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Wednesday 26 February 2014
Asia NFC Alliance formed at 2014 MWC
Taiwan-based Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) has announced the formation of Asia NFC (near field communication) Alliance with Japan-based KDDI, South Korea-based SK Planet and Hong Kong-based...
Tuesday 25 February 2014
Taiwan market: FET launches 4 own-brand smartphones
Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET), one of the three largest mobile telecom carriers in Taiwan, on February 25 unveiled the Smart 401, Smart 402, Smart 501 and Smart 502, for immediate...
Tuesday 25 February 2014
Supply chain aims to increase production for wearable device components
The upstream supply chain is increasing production and R&D for wearable device components as vendors are gearing up to release or expand product lineups in 2014, according to...
Tuesday 25 February 2014
LTE data plan share of the market grows by 150%, but does not always boost revenues, says ABI Research
According to ABI Research, more than 55% of the cheapest country tariff plans are 4G compared to just 22% a year ago. This has been driven by the aggressive deployment of LTE networks...
Tuesday 25 February 2014
Is a US$25 smartphone possible?
Mobile World Congress (MWC) kicked off with a bang, with Mozilla announcing a US$25 smartphone built around a turnkey solution that features silicon from China-based Spreadtrum and...
Tuesday 25 February 2014
MWC 2014: Huawei ushers in new LTE devices
China-based vendor Huawei is showcasing an array of LTE-enable devices at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2014, including a 4.5-inch smartphone, 8-inch tablet, , 7-inch tablet/smartphone...
Tuesday 25 February 2014
MWC 2014: Samsung unveils new flagship smartphone Galaxy S5
Samsung Electronics has unveiled its new flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S5, at the ongoing Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2014, highlighting a fingerprint reader, heart rate monitor,...
Tuesday 25 February 2014
Taiwan Mobile to deploy 8,000-10,000 4G base stations by end of 2015
Taiwan Mobile (TWM), one of the six next-generation (4G) mobile communication licensees in Taiwan, will kick off 4G commercial operations on a 700MHz frequency band in quarter of...
Monday 24 February 2014
MWC 2014: One market focus will be Atom and LTE combo for Intel
At an Intel news conference for Mobile World Congress (MWC), Intel president Renee James introduced two Intel Atom processors, an LTE-Advanced communications platform, and announced...
Monday 24 February 2014
Taiwan market: CHT, TWM, FET shifting 2G users to 3G
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), Taiwan Mobile (TWM) and Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET), the three largest mobile telecom carriers in Taiwan, have been shifting mobile communication...
Monday 24 February 2014
Mozilla announces future plans for Firefox OS
Mozilla has demonstrated its Firefox OS open mobile ecosystem at a press event on the eve of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The event introduced seven new commercial Firefox...
Monday 24 February 2014
Google to use Qualcomm 8-core CPUs for next-generation Nexus 6 smartphone, says paper
Google will use Qualcomm's forthcoming 64-bit 8-core chipset solution, the Snapdragon 810, for its next-generation Nexus 6 smartphone, according to a Chinese-language Economic...
Monday 24 February 2014
Mozilla, Spreadtrum partner to deliver US$25 smartphone
Mozilla and Spreadtrum Communications announced on February 23 that they have teamed up to deliver turnkey Firefox OS reference designs with Spreadtrum's entry-level smartphone chi...
Monday 24 February 2014
Acer aims to ship 10 million smartphones in 2014
Acer is optimistic about smartphone sales in 2014 and has upward adjusted target shipments from five million to 10 million units, 6.67 times the 1.5 million units shipped in 2013,...
Monday 24 February 2014
Chunghwa Telecom to add overseas business offices
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) will set up business offices in Myanmar and the Philippines in 2014 and plans to expand in India, the UK, and Latin America in 2015-2016, according to CHT's...