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Tuesday 15 July 2014
Cumulative shipments of 300Mbps smartphone modems to exceed 700 million by 2019, says ABI Research
Shipments of second-generation LTE basebands, commonly called Cat4, enabling mobile users to enjoy up to 150Mbps bandwidth, barely exceeded 42 million in 2013. However, key chipset...
Tuesday 15 July 2014
Taiwan market: Samsung to launch 7-inch Galaxy Tab4
Samsung Electronics on July 14 unveiled the Galaxy Tab 4 7.0, a 7-inch Android 4.4-based 4G-enabled tablet, for launch in the Taiwan market at a contract-free retail price of below...
Tuesday 15 July 2014
Asustek may struggle to achieve smartphone shipment goals for 2014
Asustek Computer shipped about one million ZenFone smartphones in the second quarter, but to achieve its shipment goal of eight million units for 2014, the company will need to ship...
Tuesday 15 July 2014
Smartphone sales volume to reach 23.6% growth in 2014, says MIC
In 2013, the worldwide mobile handset market volume reached approximately 1.82 billion units, and is expected to reach 1.88 billion units in 2014, up 3% on year, according to Market...
Tuesday 15 July 2014
Samsung finishes LTE-A solution development for mobile processors, says report
Samsung Electronics reportedly has finished developing an LTE-A modem chip solution, the Exynos Modem 300, and will integrate it into the company's quad-core processors to compete...
Tuesday 15 July 2014
Digitimes Research: China Mobile excluded from FD-LTE pilot operation licenses
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has issued two FD-LTE pilot operation licenses to China Unicom and China Telecom on June 27 for several cities in China. However,...
Tuesday 15 July 2014
Firefox smartphones to be launched in India in July, says Mozilla COO
Mozilla will launch a series of inexpensive Firefox OS smartphone models in the India market in July, with retail prices of up to US$50, according to company COO and Mozilla Taiwan...
Tuesday 15 July 2014
Samsung, HiSilicon looking to sell more handset solutions to other vendors, say sources
Samsung Electronics and HiSilicon Technologies both have accelerated the developments of their handset solutions, including 8-core, 64-bit and 4G LTE-enabled chips and plan to ship...
Tuesday 15 July 2014
Core technology of wearable devices
The wearable devices currently in the market seem to fall into two categories: they either come with long battery life but simple features, or short battery life with comprehensive...
Monday 14 July 2014
TCL Communication expected to ship 35-40 million smartphones, tablets in 2014, say Taiwan makers
China-based vendor TCL Communication Technology Holdings is expected to ship 35-40 million smartphones and tablets as well as 25 million feature phones in 2014, according to Taiwan-based...
Monday 14 July 2014
Foxconn inclined to support Asia Pacific Telecom 4G operations in place of Ambit, says paper
Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) is inclined to completely support Asia Pacific Telecom to start 4G commercial operations instead of having its wholly-owned subsidiary...
Friday 11 July 2014
D.Phone raises nearly HK$900 million via IPO in Hong Kong
D.Phone, the largest handset retail chain in China, has raised nearly HK$900 million (US$116 million) through its IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, with over 60% of the funds to...
Friday 11 July 2014
Taiwan IC design houses aim to land more tablet IC orders from brand vendors
Taiwan-based IC design houses are shifting their focus to win more IC orders from brand tablet vendors instead of white-box suppliers since shipment growth of white-box tablets has...
Friday 11 July 2014
MediaTek remains calm on Qualcomm price reduction
MediaTek has said it is not concerned much about Qualcomm's announcement that it is lowering prices for its entry-level 4G solutions, believing that the price reductions will not...
Friday 11 July 2014
Chunghwa Telecom nets NT$2.69 per share for January-June
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) on July 10 reported net profit of NT$3.62 billion (US$121 million) for June 2014, resulting in net EPS of NT$2.69 for January-June.