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Australia's mobile phone mania

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...[I]n 2007, 9.64 million mobile devices were shipped to Australia and 3.55 million of these shipped in Q4, the highest quarter on record reports IDC’s Quarterly Mobile Phone (http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prAU21155708) Tracker on 25 March 2008. Other IDC report highlights: Converged devices (smart phones) accounted for 27% of the total devices shipped. Nokia extends its market dominance in Australia to 55.1%. The popularity of GPS in Australia shows no signs of slowing, with the mobile industry now at a point where consumers are assuming that GPS will come with their new mobile, the same way that cameras are taken for granted. The lack of 3G device diversity and no Telstra NextG capable device for the Australian market is seeing RIM's Blackberry growth slowing as consumers opt for HSDPA-equipped devices, which also provide access to high-speed mobile Internet. Background reading: Content licensing for mobile commerce [Update 1] (ip/content-licensing-for-mobile-commerce-update-1.html) and Content licensing for mobile phones (ip-tech-e-biz/content-licensing-for-mobile-phones-7.html) and Four billion subscribers (ip/four-billion-subscribers.html) and SMS revenue models and e-marketing legal compliance (ip-tech-e-biz/sms-revenue-models-and-e-marketing-legal-compliance-2.html)

Full post as published by Lightbulb IP blog on March 27, 2008 (boomark / email).