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Tuesday 1 September 2009
Healthy outlook for GPS for sport and fitness, says ABI Research
Shipments of dedicated sport and fitness hardware such as Suunto GPS watches, Garmin cycling computers, and GPS golf rangefinders are suffering from the recession. But smartphone...
Thursday 20 August 2009
Garmin-Asus to enter China market by end of 2009; aims to sell one million handsets globally in 2010
Garmin-Asus dual-brand handsets will enter the China market by the end of 2009, targeting retail channel initially before tying up with telecom carriers, according to Benson Lin,...
Monday 17 August 2009
Taiwan market: Asustek and CHT to jointly launch Nuvifone M20
Asustek Computer will launch the dual-brand Garmin-Asus Nuvifone M20 in the Taiwan market on August 19 in cooperation with Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), according to a Chinese-language...
Wednesday 12 August 2009
Two brand vendors to offer CMMB-enabled PNDs with Siano chips in China, say Taiwan makers
Two out of the world's top-three PND vendors – TomTom, Garmin and Mio – have decided to adopt CMMB mobile TV solutions developed by Siano Mobile Silicon and plan to launch...
Wednesday 12 August 2009
Global PND market recovering from slump, say sources
Sequential improvements in revenues in the second quarter of 2009 recorded by the word's top-two vendors, Garmin and TomTom, signal that the global PND market has recovered from the...
Friday 31 July 2009
Garmin-Asus smartphone hits Taiwan market amid growing global demand for GPS-enabled handsets
Asustek Computer and Garmin have launched their co-developed GPS-centric smartphone, the Nuvifone G60, in the Taiwan market, cashing in on the growing demand for GPS-enabled handsets...
Monday 27 July 2009
Taiwan market: Garmin-Asus to start marketing Nuvifone G60, says paper
The dual-branded Garmin-Asus Linux-based Nuvifone G60 handset will be available in the Taiwan market starting in the last week of July 2009, according to a Chinese-language Commercial...
Monday 15 June 2009
Skymedi supplies eMMC for HTC, Nokia and Garmin, sources say
Taiwan's Skymedi, a memory controller IC maker, has recently cut into the supply chains of High Tech Computer (HTC), Nokia and Garmin with its eMMC products, according to industry...
Tuesday 9 June 2009
Acer may overtake Asustek in smartphone market, say sources
Acer may overtake Asustek Computer in the smartphone market soon, as Acer plans to launch as many as nine models in 2009 versus three models projected by Asustek, according to market...
Tuesday 26 May 2009
Garmin selects MediaTek GPS chipsets for outdoor navigation devices
MediaTek has announced that its single-chip all-in-one GPS solution MT3329 is in mass production and has been integrated with a wide range of Garmin outdoor navigators, the Garmin...
Tuesday 19 May 2009
Garmin-Asus delays Nuvifone G60 handset launch, sources say
The launch of the dual-branded Garmin-Asus Linux-based Nuvifone G60 handset jointly by Asustek Computer and Garmin will be pushed back to the third quarter of 2009 from the original...
Wednesday 29 April 2009
Garmin and TomTom face challenging competition in Asia
While Garmin and TomTom together occupied 67% of the global shipments of portable navigation devices (PNDs) in the fourth quarter of 2008, their combined share in the Asia market...
Wednesday 18 March 2009
Mitac PND market share lags behind competitors in 4Q08
Taiwan-based Mitac International's Mio- and Navman-branded PND devices held 6% of the global GPS PND market in the fourth quarter of 2008, much lower than the 37% of Garmin and 30%...
Monday 16 March 2009
Foxconn to manufacture two million notebooks for Asustek this year, says paper
Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) is expected to manufacture around two million notebooks for Asustek Computer this year, calculated from Asustek's announcement of...
Tuesday 24 February 2009
Garmin sees sales growth in 4Q08; increases global PND market share
Garmin has reported sales of US$1.05 billion for the fourth quarter of 2008, up 20% sequentially but down 14% on year. Gross margin was 41.1%, representing a slight decline from 44.3%...