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Thursday 24 August 2017
Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 chip powers Samsung Galaxy Note8
Qualcomm has announced that its premium mobile platform is powering Samsung's latest flagship smartphone for select regions. The Samsung Galaxy Note8 is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon...
Wednesday 23 August 2017
Taiwan market: Taiwan Mobile to launch smartphone-based affinity credit card
Taiwan Mobile plans to team up with EasyCard and Taipei Fubon Bank to launch in September Taiwan's first smartphone-based affinity credit card to promote mobile payments in the local...
Wednesday 23 August 2017
Demand for 4G smartphones in emerging markets spurs growth in 2Q17, says Gartner
Global sales of smartphones to end users totaled 366.2 million units in the second quarter of 2017, a 6.7% increase over the second quarter of 2016, according to Gartner. In the smartphone...
Wednesday 23 August 2017
China market: Smartphone vendors ready to launch all-screen models
China-based smartphone vendors including Huawei, Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo and Gionee all are ready to launch all-screen smartphone models heating up competition in China's smartphone market...
Tuesday 22 August 2017
China AI service provider Unisound gains strategic funding of US$45 million
China's AI service platform Unisound has gained CNY300 million (US$45 million) in strategic investment from an undisclosed group of investors to finance the firm's R&D on AI technologies...
Tuesday 22 August 2017
Digitimes Research: China smartphone shipments fall 11.8% on year in 2Q17
Smartphone shipments in the China market stayed flat on quarter but fell 11.8% on year to 94.1 million units in the second quarter of 2017, accounting for 28.9% of total global smartphone...
Tuesday 22 August 2017
Galaxy S8 best-selling Android smartphones in 2Q17, says Strategy Analytics
Samsung Electronics' Galaxy S8 was the world's best-selling Android smartphone in the second quarter of 2017. Combined shipments of the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus reached 19.2 million...
Monday 21 August 2017
Handset supply chain makers on high alert as smartphone competition looming
Suppliers in the global handset supply chain are nervously waiting for the planned release of new smartphones from Apple, Samsung Electronics and Huawei in the upcoming peak season...
Friday 18 August 2017
Taiwan market: Asustek launches Zen Fone 4 family products
Asustek Computer has officially launched its ZenFone 4 series products at an event in Taiwan, with three out of the family's four models to be available immediately in the local ma...
Friday 18 August 2017
Lenovo reports net loss of US$72 million for April-June 2017
Lenovo has reported net loss of US$72 million for the fiscal first quarter ended June 30, 2017, during which the companmy recorded quarterly revenues of US$10 billion, flat on year,...
Friday 18 August 2017
Taiwan ICT vendors have to offer turnkey solutions in Indonesia market: Q&A with TAITRA representative
Taiwan has adopted a New Southbound Policy eyeing trade opportunities from ASEAN and South Asia economies. The government-sponsored Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA)...
Friday 18 August 2017
China smartphone market and industry – 2Q 2017
Digitimes Research estimates smartphone shipments to the China market in the second quarter of 2017 totaled 94.1 million units, maintaining a similar level to that seen in the first...
Friday 18 August 2017
Taiwan market: Acer sponsors smarwatches for Universiade Taipei
Acer has sponsored 13,000 units of its limited-edition Leap Ware smartwatches for the Summer Universiade 2017 sporting event, hosted in Taipei, Taiwan from August 19-30.
Friday 18 August 2017
Apple Watch shipments expected to reach 15 million in 2017
With Apple ready to launch its third-generation Apple Watch, Apple's overall smartwatch shipments are expected to rise to 4.5 million units in the fourth quarter and hit 15 million...
Thursday 17 August 2017
Commentary: Is Huawei carrier business losing growth momentum?
Huawei has reported revenues of CNY283.1 billion (US$42.439 billion) for the first half of 2017. The figures were not so bad as they represented an increase of 15% from a year earlier...