I think they felt the candy-bar phone would conquer all. It was a pride thing.
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Booming demand in the southern hemisphere, in India and Africa, drove global mobile phone sales.Neil Mawston
Two thousand and five was the year of the emerging market. Booming demand in the Southern Hemisphere, in regions such as India and Africa, drove global mobile phone sales 19 percent higher year-over-year. Emerging markets accounted for one half of total worldwide sales in 2005.
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Japan and Korea dominate market volumes today, accounting for over 80 percent of TV phones sold in 2006. However, Western Europe and North America, as well as China, will be the hot spots for global volume growth over the next few years. We expect Western Europe to ramp up to over one million units sold this year, with North America and China coming online in 2007.
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Competition is just so relentless that the long term-trend still points down.
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In late 2003, Nokia started losing ground to its rivals after failing to gauge the popularity of folding phones and models with cameras and other new features. We put it down to the three Cs Nokia was weak in color, camera and clamshell, which were the three boom areas in 2003 and early 2004, ... It was quite a way behind the curve on those.
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A more powerful SIM card can be a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it's good for the carriers because it gives them more control, since they control what goes on their SIM. But it also shifts some of the cost from the handset makers to the carriers.
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