Analyzing the world's 11 biggest handset makers in Q1 2012

Source: Fierce Wireless

In Q1 Samsung took the handset shipment crown from Nokia which had held the No. 1 spot for over a decade. Additionally Samsung widened its lead in smartphone shipments over Apple with 42 million units shipped. With pre-orders o ...
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Google Wardriving On Hotseat | Tablets, Phablets: Here To Stay

Source: TechWeb

MUST READ Tablet And Phablet Use Rises Steadily Tablets and phone/tablet combos are here to stay, according to Millennial Media and ABI Research. More than 208 million phablets, like the Samsung Galaxy Note, will ship in 2015. RELAT ...
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Standalone Versus Integrated Dilemma Is Major Theme of $37 Billion Mobile Handset Semiconductor Market, Says ABI Research

Source: Business Wire

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Revenues for core semiconductor components used in mobile handsets, including platform ICs and wireless connectivity ICs, are expected to reach almost $37 billion per annum in 2012 ...
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I Can’t Believe I’m Putting the Word ‘Phablet’ on DF, Even if Only in a Blockquote

Source: Daring Fireball

More than 208 million phablets, a hybrid device that is larger than a smartphone but smaller than a tablet, like the Samsung Galaxy Note, will be shipped globally in 2015. Despite the slow start for phablet smartphones in 2011, the market is at the dawn ...
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EA' Command & Conquer MMO goes Live - Analyst Blog

Source: NASDAQ

Electronic Arts Inc. 's ( EA ) free-to-play division, Phenomic, recently announced the worldwide launch of Command & Conquer Tiberium Alliances . This is a browser-based multi-platform free- to-play massively multiplayer online ("MMO") game, which went l ...
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Smartphone+tablet! That's a phablet

Source: CIOL.com

Phablets have a touch screen size between 4.6 to 5.5 inches and it is expected to have more than 20.8 crore units shipped globally in 2015, as per ABI Research Be first to comment on this article Get most out of your technology infrastructure investm ...
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The M2M Software Platform Market Will Grow to $3.85 Billion by 2017 as Merchant-Market Platforms Increasingly Displace Self-Built Solutions, Says ABI Research

Source: iStockAnalyst

The cellular M2M market will rise from about 110 million cumulative connections globally in 2011 to roughly 453 million cumulative connections by 2017. Nevertheless, a key challenge for the industry remains the com ...
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The age of the phablet has arrived

Source: Tom's Hardware Guide

More than 208 million phablets - a hybrid device larger than a smartphone but smaller than a tablet - are expected to ship globally in 2015, increasing by a factor of 10 in 2012 from 2011. According to senior ABI Research ...
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ABI Research: Phablets Are Fab

Source: TWICE

London - Global factory-level shipments of phablets, the cellular device that is larger than a smartphone but smaller than a tablet, will increase 10-fold in 2012 to 19.2 million compared with 2011, ABI Resea ...
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