Demand of feature phones continued to decline, significantly weakening the overall mobile phone market.
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The research report also estimates that the number of smartphone shipments will exceed that of feature phone shipments in 2011.
Apple only sells smartphones, so its fortunes rising in lockstep with the decreasing popularity of feature phones makes perfect sense.
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Each of these would bring richer flavor, visual and narrative innovations, strong storytelling, and deep modern relevance to the category of feature documentaries.
So the kind of feature that begins to phase out the doughnut hole, it starts next year and half of it will be gone.
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Specifically, a project called Facebook for Every Phone, which was launched following the company's acquisition of feature-phone specialists Snaptu, is central to its growth strategy in the region.
Third-quarter revenues fell 4 percent year-over-year to KRW 12.38 trillion (USD 10.93 billion) due to the continuing decline of feature phone sales and overall weak demand.
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Nokia has been able to leverage its new Asha series of feature phones to manage the decline and maintain decent profitability of a shrinking product segment.
But Nokia, a company whose Asha series of feature phones already does well in emerging markets like India, has been negotiating with the Chinese since 1985.
At a recent conference, Bill Gates bemoaned the cost and complexity of American textbooks and teaching (and THAT man knows when he speaks of feature creep).
Between 2006's "Heart of Gold, " 2009's "Neil Young Trunk Show" and now, "Journeys, " they've completed a trilogy of feature-length films that capture different phases of Young's work.
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This kind of feature is more whimsical than practical.
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Low-cost smart phones have drastically accelerated the decline of feature phones in China and this trend is expected to be seen in more emerging markets in the next three years, Canalys researchers said.
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Agile development has a useful concept called a spike: a small experiment done to prove something a developer has never done before to understand the full scope of a certain type of feature.
The company says it plans to build out support for the game across many more devices, especially mobile devices running Android, but also hundreds of feature phones, which the majority of the market still uses.
Not literal battle, of course, but battle in the marketplace with a whole host of feature phones being released this year from its top rivals -- particularly important at a time when market share is falling.
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In addition, a new lower priced entry-level LEAF S grade joins the previous SV and SL grades, while an array of feature enhancements are added to the LEAF SL grade, including leather-appointed seating and 17-inch aluminum-alloy wheels.
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But it is hard to see how it can keep track of the ever-growing traffic that passes through or leaves big corporate IT systems, for instance through a simple memory stick (which plugs into a PC and can hold the equivalent of dozens of feature-length films).
According to research by Strategy Analytics, a market research company, over 90 percent of feature phone owners in the US and UK are interested in downloading and installing applications such as SNS (Social Networking Service), IM (Instant Messenger), VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), and navigation and mapping.
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The backlog serves as a measure of a feature of growth.
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With digital movies, exhibitors would need only one initial copy of the feature for the duration of the run.
Second, the LDP can block much of Mr Noda's legislative platform because of a debilitating feature of Japanese politics: the power of the upper house of the Diet (parliament).
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It asserts that it has only made use of a feature in a new version of the Kerberos standard that is currently being drafted, and is not trying to undercut the existing standard.
This is not much of a feature in East Asia where most of the people who run companies already own most of the shares - in fact the families who control listed companies typically hold around three quarters of the equity.
In addition, he is the landlord of two island colonies, both of which feature spaceships, amusement parks and all kinds of futuristic buildings.
Of course the best feature of Siri is its tight integration with other applications such as the address book and calendar.
As well as strength, Sharapova's quickness of feet was a feature of an impressive performance, notably when she sprinted to reach an Errani drop shot, winning the point to take a 4-1 lead.
We hope the headlines of 2012 will feature stories of what they have been able to do by not only putting people back to work, but by given them the tools of the postdigital workplace, where people again matter.
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