Currently, Slim controls 70% of the mobile phone market in Mexico, and 80% of landlines.
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Today, Glu Mobile provides more than 140 wireless games for the mobile phone market.
The availability and quality of mobile applications have become important differentiators in the mobile phone market.
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Accelerating growth of the mobile phone market would be a positive for all these players.
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Currently, we forecast an average annual growth of 6% for the mobile phone market.
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The mobile phone market is so vast that when it sneezes, many catch a cold.
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Motorola, which once dominated the mobile phone market, has fallen behind its competitors, including Apple and Samsung.
As the mobile phone market saturates, wireless service providers will look to these other devices for growth.
Apple primarily competes with Research in Motion, Motorola, and Nokia in the mobile phone market.
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Battling Nokia, Apple and Research In Motion for a slice of the mobile phone market will be tough.
This uncertainty can slow the growth of the mobile phone market and innovation.
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HTC's chief executive, Peter Chou, has built the perfect company for giving Google a helping hand into the mobile phone market.
Telefonica Moviles, which was recently floated on the Spanish market, has 14m customers and half the mobile phone market in Spain.
But while Apple operates only on the higher-end of the mobile phone market, Samsung has a product profile that reaches lower incomes.
But look at how big the mobile phone market is in China.
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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.
Hence new product launches and the differentiating factor plays an important role if Motorola wants to stay afloat in the mobile phone market.
"For a couple of years we haven't had anything really interesting in the mobile phone market, " said Antti Saarnio, chairman and co-founder of Jolla.
Samsung has a considerable advantage in hardware that will be harder for Apple to match much less surpass than in the mobile phone market.
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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Samsung has grown so quickly in the mobile phone market in the past year that its handset division has now become its most profitable business.
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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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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.
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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In the past, Motorola has faced stiff competition from Apple, Research in Motion and Nokia in the mobile phone market, causing its market share to decline from 22% in 2006 to around 4.5% in 2009.
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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At the time, Nokia was still the market share leader in the mobile phone market even though it had largely missed the industry shift toward smartphones that at the time favored Research in Motion (RIMM) and Apple (AAPL) among others.
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Just two years ago, Nokia dominated the smartphone market, yes, the smartphone market not just the mobile phone market, with 39% market share. (Numbers from IDC worldwide shipments.) The number two vendor was Research in Motion with almost 20% market share.
In the last few years, RIM has lost market share in the smartphone market and gained market share slowly in the overall mobile phone market.
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