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Mobile Broadband Devices: Opportunities for mobile handsets, MiDs, UMPCs and laptops

Published Date: July 2008
Published By: Informa Media and Telecom
Order Code: R443-301
 
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CHAPTER 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Market overview
Product scoping and definition
Figure 1.1: Wireless networking families
Figure 1.2: Broadband device definition
Figure 1.3: Shared and differentiating characteristics of classes of broadband devices
Assessing market size beyond mobile broadband handsets
Network technology enablers and evolution
Wireless networking, specifications and market segmentation
Figure 1.4: Mobile and wireless broadband standards
Figure 1.5: Wireless technology comparisons* - peak data rates vsrange
Mobile broadband infrastructure vendor strategies
Figure 1.6: Mobile broadband network providers
Device and component technology enablers and evolution
Hardware components
Figure 1.7: Key characteristics of RISC and CISC architectures
Wireless components
Software11
Figure 1.8: Software segmentation by device type
Mobile broadband devices
MBD definition
Market segmentation
Mobile broadband devices: technology trends
Figure 1.9: Mobile broadband device types
Global total mobile broadband device unit sales, 2007-2013
Figure 1.10: Global total mobile broadband device unit sales, by device type, 2007-2013
Figure 1.11: Global mobile broadband mobile device unit sales, by device type, 2007-2013
Scenario analysis
Trends and developments
Scenario focus
Identifying factors
Figure 1.12: MID/ MCD/ UPN market structural analysis


CHAPTER 2 MARKET OVERVIEW
Product scoping and definition
Figure 2.1: Wireless networking families
Figure 2.2: Broadband device definition
Figure 2.3: Mobile broadband device segmentation
Figure 2.4: Shared and differentiating characteristics of classes of broadband devices
Figure 2.5: Positioning and segmentation of mobile broadband devices
Mobile network generations
Figure 2.6: Mobile network generations
Figure 2.7: Mobile network generations and deployment timelines
Broadband convergence
Wireless broadband subscriptions, 2008-2013
WWAN subscriptions, 2008-2013
Figure 2.8: Global mobile subscriptions, by region, 2008-2013
Figure 2.9: Global mobile subscriptions, by technology, 2008-2013
WWAN broadband by region, 2008-2013
Figure 2.10: Global WWAN broadband subscriptions, by region, 2008-2013
Figure 2.11: Global WWAN broadband penetration, by region, 2008-2013
WMAN broadband subscribers, 2007-2012
Figure 2.12: Global WiMAX subscribers, by region, 2007-2012
Assessing market size beyond mobile broadband handsets
Figure 2.13: Target consumer electronic device sales, 2007
Mobile data services market development
Figure 2.14: Mobile content evolution


CHAPTER 3 NETWORK TECHNOLOGY ENABLERS AND EVOLUTION
Wireless networking, specifications and market segmentation
Figure 3.1: Mobile and wireless broadband standards
Figure 3.2: Wireless networking families
Figure 3.3: Wireless technology comparisons - peak data rates vsrange
Convergence
WWAN network technologies
Digital 3G networks
Figure 3.4: Mobile network generations launch dates, frequencies, data rates and services
Figure 3.5: WCDMA, EV-DO selected features
Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP)
Wideband code-division multiple access (WCDMA)
3GPP2
Figure 3.6: CDMA network evolution path
CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Release 0
Time Division CDMA (TD-CDMA)
Time Division Synchronous CDMA (TD-SCDMA)
Figure 3.7: China 3G spectrum allocation
Digital 3.5G networks
High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA)
High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA)
Figure 3.8: Comparative network latency, WCDMA, HSDPA and HSDPA+HSUPA
HSPA Evolution
CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Revision A
CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Revision B
3.9G or Long-Term Evolution
Figure 3.9: 3GPP LTE System Architecture Evolution proposal
Figure 3.10: HSPA, HSPA+ and LTE compared
Figure 3.11: 3G-4G system features
Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB)
Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) initiative
4G
Technology and architecture
3GPP, 3GPP2 convergence
Wireless Metropolitan Area Network64
WiMAX
Figure 3.12: 802.16 standards
WiBro
Wireless Local Area Network
Figure 3.13: 802.11 standards
Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA)
Voice call continuity (VCC)70
Wireless Personal Area Network
Figure 3.14: Personal area networking applications
Bluetooth
Market overview and drivers
Figure 3.15: Bluetooth connectivity
Ultra wideband (UWB)
Figure 3.16: Traditional and ultra wideband (UWB) pulses and spectra
Mobile broadband infrastructure vendor strategies
Figure 3.17: Mobile broadband network providers
Figure 3.18: Major mobile infrastructure vendors’ WiMAX strategy
Key mobile broadband network vendors
Alcatel-Lucent79
Mobile broadband products and services
Ericsson
Mobile broadband products and services
Huawei
Mobile broadband products and services
Motorola
Mobile broadband products and services
Figure 3.18: Motorola Mobile WiMAX infrastructure
Nokia Siemens Networks
Mobile broadband products and services
Nortel Networks
Mobile broadband products and services
Samsung
Mobile broadband products and services


CHAPTER 4 DEVICE TECHNOLOGY ENABLERS AND EVOLUTION
Processor architecture overview
Figure 4.1: Indication of potential savings* v 250nm process technology for a given processing speed
RISC versus CISC architecture
Figure 4.2: Key characteristics of RISC and CISC architectures
RISC-based processor architecture93
ARM
Figure 4.3: ARM’s RISC-based processors SWOT analysis
MIPS Technologies
CISC-based processor architecture
Intel’s X86 processor architecture
Figure 4.4: Intel’s Atom range of processors
Figure 4.5: Intel’s processor and platform target markets
Figure 4.6: Moorestown platform
Figure 4.7: Intel’s x86-based processors SWOT analysis
AMD
VIA Technologies
Figure 4.8: VIA Technologies’ Nano range of processors
Conclusion
Multimedia and browsing performance
Figure 4.9: Internet compatibility
Wireless components
Introduction
RF transceiver
Figure 4.10: Example of RF and baseband as used in a mobile handset
Baseband
Application / multimedia / graphics processors
Multi-band and multimode support
Digitalisation
Single chip
Smartphones, MIDs and MCDs
Notebooks and UPNs
Software defined radio
Wireless component vendors
Figure 4.11: Wireless component vendor activity by segment, 2008
WWAN
MediaTek
InterDigital
Icera
Figure 4.12: Icera Livanto soft modem
WMAN
Other WiMAX semiconductor vendors
WLAN
WPAN
Application / multimedia co-processors
Smartphones, MIDs and MCDs
Notebooks and UPNs
Component vendor profiles
AMD
Notebooks and UPNs
Smartphones, MIDs and MCDs
Conclusion
Atheros
WLAN
WPAN
Conclusion
Beceem Communications
Broadcom
WWAN
WLAN
WPAN
Multimedia processors
GPS
Conclusion
Figure 4.13: Broadcom business model
CSR
WLAN
WPAN
Conclusion
Ericsson Mobile Platforms
Figure 4.14: Selected EMP customers, 2008
Freescale
WWAN
WMAN
WLAN and WPAN
Application processors
Conclusion
Fujitsu
Infineon
WWAN
Figure 4.15: Infineon MBD platform
WMAN and WLAN
WPAN
Conclusion
Intel
WMAN
Figure 4.16: ‘Echo Peak’ Wi-Fi/WiMAX modules
WLAN
Application processors
Figure 4.17: Larrabee architecture for Visual Computing
Conclusion
Nvidia
Notebooks and UPNs
Smartphones, MIDs and MCDs
Conclusion
Qualcomm
WWAN
WLAN
WPAN
Snapdragon
Gobi
Conclusion
Sequans Communications
ST Microelectronics and NXP
ST Microelectronics
NXP
WWAN
Figure 4.18: NXP MBD WWAN portfolio
WMAN
WLAN
WPAN
Application processors
Conclusion
Texas Instruments
WWAN
Figure 4.19: Texas Instruments portfolio of generic chipsets
WMAN
WLAN and WPAN
Application processors
Conclusion
Zoran
Figure 4.20: Zoran’s Approach 5C application processor
Operating systems, user interface and browsers
Figure 4.21: Software segmentation by device type
Figure 4.22: Market segmentation of OSs for mobile broadband devices
Symbian
Microsoft
Open Source
Apple


CHAPTER 5 MOBILE BROADBAND DEVICES
Introduction
MBD definition
Figure 5.1: Mobile broadband device industry definitions
Market segmentation
Figure 5.2: Key mobile applications mapped to MBDs, by relative device cost
Figure 5.3: MBD key purchase decision points
Mobile broadband devices: technology trends
Figure 5.4: Mobile broadband device types
Figure 5.5: MBD portability: screen size analysis - handsets, MIDs and UPNs
Mobile broadband devices: market trends
Mobile broadband embedded device market trends
Figure 5.6: Amazon’s Kindle electronic book
Mobile broadband attachment market trends
Mobile broadband devices: handset vendor strategies
MBD vendor segments
Smartphones, MIDs and MCDs
UPNs and notebooks
Figure 5.7: MBD key vendor mapping
Mobile broadband device vendor profiles
Nokia
MBD product and software roadmap
Conclusion/ strategy
Sony Corporation
Figure 5.8: Sony organizational chart, as at January 2008
MBD product and software roadmap
Figure 5.9: Sony VAIO notebook and micro PC range, as at May 2008
Figure 5.10: Sony Everywair WWAN connectivity agreements, as at May 2008
Conclusion/ strategy
LG Electronics
MBD product and software roadmap
Figure 5.11: LG notebook range, as at May 2008
Conclusion/ strategy
Samsung Electronics
MBD product and software roadmap
Figure 5.12: Samsung notebook and UPN range, as at May 2008
Conclusion/ strategy
Motorola
MBD product and software roadmap
Conclusion/ strategy
HTC
MBD product and software roadmap
Figure 5.13: HTC UPN range, as at May 2008
Conclusion/ strategy
Apple
MBD product and software roadmap
Figure 5.14: Apple notebook range, as at May 2008
Conclusion/ strategy
Notebook vendor profiles
Hewlett-Packard (HP)
MBD product and software roadmap
Figure 5.15: HP notebook and UPN range, as at May 2008
Conclusion/ strategy
ASUSTeK Computer
MBD product and software roadmap
Figure 5.16: ASUSTek notebook and UPN range, as at May 2008
Conclusion/ strategy
Mobile broadband device roadmap and evolution
Figure 5.17: Mobile broadband device roadmap
Figure 5.18: Mobile broadband device comparison, as at May 2008
Figure 5.19: WiMAX device evolution, 2005-2011
Mobile broadband device forecasts
Methodology
Global total mobile broadband device unit sales, 2007-2013
By device type
Figure 5.20: Global total mobile broadband device unit sales, by device type, 2007-2013
By region
Figure 5.21: Global total mobile broadband device unit sales, by region, 2007-2013
Global mobile broadband mobile device unit sales, 2007-2013
By region
Figure 5.22: Global mobile broadband mobile device unit sales, by region, 2007-2013
By device type
Figure 5.23: Global mobile broadband mobile device unit sales, by device type, 2007-2013
Global mobile broadband portable device unit sales, by region, 2007-2013
Figure 5.24: Global mobile broadband portable device unit sales, by region, 2007-2013
Global total mobile broadband device unit sales, by technology, 2007-2013
Figure 5.25: Global total mobile broadband device unit sales, by technology, 2007-2013


CHAPTER 6 SCENARIO ANALYSIS
Trends and developments
Scenario analysis
Scenario focus
Identifying factors
Figure 6.1: MID/ MCD/ UPN market structural analysis
Figure 6.2: The broadband MIDs, MCDs and UPN market: factors in the environment
Figure 6.3: Identifying different possible futures by factor
Factor A
Factor B
Figure 6.4: Industry convergence
Factor C
Factor D
Building scenarios
Figure 6.5: Possible market evolution scenarios, by factor
Scenario 1: No great change
Factors Ai (still immature), Bii, Ci (probably due to lack of scale) and Dii
Scenario 2: Broadband device chaos
Factors Ai, Bi, Cii and Di
Scenario 3: Mobile Internet for all
Factors Aii, Bi, Cii and Di
Scenario 4: What’s the function?
Factors Aii, Bii, Cii and Di
Scenario summary
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