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The economic slowdown is still hurting the global handset market, research firm Gartner Inc. said in its quarterly report on the industry. About 304.7 million mobile phones were sold in the second quarter -- a 12% jump from a year earlier -- thanks to growing sales in emerging markets. Still, that is a slowdown from the second quarter of 2007, when the number of mobile phones sold had jumped 21% from a year earlier.Carolina Milanesi, research director for mobile devices at Gartner, warned th...... (more)

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