Orders from Nokia, Motorola to Taiwan ODMs have highest growth potential in 2012

Nov 2, 16:36

For Taiwan-based handset ODMs including Compal Communications, Arima Communications and Foxconn International Holdings (FIH), orders from Nokia and Motorola Mobility in 2012 will...

Nokia relying on Mango smartphones to maintain global market share

Oct 26, 14:52

Nokia, after giving up Symbian and MeeGo , is expected to unveil 2-3 Windows Phone 7.5 Mango smartphones at Nokia World 2011 which opens in London on October 26. Nokia apparently...

Compal Communications posts losses for January-September

Newswatch - Oct 25, 16:34

Compal Communications has reported net losses of NT$199 million (US$6.6 million), or NT$0.33 per share, for the third quarter of 2011. For the January-September period, net losses...

Taiwan handset ODMs shifting to smartphones

Oct 5, 11:47

Taiwan-based handset ODMs will be forced to focus on the development and production of smartphones as now more branded handset vendors such as Sony Ericsson and Motorola Mobility...

Compal Communications reports strong sequential gains in August revenues

Newswatch - Sep 13, 16:20

Compal Communications has reported revenues of NT$738.04 million (US$25.35 million) for August, up 61.7% on month but down 19.8% on year. For the January-August period, revenues amounted...

Taiwan handset ODMs bracing for structural upheaval

Aug 23, 12:25

Taiwan-based handset ODMs are bracing for repercussions of structural upheaval to be brought by Google's intention to buy Motorola Mobility and Hewlett-Packard's (HP's) plan to stop...

HP WebOS hardware production partners set for uncertainty

Aug 22, 16:19

Hewlett-Packard's announcement that it will stop selling WebOS-based smartphones and tablet PCs is expected to have a strong impact on its hardware production partners in Taiwan,...

Google acquisition of Motorola likely to benefit Taiwan production partners, but potential uncertain

Aug 17, 16:24

Share prices of Taiwan-based companies known to have strong business relations with Motorola staged a rally on August 16, one day after Google announced its plans to acquire Motorola...

Compal Communications smartphone shipments to be boosted by Nokia orders

Jun 28, 10:25

Taiwan-based ODM maker Compal Communications shipped only 3.91 million smartphones in 2010 and has downward adjusted 2011 target shipment volume from 6.0 million smartphones to 4.5...

Compal Communications lowers 2011 handset shipments target; signs WP7 licensing agreement with Microsoft

Jun 24, 15:51

Compal Communications has lowered its handset shipments target for 2011 to 4.5 million units from six million projected earlier due to adjustments in product strategies by its clients,...

Arima Communications expected to ship 5 million handsets in 2Q11

Apr 11, 10:38

Taiwan-based handset ODM maker Arima Communications shipped 1.48 million handsets in March 2011 and 3.94 million units in January-March, and is expected to ship five million units...

Compal Communications debuts first smart robot for sale under own brand UrRobot

Jan 26, 14:11

Taiwan-based handset ODM Compal Communications on January 25 unveiled Robii, its first smart robot designed to accompany children aged 5-10, for sale under its own brand UrRobot,...

Smartphones to represent 90% of Compal Communications 2011 shipments

Jan 26, 10:57

Handset maker Compal Communications expects smartphones to account for 90% of 2011 shipments, the company said, adding that smartphone shipments will begin to take off in the second...

Compal sends employees to support component makers in China due to labor shortage

Jan 26, 01:15

Compal Electronics has sent 4,000 employees to support its suppliers of notebook casings in Jiangsu Province, eastern China, due to short supply of labor there, according to company...

Compal Communications to launch smart robots for UrRobot own-brand sale

Jan 18, 01:35

Taiwan-based handset ODM maker Compal Communications (Compal Comm) will initially launch its first smart robot model under its own brand UrRobot in the Taiwan market before the 2011...

Compal Communications to undertake ODM production of ARM tablet PCs

Jan 18, 01:05

Compal Communications (Compal Comm), a Taiwan-based ODM maker of handsets, will begin shipments of ARM-architecture tablet PCs to ODM clients in the first half of 2011, according...

Arima Communications and Compal Communications post mixed November revenues

Dec 10, 01:40

Arima Communications has posted November consolidated revenues of NT$2.81 billion (US$93.12 million), up 3.3% sequentially and 143% on year. For the first 11 months of 2010, revenues...

Taiwan market: Vibo Telecom to offer own-brand smartphones, tablet PCs

Nov 2, 01:15

Vibo Telecom, one of the five 3G mobile telecom carriers in Taiwan, plans to offer own-brand smartphones and tablet PCs beginning November 2010, with Taiwan-based ODM maker Compal...

Compal Communications and KYE showcase robots at Taipei exhibition

Oct 21, 12:15

Handset maker Compal Communications is exhibiting two types of home-use interactive robots at the 2010 Taipei International Robot Show (TIROS) taking place during October 19-22, with...

Competitors eye Foxconn handset orders

Oct 14, 02:10

Foxconn International Holding (FIH) has recently started negotiating with clients about increasing manufacturing quotes. In response, competitors such as BYD and Compal Communication...

Handset-theme companies see growth in September and 3Q10

Oct 11, 14:08

Thanks to strong demand from the smartphone sector, Taiwan-based handset vendors, contract manufacturers and component suppliers saw growth in September and third-quarter sales.

Compal Communications lowers handset shipment targets

Jun 15, 16:17

Handset maker Compal Communications has reduced its 2010 shipment target to 10 million units compared with shipments of 16 million units in 2009, according to company chairman Ray...

Compal Communications handset shipments to be halved in 2010, says paper

Newswatch - Mar 19, 16:45

Handset shipments from Taiwan-based Compal Communications are likely to drop 50% to eight million units in 2010 as compared to 16 million units shipped in 2009, the Chinese-language...

China market: China Telecom to purchase five million 3G CDMA handsets, paper says

Newswatch - Mar 1, 11:22

China Telecom will purchase up to five million 3G CDMA-enabled handsets through an open bid that will close on March 8, 2010, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News...

Smartphone shipments from FIH and Compal Communications to be lower than expected in 2010, says paper

Newswatch - Feb 25, 14:35

Shipments of smartphones from Foxconn International Holdings (FIH) and Compal Communications in 2010 will be much lower than market expectations due to slow sales of Palm's Pre and...

Compal Communications expects over 50% revenues share for smartphones, says chairman

Jan 15, 11:09

Compal Communications expects smartphones to account for over 50% of its total revenues in 2010, up significantly from 20% in 2009, according to company chairman Ray Chen.

LGE to outsource 22-24 million handsets from ODM and EMS makers in 2010, say sources

Jan 7, 11:20

LG Electronics (LGE) plans to outsource 12-14 million handsets on an ODM basis and another 10 million units on an EMS basis in 2010, according to industry sources. Taiwan-based ODM...

Motorola orders to push Arima Communications handset shipments to 20-25 million units in 2010, say sources

Jan 5, 11:56

Taiwan-based ODM handset maker Arima Communications may see its handset shipments expand to 20-25 million units in 2010 compared to 12 million units in 2009, thanks to new orders...

Compal Communications to ship 600,000 Pixi smartphones to Palm in 4Q09, says paper

Newswatch - Dec 29, 12:21

Shipments of webOS-based Pixi smartphones to Palm by Compal Communications in the fourth quarter of 2009 will total only 600,000 units instead of 800,000 units projected previously,...

Acer to launch 8-10 smartphones in 2010; to adopt ST-Ericsson 3G solutions for Android models

Dec 22, 11:28

Acer plans to launch 8-10 new smartphones in 2010 with Android-powered models likely to be slightly more than Windows Mobile-based ones, according to sources at Taiwan handset indu...

Arima Communications sets 2010 handset shipment target at 14-16 million units

Dec 15, 12:10

Arima Communications aims to ship 14-16 million handsets in 2010, up 16-33% from 12 million units for 2009, thanks to orders from LG Electronics and Sony Ericsson, sources at handset...

Taiwan handset makers post strong sales for November

Newswatch - Dec 10, 11:58

Taiwan handset makers Inventec Appliances, Compal Communications and Arima Communications have all posted strong sales in November, thanks to increasing shipments to major clients...

Nokia new focus on touch, full-keyboard and low-cost handsets will benefit Taiwan makers

Dec 4, 11:28

Nokia's target to significantly increase the proportion of touch and/or QWERTY devices in its smartphone portfolio and further optimize the industry's lowest cost end-to-end business...