Smartphone Market – Page 21

IDC: China’s Smartphone Units Drop by 6% Year-on-Year in 2018 Q2

by Andrew Fenn

According to IDC, 104.8 million units shipped to the Chinese smartphone market during the second quarter of 2018, resulting in a 5.9% year-on-year decline. However, the pace of decline has narrowed compared to the …

The Best Smartphone Camera You May Never Use

by Steve Sechrist

In case you missed it we’ve been doing a lot of coverage on China-based Huawei’s rise to smartphone prominence and it recently edged out Apple as the number two selling brand worldwide. In Q2 …

Taiwan Small-to-Medium LCD Panel Shipments to Decline 2% in 2018 Q3

by Andrew Fenn

Digitimes Research says that small-to-medium LCD panel shipments from Taiwan-based firms will decline 2% during the third quarter of 2018. This drop has been attributed to the extension of LCD profile-cutting to support ‘notched’ …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Small Medium Panel Supply| Smartphone Market| Taiwan| Vol 25 - Issue 30

Apple Ends an Era by Settling Samsung Patent War

by Steve Sechrist

It started out with a blockbuster lawsuit in 2011 that morphed into the “patent wars”with suits and counter-suits between the two technology giants that together supplied 90% of the smartphone market. But for all …

Tags:Apple| Patents| Samsung| Smartphone Market| Vol 25 - Issue 28

Strategy Analytics: One in Three India Smartphone Owners Will Consider 4G Feature Phone

by Andrew Fenn

According to Strategy Analytics, 4G feature phones will be hugely disruptive to the already intensely competitive Indian smartphone market. Half of India smartphone owners are familiar with 4G feature phones and 1 in 3 …

Tags:FeaturePhones (mobile phones)| India| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 25 - Issue 25

EMEA Smartphone Markets Hit Record Value Despite Smartphone Slowdown

by Andrew Fenn

The region’s smartphone market showed some stability in the first quarter of 2018 in unit terms, while its value grew to exceed its previous first quarter peak result in the first quarter of 2015, …

IDC: Russians Spend More on Phones But Go for Utility Over Bling

by Andrew Fenn

Russians continue to spend more of their disposable income on phones and the first quarter of 2018 confirmed the trend, according to IDC. The total value of the Russian mobile phone market was $1.63 …

Tags:IDC| Mobile Display Monitor| Russia| Smartphone Market| Vol 25 - Issue 23

Downturn in Smartphone Panel Market Highlights Performance of LTPS LCD

by Andrew Fenn

According to Sigmaintell Research, 418 million smartphone panels were shipped globally during the first quarter of 2018, a decrease of 11% compared to the same period last year. The weakness of global smartphone sales …

ZTE is on Again, But For How Long?

by Steve Sechrist

It’s Alive… It’s alive Dr. Frankenstein exclaimed of his brainchild monster’s awakening, and so too with jolts of reviving energy from renewed access to US chip technology, ZTE is back in the mobile smart …

Tags:Manufacturing| Mobile Phones| Smartphone Market| Vol 25 - Issue 23

BC13 Flexible OLED to Stay in Surplus

by Bob Raikes

Tamura-san is from DSCC and is a very experienced display industry analyst and he talked about the smartphone market. The Apple iPhone X was a lot more expensive than he expected and as a …

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% …

Gartner: Worldwide Sales of Smartphones Returned to Growth in 2018 Q1

by Andrew Fenn

Global sales of smartphones to end users returned to growth in the first quarter of 2018, with a 1.3% increase over the same period in 2017, according to Gartner. Compared to the first quarter …

Tags:Gartner| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 25 - Issue 21