We expect that RIM will continue to gain market share in the overall mobile phone market as the smartphone segment outgrows the rest of the mobile phone market.
Fireball (or are we intimate enough for me to call him Daring?) points out further that Apple has never had even a majority of the smartphone market: let alone of the total mobile phone market.
This uncertainty can slow the growth of the mobile phone market and innovation.
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But while Apple operates only on the higher-end of the mobile phone market, Samsung has a product profile that reaches lower incomes.
Industry insiders say Google is about to release Linux-based software that will bind mobile phones to Google's online services, a move likely to exacerbate the growing conflict between Google and Microsoft over the future of the mobile-phone market.
Industry insiders say Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) is about to release Linux-based software that will bind mobile phones to Google's online services, a move likely to exacerbate the growing conflict between Google and Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) over the future of the mobile-phone market.
Currently, Slim controls 70% of the mobile phone market in Mexico, and 80% of landlines.
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Although the mix of smartphones within the mobile phone market is growing, the smartphone landscape is extremely competitive with players like Apple, Motorola, Nokia and Google vying for leadership.
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We forecast that RIM will see increased market share due to growth of the smartphone market within the overall mobile phone market.
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In comparison to the size of the tablet market, we expect the global mobile phone market to grow from 1.2 billion units in 2009 to 1.8 billion units by the end of the Trefis forecast period.
The availability and quality of mobile applications have become important differentiators in the mobile phone market.
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With that, today the Samsung-Apple pairing has half of the global market in smartphones (and barely over a third of all mobile phone handsets when dumbphones are included) so there is clearly plenty of room for other rivals, contenders and pretenders.
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In this scenario, Apple?s share of the worldwide mobile phone market could reach 4.5% in 2011 instead of the 4.2% that we currently forecast.
We estimate that SanDisk is currently responsible for 33% of the total gigabytes (GBs) of flash memory shipped annually for the global mobile phone market.
It claims that the cost of a mobile phone call has fallen by 70% since the single market came into operation, and the cost of a plane ticket has fallen by 40%.
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Accelerating growth of the mobile phone market would be a positive for all these players.
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Battling Nokia, Apple and Research In Motion for a slice of the mobile phone market will be tough.
Prior to Zander stepping in, Nokia was on top of the mobile phone market and Motorola was viewed as rudderless as it lost share.
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This is because GSM accounts for almost 70% of the mobile phone market in emerging markets, and WCDMA is specifically designed to be compatible with GSM core network.
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To succeed, Motorola needs to maintain this momentum in the future as well, given competition from bigger and stronger players like Apple, RIM and Nokia that have a wider choice of smartphones and a greater share of the mobile phone market.
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Handhelds running its PocketPC software, such as HP's iPaq and the new T-Mobile smart phone, now claim 21% of the market.
According to Gartner, Android-based handsets accounted for 3.9% of the global mobile phone market last year.
Slim's Telmex controls 80 percent of Mexican landlines and 70 percent of the mobile-phone market.
In terms of the global mobile phone market share, we expect it to increase from 3.1% in 2010 to 4.2% in 2011.
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Yet no mobile phone for the U.S. market approaches the kind of phone as wallet functionality they have for many years in Japan.
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While Facebook has done well on mobile so far, there are number of challenges to its continued expansion into the mobile phone market.
Nokia maintained the top spot in the overall mobile phone market despite year-over-year unit shipment growth of less than 2% in new chief executive Steven Elop's first quarter at the helm.
The move is part of Amazon's strategy to dig deeper into the Chinese mobile phone market.
For 2010, we estimate Dell to capture only around 0.1% share of the total global mobile phone market.
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