Tag Archives: Asustek

$99 Android 4.0.3 7” IPS tablet with an Allwinner SoC capable of 2160p Quad HD and built-in HDMI–another inflection point, from China again

[This is a huge, compiled collection basically finished in September, 2012. Contains updates till November, 2012. It was published in early December, 2012. A new USD 99 Allwinner blog was launched on Nov 30, 2012 based on this compilation. Please … Continue reading

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Boosting both the commodity and premium brand markets in 2013 with much more smartphones and tablets while the Windows notebook shipments will shrink by 2%

This is my conclusion after reviewing The ongoing trends in the commodity and premium brand ecosystems of Android devices: – Smartphones- Tablets and The emerging new trends in the premium ecosystem of the Windows devices:- Notebooks – Smartphones as reported … Continue reading

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Kindle Fire with its $200 price pushing everybody up, down or out of the Android tablet market

Suggested preliminary reading: $199 Kindle Fire: Android 2.3 with specific UI layer and cloud services [Sept 29 – Nov 13, 2011] Update (when neither up or down the market is an option for the company): Acer Likely to Withdraw From … Continue reading

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NVIDIA Tegra 3 and ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime

Follow-up: Kindle Fire with its $200 price pushing everybody up, down or out of the Android tablet market [Dec 8, 2011] Update: ASUS introduces [i.e. making available] the Eee Pad Transformer Prime with NVIDIA® Tegra® 3 Quad-Core Processor and Google® … Continue reading

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TD-SCDMA: US$3B into the network (by the end of 2012) and 6 million phones procured (just in October)

Updates: China government not expected to issue TD-LTE operating license for the time being [Jan 16, 2012] While China Mobile has been actively promoting TD-LTE, the China government is not expected to issue a TD-LTE operating license to China Mobile … Continue reading

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Plane to Line Switching (PLS) screen technology (Samsung)

Microsoft gives Samsung Windows 8 developer PCs to Build attendees, AT&T throws in 3G service [engadget, Sept 13, 2011] … that PC comes complete with a second-gen Intel Core i5 processor, an 11.6-inch 1,366 x 768 Samsung Super PLS display, … Continue reading

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More on supply chain battles for …

preceding post: Supply chain battles for much improved levels of price/performance competitiveness [Aug 16, 2011] Digitimes Insight: Acquisition of Motorola may enhance Android services [Aug 30, 2011] Due to Google’s recent acquisition of Motorola including the tablet vendor’s mobile hardware … Continue reading

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Supply chain battles for much improved levels of price/performance competitiveness

Current snapshot: Intel rejects 50% Ultrabook CPU price cut demand from notebook players [Aug 16, 2011] Intel’s Oak Trail platform, paired Atom Z670 CPU (US$75) with SM35 chipsets (US$20) for tablet PC machine, is priced at US$95, already accounting for … Continue reading

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Netbook prices starting $50 less at $200 via Intel MeeGo strategy

Preliminary reading: – Acer & Asus: Compensating lower PC sales by tablet PC push [March 29, 2011 with comprehensive update on Aug 2, 2011] which is showing IHS iSuppli’s recent mobile broadband device forecast with constituents of Apple’s dominant position in … Continue reading

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High expectations on Marvell’s opportunities with China Mobile

Follow-up: First real chances for Marvell on the tablet and smartphone fronts [Aug 21 - Sept 25, 2011] After the technical and business excellence well reflected in my previous posts Marvell seems to be on the high rise. See my previous … Continue reading

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