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Thursday 30 August 2012
Asustek to launch new smartphones in 2Q13
After temporarily stepping out of the handset market in 2011, Asustek Computer president Jerry Shen, at the company's investors conference on August 29, said the company will return...
Friday 24 August 2012
Digitimes Research: Android to account for 70% of handset market in 2H12
Observing from the competition between handset operating systems in the second half of 2011 and in 2012, Android, which already accounted for more than 60% of the handset market in...
Thursday 23 August 2012
Sony Mobile moves into sub-US$200 smartphone segment
Sony Mobile Communications has teamed up with Taiwan-based handset ODMs Foxconn International Holdings (FIH), Arima Communications and Compal Communications to venture into the sub-US$200...
Thursday 23 August 2012
Taiwan market: Nikon launches new autumn-season camera models
Japan-based digital still camera (DSC) vendor Nikon on August 22, hosted a launch conference in Taiwan for its new autumn-season DSC models and is set to release four new models including...
Tuesday 7 August 2012
Hisense releases dual-core TD-SCDMA smartphone using Spreadtrum chip
Spreadtrum Communications has announced that the Hisense T96 for China Mobile, which is a dual-core smartphone with Android 4.0 using Spreadtrum's TD-SCDMA modem and RF transceiver,...
Friday 3 August 2012
Trends and shipment forecast for 2H 2012 tablet market
In the second half of 2012, poor global economic growth is having a more significant impact on the global market for branded tablets than had previously been anticipated. Digitimes...
Thursday 26 July 2012
Lenovo and Motorola delay launch of Intel-based tablets
Although Intel has been aggressively promoting the combination of its Medfield platform with Android for the smartphone and tablet PC markets, the recent decisions of the company's...
Monday 23 July 2012
Advantech's HIT-W181—Now Available with Android 4.0
Advantech, the embedded platform and iService platform provider, is happy to announce Android 4.0 support on its HIT-W181. HIT-W181 is an 18.5", 16:9 full-flat PCT or multi-touch...
Wednesday 18 July 2012
Commentary: Is Nexus 7 launch a blessing or a curse for other Android tablet vendors?
Google has begun shipping its Nexus 7 and the initial response to the tablet seems to be positive, with industry sources indicating that the platform vendor will be able to ship 2.5-3...
Tuesday 17 July 2012
Sony smartphone orders to Taiwan ODMs to recover in 2H12
As Sony Mobile Communication is increasing the number of its entry-level, mid-range and three-proof (water, dust, scratch) smartphone models to stimulate market demand, while also...
Monday 16 July 2012
MIPS focused on growing Android market, partnerships in Asia
With Google adding MIPS into its Android NDK, application developers are now able to bring their natively-developed Android applications to MIPS-based products, according to Mark...
Thursday 12 July 2012
Motorola Mobility yet to see benefit from Google acquisition, say sources
Despite the completion of the acquisition by Google in May 2012, Motorola Mobility is unlikely to benefit significantly from the deal and may not make a turnaround until 2013 at the...
Wednesday 11 July 2012
Application development on Android today
Android is the mainstream platform in the non-Apple camp but various versions of Android limit the possibilities of developers' transplantation of Android apps. Microprocessor heavyweight...
Wednesday 4 July 2012
Firefox OS will struggle to compete with Android, iOS, say Taiwan makers
While Mozilla Foundation will launch Firefox OS, a mobile operating system based on open Web standards and has won adoption by China-based vendors ZTE and TCL Communication Technology...
Tuesday 3 July 2012
Taiwan handset ODMs welcome small changes in Jelly Bean from Android 4.0
The release of Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) has offered relief to Taiwan-based handset ODMs, as the newly revised platform indicates that Google has slowed down the upgrade cycle of its...