Sentence examples for demand for handsets from inspiring English sources

Qualcomm said yesterday that first-quarter profit rose 46percentt on climbing demand for handsets that let users play games, take photos and read e-mail.

Qualcomm said yesterday that fourth-quarter net income increased 35percentt amid growing demand for handsets that let customers play games and surf the Web.

Texas Instruments Inc., the chip maker, said that fourth-quarter net income declined, but that holiday demand for handsets raised revenue to its highest level in nine years.

Thanks to soaring demand for handsets, America's Motorola, which started up in China in 1987, is now the biggest foreign company there, with locally generated revenues of $5.7 billion in 2002.

Beside slowing global demand for handsets, Nokia is struggling to sell high-end smartphones as rivals Apple, Research in Motion and HTC gain market share at its expense, especially in the United States.

The world's top cellphone maker said on Tuesday that brisk consumer demand for handsets will generate third-quarter earnings at the top end or above previous guidance.

"Europe is ahead of both the Unites States and Asia in the demand for data handsets," he said.

The move would be the latest by Nokia to find new avenues of growth as demand for traditional handsets slows.

Consumer demand for new handsets has been cooling, in part because mobile phone companies have been slow to roll out promised new networks and digital services.

Sales of older generation BlackBerrys drifted down to 5m, from 6.9m last quarter, as demand for the handsets dwindled around the world.

Earlier this month, Nokia, the Finnish maker of cell phones that is the market leader, warned of a slowdown in global demand for wireless handsets.