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Tuesday 30 August 2011
Smartphones moving toward hardware competition
The global market competition among iOS, Android, Windows Mango and BlackBerry platforms is expected to heat up in the fourth quarter as international vendors are going to launch...
Friday 29 July 2011
Small-sized display shipments decline amid weak demand from all markets except tablets, says IHS iSuppli
Shipments of small- and medium-sized display (SMD) panels fell for the second straight month in May as demand decreased from cellphones and all other major product categories-with...
Thursday 28 July 2011
Quanta, Wistron expected to strongly benefit from cloud computing in 2012
Quanta Computer and Wistron are expected to see strong sales growth in their cloud computing-related businesses in 2012 with Quanta's revenues from server business to more than double,...
Thursday 7 July 2011
Upstream tablet PC component suppliers gearing up production
Upstream component suppliers for non-iPad tablet PCs have been gearing up their preparation of needed parts and components for models to be launched by brand vendors in the third...
Wednesday 22 June 2011
RIM lowers internal 2Q11 sales target for PlayBook
RIM, viewing that only about 500,000 PlayBooks, its first tablet PC, were sold globally from its launch in mid-April to early June, has downward adjusted its internal sales target...
Wednesday 22 June 2011
International smartphone vendors face competition from local brands in Southeast Asia
With sales ratios of smartphones to total handset sales in some markets in the Southeast Asia region expecting to grow about from 10% currently to 40-50% in the next 3-5 years, the...
Tuesday 21 June 2011
Component makers may suffer on poor Nokia, RIM outlook
Some Taiwan-based handset component makers including Merry Electronics, Ichia Technologies and Silitech Technology may see weak sales in the second half of 2011 as Nokia and Research...
Thursday 16 June 2011
Acer reducing 2011 tablet PC shipment target by 50%
Acer, on June 15, announced that the company has reduced its annual tablet PC shipment forecast from originally 5-7 million units to only 2.5-3 million units, a drop close to 50%...
Wednesday 8 June 2011
Android phones set to grab more share in 3Q11 as no new models from Apple, Nokia and RIM
Android-based smartphone vendors including HTC and Samsung Electronics apparently will draw a great opportunity to boost their market share globally in the third quarter in the absence...
Tuesday 10 May 2011
Apple defies decline in smartphone market, says IHS iSuppli
Bucking a rare downturn in the burgeoning smartphone business, Apple in the first quarter achieved double-digit-percentage growth in iPhone shipments and posted the best performance...
Tuesday 3 May 2011
Quanta receives tablet PC orders from Amazon, say upstream sources
Taiwan-based notebook maker Quanta Computer has recently received OEM orders from Amazon for its reported tablet PC, according to sources from upstream component makers. The device's...
Wednesday 13 April 2011
Quanta Computer expected to see booming shipments of PlayBook
RIM is internally optimistic about the marketability of its PlayBook tablet PC and therefore has placed large-volume orders for shipments in the second and third quarters of 2011...
Tuesday 12 April 2011
Acer increases Iconia tablet PC orders for April
Taiwan-based PC brand vendor Acer has increased its April tablet PC orders to 500,000-800,000 units, aiming to compete against Motorola, RIM and Hewlett-Packard's (HP's) tablet PCs,...
Friday 8 April 2011
Unstable Android 3.0 performance may benefit vendors with own OS
Tablet PC players such as Hewlett-Packard (HP) and RIM, that have their own operating system (OS), are expected to have chance of benefiting from the unstable performance of Android...
Friday 8 April 2011
More dual-core smartphones on launch list
Following players including Motorola, LG Electronics (LGE) and HTC, more and more brand handset vendors are going to launch dual-core smartphones in 2011, according to industry sou...