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Tuesday 27 August 2013
Smartphone vendors in China expected to use mostly Full HD panels in 2014
Supply chain sources in the panel industry believe that most smartphone vendors in China will be after Full HD panels in 2014 in order to keep up with market demand.
Tuesday 27 August 2013
Smartphone supply chains see increased orders from China telecom operators
Smartphone supply chains are starting to see increased orders from China-based telecom operators that are looking to further compete in the local smartphone segment, according to...
Tuesday 27 August 2013
China July mobile phone user base growing to 1.185 billion, says MIIT
There were 1.185 billion subscribers of mobile communication services in China as of the end of July 2013, growing 0.80% sequentially and 11.60% on year, and 333.74 million (28.16%)...
Monday 26 August 2013
PCB and CCL makers to benefit from 4G infrastructure projects in Taiwan and China
PCB makers BoardTek Electronics and Gold Circuit Electronics as well as CCL maker Taiwan Union Technology (TUC) all are expected to benefit from the build-ups of 4G infrastructure...
Monday 26 August 2013
LG to delay OLED TV launch in China until 2014
LG Electronics will reportedly wait until 2014 before it releases OLED TVs in China. Industry sources said that yields for OLED TV panels are still at around 20-30% while material...
Monday 26 August 2013
Kinpo-Compal releases 3D printer
Kinpo-Compal Group has recently established a subsidiary to push own-brand consumer 3D printers and announced its first model under the brand name XYZprinting priced only less than...
Monday 26 August 2013
China white-box handsets less popular in emerging markets
China white-box handsets have seen declined popularity in emerging markets where mobile telecom carriers and retail channels are eager to look for products of better quality, according...
Monday 26 August 2013
Sony releases new TVs in China
Sony has released its 65-inch S990A LCD TV in China equipped with Full HD resolution and wide color gamut (WCG) display technology.
Monday 26 August 2013
China market: Smartphone replacement demand is still growing
Initial sales of new smartphones launched by some vendors in China in the third quarter, such as Xiaomi Technology's Hongmi smartphone, have been brisk, indicating that replacement...
Friday 23 August 2013
Homegrown smartphone brands boost Asia Pacific smartphone shipments, says IDC
The Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) smartphone market has continued on a strong upward trajectory. According to the IDC Asia/Pacific quarterly mobile phone tracker, vendors shipped...
Friday 23 August 2013
Taiwan PCB production value to decrease 3.1% in 2013, says IEK
The production value of PCBs produced by Taiwan-based companies in Taiwan and China is forecast to decrease 3.06% to NT$499.6 billion (US$16.68 billion) in 2013, according to the...
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...