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Samsung Now Dominates U.S. Phone Market

Samsung Now Dominates U.S. Phone Market

Motorola no longer rules the roost on its home turf when it comes to mobile phones. According to Strategy Analytics, Korean handset maker Samsung has knocked Motorola off its loosely held position by claiming 22.4 percent of the American market.

By contrast, the Illinois-based company now holds only 21.1 percent of the market, with another Korean challenger, LG, nipping at its heels with a 20.5 percent share. The news isn’t entirely surprising, considering Motorola’s significant third-quarter losses and recently announced layoffs.

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TI Uneils 90nm Bluetooth Chip For Handsets

Through use of TI’s 90nm process and Digital RF Processor (DRP) technology, TI is delivering the industry’s best Bluetooth performance, lowest power and lowest cost for 2G, 2.5G and 3G mobile phonemanufacturers in a single chip. The BRF6300 extends TI’s leadership in providing wireless solutions in 90nm and is the third single-chip Bluetooth solution using TI’s DRP technology.  To date TIhas shipped over two million units using 90nm process technology for several wireless and DSP products.
   
TI’s BRF6300 single-chip solution supports the new Bluetooth specification v2.0 and enhanced data rate (EDR).  TI delivers full EDR to deliver speeds up to 3Mbps in a Bluetooth network which isup to three times faster than previously possible.  This level of bandwidth will support more intensive applications on 2.5G and 3G mobile phones such as video streaming and gaming, as well asfaster downloads, e-mailing and more.  The single chip also offers scalability for manufacturers since it will be software upgradeable to future Bluetooth enhancements.

SanDisk Announces Smaller Media Card

From the SanDisk press release:

SanDisk Corporation today introduced a Reduced-Size MultiMediaCard (RS-MMC) aimed at meeting the needs of some of the new multimedia cell phones that require a smaller card. The announcement was made at the CeBIT 2004 trade show where SanDisk is demonstrating products in Hall 1, Stand 2A14 and Stand 3D 2.

As one of the world’s smallest flash memory form factors, this solid-state card is about half the size of a postage stamp (and of a standard MultiMediaCard), measures 24×18x1.4 mm, and is removable. With a mechanical extender, it can be used in any full-sized MultiMediaCard slot as well as SD host devices that support the MultiMediaCard.  Read more...

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