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Telecommunications Smartphone market surges to new high
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| by Peter Dinham | |
| Tuesday, 13 October 2009 | |
  
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IDC’s market analyst, telecommunications, Mark Novosel, said today that touchscreen and QWERTY keyboard-based converged devices have seen “phenomenal growth over the past 12 months, when the segment comprised only 25% of all converged devices shipped." According to Novosel, traditional mobile phones, which currently comprise 66.9 percent of the total Australian mobile device market, have also performed well, growing 11.5 percent year-on-year. “The Australian mobile market has excelled throughout the worst of the global financial crisis, now with increased optimism returning, IDC expects the market will continue performing strongly in the coming years. "IDC has upgraded its five-year forecast in response to two strong quarters of growth, with Australia's converged device market now expected to grow at a CAGR of 13% over the next five years," Novosel said, adding that “the Australian dollar has recovered strongly over the past six months, meaning consumers can expect converged device prices to soften in the second half of the year, ahead of the Christmas spending season." IDC also reports that the launch of the third-generation iPhone 3GS and price cuts to the iPhone 3G 8GB have propelled Apple to second place in the converged device rankings, with market share more than doubling to 21 percent of the converged device market in Q2 2009. |
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