Blog articles from 06/2008

Christopher Lawton at The Wall Street Journal writes today that economic worries and high prices for just about everything have consumers thinking about buying less-expensive consumer electronics products instead of splurging for the huge and expensive high-definition television. He used the data from our recent study Consumer Electronics Purchases: Quarterly Monitor. Despite the millions of tax rebate checks that have made their way to U.S. consumers, we have a feeling that many have...

Qualcomm's CEO provides his thoughts on the future of connected devices. (Read Full Article) "There is a place in the world for other kinds of connected devices beyond the mobile phone. You are going to see small lightweight computing devices, you are going to see smarter smartphones," said CEO Paul Jacobs. "It makes sense to me to have a connected satnav device rather than an unconnected Satnav" Jacobs told Pocket-lint, confirming Qualcomm is working...

Consumers Prefer PNDs over Mobile Phone Navigational Services...For Now Worldwide shipments of GPS-integrated mobile devices will grow at an annualized rate of nearly 40% over the next five years, reaching 834 million units in 2012, according to Parks Associates’ new report GPS: A Path to New Applications on Mobile Devices. The report looks at a variety of mobile devices, including personal navigation devices (PNDs), mobile handsets and smartphones, portable media players,...