The higher gross margin forecast for mobile flash memory cards and other SanDisk products has resulted in a large increase in our price estimate for SanDisk.
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In the chart above we forecast the high gross margin for mobile flash memory cards will continue into the future, as the cost improvement achieved is based on technological developments by SanDisk.
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Going forward, we expect SanDisk mobile phone flash memory market share to increase slightly over the forecast period.
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Above shows the average forecast among Trefis members for SanDisk mobile phone flash memory market share, which is roughly in line with our estimates.
FORBES: SanDisk Cruises Past $50 Stealing Flash Share In Mobile Market
With Flash Media Server 4.5, media publishers can extend their already broad mobile reach via Flash-enabled devices, with the new ability to deliver video content to Apple's iPad and iPhone devices, enabling them to reach the widest audience possible.
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In November Adobe announced that it was finally abandoning development of Flash for mobile browsers, and refocusing on HTML5 for delivering interactive features and video -- the death rattle of a long struggle in which Apple resisted letting Flash run on its iOS mobile operating system.
Hawkins' firm is converting games built for mobile phones into Flash versions that run online, and adding MochiAds to sweeten the results.
He was right: These days, for anything under 256 megabytes of memory, including mobile phones, flash is cheaper than a hard drive.
Hotels that are racing to fill up their remaining rooms will often woo travellers with mobile-only flash sales, typically discounting rates 10% to 40% from other online sites.
Next year Adobe is eliminating its fee to phone manufacturers like Nokia, Samsung and Motorola, which will put a mobile version of Flash on a billion phones by 2009.
Going forward, LSI is firmly established as a central player in some of the most critical growth trends in computing, including cloud, Big Data, mobile networking and flash, with products that are bringing exciting new levels of speed and productivity to our customers.
Since its 2008 launch, Skyfire has promoted itself as the only mobile browser that supports Flash, enabling video playback on phones.
Shoehorning Flash onto mobile phones by converting them to HTML5 is ambitious.
Micron Technology is a manufacturer and marketer of semiconductor devices, primarily dynamic random access memory for PCs and mobile devices, NAND Flash and NOR memory.
Micron Technology is a manufacturer and marketer of memory products, primarily dynamic random access memory for PCs and mobile devices, NAND Flash and NOR Flash memory products.
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News flash: mobile TV is not enticing.
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Flash memory has played an important role in these mobile consumer devices because it is rugged, flash memory chips can be stacked to enable compact devices, it uses small amounts of battery power and enough storage capacity can be included to make these devices useful for some common tasks such as email and media playing.
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Thus affordable flash-based mobile devices will have limited storage capacity and are most useful for a use and delete or on-line access thin client use models.
The OEM business is expected to remain strong for the rest of the year, driven by new product cycles from manufacturers of smartphones, tablets, e-book readers and other mobile Internet devices that use flash-based storage solutions.
Since SanDisk is the flash memory leader for mobile phones, we expect it to be the preferred vendor for tablet memory as well.
Increased demand for NAND flash chips used in mobile devices and enhanced revenue in the System LSI Business, which creates mobile application processors and CMOS Image Sensors, supported overall profitability.
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Already one of the top free apps on Android Market, with more than 50, 000 users giving it a 4.5-out-of-5 star rating, Flash Player 10.1 brings rich Flash based content to mobile devices inside the browser.
"Cheesy, pre-scripted, commercialized performances" have spoiled the flash mob's original artistic spark, says Sean Savage, a designer for tablets and mobile devices often credited with coining the term "flash mob" on his blog 'cheesebikini?
The obligatory logos are here as well: "Galaxy S 4, " located just above the speakers in traditional fashion, and the carrier logo (T-Mobile in this case) underneath the flash.
It turns out a lot of the flash-memory chips used in mobile phones.
That means Vudu can now be streamed on any computer or mobile device that has a web browser and Flash.
An added benefit of the flash-sales offering: increased mobile traffic.
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Since Metro IE is plug-in-free by default, Flash works without any additional setup required. (If you want to disable Flash in the desktop version, though, you'll find that option in the add-on manager.) And in case you're wondering about Flash's diminished role on mobile devices, well, we're told it'll work with both x86 and ARM devices.
Up to 40% of all mobile devices shipped in 2008 are expected to carry Flash Lite.
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