Blog » April 2009
Asia's mobile subscriber total is expected to surpass two billion subscribers by 2012 when 63% of the regions' residents are expected to own a mobile phone, according to Frost & Sullivan. However,
Read more >>Arima Communications is expected to see its handset shipments grow over 43% sequentially to 3.3 million units in the second quarter of 2009, the Chinese-language Commercial Times quoted company president Owen C
Read more >>Amid slowing revenues and investor worries, web services giant Google offered up its Android mobile effort as a bright spot."Overall, it looks like Android is going to have a very, very strong year,"
Read more >>The market share of AMOLED handsets will increase to 37.5% in 2015 from 2.3% in 2009, according to Samsung Mobile Display VP Woo Jong Lee.
Read more >>Sony Ericsson posted a large loss for the first quarter amid weakening demand, as expected, and said it would cut 2,000 more jobs in a bid to return to profitability.The joint venture between Japan's Sony
Read more >>Handset PCB makers are expected to see revenues decline in the second quarter compared to the same period of last year as orders for handset PCBs are decreasing, according to industry sources. Compeq Manufactur
Read more >>Nokia plans to replace the resistive touch panel currently used in its 5800 handset with a capacitive touch panel in order to compete effectively with rival models from Apple, Samsung Electronics and LG Electro
Read more >>Nokia's first-quarter profit plunged 90 percent as the world's largest handset maker succumbed to the global slump in demand. The Finnish giant posted a net profit of just161 million, compared with1.5
Read more >>The number of CMOS image sensors (CISs) used in each automobile will jump to eight or even 10 in the next five years from one currently, sources with CIS makers estimate.
Read more >>While femtocells were virtually non-existent in 2006, and deployed by one operator in 2007, they will make up 61% of small cellular base station revenues by 2013, reports In-Stat. Microcells, picocells, and fem
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