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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...
Friday 26 July 2013
PCs are not dying, just continuing to evolve
News regarding the demise of the PC has been greatly exaggerated. According to statistics, the majority of networked and non-networked consumer applications still run on a PC. It...
Thursday 25 July 2013
Acer, Asustek actively marketing cloud computing solutions
Acer and Asustek have been pushing forward in marketing hardware/software-integrated cloud computing solutions focusing on educational applications and web storage, respectively,...
Thursday 25 July 2013
Mobile connected devices drive CE industry; resurgence in auto, audio, TV segments, finds CEA forecast
Mobile connected devices, including smartphones and tablets, continue to drive consumer electronics (CE) industry sales, according to the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). CEA...
Thursday 25 July 2013
Tencent Holdings to invest US$2 billion in Xiaomi, says paper
China-based Tencent Holdings, which runs one of the largest web portals in China, QQ.com, reportedly plans to commit an investment of US$2 billion into China-based smartphone vendor...
Thursday 25 July 2013
NFC, MEMS sensors, and gesture recognition the big smartphone differentiators in 2013, says ABI Research
Accelerometers, vision-based gesture recognition, gyroscopes, and NFC are predicted to be the feature set big winners in smartphones in 2013, according to ABI Research. "Gesture...
Thursday 25 July 2013
Robust traffic spurs demand for 3G/4G gateways; market to reach US$1.8 billion in 2013, says ABI Research
ABI Research has found that the overall 2012 wireless network equipment market was quite challenging for infrastructure vendors, but the incessant demand for 3G and 4G mobile broadband...
Thursday 25 July 2013
LG not ready to outsource smartphone production despite growing shipments, say sources
LG Electronics appears to be unlikely to release its smartphone orders to Taiwan-based ODMs in the short term despite its growing smartphone shipments, according to sources at Taiwan's...
Thursday 25 July 2013
Taiwan market: FTC gives green light to FET acquisition of Hiiir
Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission (FTC) on July 24 approved the acquisition of an 80% stake in Hiiir, a provider of mobile application and advertising services in the Taiwan market,...