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The smartphone market continues to see impressive growth around the world, and in particular the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. Shipments in the region are expected to grow 53% year-on-year in 2010 to reach 76.7 m    

Handset maker Compal Communications has reduced its 2010 shipment target to 10 million units compared with shipments of 16 million units in 2009, according to company chairman Ray Chen.    

Silitech Technology, the world's largest maker of handset keypads, has set a goal of increasing its global market share from 21% in 2009 to 25% in 1-2 years, according to company president CY Wu.    

Asia Optical, a Taiwan-based maker of optical devices and lens kits, shipped five million compact camera modules (CCMs) for use in handsets in May 2010 and expects monthly shipments to increase to eight million    

South Korea's smartphone exports topped US$300 million in May 2010, up 135% on year, according to the Ministry of Knowledge Economy.Overall handset exports however, declined by 29.8% from a year earlier to    

Taiwan-based handset makers do not expect to receive more orders from Japanese brand vendors despite continous consolidation.    

Samsung might have entertained us with some trash talk about the iPhone 4's IPS LCD yesterday, but this stuff is of a rather more somber variety. Raymond Soneira, president of monitor diagnostics firm Disp    

Looks like we didn't get the full dish from Sanjay Jha's bout of loquaciousness this morning. It turns out Moto's chief of handsets has also expressed his company's intention to bring the wo    

We've been able to confirm some leaked information out of modmyi.com today that AT&T is doing us a solid by extending price protection for recent iPhone 3GS buyers by just a little bit. If you purc    

There's not a lot of details on this at the moment, but the Financial Times is reporting that US antitrust regulators plan to investigate Apple's mobile advertising practices to see whether they unfai