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Tuesday 30 July 2013
HTC pessimistic about 3Q13
HTC forecasts third-quarter consolidated revenues of NT$50-60 billion (US$1.7-2.0 billion) slipping 15.1-29.2% on quarter, and gross margin of 18-21% down 2-5pp, as well as zero net...
Tuesday 30 July 2013
Tablet adoption rates cool in 2Q13, says CEA
As of the second quarter in 2013, four in ten (41%) online US consumers have indicated they own a tablet, roughly on par with ownership rates reported in March 2013 (40%), according...
Tuesday 30 July 2013
M2M cellular connections to exceed 450 million by 2018 as ARPUs are squeezed, says ABI Research
Cellular M2M (machine to machine) connections are set to reach over 450 million by 2018. Europe dragged down worldwide connection growth in 2011 and 2012 to the high teens but with...
Tuesday 30 July 2013
Notebook shipments grow 0.4% in 2Q13, says WitsView
Notebook shipments attained 39.4 million in shipments during the second quarter of 2013, up 0.4% on quarter, while shipments of the top nine vendors in the market declined 0.7% on...
Tuesday 30 July 2013
Shipments of tablet expected to more than double those of notebooks in 2014, says NPD DisplaySearch
Shipments of tablets are expected to reach nearly 364 million worldwide in 2014, more than doubling the projected 177 million shipments of standard and ultra-slim notebooks, according...
Tuesday 30 July 2013
Smartphone vendors conservative about adopting 8-core platforms, say Taiwan makers
While Samsung Electronics, MediaTek and HiSilicon Technologies have been developing 8-core platforms for smartphones, vendors are conservative about the adoption on concerns that...
Monday 29 July 2013
Taiwan market: Acer cooperates with CHT to launch 5.7-inch smartphone Liquid S1
Acer on July 29 announced it was cooperating with Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) to unveil the Acer Liquid S1, a 5.7-inch Android 4.2.2 smartphone, for contract-bundled sale by CHT beginning...
Monday 29 July 2013
Taiwan market: NCC may assign 2.6GHz bands for FDD LTE
Taiwan's National Communications Commission (NCC) is likely to assign 2.6GHz bands for operating FDD LTE communication services in the future, because the development of FDD LTE telecom...
Monday 29 July 2013
Indonesia market: smartphone shipments to reach 12-15 million units in 2013
Sales of smartphones in Indonesia are expected to top 12-15 million units or 20-25% of total handset sold in the market in 2013, according to market observers.
Monday 29 July 2013
Samsung mobile business posts profit shrink in 2Q13
Samsung Electronics has reported record operating profits for the second quarter of 2013, with all businesses except its mobile business posting profit growth sequentially.
Monday 29 July 2013
Taiwan handsets – 2Q 2013
Own-brand and ODM handset shipments from Taiwan both saw strong sequential growths in the second quarter of 2013. Taiwan's handset shipments for the second half of 2013 will be about...
Monday 29 July 2013
5G development to integrate existing technologies to meet future mobile Internet-access demand, says METIS director
The development of fifth-generation (5G) mobile communication technology will aim to integrate existing technologies and upgrade them to meet mobile Internet-access demand in the...
Monday 29 July 2013
BlackBerry, Nokia to not launch 5-inch or above smartphones until end of 2013, say sources
While vendors of Android smartphones have been competing each other fiercely in the 5-inch segment, vendors of other platforms, including BlackBerry, Nokia and Apple are unlikely...
Friday 26 July 2013
Samsung and Apple successfully fend off low-cost smartphone vendors for another quarter, declares ABI Research
For the second calendar quarter in a row, smartphone shipments represented more than half (52%) of the world's mobile phone shipments. Led by electronics manufacturer Samsung Electronics,...
Friday 26 July 2013
Growth accelerates in worldwide mobile phone and smartphone markets in 2Q13, says IDC
The worldwide mobile phone market grew 6% on year in the second quarter of 2013. According to International Data Corporation (IDC), vendors shipped a total of 432.1 million mobile...