Nokia has initiated a reshuffle of its top executives in the Asia Pacific region, promoting Tsung-kai Cheng, currently general manager of Nokia Taiwan, to head Nokia's...

Handset sales in the Taiwan market climbed 16.3% sequentially to 635,500 units in January, thanks to the buying spree ignited by Taiwan government's distribution of consumer coupons...

Nokia is expected to step into the 3.5G data card segment soon, a market which is expected to top 50 million units in 2009, according to market sources. Nokia's data cards will come...

Handset vendors Samsung Electronics and Sony Ericsson are introducing new product lines and both companies are confident they can wrestle the handset crown from Nokia in the local...

Shipments of Wi-Fi-enabled cellular handsets will double in volume by the end of 2010, compared to January 2008, and that growth curve is expected to continue through 2013, according...

VIA Telecom, a subsidiary of VIA Technologies, has received orders for baseband chips for use in CDMA2000 handsets from China vendors Beijing Tianyu Communications Equipment, Dopod...

MediaTek has announced that its consolidated sales for January totaled NT$6.2 billion (US$184.45 million), up 21.48% on month but representing a slight decline of 4.62% on year. The...

With global handset vendors including Nokia restocking their inventories by placing rush orders, Taiwan-based handset PCB makers are seeing increases in their shipments for Februar...

The worldwide mobile phone market experienced an unusual downturn in the normally robust fourth quarter of 2008 (4Q08). According to IDC, vendors shipped a total of 289 million units,...

International branded vendors, domestic handset vendors in China, and Taiwan-based handset makers are readying to compete for CDMA handset orders to be released by China Telecom,...

STMicroelectronics has made four major acquisitions since 2007 – Genesis Microchip, Nokia's 3G and 3.5G R&D team, NXP Semiconductors and Ericsson Mobile Platform (EMP)....

Mobile handset shipments in the first half of 2008 had a 14% increase on year while slowed to 8% in the third quarter before crashing into a 10% decline in the fourth quarter. As...

Nokia has notified chip suppliers that it will increase orders in March, a sign showing that handset demand may be recovering, according to market sources.

Taiwan-based handset keypad maker Silitech Technology is expected to benefit from Nokia's plan to increase the supply of components from non-Japanese companies due to the fast appreciation...

Sales of Apple's iPhone 3G handsets totaled 12,000 units in the Taiwan market in December, taking up the sixth ranked position with a 2.2% share in terms of sales for the month, according...