Category Archives: Major Brands
Chinese Mobile: Emerging As A Threat For Legitimate Handset Manufacturers
Domestic mobile manufacturers of China is continuously capturing the global mobile market and becoming a threat for legitimate handset manufacturers. These handsets are flooding China’s domestic as well as international market. China’s grey wireless handset shipments have grown by more … Continue reading
Filed under China, Major Brands
Smartphone market unfazed by recession
Global Market Share 3Q 2009 (Table and article from CNet) Consumer demand for smartphones seems to be unstoppable. In the third quarter, vendors shipped a record 43.3 million devices, up 4.2 percent from last year’s third quarter and up 3.2 … Continue reading
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China Exported 533 Million Mobile Phones Valued At US$38.5 Billion 2008
This article gives a good snapshot of the cellphone tends in China at the moment. During the first half of 2009, China exported 237 million mobile phones valued US$16.1 billion, and imported 11.74 million ones; besides, the output of mobile … Continue reading
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China’s ‘Bandit’ Cell Phones – The High-Tech Golden Egg with ‘Taiwan Inside’
I finally came across an English translation of an article that explains MTK’s role in the shanzhai (bandit) phone industry. The majority of the article is below (in italics), but check the site for the full article or the original … Continue reading
Filed under Branding, China, Major Brands, Mediatek (MTK)
China Unicom Selects 3G Cellphone Models
One of the more interesting elements of my recent trip to Shenzhen involved the lack of 3G phones available in China. Recently, I bought a new phone (in Taiwan and branded) and switched to 3G. So while in China I … Continue reading
Filed under China Unicom, Major Brands
Motorola gets in the game
There is an interesting article in today’s Fortune online that talks about Motorola trying to up its share in the cellphone and smartphone business. This indirectly relates to yesterday’s post regarding a possible MTK and Motorola deal on low-end phones … Continue reading
Filed under Major Brands, Motorola, Nokia
