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Friday 6 March 2015
Digitimes Research: LG focuses on mid-range/entry-level smartphones and smartwatches at MWC 2015
Unlike Samsung Electronics and High Tech Computer (HTC) that unveiled their newest flagship smartphones at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2015 in Barcelona, Spain, LG Electronics focused...
Friday 23 January 2015
2015 global AP market forecast and vendor analysis
Digitimes Research estimates that total 2014 AP shipments will reach 1.52 billion units worldwide, up 19.6% from 2013, and in 2015 the global market will see shipments of 1.65 billion...
Thursday 22 January 2015
Digitimes Research: CES 2105 highlights new developments of parts and components for smartwatches
Smartwatch vendors were exhibiting new prototypes and newly developed parts and components, mainly displays, watchbands and sensors, to test the market responses during the recently...
Monday 29 December 2014
Digitimes Research: China Mobile to have 80 million TD-LTE users at end of 2014
China Mobile had the number of its TD-LTE subscribers growing to 54.45 million as of the end of October 2014 and is expected to see the number reach 80 million at the end of the year,...
Monday 24 November 2014
Digitimes Research: Samsung, Apple, LG rank as top-3 smartphone vendors in 3Q14
Samsung Electronics, Apple and LG Electronics ranked as the top-three smartphone vendors globally in the third quarter as well as the first three quarters of 2014, based on third-quarter...
Monday 24 November 2014
Digitimes Research: Taiwan makers will ship over 24 million handsets in 4Q14
Taiwan-based ODMs and own-brand makers will ship 24.05 million handsets in the fourth quarter of 2014, increasing 15.1% on quarter and 43.8% on year. 20.55 million units (85.4%) will...
Wednesday 12 November 2014
Wireless broadband developments in Southeast Asia markets
As of 2013, the 10 ASEAN nations had a total of over 700 million mobile subscriptions, with the CAGR from 2003-2013 reaching 24%, and the share of the global user base rising from...
Tuesday 23 September 2014
Demand and supply trends in the global sapphire industry, 2014-2015
This Digitimes Research Special Report focuses on the 2014-2015 sapphire application market and industry outlook. Sapphire has been a key component in the LED industry in recent years,...
Thursday 4 September 2014
Digitimes Research: Miui, CyanogenMod and Fire OS to become mainstream Android OS systems
Mobile platforms based on forks of Android, including Miui developed Xiaomi Technology, CyanogenMod, and Fire OS by Amazon, are likely to become three mainstream Android-based operating...
Wednesday 3 September 2014
Digitimes Research: Taiwan smartphone makers see dropping orders from Amazon, Microsoft Mobile and Facebook in 2014
Taiwan handset makers originally expected to continue receiving orders for Lumia series products from Microsoft Mobile and also acquire new orders from Amazon and Facebook in 2014,...
Monday 28 July 2014
Digitimes Research: Taiwan makers to ship 21.95 million handsets in 3Q14
Taiwan-based ODMs and own-brand makers will ship 21.95 million handsets in the third quarter of 2014, increasing by 4.2% on quarter and by 32.1% on year, and 18.65 million or 85%...
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,...
Tuesday 10 June 2014
Digitimes Research: Apple, Samsung remain top-2 smartphone vendors in 1Q14; Xiaomi, Coolpad enter top-5
In the first quarter of 2014, Samsung Electronics and Apple together continued to account for almost half of the global smartphone market with LG Electronics staying in third position,...
Friday 14 March 2014
Digitimes Research: GTAT may supply only 9.0-16.6% of iPhone sapphire screen covers in 2014
US-based GT Advanced Technologies (GTAT) is setting up a factory in Arizona for exclusive supply of sapphire to Apple, with the factory to be able to meet only 9.0-16.6% of demand...
Tuesday 25 February 2014
Is a US$25 smartphone possible?
Mobile World Congress (MWC) kicked off with a bang, with Mozilla announcing a US$25 smartphone built around a turnkey solution that features silicon from China-based Spreadtrum and...