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• Mobile Phone Market Shrugging Off Economic Downturn; 2007 Shipments Increased by 15.8% to 1.15 Billion, ABI Research Finds

  - 2008-01-24

  NEW YORK -- World stock markets have recently taken a beating and the US domestic market teeters on the edge of recession but based on just-released mobile device shipment figures, it seems no one bothered to tell the mobile handset vendors, except for Motorola.

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• 203 Million Mobile Phones Will Use Linux Operating Systems by 2012, says ABI Research, with 76 Million as RTOS Replacements

  - 2007-04-03

  LONDON -- The Linux community is assaulting the mobile phone environment with a two-pronged attack that focuses on commercial operating system solutions and real-time operating system RTOS replacement. In a new study, ABI Research forecasts that by 2012, more than 127 million devices will be enabled with a commercial Linux...

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• High Handset Royalty Rates Currently Inhibiting Mobile Phone Markets, According to ABI Research

  - 2007-01-10

  LONDON -- A new study from ABI Research has found that the currently high average handset technology royalty rates - particularly for WCDMA - are potentially the most challenging barrier that is preventing these markets from reaching their full potential. Royalties continue to form a significant share of handset bills-of-materials...

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• Small Gets Big: MEMS Technology Will Take Off in Mobile Phones in 2008, Says ABI Research

  - 2006-12-19

  NEW YORK -- According to a new study from ABI Research, 2008 will be the take-off year for Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems MEMS in the mobile phone, as the technology's small size, flexibility, and performance advantages become big drawcards, critical to enabling the adaptive, multifunction handsets of the future.

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• ABI Research Finds Renewed Focus on Power Management in Mobile Phones

  - 2006-01-04

  OYSTER BAY, N.Y. -- The topic of power management in a mobile phone would have drawn yawns from most people in the industry a few years ago. Handset power management circuitry lacked the glamour of such components as the DSP and the applications processor. But according to ABI Research's principal...

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• ABI Research asks, How Will Mobile Phone Trends Affect the Handset's Digital Signal Processor?

  - 2005-09-20

  OYSTER BAY, N.Y. -- What changes are coming to the mobile phone, and how will they affect the handset's digital signal processing? ABI Research has identified four major trends:

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• Blowing the Doors Off Performance: ABI Research Sees Transmit Diversity Coming to the Mobile Phone

  - 2005-06-15

  OYSTER BAY, N.Y. -- Since the mobile phone is a very price-sensitive product, engineers will find ways to eliminate a component worth just a few cents in order to reduce costs in a segment where volumes run to 700 million units a year.

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• The Cellphone of the Future - A World of Radios, According to ABI Research

  - 2005-03-10

  OYSTER BAY, N.Y. -- Today's mobile phone includes the components and software for multiple cellular standards such as GPRS, EDGE and UMTS. In addition, there is usually a personal area technology such as Bluetooth. But according to ABI Research, the number of radios in the cellphone is set to rise...

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• Mobile Phone Vendors Should Start to Focus on Profits, says ABI Research

  - 2005-03-08

  OYSTER BAY, N.Y. -- In 2009-2010 the global market for entry-level mobile phones will begin to approach saturation, according to new data from ABI Research. Younger generations will continue to provide new customers as they come of age, but the phenomenal subscriber growth rates that define the market today will...

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• Airborne Contagion: Mobile Phones at Risk, but MS Not the Target, Finds ABI Research

  - 2005-01-25

  OYSTER BAY, N.Y. -- While viruses and worms aimed at desktop computers or servers are nothing new, mobile viruses are only now starting to represent a serious problem. And for many OS designers and network operators, the remoteness of the threat meant that they put too little effort into guaranteeing...

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