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Nearly 2 billion Bluetooth chipsets to ship in 2014, says ABI Research

Nearly two billion Bluetooth chipsets are forecast to ship in 2014 alone, according to ABI Research. More than half will be found in wireless handsets. In the same year, almost 1.5 billion Wi-Fi chipsets are ex    

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CHT to sell 100,000 netbooks and 400,000 smartphones in 2010

Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) expects its direct sales of netbooks bundled with 3G services to top 100,000 units in 2010, according to company vice president Huang Tzu-han.    

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Almost 2 million mobile WiMAX subscribers expected by end of 2009, says ABI Research

Over the last several years, mobile WiMAX has moved through standardization, productization, and interoperability testing and certification. Larger-scale network deployments are finally becoming a reality. Clea    

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Nokia new focus on touch, full-keyboard and low-cost handsets will benefit Taiwan makers

Nokia's target to significantly increase the proportion of touch and/or QWERTY devices in its smartphone portfolio and further optimize the industry's lowest cost end-to-end business models for mobile    

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Nokia to halve next year's smartphone portfolio

Nokia next year will cut the number of smartphones it releases roughly in half in order to better compete with the likes of Apple and Research In Motion. The company has introduced around 20 different smartphon    

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Motorola remains firm on spinning off handset division

Motorola remains committed to its plan to eventually separate its mobile devices division from the rest of the company, according to co-CEO Greg Brown. The company is exploring the implications for both its int    

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Nokia expects handset market to grow 10% in 2010

Nokia laid outs its vision and goals for 2010 at its investor day in Finland, and said that while it expects its own market share to be flat next year, the overall handset market will grow by 10 percent.The com    

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Samsung says it will beat 2009 handset target

Samsung said it will likely beat its 2009 handset shipment forecast of 200 million units, partly based on stronger sales of touchscreen devices.The company, which sold 197 million phones last year, did not prov    

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Global PC shipments to grow 2.8% in 2009, revenues to drop 11%, says Gartner

Accelerating mobile PC shipments will drive the worldwide PC market to grow again in 2009, according to Gartner's preliminary fourth-quarter forecast. The new forecast predicts worldwide PC shipments will    

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Handset prices continue to fall, even as high-end features rise, says NPD

According to The NPD Group, buy-one-get-one (BOGO) offers and other price reductions on smartphones led to a 3% decline in average prices in the third quarter of 2009. The overall average purchase price for han    

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