And as soon as next year, Intel will introduce WiMax chips for mobile handsets.
Mobile handsets require high levels of precision manufacturing skill as well as strong supply chain capabilities.
Siemens aims to make it into the Big Three in mobile handsets, behind Nokia and Motorola.
Motorola, another important Qualcomm customer, has seen a share decline in mobile handsets in recent years.
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Many cheap mobile handsets allow users to play video games and surf the net.
In January the firm snapped up Quattro Wireless, which specialises in advertising on mobile handsets.
It has the biggest global market share for mobile handsets, at 39.1%, still up from 35.5%, last year.
Further challenging HTC will be its struggle to pivot into other avenues besides that of making mobile handsets.
It makes and sells mobile handsets and other mobile devices such as dongles and tablet computers in fourteen countries.
Meanwhile, the use of mobile handsets, e-readers and tablets could put 1.8 million more children in education by 2017, it suggested.
For Ericsson, which hasn't earned a profit in mobile handsets in three years, investors must wonder why they bother at all.
The Librarian had previously approved a broad exception for unlocking mobile handsets.
Between them, the Symbian partners produce 80% of the world's mobile handsets and have close relationships with most of the world's wireless operators.
The speculation is that they want to use the space to build a new type of mobile access directly into their mobile handsets.
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The OV5645 also features a new picture-in-picture (PIP) architecture that offers an easy-to-implement, low-cost dual camera system solution for mobile handsets and smartphones.
The Librarian ruled that it would exempt the "unlocking" of mobile handsets from the anti-circumvention law only if a number of conditions were met.
The point is to get inside the head of the man in a Johannesburg mall shop standing and staring at dozens of mobile handsets.
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However, OmniVision did surprise investors in February when it announced a 5.17 megapixel auto-focus camera module for mobile handsets based around the OV5623 CameraChip sensor.
Nokia has a huge market share when it comes to mobile handsets, with around 1.3 billion people on the planet using its phones, according to company estimates.
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Although mobile handsets are the first devices benefitting from wireless charging, the new technology can be extended to PCs, tablet PCs, electronic toothbrushes and even electric cars.
The manufacturing company primarily makes mobile handsets, and separate reports have indicated Microsoft also wants the company to make its rumoured Surface smartphone, to also launch next year.
Nokia's cheapest mobile handsets come equipped with flashlights (because of frequent power cuts), multiple phone books (because they often have several different users), rubberised key pads and menus in several different languages.
The biggest new feature in the chaotically volcanic landscape of mobile handsets is of course the smartphone, with Android and iOS now defining the experience for hundreds of millions of users around the world.
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Redmond's already hinted pretty strongly that it's hell-bent on bringing the acclaimed Zune media experience to more devices including its Windows Mobile handsets -- something we hope to see unveiled in Barcelona.
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In addition to motherboards and graphics cards, GIGABYTE further expanded its product portfolio to include notebook and desktop PCs, datacenter servers, networking products, mobile handsets, and home entertainment devices to serve each facet of the digital life in the home and office.
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In addition, as the slim form factor fits in an 8.5mm x 8.5mm auto focus camera module with a height dimension of 6.0mm, the S5K3H2 gives design engineers a great deal of freedom in designing camera modules suitable for slim mobile handsets and small form factor applications.
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With that, today the Samsung-Apple pairing has half of the global market in smartphones (and barely over a third of all mobile phone handsets when dumbphones are included) so there is clearly plenty of room for other rivals, contenders and pretenders.
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This week, Motorola said that, starting next year, its mobile-phone handsets will carry iTunes.
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