28th November 2006

Mobile Displays to Reach $1.3bn

Due to the wide variety of new mobile phone models with multimedia capabilities vying to attract the interest of consumers, iSuppli Corp forecasts mobile handset displays will reach 1.2 billion unit shipments in 2006, up 17% from 1.05 billion in 2005.

The convergence of voice, data, multimedia and personal-information-management capabilities is expanding in mobile phones and the handset industry is readying itself to offer products with these visually intensive features. This, in turn, is driving the demand for advanced mobile displays from OEMs that want to offer these capabilities. Because of this, iSuppli forecasts that mobile display shipments will continue to grow in 2007, with 1.3 bn shipped, up 4% from the 1.2 bn mobile displays shipped this year as replacement unit sales and new subscriber growth remain relatively steady compared to 2006.

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