Blog » August 2009

NEC, Hitachi and Casio have entered into talks to merge their mobile phone operations, a move that would create the second largest handset company in Japan after Sharp, according to several reports.The Wall Str    

According to The NPD Group, feature phones still rule the market, even as smartphone sales continue to increase their share of overall handset sales. Unit-sales of new feature phones fell 5pp to 72% of new hand    

According to China's customs authority, handsets exported from the country in the first half of 2009 declined 7.2% sequentially and 7.7% on year to 230 million units, with the value totaling US$16.08 billi    

Garmin-Asus dual-brand handsets will enter the China market by the end of 2009, targeting retail channel initially before tying up with telecom carriers, according to Benson Lin, vice president and general mana    

Smartphones continue to shine as one of the brightest spots of the technology industry, with shipments growing despite the global recession. Innovation in interfaces, design, applications and promotion continue    

According to new numbers from research firm NPD Group, Americans love their smartphones. The firm said its second-quarter surveys (comprising 150,000 respondents) found that smartphones accounted for 28 percent    

The battle for the fast-growing mobile semiconductor market will intensify in late 2009 with the introduction of new processors from each camp - ARM and x86, reports In-Stat. Intel will introduce processors tha    

Google welcomes China-based white-box handset makers to develop smartphones based on Android platform, the Chinese-language Commercial Times quoted Kai-Fu Lee, president of Google Greater China, as saying.    

China-based white-box handset manufacturers are gearing up the launch of smartphones integrating 16GB NAND flash memory in the third quarter of 2009 in the face of iPhone's possible expansion into the Chin    

HTC (High Tech Computer) is expected to see its revenues and shipments grow 11% and 19%, respectively, in the fourth quarter of 2009, buoyed by the launch of Windows Mobile-based HTC Mega and Android-powered HT