The company specialises in mobile phone security and is developing 2D fingerprint sensors for Apple, according to the merger documents.
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We expect commoditization of smartphones, reduction in mobile phone input costs, and competition with GSM phones to push down CDMA phone prices further.
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However, Android took the lead in mobile phone impression volume.
As a result, for years the U.S. lagged behind Europe in mobile phone usage, and even today our poor call quality and frequently dropped calls can be blamed in part on this regulatory hodge-podge.
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Another consequence: an explosion in mobile phone adoption.
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This is just slightly below the 44% annual gain for the iShares MSCI Mexico Index (amex: EWW), which is heavily concentrated in mobile phone monopoly America Movil, which has soared 67% in the past year.
To roughly calculate, I build on a study of 120 countries by Christine Zhen-Wei Qiang of the World Bank that found that a 10 percent increase in mobile phone penetration correlates with a 0.8 percent average increase in GDP growth.
This is just slightly below the 44% annual gain for the iShares MSCI Mexico Index (amex: EWW), which is heavily concentrated in mobile phone monopoly America Movil (nyse: AMX - news - people ), which has soared 67% in the past year.
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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Shares of Nokia have fallen 13% after higher sales of its Lumia smartphones failed to offset a decline in its mobile phone unit in the first quarter.
The availability and quality of mobile applications have become important differentiators in the mobile phone market.
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These are boom times for intellectual property lawyers, as every major player in the mobile phone industry decides that patents are important weapons in the battle for supremacy in the smartphone market.
The PRADA phone by LG 1.0, a pioneer in the mobile phone space, was an unqualified success, selling over one million units.
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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.
Qualcomm has been a dominant player in the mobile phone chipsets market, but until now has lacked the product range (particularly in Wi-Fi chipsets) necessary for non-handset devices like tablets.
We believe that though a higher smartphone mix will increase the average blended mobile phone price in the near term, declining prices in smartphones will lead to lower average mobile phone prices following 2014 as represented in the chart below.
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No sign either of the pace of innovation slowing in the mobile phone industry.
The report sheds some light on the growing ecosystems in the mobile phone world.
It's no secret that Google is keen to become a pivotal player in the mobile phone world.
Apple primarily competes with Research in Motion, Motorola, and Nokia in the mobile phone market.
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Nokia also takes comfort from the fact that Japanese taste in mobile-phone design is rather different from European.
Facebook has added a feature in its mobile phone app that allows free calling for US iPhone users.
LEDs are used in electronic displays in cars mobile phone screens and TVs.
Fulford-Jones narrated of Nikki, a woman who volunteered to share her location data via the GPS chip in her mobile phone.
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Slowly but surely, Intel is gaining some traction in the mobile phone processor market now dominated by ARM-based chips.
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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.
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