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Saturday, January 29, 2005
Outlook for 2005
"Color screens, cameras and clamshells. Those features helped drive the cell phone industry to another record year in 2004, according to new sales data."
An interesting argument why Samsung is losing market share: "But Samsung does have weak spots, Mawston says. Its focus on high-end and midrange phones may be costing it customers. Samsung really has no low-end portfolio," Mawston said. "That cost it market share in the fourth quarter" when the holidays drive sales of low-end phones."
"Brand-name phone makers should be in the best position, Lin says. Mergers among wireless carriers will likely favor the largest handset suppliers, which can make huge amounts of phones."
Likely, but Chinese manufacturers will become very aggressive during 2005.
"Phones capable of playing digital music could be hot sellers this year, Mawston says. New models from Motorola are capable of playing songs from Apple Computer's iTunes library."
Music capability will certainly be a sales driver.
"Another trend to look for will be slider-style phones -- where one piece slides away from the keyboard to reveal the display. These phones allow for bigger displays -- a key feature when running next-generation wireless services, Mawston says."
I believe/hope so too. This design has many advantages: only one display needed (one of the most expensive parts of a phone), camera can be protected, quicker to take a call, etc.
Potentially this also enables phones with alphanumeric keypad, yet with a reasonable size.
Yahoo! News - Slower Growth Seen In '05 For Mobile Phone Industry
An interesting argument why Samsung is losing market share: "But Samsung does have weak spots, Mawston says. Its focus on high-end and midrange phones may be costing it customers. Samsung really has no low-end portfolio," Mawston said. "That cost it market share in the fourth quarter" when the holidays drive sales of low-end phones."
"Brand-name phone makers should be in the best position, Lin says. Mergers among wireless carriers will likely favor the largest handset suppliers, which can make huge amounts of phones."
Likely, but Chinese manufacturers will become very aggressive during 2005.
"Phones capable of playing digital music could be hot sellers this year, Mawston says. New models from Motorola are capable of playing songs from Apple Computer's iTunes library."
Music capability will certainly be a sales driver.
"Another trend to look for will be slider-style phones -- where one piece slides away from the keyboard to reveal the display. These phones allow for bigger displays -- a key feature when running next-generation wireless services, Mawston says."
I believe/hope so too. This design has many advantages: only one display needed (one of the most expensive parts of a phone), camera can be protected, quicker to take a call, etc.
Potentially this also enables phones with alphanumeric keypad, yet with a reasonable size.
Yahoo! News - Slower Growth Seen In '05 For Mobile Phone Industry
