ASUS and Gigabyte plan restructuring of mobile units
No longer seeing growth in certain units
Since the first half of 2016, Asustek Computer has experienced a rapid decline of sales in its tablet businesses, while Gigabyte has not seen much profitability from its PC accessories unit.
Huawei, Oppo, Vivo to sell 500 million smartphones in 2017
Impressive gains this year behind Samsung and Apple
According to the latest estimates within the smartphone supply chain, China’s top-three vendors are expected to ship a combined total of 500 million devices in 2017, or roughly one third of all global smartphone shipments.
ASUS, HTC, Acer fall short of smartphone shipment targets
Shipment delays, price competition, slower sales
According to the latest claims from industry sources, the three leading Taiwan-based smartphone vendors Asustek, HTC and Acer have all missed their target smartphone shipments for 2016 due to price competition and lower-than-expected sales in certain countries.
Worst, most expensive, pointless, tastless smartphone appears
Iphone 7 compresses more suck than a Dyson
If you had to come up with the world’s worst phone you would have to put the money trapping iPhone 7 close to the top of the list.
Will the Apple Time Lords stuff New Year's Eve?
We can but hope
Apple’s brightest and best software developers will be spending New Year’s Eve with their fingers crossed that their sensational ability to programme will not be questioned by millions of users as 2017 dawns.