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The Smartphone Market – A Lesson in Business Strategy

by Norbert Hildebrand

When we think about the cellular phones today we just assume we are talking about the smartphone as there is almost no other type available any more. While this is not completely true, the …

Tags:Apple| Samsung| Smartphone Market| Vol 23 - Issue 22

Brands Shorten Lifecycles as Smartphone Slowdown Continue

by Tom Allen

Smartphone shipments will rise 3.1% YoY in 2016: a significant slowdown from the 10.5% growth seen in 2015, and 27.8% in 2014. The forecast is 2.6 percentage points lower than IDC’s previous prediction, and …

BC5 BOE Differentiates Professional and ‘Link’ Devices

by Bob Raikes

Leono (Chao) Guo is Vice Chief Strategic Marketing Officer for BOE and he talked about the “PC” being an “irreplaceable Link for the post PC era” PCs and smartphones have been enabled by Moore’s …

BC3 Smartphones Looking for Growth

by Bob Raikes

Vinita Jakhanwal is from IHS and she spoke about smartphones – nobody can live without them these days, she said. However, the smartphone market is showing saturation with only around 1% growth this year. …

China Raises Smartphone Share

by Tom Allen

Although smartphone sales rose in Q1’16, compared to the same period last year, the results were not all encouraging. Sales increased just 3.9% to 349 million units, and Apple registered its first double-digit decline. …

AMOLED Narrows Gap with LTPS TFT-LCD

by Tom Allen

In a new research note, IHS has described the fast rise of AMOLED displays in smartphones, taking share from LTPS. LTPS TFT-LCD has dominated smartphone display shipments since Apple’s adoption for the iPhone in …

HTC Trusts in New Phones and VR

by Tom Allen

HTC expects a rise in its Q2 smartphone sales, following the launch of the HTC 10 (HTC Claims “Best Smartphone Camera”). CFO Chang Chia-lin said that the company has seen a sequential improvement, adding, …

Tags:HTC| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 23 - Issue 18

IHS Analysts Look at VR & Media Trends

by Bob Raikes

IHS held an analyst’s briefing meeting at the end of the recent TV Connect event in London and we went along to see what the company had to say. It was a short event, …

Lenovo and Xiaomi Fall From Top Five

by Tom Allen

Although global smartphone shipments rose YoY in Q1’16, it was the smallest-ever recorded rise: just 0.4 million units, or less than 0.2%. IDC says that the low growth (from 334.5 million units to 334.9 …

Tags:IDC| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 23 - Issue 16| Worldwide

Gartner Lowers IT Spending Forecast

by Tom Allen

Worldwide spending on IT devices and services will fall 0.5% YoY in 2016, says Gartner, to reach a total of $3.49 trillion (from $3.5 trillion). The new forecast is a revision from the previous …

Smartphones Falling, but PCs Will Rebound

by Tom Allen

Worldwide smartphone sales will grow at a single-digit rate for the first time this year, says Gartner. The firm expects growth of just 7% in the global market, which will reach 1.5 billion units. …

Strategy Analytics: Global Business Smartphone Sales Will Grow to 606 Million in 2020

by Isaac Oburu

According to the Strategy Analytics Mobile Workforce Strategies (MWS) latest report, “Global Business Smartphone Shipment Forecast Q4 2015,” the global Business Smartphone sales will grow from 392 million units in 2015 to 606 million …

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