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Wednesday 27 August 2014
Gaining an advantage in emerging markets: Q&A with India-based handset player Micromax
Sales of handsets in the India market reached 61.07 million units in the first quarter of 2014, with smartphones accounting for 17.59 million units or 28.8%. Notably, smartphone sales...
Wednesday 27 August 2014
Voices from India: How can Taiwan best tap the booming India handset market
There will be an estimated 250 million handsets sold in the India market in 2014, 35% of which will be smartphones, an increase from the 23% in 2013. However, with a population of...
Monday 14 July 2014
Digitimes Research: On-cell touch panels unlikely to win favor in high-end smartphones in 2014
The on-cell touchscreen technology led by US-based touch control IC maker Synaptics and China-based Focaltech have accumulated total unit shipments of one million since the beginning...
Wednesday 9 July 2014
Digitimes Research: Hisilicon AP to give Huawei cost advantage in high-end mobile device market
Hisilicon, an affiliate of Huawei, has been developing application processors for many years. The company's early products had issues that caused resulted in poor power consumption-performance...
Friday 4 July 2014
Commentary: Panel makers need to be more active in developing products
Panel makers need to take a more active role in developing technology and products that applications can be based around and not the other way around. Sharp's Free Form Display is...
Thursday 3 July 2014
Digitimes Research: Google looking to clean up Android device mess in emerging markets
The Android operating system was again the spotlight of Google I/O developer conference and in addition to a preview of the latest Android L, the Internet giant also launched an entry-level...
Thursday 3 July 2014
Digitimes Research: Youngfast, Melfas looking beyond G1F touch
The G1F touch technology, which is composed of a glass-type touch sensor and a thin-film touch sensor, is gradually losing its competitiveness in the face of GFF and OGS touch.
Tuesday 1 July 2014
Digitimes Research: Android TV facing same difficulties as Google TV; Chromecast to boost user attachment
During Google I/O 2014, the Internet giant introduced Android TV as the successor of Google TV and added new features into its Chromecast. Digitimes Research believes that Android...
Friday 27 June 2014
Digitimes Research: Google to expand Chromebooks into consumer market
Introduced in 2011, the Chromebook was initially developed mainly for the education sector and has achieved outstanding sales in the past two years. During Google I/O 2014, Google...
Thursday 26 June 2014
Digitimes Research: Fierce price competition revives GG touch panel demand
Generally, the touchscreen technology used in a tablet is related to the device's specifications: high-end models usually adopt cutting-edge technologies, first-tier brand vendors'...
Monday 23 June 2014
Digitimes Research: Smartphone shipments to China unlikely to surpass 400 million units in 2014
China smartphone vendors' shipments started weakening in mid-May with the upstream supply chain also seeing orders turning week despite the fact that several China-based smartphone...
Thursday 19 June 2014
Digitimes Research: Amazon Fire smartphone to promote offline-to-online shopping business model
Amazon announced its first own-brand smartphone, the Fire on June 18, 2014. Digitimes Research has commented that Amazon has not set the smartphone's price low to boost competition,...
Thursday 19 June 2014
Digitimes Research: Qualcomm far ahead of Marvell and MediaTek in China LTE market
Qualcomm, a leading player in terms of LTE technologies, started supplying LTE solutions to markets worldwide including China in 2013. But because of regulations and issues over licensing...
Wednesday 11 June 2014
Digitimes Research: G1F likely to disappear from market soon because of fierce challenges
A G1F touchscreen is composed of a glass-type touch sensor and a thin-firm-type touch sensor with one controlling the touch panel's X axis and the other the Y axis. G1F-based touch...
Tuesday 10 June 2014
Turning a smartphone into a PC in a pocket: Q&A with Analogix
According to a recent IDC research note, the transition toward mobile and cloud-based computing is unstoppable, with tablet volumes expected to pass total PC volume in the fourth...