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Worldwide Smartphone Forecast 2018Q1

IDC: Worldwide Smartphone Volumes will Return to Growth in 2019 and Beyond

by Andrew Fenn

After declining 0.3% in 2017, the worldwide smartphone market is expected to contract again in 2018 before returning to growth in 2019 and beyond, according to IDC. Smartphone shipments are forecast to drop 0.2% …

Tags:Forecasts| IDC| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 25 - Issue 22

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Canalys Looks for Stability from PC & Tablet Markets

by Bob Raikes

UK-based Analyst, Canalys, has forecast that PCs this year will enter an ‘era of stability’ and that PCs and tablets combined will drop 2.1% this year to 398 million units. In the commercial sector, …

Tags:Forecasts| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)| Vol 25 - Issue 21

OLED TV Forecast from Sigmaintell

by Bob Raikes

Sigmaintell Research of China reported that Q1 of 2018 saw sales of 510,000 OLED TVs globally, a significant growth of 127% compared to Q1 of 2017, despite the overall low growth in TV, especially …

Tags:Forecasts| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| OLED TVs| Vol 25 - Issue 21

Global Head mounted Display HMD Market 2018 2022

Technavio: Gesture Recognition will Boost HMD Market Growth

by Andrew Fenn

The global head-mounted display (HMD) market is expected to grow at a CAGR of approximately 37% between 2018 and 2022, according to a new market research report by Technavio. A major factor driving the …

Tags:AR/VR| Forecasts| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 21

Can You Predict the Future?

by Bob Raikes

Everybody knows that nobody can predict the future. Many of the forecasts I have had to make over the years have been dependent on exchange rates. If I could forecast exchange rates for just …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Forecasts| TVs (TV Sets)| Video Walls| Vol 25 - Issue 18

Top 10 Pay TV Operators to Lose $20 Billion by 2023

by Andrew Fenn

DTVR_Top_10_Operators_by_Revenues.xlsx Despite adding 84 million subscribers between 2017 and 2023, subscription and PPV revenues for the world’s top 517 pay TV operators will fall by $18 billion to $183 billion, according to Digital TV …

Tags:Forecasts| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Pay TV| Vol 25 - Issue 16

TV Market Should Grow in 2018

by Bob Raikes

Sigmaintell sent us its latest view of the global TV market and said that after being 3.4% down in 2017 at 230 million sets, the market is still weak after the Indian government raised …

Tags:Forecasts| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| OLED TVs| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 25 - Issue 14

CCS Insight: Europe Still in the 5G Starting Blocks

by Andrew Fenn

CCS Insight has raised its near-term forecast for global 5G connections following impressive progress made by the industry over the past six months. This headway has been accelerated by agreement on standards, trials, deployment …

Tags:5G| Forecasts| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 25 - Issue 14

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Gartner: MENA IT Device Spending to Reach $27 Billion in 2018

by Andrew Fenn

IT device spending in the Middle East and North Africa region is projected to reach $27.4 billion in 2018, a 1.6% increase from $26.96 billion in 2017, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. …

Tags:Forecasts| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 09

IDC: Android to Increase Dominance

by Andrew Fenn

As we have previously reported, according to IDC, worldwide smartphone shipments declined 0.5% in 2017, the first year-on-year decline the market has experienced since the introduction of smartphones. Smartphone companies shipped a total of …

Tags:Forecasts| IDC| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Operating Systems| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 09

IDC: Personal Computing Device Market Expected to Decline

by Andrew Fenn

According to the latest forecast from IDC, global shipments of personal computing devices (PCDs) – composed of traditional PCs (desktop, notebooks and workstations) and tablets (slate and detachable) – declined 2.7% year-on-year in 2017. …

Tags:Forecasts| IDC| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)| Vol 25 - Issue 08

Global Notebook Market Shipments Grew 2.1% YoY in 2017

by Andrew Fenn

TrendForce has reported that the global notebook shipments for 2017 registered 164.7 million units, a year-on-year increase of 2.1%, higher than the previous expectation of 0.7%. Kou-Han Tseng, TrendForce notebook analyst, said: “The global …

Tags:Forecasts| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 25 - Issue 06