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Tuesday 15 June 2010
Taiwan market: Carriers focus on Android smartphones while waiting for iPhone 4
While Taiwan's telecom carriers await the iPhone 4, they are aggressively promoting Android-based smartphones, especially in the entry-level segment, according to industry sources.
Tuesday 15 June 2010
Taiwan market: Samsung launches Android Galaxy S i9000 through cooperation with TWM
Samsung Electronics on June 14 announced the launch of its Android-platform flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S i9000, in Taiwan at a retail price of NT$22,900 (US$706) through local...
Tuesday 8 June 2010
Global pay-TV subscribers to grow 7% as more set-top box solutions enter the market
More than 719 million pay-TV subscribers are expected to sign up in 2010 as the economic recovery continues to gain momentum, according to latest forecasts from ABI Research. Digital...
Friday 4 June 2010
Innocomm delivers first Android 3.5G smartphone with Telegent Mobile TV
At Computex Taipei 2010, Telegent Systems, a mobile TV receiver maker, and Innocomm, a Taiwan-based provider of broadband wireless solutions, announced the introduction of the first...
Friday 4 June 2010
MIPS-based Android phone expected in 2011
At a hotel suite during Computex 2010, MIPS Technologies updated several developments about its Android-supporting processor architecture.
Friday 4 June 2010
Linaro formed to push Linux on ARM
ARM and five system-on-chip (SoC) vendors - Freescale Semiconductor, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments (TI) - have jointly announced the formation of Linaro, a not-for-profit...
Thursday 3 June 2010
First Chrome OS notebook to be available in fall of 2010, says Google VP
The first notebook equipped with the Google-developed Chrome OS is expected to be launched in the fall of 2010, according to Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management at...
Wednesday 2 June 2010
Growth of Linux-based smartphone shipments will outstrip growth of smartphone market in 2010, says ABI
The number of recent Linux-oriented initiatives in the mobile industry demonstrates that Linux will be a key technology in the next generation of mobile devices, according to ABI...
Wednesday 2 June 2010
MSI chairman expects tablet PC market to take off in 2011
Taiwan-based Micro-Star International (MSI) unveiled two tablet PCs at Computex Taipei 2010, one based on Intel architecture and the other on the ARM-based Nvidia Tegra processor.
Friday 28 May 2010
Acer introduces a 7-inch tablet PC
Acer on May 27 introduced a 7-inch tablet PC along with other products such as e-book readers, all-in-one PCs and smartphones in Beijing. The tablet PC uses a processor from Qualcomm...
Tuesday 25 May 2010
MediaTek to volume produce low-cost 3G chipsets for Android smartphones in 4Q10, says paper
MediaTek has delivered samples of its Android-based 3G chipset solutions for design-in to its clients with plans to begin volume production of the chipsets in the fourth quarter of...
Monday 17 May 2010
AboCom and China white-box makers jointly develop Android WCDMA smartphones, says CNA
Taiwan-based AboCom Systems is working with white-box handset makers in China to manufacture four Android-based WCDMA smartphones in 2010 with shipments scheduled for June, according...
Thursday 13 May 2010
Mobihome launches mobile VoIP service over Android Market
Taiwan-based mobile VoIP service provider Mobihome has released a set of Chinese-language software, dubbed CherryMe, enabling mobile VoIP services on Android devices.
Friday 7 May 2010
HTC April revenues hit record high
Smartphone maker HTC saw revenues increase 57.93% on year to a record high of NT$18.01 billion (US$571.9 million) for April 2010. Through the first four months of 2010, revenues reached...
Wednesday 5 May 2010
CyberLink to launch mobile multimedia editing applications
CyberLink will launch multimedia editing application programs for iPhone OS and Android devices as early as June 2010, according to company CEO Alice Chang.