Wireless Watch 553: End of the smartphone era?

Key Issues:
The smartphone era is ending as the growth engine runs out of steam

• Devices drag on both Apple and Microsoft, enterprise is key
• ARM needs new markets as 4G transition hits royalties

Subsidies out, non-handsets in, for the US’s big two carriers

Comment:

• Huawei poised to overtake Ericsson as king of telco networks
• Yahoo buys Flurry to help it copy Facebook’s mobile growth
• Blackberry Passport - a last gasp for the handset division?
• China casts dark shadow over Qualcomm’s outlook
• Broadcom to lay off 2,500 after baseband exit

Start-Up Watch:

• Nitero’s WiGig chip designed from scratch for mobile