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VIRTUALISATION Smartphone growth leads the way in weakening mobile market
VIRTUALISATION Smartphone growth leads the way in weakening mobile market | Smartphone growth leads the way in weakening mobile market |
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Monday, 02 February 2009 | |
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Like other surveys of the market, ABI Research found that 2008 was a year of two halves - the year started out with a bang and ended with a bust In the first half, mobile handset shipments happily chugged along at 14% year on uear growth. In the second half, 3Q handset shipments slowed to 8% before crashing into the Red in 4Q with -10%. "Sheer fear sapped the confidence of consumers, enterprises and corporate users across the board," says Jake Saunders, Asia-Pacific Vice-President of ABI Research. "As a result, 2008 signed out the year with 1.21 billion handsets shipped for an annual growth of 5.4%. Just a year ago we had +16%." According to ABI Research, among the mobile handset vendors there were winners and losers but the most impressive performances came from two smartphone players RIM (Blackberry) and Apple (iPhone). CONTINUED Page 2 |
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