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Qualcomm’s SoC business future is questioned first time

Among the hits for simple ‘Qualcomm’ search between April 25 and 30 you will first time find headlines such as: Qualcomm And The Demise Of The Commodity Processor >>> Qualcomm’s profit hurt by competition from China >>> Qualcomm’s earnings outlook … Continue reading

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Qualcomm quad-core Cortex-A7 SoCs with Adreno 305 and 1080p coming for the high-volume global market and China

With Qualcomm’s this week announcement (see below in the details section) the company is expanding the high-volume Play tier of its S4 class SoCs for aggressive competition with Taiwan (especially MediaTek, see in the details) and mainland China based competitors, … Continue reading

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Windows Phone 8 vs. Android 4.1 and 4.2

While Windows Phone 8 should be understood as it is coming from Marko Ahtisaari from Nokia and Steven Guggenheimer from Microsoft on the Internet of Things day of LeWeb Paris’12 [Nov 6, 2012] in this post I will collect some … Continue reading

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$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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Nokia feature phones (S40) are losing market more than Nokia smartphones (S60, Symbian)

and look what entry level Android smartphones are destroying Nokia’s w/w market: - Huawei’s IDEOS U8150 smartphone for US$86 in Kenya: 350,000 units sold in 8 months [Aug 17, 2011] Gartner Says Sales of Mobile Devices in Second Quarter of 2011 … Continue reading

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The Memjet disruption to the printing industry

Update: Memjet Corporate Video [MemjetPrinting YouTube Channel, Jan 16, 2012] LG’s new Machjet color printer based on Memjet technology is 60 ppm fast vs a traditional laser printer of only 18 ppm speed [LG video ad for the Korean market, … Continue reading

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Be aware of ZTE et al. and white-box (Shanzhai) vendors: Wake up call now for Nokia, soon for Microsoft, Intel, RIM and even Apple!

Update as of August 10, 2012: After acquiring the Qt commercial licensing business in March 2011 from Nokia, the Helsinki based, ~1000 people strong Digia, with 2011 sales of 121.9 million Euro, yesterday acquired all the rest of the Qt … Continue reading

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