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Thursday 4 September 2014
Acer aims to ship 4-5 million smartphones in 2014, 10 million units in 2015
Acer aims to ship 4-5 million smartphones in 2014 and 10 million units in 2015, according to the company's Smartphone Business president Liu Shi-tai. Acer shipped 2.5 million smartphones...
Thursday 4 September 2014
Worldwide phablet shipments to surpass portable PCs in 2014 and tablets by 2015, says IDC
According to a new forecast from IDC, worldwide phablet shipments (smartphones with screen sizes from 5.5- to less than 7-inch) will reach 175 million units worldwide in 2014, passing...
Thursday 4 September 2014
IFA 2014: Asustek unveils new innovations at pre-IFA conference
Asustek Computer has unveiled the ZenWatch and a low-cost 11.6-inch notebook, the EeeBook X205 at a pre-IFA launch conference, both priced at EUR199 (US$262). The x205 is part of...
Thursday 4 September 2014
IFA 2014: Acer unveils new touchscreen products
Acer hosted a pre-IFA press conference to unveil its theme, A Touch More Connected, and announced a series of touchscreen products. IFA 2014 will be hosted from September 5-10 in...
Thursday 4 September 2014
Lanner Establishes Internet of Things Business Unit, Announcing Readiness for the IoT Era
Armed with years of experience and expertise in board and system design, Lanner has successfully established itself as a leading provider of design, engineering and manufacturing...
Wednesday 3 September 2014
Taiwan market: HTC to launch new exclusive stores to promote aftersales services
HTC plans to launch a new type of exclusive store as well as VIP services in Taiwan soon to enhance its aftersales services as a means to further promote its smartphone sales.
Wednesday 3 September 2014
Digitimes Research: Taiwan smartphone makers see dropping orders from Amazon, Microsoft Mobile and Facebook in 2014
Taiwan handset makers originally expected to continue receiving orders for Lumia series products from Microsoft Mobile and also acquire new orders from Amazon and Facebook in 2014,...
Wednesday 3 September 2014
Digitimes Research: Samsung, Lenovo cutting tablet prices in the US market
Samsung Electronics and Lenovo have recently started a wave of price cuts for their tablets in the US market. Samsung offered price cuts for its 7- and 10-inch models, but their prices...
Wednesday 3 September 2014
Electronic shelf label revenues to reach US$2 billion by 2019, says ABI Research
Over the next five years electronic shelf labels (ESL) are set to grow beyond retail markets in legislated countries, with revenues increasing six fold to almost US$2 billion by 2019,...
Wednesday 3 September 2014
HTC reports 37% growth in August revenues
HTC has reported consolidated revenues of NT$14.541 billion for August 2014, representing a 37.12% increase on month and 10.43% increase on year.
Tuesday 2 September 2014
Asustek readies new 2-in-1 products
In addition to an upgraded version of the T100, which is set to launch at the end of September or early October, Asustek Computer is ready to unveil its new Transformer Book T300...
Tuesday 2 September 2014
Taiwan market: HTC launches HTC Butterfly 2 in cooperation with CHT
HTC will begin to market its HTC Butterfly 2 in the Taiwan market from September 8 in cooperation with Chunghwa Telecom (CHT).
Tuesday 2 September 2014
New mobile products to benefit component suppliers until end of 2014
With smartphone players such as Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics and Sony expected to unveil their latest products at IFA 2014, and Apple set to release its new mobile products...
Tuesday 2 September 2014
Apple iWatch still under EVT despite components already in production
Despite related components already entering into production, Apple's iWatch is still unlikely to become available until 2015, as the device is still under engineering verification...
Tuesday 2 September 2014
Apple cuts iPad mini prices; non-Apple vendors may follow suit
Apple has recently cooperated with US-based retailers including Best Buy and Amazon to cut its iPad mini prices. Channel retailers believe other brand vendors may follow suit to maintain...