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Last week at The Fonecast: 12th December 2011

Mark Bridge writes:

With less than a fortnight until Christmas, it’s probably time to order the turkey and start thinking about gifts. What could be a better present than being given your very own mobile operating system?

That’s what’s happening over at HP, which is making its webOS software available to the open source community. The big question now is whether developers will respond with “lovely, just what I wanted” or a slightly embarrassed “oh, I’ve already got one of those.”

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Samsung shipped more than 300 million handsets in 2011

Samsung Electronics says it’s shipped more than 300 million mobile phones this year.

It’s the first time this figure has been reached since Samsung started producing mobile phones in 1988.

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Pyramid Research says India will overtake China in 2011 to become world's largest mobile market

India, currently the world’s second-largest telecom market in terms of total subscriptions, will add almost 590 million connections to its fixed and mobile networks over the next five years. Meanwhile, China will add around 535 million.

That’s the prediction from Pyramid Research, which has recently published its latest India Intelligence Report.

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