2.3 trillion

2 billion

…T9 predictive text input licenses sold by Tegic. T9 revolutionised text messaging in 1995 by significantly reducing the number of key presses required to enter words, using software and a built-in dictionary to suggest words using…

251m

…handsets shipped in Q3 2006, up 21.5% on the same period last year. Nokia gained 2.6 percentage points to record market share of 35.1%, while Sony Ericsson and Motorola also improved on their 2005 results. Samsung, LG and BenQ all los…

$74b

…in annual worldwide revenues from wireless machine to machine (M2M) communications by 2011. This represents significant growth from the USD 20 billion estimated by Juniper Research in 2006 and is indicative of the coming explosion in i…

25%

50/50

…split between Panasonic and and NEC in the new joint venture to produce a common platform for mobile handsets. The company is called Esteeemo – apparently combining the ‘esteem’ in which the companies hold each other’s expertise and t…

9%

…decline in the average selling price (ASP) of Nokia’s handset in Q3 2006. Nokia’s ASP was just EUR 93, compared to EUR 102 at Motorola and EUR 147 at Sony Ericsson. Source: Company financial statements.

5 – 10%

…is the amount by which Nokia is rumoured to have cut prices across its N-Series range of devices in the last two weeks, prompting analysts to speculate about the possibility of further price competition at the high-end of the mobile …