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Slowed growth and falling prices in the wireless handset market will make it harder for mobile device manufacturers to generate the same revenue they are driving today, according to new research.

In a report released last month, analyst firm iSuppli said that revenues in the mobile phone market most likely peaked in 2005 and that the handset industry is not likely to see the same financial returns it recorded last year until at least 2009.

According to the study, worldwide factory revenue from the production of mobile phones will fall to $109.7 billion in 2006, a decrease of 4.7 percent from the $115.1 billion in revenues recorded in 2005, the industry`s biggest year ever, according to iSuppli.