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White Box Phablets in First-Ever Decline

by Tom Allen

According to Etmag, Chinese vendors’ white-box phablet shipments suffered their first-ever YoY decline (-15%) in Q2’15. Poor market conditions and growing branded phablet shipments contributed to the fall. Sales of white-box units have been …

Tags:China| Emerging Markets| Mobile Display Monitor| phablets| Vol 22 - Issue 28

Lumia 430 Will be ‘Most Affordable’ Windows 10 Phone

by Tom Allen

A very low-cost smartphone has been introduced by Microsoft. The Lumia 430 is a Windows Phone with dual SIM slots, available for just $70. It is also ‘the most affordably-priced Lumia that will be …

Tags:Emerging Markets| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 13

Andromium MHL Dock turns Smartphones into Notebooks

by Bob Raikes

Andromium has developed a “guest OS” and hardware dock to turn smartphones into notebooks, exploiting the MHL architecture. The product is aimed at developing markets and the firm says that complete packages of phone …

Connected Cars to Drive Display Forward

by Steve Sechrist

A new study on connected cars of the future predicts that the growing market for displays/sensors and micro controllers will move the auto industry well beyond a niche market. It tracks a new wave …

Public Display Shipments Growth Rate Reaches Record High After Six Consecutive Quarters, DisplaySearch Reports

by Helen Vince

According to DisplaySearch, now part of IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), public display shipments grew 16% Y/Y in Q3’14, and LCD public display shipments alone grew 18%, while plasma public display shipments were negligible, as …

Koenig: How Long Can Mobiles Last?

by Tom Allen

Steve Koenig is the CEA’s director of industry analysis and he presented a talk before the official start of CES. He began his time on-stage by asking which technologies are driving device sales? There …

Tablets and Ultrabooks Became ‘30% More Affordable’ in 2014

by Tom Allen

Tablets and ultrabooks became more affordable in emerging markets last year, says ABI Research. The ASPs of these products fell 7.8% YoY in 2014 as the market matured and commoditised. This represents roughly a …

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