Huami Co Ltd expects sales of its Xiaomi Mi Bands will reach 10 million in the third quarter, making it the largest maker of wearable fitness devices in the world. Launched last year, the Mi Band monitors fitness levels and tracks sleep ...
Tags: Wearable Devices, Fitness Devices
A new fund that focuses on developing China's next generation of industry - so-called Industry 4.0 - through investment in German small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) will soon have its initial $1 billion raised, its founder says. ...
China Unicom and handset vendor Xiaolijiao have jointly launched an ultra-low priced 4G smartphone, the Honglajiao, in China, which is likely to trigger a new round of price-cut competition for 4G models in the market, according to sources ...
Tags: 4G Smartphone, handset
Huawei is chosen by Google as one of the makers of the next Nexus smartphone.Huawei will be picking up the reins on the smartphone, while LG will purportedly tackle Google’s next Nexus tab. There isn't much choice among 7-inch ...
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As the LED backlighting market is reaching saturation, makers are looking to tackle orders for high-end, higher resolution devices such as Ultra HD (4K) TVs in 2015to secure performance in 2015. Many makers believe the strategy is in ...
Tags: LED Makers, wide color gamut, smartphones
Germany's annual IT business fair CeBIT said Sunday that the digitalisation of the economy is primary focus at this year's event, and the strong presence from China as partner country is attracting great attention. CeBIT, hosted by ...
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Beijing-based Xiaomi Inc has set a more ambitious goal for smartphone sales in 2015, the company's founder and CEO revealed on Friday. Xiaomi is expected to sell between 80 million and 100 million smartphones for the whole of 2015, Lei ...
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Apple has taken three years to regain the crown as the world's top smartphone maker. The latest market data show that the iPhone maker beat Samsung for the first time since 2011. Leading market research firm Gartner has released a ...
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Xiaomi has confirmed plans to launch a Mi store in Europe, although it won’t be peddling smartphones. Instead, the Chinese electronics company wants to use the digital outlet to sell smartphone accessories on the continent. Xiaomi ...
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Global smartphone shipments grew 31% annually from 290.2 million units in fourth-quarter 2013 to a record 380.1 million in fourth-quarter 2014, according to the latest research from Strategy Analytics. "An impressive 1.3 billion ...
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China's top smartphone companies challenged Samsung and Apple with surging sales and revenue in 2014, vowing to scramble for a larger share in a global turf war with the top two makers. As one of the major competitors, telecom behemoth ...
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Shipments of smartphones by China-based vendors declined 8.8% sequentially in the fourth quarter of 2014, affected by weaker than expected sales for some brand vendors, according to Digitimes Research. For the first quarter of 2015, ...
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Inventec chairman Richard Lee, at Xiaomi's product launch conference in Taiwan, pointed out that the company is expected to see about 100 million ODM/OEM product shipments in 2015, up 42% from 70 million units in 2014. Lee pointed out ...
Xiaomi reckons it has been copied more than any other Chinese company, hitting back at accusations that it riffs too closely off of rival designs. Hugo Barra, Xiaomi’s Vice President of Global Operations, told the BBC that it is a ...
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Xiaomi is hosting an event tomorrow; we knew that much already. What we didn’t know was that there would be two new smartphones taking up centre stage. Yes, Xiaomi’s latest teaser image has confirmed that the fast-rising ...
Tags: Xiaomi, Consumer Electronics, Snapdragon 810