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Mobile Devices
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Overview
Mobile Devices uses consumer and IT-executive surveys,
case studies and usage models to help companies understand consumer adoption of
new mobile platforms and technologies and how to maximize the revenues associated with
consumer behavior patterns.
Mobile Devices allows clients to understand the
difference between integration and convergence, to understand how multiple devices will
converge into one in the future and also how separate devices are evolving to work together in new ways.
Covering the leading vendors creating mobile devices and software applications, this research service
helps vendors and other mobilestakeholders understand which devices and applications will be
successful with consumers and why, and prepares companies to seize the market opportunities
created by new mobile platforms.
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Research Topics
- Feature Phones, Smartphones & Consumer
- VOIP Phones
- PDAs
- Laptops & UMPCs
- Media Players
- GPS Devices
- Smart Watches
- eBook Readers
- Digital Cameras
- Mobile iPod Accessories
- Placeshifting
- Bluetooth & Other PAN Technologies
- Headphones & Headsets
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GPS Devices
Moving Beyond Automobile Integration
Concept Report
June 20, 2008

Global positioning system (GPS) devices will remain popular as vendors look to differentiate their products from offerings optimized for in-vehicle use.


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Mobile Technology
Using Fashion to Differentiate in a Commodity Market
Concept Report
June 13, 2008

Vendors are increasingly focusing on form as well as function as they introduce mobile technology products in 2008.


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Optimized Devices
The Role of Niche Devices in a World of Convergence
Concept Report
May 9, 2008

Vendors are increasingly adding more functionality to their devices, raising questions of consumer use models.


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Wireless Ubiquity
Integration in Consumer Electronics Providing Differentiation in Mature Market
Concept Report
April 25, 2008

More devices are going wireless with the integration of Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and other wireless technologies.


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The Mobile Rule of Three
Vendors' Devices Must Not Be Mobile Device Number Four
Concept Report
April 4, 2008

Vendors are marketing an array of mobile devices to consumers, but consumers will not carry them all.


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Converged Handsets
Understanding Consumer Adoption
Vision Report
December 7, 2007

With more vendors introducing handsets with features beyond telephony, understanding the role of converged and integrated devices is extremely important to handset vendors, consumer electronics (CE) vendors, and carriers. While there has been much focus on the so-called smartphone, there are whole classes of new devices with features and functions that also need to be understood.


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Cameras and Camera Phones
Understanding Contextual Roles for Consumers to Drive Revenues
Concept Report
November 14, 2007

Camera phones have grown in both market penetration and sophistication, raising the question of when, if ever, camera phones will displace digital cameras among consumers.


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