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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    

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    

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    

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    

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    

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    

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    

After hitting bottom in the first quarter of 2009, handset display shipments for the second quarter of 2009 reached 360 million units, up 30% sequentially and 3% on year, according to DisplaySearch. Revenues we    

Compal Communications will begin to use handset solutions, including 3G TD-SCDMA chips, from MediaTek for handset production, according to Compal chairman Ray Chen.    

Erick Schonfeld submits: When it comes to the mobile Web, increasingly there are only two mobile platforms which matter: Apple (AAPL) and Android. According to AdMob’s October, 2009 mobile metrics rep