Read the rest At Long Last, BlackBerry 10: Blackberry Reborn? Jan 30, 2013 – Here's a snapshot of responses to today's long-awaited BlackBerry 10 launch, as assembled by the WSJ: Jonathan Geller, Boy Genius Report: “Why jump into battle with the beast when you can take... Read the rest iSuppli: BlackBerry 10: RIM’s Last, Best Hope to Challenge Apple/Samsung and Apple/Google Smartphone Duopolies Jan 29, 2013 – With the introduction of its BlackBerry 10, Research In Motion Ltd. is making the final charge in its struggle to become the third viable smartphone brand alongside market giants Apple... Read the rest Ovum: Analyst view: RIM will get a boost but not salvation from BB10 Jan 28, 2013 – With the imminent launch of BlackBerry 10 (BB10), Jan Dawson, chief telecoms analyst at Ovum believes “the new software platform will provide a temporary boost in performance but no salvation... Read the rest RIM Begins Comeback Year with BES 10 Launch Jan 23, 2013 – In advance of Research in Motion’s BB10 smartphone launch next week in New York City, RIM announced the release of BES 10 today – the next generation of its on-premise... Read the rest eMarketer: Google Has Prescription for Mobile Jan 22, 2013 – Perhaps the best sign of the strength of Google's business is what hasn't happened to it. Other Internet businesses have come down with a bad case of the mobile flu... Read the rest iSuppli: Apple Helps Propel MEMS Microphone Market Grows by Nearly Fivefold from 2009 to 2012 Jan 21, 2013 – Apple Inc.’s tremendously influential iPhone helped spark the market for microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) microphones to new heights, causing MEMS microphone shipments to nearly quintuple in just three short years. Shipments... Read the rest Dealnews: Apple Price Policies: How the Brand Maintains Popularity and Profit Margins Jan 21, 2013 – It's common knowledge that Apple products aren't cheap. They're design-focused, proprietary, and high-quality devices that come with a noticeable sticker price. To create and retain this brand image, Apple has... Read the rest Dealnews: The Most Ridiculous Tech From CES 2013 Jan 18, 2013 – CES is a time for manufacturers to trot out their new inventions and to whet the consumer's appetite for the future. (And maybe convince a few of them to set... Read the rest Canalys: Developing markets will drive smart phone market growth in 2013 - Domestic vendors will dominate in China, with many pushing beyond their home market Jan 17, 2013 – Canalys’ latest smart phone forecasts show a clear rise in theimportance of developing markets, and markets such as Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia and China (BRIIC) will drive much of the... Read the rest iSuppli: Large-Display Smartphones Featured at CES; Shipments Set to More than Double in 2013 Jan 16, 2013 – With their global shipments set to more than double this year, phablets are a hot product, as illustrated by their high profile at last week’s 2013 Consumer Electronics Show (CES)... Read the rest iSuppli: Intel Targets Fast-Growing, Low-End Smartphone Market with New Atom Processor Platform Jan 16, 2013 – Intel Corp.’s introduction of a new Atom processor platform designed to target the fast-growing market for low-end smartphones in emerging economies represents a shrewd strategy that could allow the company... Read the rest Dealnews: http://dealnews.com/features/Poll-Have-You-Been-Able-to-Find-the-127-iPhone-5-Deal-In-Stock-at-Walmart-/657045.html Jan 10, 2013 – Walmart continues to promote its Apple iPhone 5 deal, cutting the price on the 16GB model to $127. The deal, coupled with Fry's Electronics' counter-offer that dropped it to $126,... Read the rest Wireless Watch: CES: Will the new form factors favor Intel, Qualcomm or neither? Jan 10, 2013 – The Consumer Electronics Show may have had fewer knockout mobile device launches than in recent years, but the future shape of the portable gadget was still a dominant topic of... Read the rest Wireless Watch: CES: Focus shifts to the battle to control the Internet of Things Jan 10, 2013 – The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has become increasingly mobile-focused in the past few years, but in 2013, its emphasis changed again, reflecting the shift of the industry towards new growth... Read the rest Dealnews: Black Friday Week Accounted for 46% of Holiday Electronics Sales Jan 8, 2013 – It's no secret that November is a busy month for holiday sales, but according to market research firm The NPD Group, November has become the month for gadget deals. A... Read the rest iSuppli: Samsung Displaces Nokia as Top Cellphone Brand in 2012 and Takes Decisive Smartphone Lead Over Apple Dec 18, 2012 – For the first time in 14 years, wireless communications giant Nokia will not sit atop the global cellphone business on an annual basis at the end of 2012—with Samsung set... Read the rest MIT Technology Review: Can HP’s webOS Rise from the Ashes? Dec 10, 2012 – Forget Android and iOS—a team of enthusiasts plans to bring HP’s much-admired webOS back from the scrap heap. By day, Matthew Zakutny works as a project manager at a trenchless... Read the rest iSuppli: Qualcomm Rides Wireless Wave to Take Third Place in Global Semiconductor Market in 2012 Dec 4, 2012 – In a miserable 2012 semiconductor market that will see revenue decline at seven of the world’s Top 10 semiconductor suppliers, Qualcomm Inc. is standing out, with a double-digit increase in... Read the rest iSuppli: Apple Business Helps South Korean Suppliers Overcome Weakness in Small Display Market Nov 29, 2012 – Benefitting from their sales of liquid crystal displays (LCD) to smartphone and tablet original equipment manufacturers (OEM)—most notably Apple Inc.—South Korean panel suppliers in September defied a decline in the... Read the rest Wireless Watch: Western vendors face crisis of confidence in emerging mobile markets Nov 29, 2012 – It is clear that much of the growth in the mobile equipment and device industries will come from the huge emerging economies – China, India, Indonesia and Brazil – in... Read the rest Wireless Watch: Nokia must build its comeback around services not Windows Nov 29, 2012 – Bringing smartphone-like qualities to low end handsets is an important strategy for companies looking to tap into the high growth rates in emerging markets. While conversion from featurephones to smartphones... Read the rest iSuppli: Quad-Core Microprocessor Notebook Shipments Set to Nearly Quadruple in 2016 Nov 28, 2012 – Notebook PCs during the next four years increasingly will adopt muscular quad-core microprocessors, with all types of models bulking up their computing power amid the rising competitive challenge posed by... Read the rest Ovum: Smart devices and social media to drive new culture of online, always-connected customers in 2013 Nov 21, 2012 – New analytics solutions, multichannel metrics, and better collaboration tools will be crucial in 2013, as enterprises feel the pressure to understand and pre-empt the needs from the always-connected customer, says... Read the rest Search WirelessInnovator
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