There are improved handsets coming on the market from Samsung, Nokia and HTC and others.
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Sony, Samsung, Nokia and others formed the In-Location Alliance last fall to advance indoor mapping.
O2's 4G network will launch with a range of LTE-enabled handsets, from Samsung, Nokia and others.
If he brings up Apple, Samsung and Nokia, it shows their performance in USD.
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And cheaper, local smartphonemakers like ZTE and Huawei are launching powerful phones to challenge Samsung and Nokia.
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The success of its Galaxy smartphones helped Samsung overtake Nokia as the world's biggest phone maker last year.
"They were about to enter a field dominated by giants, " he said, citing Samsung and Nokia Corp. as rivals.
Samsung and Nokia accounted for 54% of the global handset sales last year.
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One of its great successes has been the AMOLED display that we see in Samsung and Nokia Lumia phones.
Samsung overtook Nokia as the world's biggest mobile-phone maker in 2011 and competes with Apple for the top smartphone maker position.
Its chief executive, Heinrich von Pierer, has also acknowledged that it has lacked attractive new handsets in comparison to rivals such as Motorola, Samsung and Nokia.
That said, both Samsung and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) are planning to launch new devices with a flexible screen in the coming year.
Instead they could find that they have fallen behind closest rivals Samsung, Nokia and indeed Motorola, all of whom introduced the technology into their devices last week.
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The handset market is split between companies with very aggressive new pricing plans (Samsung, Nokia, to some extent Motorola) and companies that were caught napping (HTC, RIM, LG).
Sony, Samsung and Nokia have all used these strategies successfully.
Connected Life, just started in about Yahoo's interest in providing content and services to users across a range of devices via its new Java-based client running on Motorola, Samsung, Nokia and RIM phones.
Mr Kallasvuo does not mention names, but his drift is clear: rather than just comparing itself with rival handset-makers such as Motorola or Samsung, Nokia now considers its competitors to be Apple, Sony, Canon and other consumer-electronics firms.
The risk here is that as Huawei and ZTE continue their assault on low-end smartphone market, the arrival of iPhone 4S will suck the oxygen out of the high-end smartphone segment, triggering order cancellations from Samsung, Nokia, LG, Sony Ericsson and HTC.
Samsung, Nokia and Apple, in that order, were the biggest movers of handsets, though the latter two change places when it comes to smartphones -- Espoo only shipped 35 million to Cupertino's 135, while Samsung topped the trio at 213 million devices shipped.
Meanwhile in the Nokia heartland of Western Europe, Apple has become the No. 1 seller of smartphones while Samsung has overtaken Nokia to become the top handset maker overall, IDC adds.
In the one camp is Apple, in the other is HTC, Samsung, and Nokia.
Today, Samsung, not Nokia, is one of the top five handset vendors in the United States.
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Samsung pushed past Nokia, and now holds 22.9% of the total world phone market, up from 18.7% a year ago.
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This month it was reported that Samsung had replaced Nokia at the top of the table for total handsets shipped, according to IHS iSuppli Mobile and Wireless Communications Service.
The growing Chinese demand is an indicator of where mobile phone manufacturers such as Apple, Samsung, Nokia, Research in Motion and others will be seeing most of their sales growth in the coming years.
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My prediction is we will see margin pressure amid the device vendors and favorable growth prospects at those RF and other chip suppliers that have the right mix of customers (more Samsung, less Nokia and Blackberry for example) as well as some jawing on new opportunities (the Connected Car, the Connected Home, mHealth and more).
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Clearly the smartphone now has three segments: small screen, medium screen, and large screen. iPhone 5 is an example of a small screen, Samsung Galaxy SIII and Nokia Lumia series as well as BlackBerry Z10 are examples of medium screens, and Samsung Galaxy SIV and Samsung Note II are examples of large screens.
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