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Aiming to fend off increasing competition from rival vendors in the smartphone segment, Nokia has reportedly released RFI (request for information) requirements on ODM production of Maemo-based smartphones from    

LTE chip maker Altair Semiconductor is predicting that the first LTE handsets will be commercial in the second half of next year, but that the devices will not gain mass market appeal until 2012. Once they do r    

Samsung Mobile Display (SMD) reached a monthly shipment volume of two million AMOLED panels in July 2009, according to the company.    

More than 30 smartphones running on Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5 from a total of over 15 handset vendors are to be launched before the end of 2009, according to Benjamin Tan, senior director, GCR Mobile Team Un    

Supply of HDI boards may become tight next year as handset vendors are aggressively expanding their smartphone product lines, according to Unitech Printed Circuit Board general manager Hsu Cheng-Hung.    

Motorola is likely to release orders for up to several tens of millions of 2.5G feature phones to ODM makers in China and Taiwan with an aim to push its global market share to 10%, according to sources at Taiwa    

Taiwan-based PCB makers have seen growing orders from the feature phone segment, signaling overall handset demand in the fourth quarter is likely to return to seasonal patterns, according to sources at the make    

China-based Huawei Technologies has sold a total of 60 million units of mobile broadband data cards and built-in modules to 315 telecom carriers, including Vodafone, Telefonica, T-Mobile, Orange, Hutchison and    

Apple will extend its exclusive iPhone service deal with AT&T, while this may not be the boon for AT&T that it appears to be, according to iSuppli.    

The arrival of Apple's iPhone in China is expected to help accelerate global shipment growth for smartphones in 2010 and 2011, following 2009 when growth is estimated to slow to 11.6%, down from 20.6% reco