Cell phone shipments won't dip this year, as many expected, according to analyst firm IDC. And that's only part of the good news. It had been widely believed that cell phone shipments would decrease this year over last year's shipments as the wireless sector cut costs and otherwise tried to deal with its first-ever global handset sales slump in 2001. But IDC wireless analyst Kevin Burden believes manufacturers will ship 391 million phones in 2002, a nearly 2 percent jump over the number of phones shipped in 2001.

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CNET también está disponible en español. Don't show this again. The shipments should represent an approximately 87 percent increase, year over year. About 80 percent of those shipments will come from the company's CDMA2000 1X MSM chip for 3G phones. CDMA is the dominant wireless network format in the United States. Right now, however, 3G phones are offered mainly outside of the United States, with the largest markets being Japan, Korea and China. These new 3G phones offer faster data downloads than so-called 2.5G phones and include color screens and more powerful processors to allow consumers to view still pictures or even short videos.

Networks based on 3G gray marble rosegold glitter pink metallic foil style iphone case technology had been much anticipated, but now that they're in operation, service has fallen short of its high-speed promise, Meanwhile, carriers such as Verizon have begun offering 3G services in the Unites States, Qualcomm also raised its shipment estimates for its second fiscal quarter, ending March 30, 2003, For that three-month period, the company predicts shipments of 24 million to 27 million chips, up from estimates of 20 million, a year-over-year increase of between 71 percent and 93 percent, The CDMA2000 1X product should account for slightly more than 80 percent of those chips..

"Our growth expectations are again being exceeded as cdmaOne and CDMA2000 1X networks continue to experience rapid growth and success in global markets," Irwin Mark Jacobs, Qualcomm's CEO, said in a statement. "We believe the continued growth of CDMA networks compared to other technologies primarily stems from the attractiveness to consumers and operators of 3G-enabled CDMA2000 1X handsets and the superior performance of CDMA systems.". Qualcomm's increased expectations fit with recent announcements from Advanced Micro Devices and Intel, both of which manufacture advanced flash memory used to store data in 3G phones.