News tagged Mobile devices at DIGITIMES

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Friday 9 January 2026

CES 2026: Wearable startups present new applications

Startups at CES 2026 are broadening the scope of wearable technology, shifting focus beyond fitness and health tracking toward workplace...

Friday 9 January 2026

Lenovo launches hybrid AI platform Qira for cross-device personal AI

On the opening day of CES 2026, Lenovo followed Nvidia and AMD by bringing its annual flagship event, Lenovo Tech World, to CES for the...

Friday 9 January 2026

Google and Samsung bet again on smart glasses, this time with Android XR

Multiple indicators suggest Google will re-enter the smart glasses market in 2026, more than a decade after exiting the category. The company is expected to partner with Samsung to...

Friday 9 January 2026

Largan faces challenges as memory price impacts spread

Optical lens maker Largan Precision held an earnings briefing on January 8, 2026, during which chairman Adam Lin expressed a wary smartphone industry outlook. Surging memory prices...

Friday 9 January 2026

Largan Technology highlights challenges and prospects of variable aperture for 2026 flagship smartphones

Largan Technology drew significant attention at its investor conference on January 8, 2026, revealing that US flagship smartphones are expected to adopt variable-aperture camera modules...

Friday 9 January 2026

Tight memory supply to push smartphone prices higher in early 2026

Smartphone brands face mounting challenges as memory prices are expected to surge over 50% in the first half of 2026, according to channel operators. The rise in memory costs threatens...

Tuesday 6 January 2026

Samsung leverages Gemini models as global AI device race heats up

The global artificial intelligence (AI) competition is rapidly moving beyond large language model (LLM) development, as leading technology companies race to embed AI into hardware,...

Tuesday 6 January 2026

Why China smartphone brands are turning to ByteDance's Doubao to break Apple-Huawei's hold on premium phones

Several Chinese smartphone brands are moving closer to Doubao, ByteDance's LLM platform, accelerating partnerships tied to AI smartphones. The shift reflects mounting pressure from...

Monday 5 January 2026

iPhone 17 sales surge lifts Apple past 20% share in China

Apple's iPhone 17 series has driven a notable recovery in China, pushing the company's market share back above 20% and lifting monthly...

Monday 5 January 2026

Weekly news roundup: TSMC widens 2 nm edge as South Korea boosts chip spending; Huawei eyes memory bottlenecks

These are the most-read DIGITIMES Asia stories in the week of Dec 29 - Jan 4.

Monday 5 January 2026

Asus pulls back from smartphone market after two decades of losses

Asus announced on January 2, 2026, that it will not release any new smartphones this year, effectively suspending a mobile business the Taiwanese hardware giant has sustained for...

Saturday 3 January 2026

Asus halts 2026 smartphone plans, eyes entry into drone and AI glass markets

Asustek Computer has confirmed it will not launch any new smartphones in 2026, effectively scaling back its mobile device business. At the same time, the company emphasized that after-sales...

Friday 2 January 2026

Asus to pause new smartphone launches in 2026, maintain mobile operations

Smartphone distributors in Taiwan have recently said they are no longer able to obtain Asus handsets through local agents and claimed they had received information indicating that...

Friday 2 January 2026

Twoway chair indicted in Taiwan for alleged attempted breach of trust

Twoway Group announced on December 31, 2025, that its chairperson, Bi-shuang Chen, along with other business personnel, has been indicted by the Taoyuan District Prosecutors' Office...

Friday 2 January 2026

Smartphones and notebook prices could increase as memory lead times extend

Demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) is crowding out production capacity for consumer memory. Despite capacity expansions by major memory makers, including Micron, Samsung, and...

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