While AT&T is holding its grip over the Apple iPhone the US, in order to earn more and more cash, in Europe things are starting to look up, as far as sales are concerned, mostly due to the end of exclusivities. It’s pretty logical, considering that more carriers selling a phone means a higher profit. We’re talking about the UK and France,...
Reuters informs us that the HTC, the world’s number 4 smartphone brand has lowered its 2009 revenue forecast, because of the fall in unit shipments and the delay in the launch of new products. HTC CEO Peter Chou claims that the company’s momentum won’t be as strong as he had hoped for, although the smartphone maker has quite a bunch...
iSuppli, a famous industry watcher claims that the new iPhone 3GS costs $178.96 to make, so Apple is make $420 profit with each unit sold. Turns out that the 16GB unit of the 3GS handset only costs its maker 3% more than last year’s version, which is quite good. AT&T sells the 16GB iPhone 3GS for $199, with contract, but specialists claim...
In spite of the economic depression, job cuts and low profits of most handset manufacturers, handset vendors still managed to ship 258 million phones by the end of the quarter. That stands for a 11% year over year decrease, but it’s still good news, since it surpassed the specialists’ prediction (253.5 million units).] Samsung and LG did...
There’s no recession for Huawei, as it seems that the company based in Shenzhen, China made quite a profit in 2008 and is getting ready for a similar performance in 2009. Huawei has just posted an annual net profit of $1.15 billion, 20% more than the year before. However, the company also lost $776 million, as the yuan gained against the dollar. Huawei...
HTC has just posted its 2008 financial results, which include a $4.5 billion revenue and $931 million profit. The revenue is up 29%, comparing to the previous year and HTC managed to sell 12.03 million devices, 70% of them with 3G support. 1 million of these devices had Android on board, so it turns out that the rest are all Windows Mobile handsets,...
Although Vodafone is getting ready to post £12 billion profits for 2008, things aren’t going so well for the UK-based carrier. Turns out that the company is planning on freezing al rises and bonuses for the entire UK Staff, in the attempt to cut costs with £1 billion. The news comes barely one month after Vodafone announced it’ll be firing...
Revenues for Palm will be much lower than those expected, according to the company’s recent official statements. The difference is from 330 million expected to almost 200 million in actual results, which says it all. The reason is a “reduced demand for maturing smartphone and handheld products,” according to Palm’s statements in a press...
A Reuters poll shows that analysts think we’ll soon witness the first crash of the mobile phone market since 2001. The experts expect the global growth to be 3% in Q4 and 2009, which is really bad when compared to the 10% of recent years. There is however an expectation of growth in the last quarter of 2008, at least with 11.6%, compared to Q3,...
Preference for the iPhone has risen with almost 50% more among the handset users with earnings ranged between USD 25 000 and USD 50 000 per year. The reason for this raise is that Apple’s phone is now seen as a combination of several devices to access the Internet, e-mail, camera, gaming and music collections into one. The iPhone turns out to be...
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