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It's a Mobile World: Smartphones Way Up, Symbian Doomed

 

Worldwide mobile device sales translated into 1.6 billion new units in the hands of consumers in 2010 -- an eye-popping 31.8 percent increase from 2009, according to new figures from Gartner (NYSE: IT).

The firm found also that smartphone sales were up 72.1 percent from 2009, accounting for 19 percent of total mobile device sales in 2010. Worldwide mobile phone sales reached 32.7 percent growth in the fourth quarter of 2010 with the number of units sold totaling 452 million.

The volume alone turned heads in the mobile community.

"We in the mobile industry get a little jaded," Azita Arvani of the Arvani Group told the E-Commerce Times, "but it is amazing to see that over 20 percent of the world's population bought a new mobile device in 2010."

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From PCMag.com

Yahoo, Nokia Partner on E-Mail, Chat, and Maps

Chloe Albanesius | 05.24.2010

Yahoo and Nokia on Monday announced an alliance that will result in Yahoo powering Nokia's mail and chat programs and Nokia providing Yahoo with its maps and navigation services...

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From Cnet.com

Opera Mobile 10 now on Nokia phone, tablets--sort of

What do you get when you take a bunch of mobile browser developers and give them free run of the lab? A preview build of Opera's Mobile 10 browser running on the Nokia N900 and N800/N810 Internet Tablet...

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Competition in the mobile phone landscape continues to heat up, and it doesn't seem it will cool down anytime soon. Newer efforts continue to redefine the mobile market. Who is truly leading the charge is not entirely clear. Nokia continues to have the lion's share in global market, but other companies are starting to cut into that lead. Get a sense of what is happening in the mobile phone market with the following articles below.

Nokia is still the largest distributer of mobile devices over Apple or Research in Motion.

Nokia tops iPhone and BlackBerry (again)

By Rik Myslewski from The Register

The top worldwide smartphone manufacturer - by a hefty margin - remains neither Apple nor Research in Motion but Nokia, according to the IDC's latest Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker report.

Well, to be completely accurate, the report surveyed what IDC insists on calling "converged mobile devices," but what every other sentient being on the planet calls smartphones...

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However, Nokia is starting to lose market share.

Nokia Losing Ground in Mobile Phone Race

By Ilya Rzhevskiy from Epoch Times

Once noted for being the world’s top producer both for high and low end mobile phones, Nokia Corp. has been losing ground to competitors, especially in the smartphone space to Apple Inc.

“Nokia was once the BMW of mobile. These days, Ford is what comes to mind. Reliable, not expensive,” said Carolina Milanese from Gartner Research in a statement...

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Android had a very successful first quarter this year.

Android Shakes Up U.S. Smartphone Market

From MarketWatch

The Android operating system (OS) continued to shake up the U.S. mobile phone market in the first quarter (Q1) of 2010, moving past Apple to take the number-two position among smartphone operating systems, according to The NPD Group, a leading market research company. NPD's wireless market research reveals that based on unit sales to consumers last quarter the Android operating system moved into second position at 28 percent behind RIM's OS (36 percent) and ahead of Apple's OS (21 percent)...

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Other players are also looking to get in on the action.

Sprint, Samsung Launch Seek Phone

The Samsung Seek, billed as an affordable and compact "messaging device" was announced Monday by Sprint and Samsung Mobile. Geared at young users, the Sleek has a full QWERTY slide-out keyboard, a touchscreen and is available now.

 

Read about it HERE.