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2007 Smartphone shipments to exceed 100m

According to new research report from the analyst firm Berg Insight, global shipments of smartphones running advanced operating systems will reach 113 million units in 2007. Increasing at an average annual compound growth rate 25.6 percent, shipments are forecasted to reach 365 million units by 2012. Smartphones will then account for over 22 percent of all handsets worldwide, compared to 10 percent today. Berg Insight estimates that Symbian OS was the leading smartphone operating system in 2006 with a market share of 63 percent. Linux was the second largest platform, followed by Windows Mobile. "Nokia's commitment to Symbian OS as the core of the S60 platform is the key to its success", said Andre Malm, telecom analyst, Berg Insight. "In the future there will however be increasingly strong competition from Linux for consumer devices and Windows Mobile in the enterprise segment."
Microsoft's performance in the smartphone segment is consistently improving, even though Windows Mobile is still far from threatening either Symbian OS or Linux for the top market positions. The once popular PDA operating system Palm OS has virtually disappeared from the market and is now being converted into a version of Linux. Apple's OS X will become a new entrant on the smartphone operating systems market this year with the launch of the iPhone.

WidSets reaches 1 million registered users

NOKIA PRESS RELEASE May 25, 2007

More and more mobile phone users across the world discover easy way to access the Internet

Espoo, Finland - Launched only in October 2006, WidSets today announced that it has reached 1 million registered users worldwide.

"Having 1 million registered users in the mobile space is almost unheard of and WidSets has clearly set the benchmark for tools and distribution channels designed for content and media owners," said Ulla Särkikangas, Director, Consumer Internet Services, Nokia Emerging Business Unit.

WidSets is a handset manufacturer-independent service that brings the best bits of the Internet, such as communities, news, blogs, reviews, and weather reports straight to the mobile phone. It uses mini-applications called widgets to deliver up to date Internet content to mobile phones and enables the user to create their own widgets.

8GB microSD Developed

Samsung Develops 8GB Memory Card for Mobile Phones

Samsung Electronics says that it has developed an 8Gigabyte (GB) microSD (Secure Digital) memory card, a size optimal for today's multimedia mobile phones. Featuring the highest capacity today for a microSD card, the new fingernail-sized card is capable of storing 2,000 MP3 music files, 4,000 digital photos, or approximately five DVD-quality movies.

SD cards, to date, have been largely used for data storage in digital still cameras and increasingly in televisions. MicroSD cards, which are a quarter the size of an SD card, are backward compatible with SD cards using an extender, to allow multimedia files downloaded by mobile phones to be easily displayed on other media.

With a read speed of 16 Megabytes (MBs) per second and a write speed of 6MB/s, Samsung's 8GB microSD card well exceeds the Speed Class 4 SDHC (Secure Digital High Capacity) standard which requires a data write speed of 4MB/s. This is also much faster than the SD Speed Class 2 designation carried by most competing microSD cards currently on the market.

The market research firm Dataquest predicts that the memory card market as a whole will average 10 percent annual growth between 2006 and 2010, while demand for high density 8GB cards will grow an average of 2.6 times per year over the same period. By 2010, the 8GB memory card will be the market mainstream in terms of units sold.

Telstra CEO: will consider takeovers

SYDNEY -(Dow Jones)- Australia's Telstra chief executive officer Sol Trujillo said Monday the telecommunications company and its board would consider any options if approached about a takeover.

As a company, the Telstra board is open to looking at all options, Trujillo told CNBC Asia's Squawk Australia program, without acknowledging whether it has already been in discussion with a specific stakeholder.

Trujillo also said he isn't looking at the possible selldown this month of the federal government's remaining stake in Telstra as a driver of share holder growth.

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