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There's more than one way to sell a sexy smartphone

But can Apple (AAPL) compete with Nokia's (NOK) elevator hotties?

See Brian S Hall for why this Russian ad for the Lumia 900 wasn't broadcast on U.S. television.

If an iPhone wannabe lands on Easter, does it make a splash?

With the world's mobile phone market at stake, what were Nokia and Microsoft thinking? 

On Monday morning, the day after the U.S. launch of the Lumia 900 -- the device with which Nokia (NOK) and Microsoft (MSFT) hope to challenge Apple's (AAPL) and Google (GOOG) Android's growing dominance of the global smartphone market -- I searched the Internet for photographs or videos of customers lining up to buy it.

I needn't have MORE

How many iPhone app developers can Microsoft buy?

The secret to populating an unpopular smartphone platform: cash incentives

A nice piece of reporting by Jenna Wortham and Nick Wingfield landed on the front page of the New York Times Business section Friday morning, two days before the launch of the Nokia Lumia 900.

When free phones and promises of prime real estate on the Windows Phone app store wasn't enough to get reluctant developers to write software for the new MORE

Munster: How Apple becomes the first $1 trillion company

Its market cap today is $577 billion. Where do the next $400-plus billion come from? 

In a note to clients issued early Tuesday, Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster raised his Q2 iPhone estimate (to 33 million), set a new 12-month price target ($910 per share) and -- most provocatively -- laid out a roadmap for Apple's (AAPL) market capitalization to go from $576.79 billion as of Monday's close to $1 trillion by MORE

Today in Tech: With Zuckerberg in Shanghai, is Facebook China inevitable?

Fortune's curated selection of tech stories from the last 24 hours. Sign up to get the round-up delivered to you each and every day.

* Apple's (AAPL) Tim Cook visited Foxconn's new iPhone factory in the Zhengzhou Technology Park during his trip to China. (Fortune)

* New Research in Motion (RIMM) CEO Thorsten Heins will give a progress report on the company's turnaround later today when RIM reports its latest earnings. (The Wall Street Journal)

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Apple now takes the biggest bite of the world's chip market

Overtook Samsung and HP in 2011 on sales of iPhones, iPads and MacBook Airs

The pie chart at right, created from data that showed up in Gartner Inc's RSS feed on Thursday, tells only part of the story. It shows Apple (AAPL) consuming 5.7% of the world's semiconductor capacity, overtaking Samsung and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) in 2011.

But to get a sense of how dramatically conditions changed in the worldwide chip market last year, check out MORE

Barcelona blues: Apple reaps most of the cellphone profits

Just in time for this week's Mobile World Congress, a snapshot of where the money goes

To get a sense of what Apple's (AAPL) competitors are up against in Barcelona this week as they unveil their new mobile phone models for the 2012 season, consider the relative size of the solid color profit (and loss) bars in the chart above.

It's the money shot in a series of eye-opening graphs that the inimitable Horace MORE

IDC: The iPhone is once again the world's No. 1 smartphone

Regained the spot that it took from Nokia in June and gave up to Samsung in September

It will come as no surprise to Apple (AAPL) watchers that the company sold 37 million iPhones last quarter. Tim Cook reported that number two weeks ago.

Getting comparable figures from Apple's competitors is a different matter, and that's where companies like IDC come in. Samsung, for example, used to report only the number of mobile MORE

Canalys: Apple led the way as smartphones overtook PCs

Total annual global shipments exceeded PCs (including tablets) for the first time in 2011

Canalys singled out Apple (AAPL) for special mention Friday when it announced that by its count, shipments of smartphones in 2011 overtook those of client computers, even when tablets are included.

"Apple's impressive end to the year resulted in it becoming the leading smart phone and client PC vendor in Q4 2011, with shipments of 37.0 million iPhones, MORE

With 8.7% market share, Apple has 75% of cell phone profits

Between them, Samsung and Apple are sucking up 91% of the winnings

Asymco's Horace Dediu on Friday updated his quarterly review of mobile phone profits, and the news for everybody but Apple (AAPL) just gets worse.

As the iPhone's share of the market in terms of units shipped has grown from 3% in second quarter of 2010 to 8.7% last quarter, Apple's share of the profits has swelled from 39% to 75%.

Dediu's chart of MORE