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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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China: 20,000 TD-LTE base stations in 13 cities by the end of 2012 and about 200,000 base stations in 100 cities launched in 2013 with the 2.6GHz TDD spectrum planning just started—SoftBank with TD-LTE strategy in Japan getting into global play with Sprint (also the 49% owner of US TD-LTE champion, Clearwire) acquisition

China Mobile TD-LTE tender results … [Communications World Network (CWW), Oct 16, 2012] According to informed sources, China Mobile has informed all the equipment manufacturers of the TD-LTE expanded large scale trial network tender about the results of the tender. … Continue reading

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The low priced, Android based smartphones of China will change the global market

During the 12 months or so China took over the overall leading market role for smartphones from the key markets considered to be in the lead: US, Australia, Brazil, Great Britain (GB), Germany, France, Italy and Spain. An even more … Continue reading

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Boosting the MediaTek MT6575 success story with the MT6577 announcement — UPDATED with MT6588/83 coming in Q4 2012 and 8-core MT6599 in 2013

Follow-up: MediaTek MT6589 quad-core Cortex-A7 SoC with HSPA+ and TD-SCDMA is available for Android smartphones and tablets of Q1 delivery [Dec 12, 2012] The MT6588 was recently renamed MT6589. Update: Sold 70 million in the first three quarters, MediaTek smart chip dominates China … Continue reading

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Nokia under transition (as reported by the company)

Note and updates: stock price is up 3.17%  as per above (those numbers are in US$) – see more: Nokia trying the first Lumia month in China with China Telecom exclusive [March 28, 2012] - Nokia seeks to retake China market share [Reuters, March … Continue reading

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The new, high-volume market in China is ready to define the 2012 smartphone war

Follow-up: Boosting the MediaTek MT6575 success story with the MT6577 announcement [June 27, 2012] - China TD-SCDMA and W-CDMA 3G subscribers by the end of 2011: China Mobile lost its original growth momentum [Jan 21, 2011] Updates: China market: Local vendors to roll out CNY300 … Continue reading

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The ZTE way of capitalizing on the LTE opportunity

Recommeded prelimary reading: – Mobile Internet (Aug’11) [Aug 26, 2011] with a lot of additions to the original July 19, 2010 content on the following subjects: – LTE and LTE Advanced — HSPA Evolved (parallel to LTE and LTE Advanced) … Continue reading

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World’s lowest cost, US$40-50 Android smartphones — sub-$100 retail — are enabled by Spreadtrum

Updates: Spreadtrum selects CSR connectivity and Location for Smartphone reference designs [CSR press release, Feb 27, 2012] CSR plc (LSE: CSR; NASDAQ: CSRE) today announced that Spreadtrum Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPRD), a Chinese fabless semiconductor company, has chosen CSR plc … Continue reading

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Blurring lines between smartphones and feature phones: the Muve Music Phone case from Cricket Communications

Related information: Continued Toshiba-SanDisk dominance for flash memories [Feb 26, 2012] slotMusic and slotRadio has been, like you said, some of that we did in the content area, we don’t continue these products anymore. … However, we did take these … Continue reading

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First real chances for Marvell on the tablet and smartphone fronts

especially because: Kinoma is now the marvellous software owned by Marvell  [Feb 15, 2011] Update [Aug 21, 2012]: ZTE’s U880 is based on Marvell’s then market leading PXA920 single chip SoC, and was introduced a year ago at a list price of … Continue reading

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