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Thursday 22 August 2013
China market: Smartphone vendors slashing WP8 phone prices to win market share
Smartphone vendors, including Nokia, HTC and Huawei, have slashed the prices of their Window Phone 8 (WP8) models to below CNY1,000 (US$163) in the China market in order to compete...
Thursday 22 August 2013
International vendors take up 35% of China Mobile TD-LTE equipment procurement value
China Mobile has held an open-bid to procure 207,000 TD-LTE base stations worth an estimated CNY20 billion (US$3.26 billion) in total. Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell, Ericsson and Nokia...
Thursday 22 August 2013
China market: Local-made smartphones growing fast in 1H13, says GfK China
In the China market, the number of China-made smartphone models rapidly grew from 933 in the first half of 2012 to 2,888 in the same period of 2013, while that of China-based smartphone...
Thursday 22 August 2013
China market: Xiaomi to launch 8-core smartphone by year-end 2013, says paper
China-based smartphone vendor Xiaomi Technology plans to launch a new smartphone built with a MediaTek 8-core MT-6592 processor at the end of 2013, according to a Chinese-language...
Thursday 22 August 2013
China-based Yulong to release 20 new smartphones in 2H13
China-based smartphone vendor Yulong (Coolpad) plans to launch 20 new smartphones in the second half of 2013 after releasing more than 30 Android-based models in the first half, according...
Thursday 22 August 2013
ZTE 1H13 net profit up 26.6% on year
China-based networking/communication equipment and handset vendor ZTE has released it first-half 2013 financial report, with net profit of CNY310 million (US$50.1 million) increasing...
Wednesday 21 August 2013
More Taiwan LCD driver IC makers enter Samsung smartphone supply chain
Taiwan-based LCD driver IC vendors ILI Technology (Ilitek) and Sitronix Technology have entered the smartphone supply chain of Samsung Electronics, in addition to Himax Technologies...
Wednesday 21 August 2013
Firefox OS smartphones draw attention from vendors, ODMs, say Taiwan makers
The selling of ZTE Open, an entry-level smartphone based on Firefox OS, has given the operating system interest from other smartphone vendors and ODMs, according to Taiwan-based handset...
Wednesday 21 August 2013
Taiwan handset OEMs/ODMs look to reignite feature phone businesses
While most handset brands and ODMs have been focusing on the fast growing smartphone segment, some Taiwan-based ODMs are considering reigniting their production lines for feature...
Wednesday 21 August 2013
China draws up 2013-2020 broadband development plans
China's State Council (Cabinet) has announced Broadband China Strategies, plans to develop fixed-line and mobile Internet-access infrastructure and services in China, with target...
Wednesday 21 August 2013
Chunghwa Telecom hikes 2013 target mobile Internet-access user base
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), one of the three largest mobile telecom carriers in Taiwan, has upward adjusted its target number of mobile Internet-access subscribers for 2013 from 3.5 million...
Wednesday 21 August 2013
Interactive security to reach US$1.6 billion in Western Europe by 2018, says Strategy Analytics
Strategy Analytics' research and analysis of the market for interactive security in Western Europe and the US concludes that a robust market is developing to expand home security...
Wednesday 21 August 2013
Commentary: 7-inch tablet demand to dwindle
Smartphones and tablets originally formed two separate markets, but now it seems they may be competing against each other in the near future as smartphone vendors are gradually increasing...
Tuesday 20 August 2013
Arima Communications steps into tablets
Taiwan-based smartphone ODM Arima Communications has extended product development and production to tablets and has finished development of 7- and 8-inch models, with shipments expected...
Tuesday 20 August 2013
Smartphone market to fragment in emerging markets as new players capture 13% of OS share by 2018, says Juniper Research
New findings from Juniper Research has revealed that the smartphone OS market will see new emerging players, such as Asha, Sailfish and emerging HTML 5-based OS players begin to gain...