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Friday 13 October 2017
Samsung to focus on promoting Gear Sport smartwatches
Samsung Electronics has adjusted its strategy for wearable devices to focus on promoting its newly released Gear Sport smartwatch and wireless earphone Gear IconX 2018 products, while...
Monday 2 October 2017
Upstream suppliers to enjoy rising revenues from AirPods and Apple Watches in 4Q17
Quanta Computer, Inventec as well as the ASE group's Universal Scientific Industrial (USI) and the Foxconn group's Shunsin Technology and Luxshare-ICT, are expected to see strong...
Friday 1 September 2017
Basic trackers take back seat as smartwatches accelerate in 2Q17, says IDC
The worldwide wearable market was once again graced with positive growth as shipments grew 10.3% on year, reaching 26.3 million during the second quarter of 2017, according to the...
Friday 25 August 2017
Worldwide wearable device sales to grow 17% in 2017, says Gartner
Gartner forecasts that 310.4 million wearable devices will be sold worldwide in 2017, an increase of 16.7% from 2016. Sales of wearable devices will generate revenues of US$30.5 billion...
Friday 18 August 2017
Taiwan market: Acer sponsors smarwatches for Universiade Taipei
Acer has sponsored 13,000 units of its limited-edition Leap Ware smartwatches for the Summer Universiade 2017 sporting event, hosted in Taipei, Taiwan from August 19-30.
Friday 18 August 2017
Apple Watch shipments expected to reach 15 million in 2017
With Apple ready to launch its third-generation Apple Watch, Apple's overall smartwatch shipments are expected to rise to 4.5 million units in the fourth quarter and hit 15 million...
Monday 14 August 2017
Apple falls to third place in 2Q17 wearable band market, says Canalys
The total worldwide wearable band market grew 8% on year in the second quarter of 2017, according to Canalys. The wearable band market for second-quarter 2017 was led by Xiaomi with...
Thursday 20 July 2017
Wearable players seeking measures as sales remain weak
Wearable players originally had high expectations about emerging IT applications, but several have started changing their strategies as most are seeing weak sales from the product...
Wednesday 21 June 2017
Wearables continue to see strong growth in MEA market, says IDC
The Middle East and Africa (MEA) wearable market continued its strong growth trajectory into the first quarter of 2017, according to the latest figures compiled by IDC. Bucking a...
Wednesday 14 June 2017
Asustek reportedly to start wave of layoffs
Rumors have circulated that Asustek Computer is looking to lay off a large number of employees as part of its business reorganization. The company noted that it is currently in the...
Friday 9 June 2017
IC Insights cuts long-term IoT semiconductor forecast
IC Insights has scaled back its total semiconductor sales forecast for system functions related to the IoT in 2020 by about US$920 million, mostly because of lower revenue projections...
Monday 15 May 2017
Asustek likely to discontinue ZenWatch product line
Asustek Computer is likely to discontinue the development of its ZenWatch product line as sales of its smartwatch devices have been lower than expected, according to sources of Taiwan's...
Thursday 2 February 2017
LG to launch two Android Wear-based smartwatches, says paper
LG Electronics is expected to soon launch two smartwatches, the LG Sport and LG Style, in cooperation Google. Both of the models will support Android Wear 2.0, according to a Chinese-language...
Wednesday 25 January 2017
Compal ramping up smartwatch shipments to Fossil, says paper
Compal Electronics is expected to double OEM smartwatch shipments to brand vendor Fossil to 1.2 million units in 2017, up from 500,000-600,000 units shipped in the previous year,...
Wednesday 25 January 2017
Taiwan wearable product shipments to account for 42% of global shipments in 2018, says MIC
The ratio of Taiwan's shipments of smart wearable devices, mainly smartwatches and bracelets, to global shipments will grow from 39% in 2016 to 42% in 2018 and further increase to...