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Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totalled 1.211 billion units in 2009, a 0.9 per cent decline from 2008, according to Gartner, Inc. In the fourth quarter of 2009, the market registered a single-digit growth as mobile phone sales to end users surpassed 340 million units, an 8.3 per cent increase from the fourth quarter of 2008.

"The mobile devices market finished on a very positive note, driven by growth in smartphones and low-end devices," said Carolina Milanesi, research director at Gartner. "Smartphone sales to end users continued their strong growth in the fourth quarter of 2009, totaling 53.8 million units, up 41.1 per cent from the same period in 2008. In 2009, smartphone sales reached 172.4 million units, a 23.8 per cent increase from 2008. In 2009, smartphone-focused vendors like Apple and Research In Motion (RIM) successfully captured market share from other larger device producers, controlling 14.4 and 19.9 per cent of the worldwide smartphone market, respectively."

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Palm Cut To SELL Because RIM, Apple, Google Are Kicking Its Butt

Gekko @ 2/24/2010 5:05:56 AM # Q

Palm Cut To SELL Because RIM, Apple, And Google Are Kicking Its Butt
Dan Frommer | Feb. 23, 2010, 11:29 AM

It's looking ugly at Palm, whose new smartphones at Verizon Wireless -- the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus -- are off to a slow start. Shares are down 5% today after getting downgraded by Bank of America/Merrill Lynch and MacQuarie Research.

As MarketWatch reports:

* "Palm was cut to an underperform -- or sell -- rating by Bank of America/Merrill Lynch. In a note to clients, analyst Vivek Arya said the company's newest webOS phones have seen 'sluggish' sales since the Verizon sales began."
* "In another report, Phil Cusick of MacQuarie Research cut his rating on the stock to neutral, or hold. Cusick also cited 'weak sell-though' at Verizon , and noted that interest from other carriers such as AT&T is weak."

The main problem for Palm is that the smartphone market has become a platform game, which means there are only going to be 2 or 3 big winners. So far, in the U.S. at least, RIM's BlackBerry and Apple's iPhone are the top 2, and Google's Android is making a strong push to be no. 3, with increasing support from all four major U.S. wireless carriers.

While Palm has a technically impressive platform, there's a lot more factors than technical quality in who will win: It also includes carrier distribution, hardware design, marketing, app quantity and quality, commerce, entertainment and media services, etc. And so far, Palm is not making it happen.

http://www.businessinsider.com/palm-cut-to-sell-because-rim-apple-and-google-are-kicking-its-butt-2010-2

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Google's Nexus One coming to Verizon on March 23?

Gekko @ 2/27/2010 8:05:46 AM # Q

Google's Nexus One coming to Verizon on March 23

http://www.neowin.net/news/google039s-nexus-one-coming-to-verizon-on-march-23

Google Nexus One Vs. iPhone 3GS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuVyExV8SYo

Display

3.7-inch (diagonal) widescreen WVGA AMOLED touchscreen

800 x 480 pixels

Processor

Qualcomm QSD 8250 1 GHz

Capacity

512MB Flash

512MB RAM

4GB Micro SD Card (Expandable to 32 GB)

RE: Google's Nexus One coming to Verizon on March 23?
e_tellurian @ 2/27/2010 12:48:27 PM # M Q
Excellent more choices to interact with. The pioneer that is Palm has carved a trail while its intellectual content inspires more innovation and choices.

E-T

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