Nokia WP To Feature A Dual Core 1.2Ghz Processor

Techtree.com - Chandrakant Isi - ‎May 21, 2011‎
Speaking to Forbes, Chief Executive of European semiconductor maker STMicroelectronics, Carlo Bozotti revealed that at least some of Nokia's upcoming Microsoft Windows Phone (WP) based smartphones will be powered by silicon sourced from ST-Ericsson - a ...

Nokia chooses Qualcomm to power its first Windows Phone devices

Inquirer - Lawrence Latif - ‎May 20, 2011‎
JUST HOURS after chip designer ST-Ericsson said it would supply chips to 12 of Nokia's upcoming Windows Phone devices, the Finnish phone maker declared that it had picked Qualcomm. Qualcomm is a natural choice as all current Windows ...

Nokia picks ST-Ericsson chips for 12 Windows Phone devices

Inquirer - Lawrence Latif - ‎May 20, 2011‎
FLOUNDERING SMARTPHONE VENDOR Nokia will use chips made by ST-Ericsson in its upcoming Windows Phone devices. As the world still tries to grapple with Nokia's decision to opt for Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system on its ...

Nokia picks Qualcomm for Windows phone, seeks others

Reuters - Bob Strong, Tarmo Virki - ‎May 20, 2011‎
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia said on Friday it was negotiating with several chipset suppliers for its future Windows Phone models after deciding to use Qualcomm in its first smartphones using Microsoft's software. Nokia announced in February it would use ...

Nokia To Use ST-Ericsson Chips For Windows Phone 8 Handsets

Forbes (blog) - Elizabeth Woyke - ‎May 19, 2011‎
When Nokia releases its hotly-anticipated smartphones based on Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system, at least some of the devices will be powered by silicon from ST-Ericsson, said Carlo Bozotti, the Chief Executive of European ...

428 million mobile devices sold worldwide in Q1 2011: Gartner

The Independent - ‎May 19, 2011‎
In the first quarter of 2011, 428 million mobile communication devices were sold, said market research firm Gartner, Inc. in a May 19 report on the global mobile phone market, an increase of 19 percent from Q1 2010. Led by ferocious consumer demand, ...

Apple, Google Rise In Q1 Mobile Sales, Says Gartner

Barron's (blog) - Tiernan Ray - ‎May 19, 2011‎
Research firm Gartner this afternoon offers its latest update on the global mobile device market, citing an 19% rise in everything from the lowest-end phones to the smartphone. Smartphones made up 23.6% of the market in Q1, says analyst ...

Gartner: Android Dominates Smartphone Sales Worldwide

PCWorld - Jared Newman - ‎May 19, 2011‎
Gartner's first-quarter numbers say Android leads in worldwide smartphone market share, accounting for 36 percent of sales. Nokia slipped to second place with 27.4 percent market share, followed by Apple's ...

Windows Phone At Bottom Of Global Smartphone Rankings

InformationWeek - Eric Zeman - ‎May 19, 2011‎
Google's Android and Apple's iOS continue to dominate the smartphone space, says Gartner, as competitors Symbian, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone jockey for the leftovers. By Eric Zeman InformationWeek Microsoft has made little headway in reclaiming its ...

Android, iOS Dominate, Windows Phone Trails

PC Magazine - Chloe Albanesius - ‎May 19, 2011‎
Consumers were eager to snap up phones running the Android and Apple iOS mobile operating systems in the first quarter, but Windows Phone 7 was still weak, according to Thursday data from Gartner. Samsung, meanwhile, had its ...

Android shoots past iPhone OS in market share

ZDNet UK - David Meyer - ‎May 19, 2011‎
Android's share of the smartphone market has almost quadrupled over the last year, and now stands at more than double that of Apple's iOS, according to Gartner. Android's market share has ...

Nokia's market share back at 1997 levels

Financial Times (blog) - Maija Palmer - ‎May 19, 2011‎
Yet another instalment of the story of Nokia's long slow decline came on Thursday with the new global mobile phone handset figures. Nokia is still the world's leading handset maker but its market share is now down to 25 per cent, a level last seen in ...

Microsoft sells 1.6 million Windows Phone 7 devices in Q1

ZDNet (blog) - Larry Dignan - ‎May 19, 2011‎
Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 devices sold 1.6 million units to end users in the first quarter, according to Gartner. That tally isn't nearly enough to blunt Android's momentum. Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief ...

Report warns Windows Phone 7 suffers from the "Your-dad-uses-it" syndrome

Computerworld (blog) - ‎May 19, 2011‎
There are plenty of reasons why Windows Phone 7 has failed to gain popularity. But a new report from Gartner offers a unique reason: the perception that it's something your dad uses at work. That conclusion was drawn by a Gartner report released today ...

Microsoft fails to turn punters on to WinPho 7

Register - Tony Smith - ‎May 19, 2011‎
Microsoft and its hardware partners shifted a mere 1.6m Windows Phone 7 handsets during the first three months of 2011. So says market watcher Gartner, which also noted that a total of just under 101m ...

Android vaults to smartphone lead as Nokia faces 'ugly' future

The Guardian (blog) - ‎May 19, 2011‎
Nokia's share of the overall mobile market fell to its lowest since 1997 - and worse may lie ahead. Photograph: Luke MacGregor/Reuters New figures for the mobile phone business show encouraging news for Google's Android and Apple's iPhone but reinforce ...

Full-Year Handset Sales May Be Lower Than Expected, Gartner Says

San Francisco Chronicle - ‎May 19, 2011‎
May 19 (Bloomberg) -- Full-year sales of mobile handsets may fall below 1.8 billion units and miss earlier expectations, Gartner Inc. said in a report. "The 13.3 million-unit growth in channel inventory, along with some softness in demand from users in ...

Inventories to cap cellphone market growth: Gartner

Times of India - ‎May 19, 2011‎
PARIS: Rising inventories of unsold cellphones and slower demand growth in emerging countries will cap cellphone market growth in 2011, research firm Gartner said. Gartner lowered its 2011 cellphone market view by 10-15 million phones as retailers ...

Mobile Handset Sales Up 19% In First Quarter Says Gartner

Wall Street Journal - Sven Grundberg - ‎May 19, 2011‎
STOCKHOLM (Dow Jones)--Research firm Gartner Thursday said sales of mobile handsets totaled 427.8 million units in the first quarter of 2011, up 19% year-on-year, with smartphones accounting for 23.6% of sales. Sales of smartphones increased by 85% in ...

Android and Apple top smartphone sales, Windows Phone 7 lags

Inquirer - Dave Neal - ‎May 19, 2011‎
THE BEAN COUNTERS at Gartner have reported an increase in mobile communication device shipments in the first three months of this year, along with the fact that Android has overtaken Apple's IOS. Presumably to a chorus of abacus clicks, ...

Nokia's mobile market share slips to 25%: Gartner

AFP - ‎May 19, 2011‎
HELSINKI â€" Nokia's share of the mobile phone market dropped to 25 percent in the first quarter of 2011, the lowest for 14 years, down from 30.6 percent at the same time last year, technology research group Gartner said on Thursday. ...

Inventories to cap phone market growth: Gartner

Reuters - Bob Strong, Tarmo Virki - ‎May 19, 2011‎
A customer talks with a sales representative at the Nokia flagship store in Helsinki September 29, 2010. By Tarmo Virki, European Technology Correspondent PARIS (Reuters) - Rising inventories of unsold cellphones and slower demand growth in emerging ...

Nokia Windows phones with dual-core, HTC 7 Trophy is Verizon's first

PopHerald.com - Carlo Diokno - ‎May 21, 2011‎
Aside from powerful cameras and larger capacitive screen size, the current trend in the smartphone market today is the processing power. Basically, most high-end smartphones are using Android operating system like dual-core smartphones manufactured by ...

Verizon releases its first Windows 7 handset

TopNews New Zealand - ‎May 21, 2011‎
Leading US telecom carrier, Verizon Wireless this week released the first handset running on Windows Mobile 7 platform on its network, the HTC Trophy. HTC Trophy is powered by a 1 GHz Snapdragon chip and features a 3.8" WVGA touchscreen. ...

Verizon HTC Trophy Windows Phone Could Alter Microsoft's Prospects

eWeek - Nicholas Kolakowski - ‎May 21, 2011‎
Microsoft's Windows Phone will move on to Verizon with the HTC Trophy. But is that enough to raise Microsoft's prospects in the smartphone game? On May 26, Verizon will release the HTC Trophy, its first Windows Phone device. As with other Windows Phone ...

Nokia market share continues to plummet

Mobot.net (blog) - ‎May 21, 2011‎
There's no end of bad news for Nokia these days, or so it seems. No matter how you look at the figures, things are pretty dire. Recently we heard that Samsung had overtaken Nokia in Western Europe, and new figures published by Gartner show that Nokia's ...

Nokia T7 Is The Latest Feature Filled Symbian Phone

OfficialWire (press release) - Thomas Whittle - ‎May 21, 2011‎
The Nokia T7 is the mobile phone that is expected shortly from Nokia, but the surprise with this phone has to be the fact that it is going to run on the Symbian operation system. The surprise comes from the fact that Nokia recently ...

Nokia Pushed to Bad Times? Market Share Having a Free Fall

GizmoCrave - ‎May 21, 2011‎
Disastrous news this, indeed, is for Nokia! Things have never been this insipid with Nokia in the past 14 years. Nokia's current market share, strangely, is now the lowest since 1997. Over the past few years, the market share of Nokia has dropped to 25 ...

Nokia Windows Phones getting ST-Ericsson dual-core processors

Mobot.net (blog) - ‎May 21, 2011‎
Nokia's debut Windows Phone 7 smartphones look set to come packing ST-Ericsson processors when they land later this year, an exec on the board of the chip-maker has claimed. Speaking to Forbes, STMicroelectronics CEO Carlo Bozotti â€" who also sits on ...

Trade in mobile and head to Nokia for 'true innovation'

Mazuma Mobile - ‎May 21, 2011‎
Innovation is a significant factor in the success of mobile providers around the world, with many consumers always eyeing the latest development or creation. Phil, author of the Nokia Conversations blog, has suggested the Finnish brand is at the ...

 

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