TWICE - May 22, 2006

Cellphones will offer up some stiff competition to dedicated MP3 players for consumers who want to listen to music on the go, according to ABI Research and the Yankee Group. Sales of cellphone-based games will also grow dramatically by the end of the decade, the Yankee study found, but their sales will complement rather than compete with dedicated handheld game dev...

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