from: Nikkei Electronics Asia
>>Touchscreen-equipped mobile handsets sales have been building steadily for over a year now. A report from IMS Research forecasts that growth will become even stronger. Although there were fewer than 30 million touchscreen phones sold in 2007, the research firm expects that number to increase to over 230 million by 2012.
In July, LG revealed that it had sold 7 million touchscreen handsets. This announcement came just five quarters after LG launched its very first touchscreen mobile phone. Showing similar success, Samsung recently released the Instinct, a full touchscreen handset, through Sprint. Just one week after the launch, Sprint announced that the Instinct had already become the best selling EV-DO device in Sprint's history.
The research firm predicts that the growth will not simply driven by the smartphone segment. Rather, touchscreens will increasingly penetrate the much larger feature phone segment. In fact, Nokia just announced that its initial foray into the touchscreen market will be targeted at the "volume market" because that segment of the population is the largest consumer of mobile phones.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
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