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IDC: Phablets to Overtake Regular Smartphone Shipments by 2019

by Andrew Fenn

According to a new forecast from IDC, overall smartphone shipments will steadily grow from 1.5 billion units in 2017 to 1.7 billion units in 2021. Meanwhile, phablets (smartphones with a screen size of 5.5″ …

Tags:Forecasts| IDC| Mobile Display Monitor| Operating Systems| Smartphone Market| Vol 24 - Issue 45

IDC Reveals The Fastest Growing Smartphone Markets in India

by Andrew Fenn

According to IDC latest India Monthly City-Level Smartphone Tracker, the major 50 cities of India accounted for 50% of smartphone sales in the third quarter of 2017 with a sizeable growth of 27% from …

Tags:IDC| India| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 24 - Issue 45

DSCC Looks at OLED Developments

by Bob Raikes

DSCC recently ran an event in Tokyo under the title “Roadmap to Display OLEDisation” and kindly sent us some information from the event. One of the topics that analyst, Yoshio Tamura, talked about was …

Tags:Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| Small Medium Panel Supply| Smartphone Market| Vol 24 - Issue 45

Tianma Rises on Strong LTPS

by Bob Raikes

Sigmaintell has released its data on the supply of panels for smartphones in Q3 2017. The total volume was around 1% on last year and Q3 is typically the peak volume quarter of the …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Small Medium Panel Supply| Smartphone Market| Vol 24 - Issue 44

IDC: Chinese Vendors Gain Ranks Despite Overall Decline in Q3 2017

by Andrew Fenn

The Indonesian smartphone market recorded 7.2 million smartphones shipped in the third quarter of 2017, declining 8.6% quarter-on-quarter and 1.1% year-on-year after the festive Lebaran period in the previous quarter according to IDC. Smartphone …

Tags:IDC| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 24 - Issue 44

IDC: Record Quarter for Smartphones in India

by Andrew Fenn

Smartphone shipments in India reached a record high of 39 million units in the third quarter of 2017, with a substantial growth of 40% from the previous quarter and a healthy 21% growth from …

Tags:IDC| India| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 24 - Issue 43

Motorola Returns as US Smartphone Shipments Hit 40 Million in Q3 2017

by Bob Raikes

Strategy Analytics reported that US smartphone shipments were 39.5 million in Q3 2017, down 2% from 40.1 million last year, with Motorola, owned by Lenovo, growing from 1.1 million last year to 2.1 million, …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| USA| Vol 24 - Issue 43

IDC: Smartphone Top Five Now Occupy Over 75% of the China Market

by Andrew Fenn

While the smartphone market in China saw a flat -1% year-over-year growth in the third quarter compared to the same period last year, the share of the top five smartphone companies grew from 65.2% …

Tags:China| IDC| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 24 - Issue 42

IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker

by Andrew Fenn

According to data from IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, smartphone OEMs shipped a total of 373.1 million units worldwide in the third quarter of 2017. Volumes were up 2.7% year-over-year, and up 7.4% …

Tags:IDC| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 24 - Issue 42

iPhone X Sell-out Pushes AMOLED Screens

by Steve Sechrist

In case you missed it (…and anyone on-line at 12:15 AM PST last Friday did) the pre-order party for Apple’s newest iPhone X with 5.85-inch full edge-to-edge AMOLED screen sold out in the first …

Tags:Apple| iPhone| Small Medium Panel Supply| Smartphone Market| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 41

Smartphones Up in Q3 2017

by Bob Raikes

GfK released data on sales of smartphones in Q3 2017, and reported that global sales volumes reached 367 million units, up 3% year on year, bringing the total to the highest level in a …

Tags:GfK| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 24 - Issue 40

Foxconn and Sharp Combine for Smartphones

by Andrew Fenn

Foxconn and Sharp will team up to drive Sharp’s presence in the smartphone market, according to press reports. The Economic Daily News revealed that under a new internal agreement, the two companies will form …

Tags:Foxconn (Honhai)| Mobile Display Monitor| sharp| Smartphone Market| Vol 24 - Issue 40