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By 2018, Over 50% Users to Use Tablet or Smartphone For Online Activities (2014.12.11)
According to Gartner, mobile devices are increasingly becoming the first go-to device for communications and content consumption.
In the emerging economies, users are adopting smartphones as their exclusive mobile devices while in developed economies, multi-device households are becoming the norm, with tablets growing at the fastest rate of any computing device |
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Acer Expands Liquid Smartphone Sales to the Caribbean (2014.12.03)
TAIPEI, Taiwan－Acer announced today that its Android-powered Liquid E700 smartphones are available at Digicel stores in Bermuda, Jamaica and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
This follows the successful launches of Acer smartphones across Pan America earlier this year in Canada, Chile and Mexico |
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Global Smartphone Market Adjusts to Slower Growth (2014.12.02)
The growth rate of global smartphone shipments slowed to 25.9% in 2014 and is expected to fall to 12.4% in 2015, according to TrendForce. A total of nearly 1.17 billion smartphones were shipped in 2014, while approximately 1.31 billion are predicted to be shipped next year |
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India Leads Growth of Smartphone Market; China Continues to Slow (2014.12.02)
According to International Data Corporation (IDC), the smartphone market in Asia/Pacific excluding Japan (APEJ) posted a moderate 6% Quarter-on-Quarter (QoQ) and 24% Year-on-Year (YoY) growth in 2014 Q3. This trend reflects a decline in growth from previous years and is a result of its largest market, China, having seen the last of the heydays of heady growth in the smartphone market |
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Taiwan Teenagers Enthusiastic about Using CellPhones Internet (2014.12.02)
TAIPEI,Taiwan－ According to a survey of Taiwanese teenagers’ Internet behavior which was carried out by Insight Xplorer and Foreseeing New Innovative Digiservices (FIND) together with several brand manufacturers in Taiwan, Taiwanese teenagers are extremely enthusiastic about using cellphones to surf the Internet |
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2-in-1 PCs Going to Get Hot in 2015 (2014.11.28)
TAIPEI, Taiwan - According to TrendForce, notebook computer shipments will grow 0.6% in 2015 to 174.6 million units, while tablet computer shipments will decline 3.5% to 185.6 million units. Notebook manufacturers largely vied for market share this year by slashing prices |
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iPhone 6 Models Strengthen Growth in HD and FHD Smartphone Displays (2014.11.20)
According to DisplaySearch, due in large part to robust consumer demand for Apple iPhone 6 models, adoption of HD and FHD smartphone displays is forecast to grow quickly.
With the rise of developing markets, and rapid increases in low-priced smartphone models, the growth of wide video graphics array (WVGA, 480 x 800) and full wide video graphics array (FWVGA, 480 x 854) is expected to slow in 2015 |
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Smartphone Shipments Increase 25.2% in Q3, Samsung and Apple Hot Fight (2014.10.30)
According to IDC, new smartphone releases and an increased emphasis on emerging markets drove global smartphone shipments above 300 million units for the second consecutive quarter. vendors shipped a total of 327.6 million units during the third quarter of 2014 (3Q14), resulting in 25 |
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Asus Zenfone a Hot-Selling Item in Brazil (2014.10.20)
TAIPEI, Taiwan－Asus’ low-priced smartphones are experiencing strong sales in Brazil, and within three hours of going on sale, the first million sold out.
Currently, Asus Brazil’s Zenfone 5 series is already out of stock |
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InFocus Unveils 3 new Smartphones to Penetrate the Mid-range Market (2014.10.15)
TAIPEI, Taiwan — InFocus is a Foxconn owned and manufactured brand, which recently unveiled many new smartphones, including M510t, M2+, and M330 that all boast for mid-range to high-end specs and comparably cheap in price. InFocus is directly posing a threat to HTC, ASUS, and even Xiaomi in terms of the cost and performance value |
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Sales of Tablets Will Represent Less Than 10% of All Devices in 2014 (2014.10.15)
According to Gartner, tablet sales growth is slowing in 2014 as new hardware buyers users turn to alternative devices and existing users extend the lifetime of their tablets. Tablet sales worldwide will reach 229 million units in 2014, an 11 percent increase from 2013, representing 9 |
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Smartphones with Screen Sizes Over 4.8" Make Up Approx. 80% of Taiwan (2014.10.09)
Shipment volume of the Taiwanese smartphone industry has topped around 5.4 million units in the third quarter of 2014.
"The new rollouts of Samsung, Sony, and Apple in September have caused consumers to delay purchases and therefore dragged the sales momentum of HTC M8," said Sophia Chen, the industry analyst with MIC |
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HTC Desire Eye Will Catch the eye on Wed. (2014.10.06)
TAIPEI, Taiwan — HTC is going to unveil its latest handset product HTC Desire Eye on Wednesday, which is boasting for its double exposure.
Desire Eye is mostly a mid-range handset, with a 5.2-inch 1080p display, quad-core Snapdragon 801 processor, 2GB of RAM and 32GB of on-board flash storage |
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Chang Wah Electro is Expected on Q3 and Q4 (2014.10.06)
TAIPEI, Taiwan — The semiconductor packaging provider Chang Wah Electro and its subsidiary companies weren't do good in second and third quarters, however, Chang Wah Electro is expected on third and fourth quarters to sell more of the components of wearables and smartphones to help its performance |
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Tablet PC Demand Slows, as Competition from Notebooks and Smartphones Increases (2014.10.01)
According to the NPD DisplaySearch, global tablet PC demand is slowing and shipments are forecast to grow only 2 percent year-over-year in 2014.
254 million tablet PC units will ship in 2014, which is less than the 14 percent growth NPD DisplaySearch previously forecast |
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Chinese Vendors Will Drive Growth of White-Box Smartphones and Tablets (2014.09.23)
Emerging markets are continuing to drive strong sales of white-box smartphones and tablets in 2014. Gartner expects the white-box smartphone market to grow 50 percent, while the white-box tablet market will experience growth of 15 |
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The Abrupt Rise of Vietnam’s Smartphone Market (2014.09.16)
TAIPEI, Taiwan－Industrial Economics and Knowledge Center (IEK) estimates that by the year 2017, smartphones will show explosive growth in Vietnam, with an increase from 2 million smartphones sold in 2012 to more than 9 million sold in 2017 |
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Big Screen Smartphones Becomes a Growing Trend in China (2014.09.09)
TAIEPI, Taiwan－According to IDC, China market sees increased use of big screen (5-7 inches) smartphones, which accounted for more than 20% of total smartphones in 2013 and are expected to further increase.
Kitty Fok, IDC China Managing Director |
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First Smartphone and Wearable Sensor Hub With Under 150MA Active Power and Programmable Flexibility (2014.09.09)
QuickLogic Corporation introduced its new ArcticLink 3 S2 platform, the second CSSP solution in its Sensor Hub roadmap. This next-generation platform delivers double the customer-specific programmable logic capacity, four times the computational performance, four times the on-board algorithm capacity, and eight times the sensor data buffer storage while consuming 40% less power than the previous generation ArcticLink 3 S1 |
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Worldwide Phablet Shipments to Surpass Portable PCs in 2014 and Tablets by 2015 (2014.09.04)
According to a new forecast from the IDC, worldwide phablet shipments (smartphones with screen sizes from 5.5 to less than 7 inches) will reach 175 million units worldwide in 2014, passing the 170 million portable PCs expected to ship during the same period |
