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Friday 21 August 2015
Sony announces SmartBand 2 for September
Sony Mobile has unveiled its new smart bracelet, the SmartBand 2, which is set to become available worldwide starting September. The SmartBand 2 features the same form factor and...
Friday 21 August 2015
Acer to launch 1st gaming tablet
Acer has begun production of its first gaming tablet equipped with an Intel Atom Z8700 processor and 8-inch touch screen for launch in the third or fourth quarter of 2015, according...
Friday 21 August 2015
Global tablet market – 2Q 2015
Digitimes Research saw global tablet shipments fall to 45.76 million units in second-quarter 2015, showing a 10% decrease on quarter and representing more than a 15% decrease on ye...
Friday 21 August 2015
Global smartphone shipments record slowest growth in 2 years in 2Q15, says Gartner
Worldwide sales of smartphones totaled 330 million units in the second quarter of 2015, an increase of 13.5% on-year, which was the lowest quarterly growth rate since 2013, according...
Friday 21 August 2015
China Unicom, China Telecom setting up FDD LTE networks, say reports
China Unicom and China Telecom have been actively establishing FDD LTE networks in China since they obtained FDD LTE licenses in late February 2015, and aim to complete installing...
Thursday 20 August 2015
Portable PC sales to remain flat despite Windows 10 launch, says ABI Research
According to the latest market data findings from ABI Research, total system shipments for portable computing are predicted to reach 165 million units for full-year 2015, essentially...
Thursday 20 August 2015
India mobile services market to reach US$21.4 billion in 2015, says Gartner
Mobile connections in India will grow to 880 million in 2015, an increase of 5% from 837 million connections in 2014, according to Gartner. Spending on mobile services will grow 4%...
Thursday 20 August 2015
Taiwan market: Taiwan Star Cellular opens online store
Taiwan Star Cellular, a 4G mobile telecom carrier in Taiwan, on August 20 announced the opening of its online store as an auxiliary retail channel to its retail chains.
Thursday 20 August 2015
Taiwan market: InFocus to launches 3 new smartphones
The US-based smartphone vendor InFocus plans to launch three new models, the M812, M808 and M370, in the Taiwan market on August 25. The three models feature a 5-, 5.2- and 5.5-inch...
Thursday 20 August 2015
HTC plans to sell Shanghai plant, says report
HTC plans to sell its plant in Shanghai to China-based companies and is likely to initiate a second round of layoffs before year-end 2015 after announcing a restructuring plan recently...
Thursday 20 August 2015
Taiwan market: Asia Pacific Telecom reaches 400,000 4G users
Asia Pacific Telecom has 400,000 subscribers of 4G mobile communication services, aiming to reach 700,000-800,000 by year-end 2015, according to company chairman Lu Fang-ming.
Thursday 20 August 2015
Taiwan to boost smart city application services
Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) has signed with four 4G mobile telecom carriers to subsidize their developments of 4G-based smart city application services.
Thursday 20 August 2015
Arima Communications 2015 smartphone shipments to fall short of target
Arima Communications is expected to ship eight million smartphones in 2015, falling short of its target of 10 million units due to declining ODM orders from Sony Mobile Communications,...
Wednesday 19 August 2015
Mobile payments poised for explosive growth in Asia Pacific, says IDC
IDC predicts worldwide mobile payments will account for US$1 trillion in value in 2017, up 124% from the less than US$500 billion expected in 2015. Asia Pacific markets will contribute...
Wednesday 19 August 2015
FIH Mobile to invest US$200 million in India e-commerce platform
FIH Mobile, a smartphone manufacturing subsidiary of Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry), has recently announced it will invest US$200 million via its Singapore-based...