Nokia expects global handset shipments will reach approximately 1.26 billion in 2008, up from approximately 1.14 billion in 2007.

Samsung Electronics believes that it needs steady growth strategy in order to narrow the gap with Nokia that takes 40% world market share. On contrary, LGE is seen to focus on enhancing fundamentals for mobile business, rather than unreasonable quantity expansion. The mobile phone market for next year is projected to see division in demand between premium and low price amid slow down in growth trend due to overall economic slow down. Recently, UBS lowered mobile phone market growth rate prediction for next year from 6% to 3%.

The chairman of the FCC has proposed opening up unused portions of the TV airwaves known as "white spaces" to deliver wireless broadband service. The proposal by FCC chief Kevin Martin appeals to public interest groups and companies including Google and Microsoft, which hope it will bring affordable high-speed Internet connections to more Americans. His plan could run into opposition from the nation's big TV broadcasters, which argue that the use of the fallow spectrum to deliver wireless Internet services could disrupt their signals.

A related supporting platform will also be developed, supporting HSUPA/HSDPA/W-CDMA and GSM/GPRS/EDGE (2G) mobile telephony standards. Development of the platform is targeted for completion by the fourth quarter of fiscal 2009 (January–March 2010). The new G4 will be fabricated with 45nm process technology and will provide enhanced functionality and improved performance for applications handling HD video and 3-D graphics.

Last year, the ITC ruled that certain new models of 3G wireless handsets with Qualcomm chipsets could not be imported because they infringed on a Broadcom patent. An appellate court stayed the ban in September, pending appeal. On Tuesday, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld the ITC's ruling about the patent's validity. However, it reversed the import ban because Broadcom filed a complaint only against Qualcomm. The ITC could not ban products made by "downstream manufacturers."

Orange UK has stopped selling BlackBerry Bold handsets, after concerns were raised over potential software problems with the snazzy-looking device.

Broadcom claims Qualcomm has double-dipped on its patents by charging a fee for the use of its technology and another fee for its use in combination with another product. It's a practice that is referred to as patent exhaustion. The lawsuit "further asserts that these practices constitute patent misuse that has brought Qualcomm a financial windfall and brought harm to the industry and consumers," Broadcom said in a statement. In addition to licensing its technology, Qualcomm also makes chips for phones using the same IP.

The operator didn't disclose how many devices it has sold, so it's not clear that this is evidence of overwhelming demand for the G1, the first phone to run Google's Android software. The news follows reports last week that some customers trying to preorder a G1 were told there were none left. At the time, T-Mobile said there were still a limited number available.

.."We are doubling the number of our R&D engineering staff from the existing figure of 2,000 to 4,000 within the next two years for our Noida facility," Zutshi said. The company is planning to put special emphasis on the LCD TV and Flat CRT TV segments as part of its growth strategy..