... presence of cheaper smartphones will continue to appeal to consumers, and counter the need to increase prices. Mobile phone pricing has been increasing over the last few years driven by a rising premium-phone average selling price, but now will remain flat or slightly down as the smartphone market reaches ...
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... switch from slower 2G connections and consume more mobile data."
In the third quarter of 2014, Gartner conducted a mobile app survey and asked 1,000 smartphone users in the U.S. and 1,000 in Germany about their mobile app usage habits. "Germany and the U.S. provide two distinct mature markets from which ...
... semiconductor vendors that mainly supplied to them. While Samsung and Apple have significantly increased orders in the same period due to success in the smartphone market, semiconductor vendors are concerned about the risk of relying on large customers such as these.
"The industry has seen some fairly significant ...
... chose laptops, and 5 percent selected tablets, and 4 percent selected smartphones. “This is a stark contrast to their preferences at home, where the laptop gets 49 percent approval, the desktop gets 27 percent, and the tablet and smartphone receive 11 and 12 percent,” said Ms. Logan. “In either scenario, ...
... technologies like augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) to expand the experiences associated with existing device categories (notably smartphones) and to find opportunities among new ones (like head-mounted displays).
While consumer adoption of VR outpaces enterprise adoption, AR is seeing ...
... will continue in 2020 due to low supply bit growth being overwhelmed by strong demand from solid-state drive (SSD) adoption and the ramp up of 5G smartphones.
Revenue growth of other device categories varied between analog products’ decline of 5.4% and optoelectronics’ growth of 2.4%. Analog suffered ...
... faced by Indian mobile operators is the growing appetite for over-the-top (OTT) voice services. Explosion in personal connected devices, such as smartphones and tablets, is driving consumer appetite for OTT communication.
“Mobile broadband provides a substantial revenue opportunity in India on the back ...
... growing quickly but represent a smaller portion of the overall market. Additionally, the slow-growth outlook for traditional applications such as smartphones and PCs highlights the importance of semiconductor markets outside of these categories, notably the IoT.
"This implies that semiconductor product ...
... Lenovo Yoga 2 11 and Dell Inspiron 13.
The mobile phone segment is on pace to grow 3.7 percent in 2015 and reach two billion units in 2016.
"The smartphone market is becoming polarized between the high- and low-end market price points," said Annette Zimmermann, research director at Gartner. "On one hand ...