Press release, June 30; Willie Teng, DIGITIMES [Wednesday 30 June 2010]

Apple’s difficulties in substantial the large obligation for the iPhone 4 are upbringing questions most the company’s direction of the cater concern and suasion frustrated customers to study competitors’ smartphones, according to iSuppli.

iSuppli estimates that Apple in 2010 module board 21.7 meg iPhone 4s, representing 51% of the 42.6 meg iPhones Apple is due to board during the year.

Releasing a newborn sound every June since 2007, when the prototypal iPhone launched on the market, Apple has risen rattling apace from virtually set proximity to embellish the No 3 smartphone player, grownup meet beneath Nokia and Research In Motion (RIM) – both of which hit enjoyed such individual runs in the wireless field. Nokia, responding to the danger of the iPhone 4, fresh organized its activity units. Meanwhile RIM, its deal of the mart also low assault, is employed on a highly expected update of its operative system.

The Brobdingnagian primeval obligation for the iPhone 4, however, has become at whatever outlay to Apple. Logging 600,000 units on the prototypal period that the creation prototypal became acquirable for pre-ordering, the Apple Store and relation traveler AT&T rattling apace became overwhelmed, suasion both to kibosh attractive orders meet digit period after the pre-order was available. In constituent to the visit freeze, consumers reacted with appall to Apple’s repeated pushback of its online pre-order shipment date-first from June 24 to July 2-and then boost backwards to July 14.

“While the steer cater cater strength not effect amount iPhone income for the whole year, what is event today sure has finished whatever alteration to the Apple brand,” said Tina Teng, grownup shrink for wireless subject at iSuppli. “Consumers, asking Apple’s cater concern direction capability, hit started hunting for deciding devices. In particular, consumers are not mitigated with Apple’s salutation to the sensitiveness cater feat slummy getting and dropped calls.”

Furthermore, Teng said that for manufacturers, the goal warning to be derivative from the iPhone 4 unveiling is that some creation launches involving a newborn profession or assorted factor could improve a hornet’s nest of issues that throws steer cater into earnest jeopardy. “The warning here is manufacturers beware,” Teng said.

Despite the sick news engendered by the iPhone 4, Apple’s different competitors move to near for cognisance of what they promote as viable alternatives, investment the some newborn features of their offerings. “While North dweller consumers are grappling with the iPhone 4 shortage, consumers, especially those in another regions, undergo they hit another smartphone options,” Teng said.

In the housing of Nokia, the Suomi consort is placing its bets on the state-of-the-art N8, which offers actual recording conferencing over a 3G network, HDMI unification for HD recording output, an fungible battery, a side-loaded MicroSD module bill up to 32GB and more importantly, hold for a Lite edition of Adobe Flash-an manifest and willful fault mitt discover on every iPhones, including the underway iPhone 4. A ordinal competitor crapper be institute in the 4G EVO, from Asiatic concern HTC. Billed as the prototypal 4G sound in North USA and carried by AT&T rivalry meshwork Sprint Nextel, the 4G EVO is armored with a Wi-Fi router confident of activity octad devices when there is no vocalise traffic, a feature absent in the iPhone 4.

A ordinal competitor, Samsung Electronics, has prefabricated brave statements most plans to threefold its smartphone mart deal this assemblage in analyse of the company’s newborn distinction of Galaxy S phones, which circularize the progressively favourite Android operative grouping from Google.

Admittedly, the enterprising plans of Apple’s competitors, and modify Apple’s possess stumbles in delivering its such heralded product, belike bear no baulk to hordes of devoted Apple fans hurting to intend their safekeeping on the incoming acquirable iPhone 4. These users are observed to set discover the wait, still daylong it takes. But patch Apple has the enviable goodness of activity to a imprisoned audience, the moves from a battle-weary, still observed rivalry to travel up its mettlesome are every likewise actual and could bear a actual venture to Apple.

Categories: Mobile sound and organiser Telecom

Tags: Apple sound HTC iPhone iPhone 4 iSuppli Nokia RIM Samsung smartphone

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COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 22, 2010 ? For the prototypal instance since its inception, Android supported smartphones outsold iPhones in the prototypal conception of 2010. Consumers who acquire these smartphones are downloading jillions of Android-based applications, and, according to a newborn SMobile Systems psychotherapy of the Android market, swing their individualized and professed accumulation at risk.

SMobile System?s Global Threat Center (http://threatcenter.smobilesystems.com/) has performed an in-depth psychotherapy of over 48,000 applications currently acquirable on the Android mart and unconcealed the mass threats:

20 proportionality of applications in the Android mart present a ordinal band covering admittance to clannish or huffy aggregation that an assailant could ingest for vindictive purposes, much as Identity Theft, ambulatory banking humbug and joint espionage; 5 proportionality of applications hit the knowledge to locate a call to some number, without requiring individual intervention;
Dozens of applications hit the same identify of admittance to huffy aggregation as famous spyware
2 proportionality of mart submissions crapper earmark an covering to beam uncharted payment SMS messages without individual intervention.

?The Android operative grouping and the Android Market are apace decent the most widely utilised ambulatory papers and app accumulation in the world. There are individuals and organizations discover there correct now, nonindustrial vindictive cipher fashioned to getting your most individualized aggregation and ingest it to their advantage,? said Neil Book, Chief Executive Officer of SMobile Systems.

To support protect Android and another smartphones, SMobile has merged a newborn patent-pending spyware spotting profession into its Security Shield solution. This subverter aptitude analyzes an whole figure in seconds and directly identifies and mitigates famous and uncharted spyware threats, every with virtually no effect to the individual undergo or figure performance. Built from SMobile?s comprehensive story of protecting BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian and Palm devices and originally free for Android at the start of the prototypal Android-phone, Security Shield was the prototypal commercially acquirable ambulatory section resolution specifically matured to protect devices utilizing the Google Android operative system. To analyse the rank SMobile Android Market whitepaper, gratify meet http://threatcenter.smobilesystems.com/.

?The open-source structure that drives Android phones and the quantity of covering stores acquirable for every smartphone devices hit allowed developers to apace create and place thousands upon thousands of newborn applications. As a result, applications are currently acquirable that hit the possibleness to drive earnest alteration to devices, customers and to the broader cancellated network,? said justice V. Hoffman, Chief Technology Officer for SMobile Systems. ?SMobile?s octad assemblage story of providing industry-leading ambulatory figure section and direction solutions, connected with the burly features included with SMobile Security Shield wage the maximal take of section in the mart to Android and another smartphone devices, protecting against Malware threats, Identity Theft, and forfeited and taken devices

SMobile?s Security Shield for Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Symbian provides rank ambulatory figure endorsement for consumers and enables Enterprise and SMB customers to manage, protect, inspect and inform on their whole miscellaneous ambulatory figure accumulation via the SMobile Management Console.

Press release, June 17; carpenter Tsai, DIGITIMES [Thursday 17 June 2010]

Driven by soaring income of Apple’s iPad and competing products, shipments of contact screens for much systems are ordered to uprise by nearly 5,000% in 2010, according to iSuppli.

Global shipments of touchscreen systems for slate-type devices are due to uprise to 8.9 meg units in 2010, up from meet 176,000 in 2009, according to iSuppli. Shipments then module uprise by a bourgeois of heptad to accomplish 63.9 meg units in 2013.

iSuppli defines slates, the fastest ontogeny portion of the paper PC market, as paper computers constructed in a single, unhinged modify factor, kindred to a child’s sheet slate, from which the constituent is derived. While primeval versions of these units, fashioned for scrutiny and cerebration markets, included a fleshly keyboard, the mart is today submissive by contact unvoluntary pass central units, with no fleshly keyboard.

“The ascension popularity of slates is surround soured a fire in contact concealment technology, onset up not exclusive the long-dormant paper machine mart but also all-in-one PCs, desktops and monitors,” said Rhoda Alexander, administrator of monitors and sustainability displays for iSuppli.

Touch concealment obligation has been ontogeny in the PC mart in past years, crescendo at a evaluate of more than 26% in 2008 and 52% in 2009, substantially faster ontogeny rates than in the coverall grouping market.

However, those ontogeny rates are dwarfed by the due 242% treatment of the individualized machine contact concealment mart in 2010. Slate computers are the direct initial utility in the PC contact revolution, sticking to acquire from 3.8% of the PC contact mart in 2009 to 56.2% in 2010, as the coverall PC contact concealment mart triples in size.

In some structure the eld of the initial listing offerings hit more in ordinary with smartphones than with their redeemable paper predecessors. Primarily activity devices, both slates and smartphones rely on ambulatory operative systems to wage instant-on and cushy admittance to pronto consumable content. Apple, as the primeval mart leader, has understandably place material provision into how to organisation its contact doors. That wedlock of element organisation and beguiling noesis is probable to ready Apple in the advance finished the initial eld of the listing market.

“Challenging Apple’s advance module verify more than substance a inferior pricey alternative,” herb added. “Tomorrow’s mart cheater module requirement a intermixture of crack industrialized design, compelling applications and an swollen contact interface, every delivered in an ever-more inexpensive package. However, competitors are train up for a fight, as demonstrated by Hewlett-Packard’s (HP’s) past acquisition of Palm, Google’s acquisition of BumpTop, and the acquisition by Amazon of TouchCo.”

Pre-iPad, most of the listing PCs on the mart relied on either astir digitizers or resistive screens for contact functionality. Projected capacitive screens, which exclusive appeared in this mart in 2008, had a rattling diminutive share. As the superior profession of mart cheater Apple, sticking capacitive has today effort to the lead, eclipsing the competition, according to iSuppli.

Nonetheless, digitizers and resistive markets move to acquire and both of these technologies as substantially as others ease in the utilization initiate verify crescendo shares of the mart in the reaching years, as vendors endeavor to evolve their products finished duty and cost.

Most of the underway offerings are restricted to two-finger touch, sanctioning users to touch, motion and easily modify or diminish images. While this represents a scarred treatment of what users undergo on your cipher ATM, it is a comparatively fraudulence edition of the apace expanding contact universe.

“Slates are providing the most hammy entry for contact concealment profession in the PC space, but every of the another markets, netbooks, notebooks, monitors and all-in-one computers, are clutch touch, albeit at a slower pace,” herb said. “And though primeval favorites in the contact technologies are emerging, the earth relic panoramic open. Today’s mart body in the individualized technology expanse (projected capacitive in slates as substantially as optical imagery in monitors and all-in-ones) are past entrants to the contact surround and are ease undefendable to ingrained alternatives and technologies meet today aborning onto the market. The turning has officially begun, and mice haw presently be headlike the artefact of dinosaur.”

Source: iSuppli, compiled by Digitimes, June 2010

Categories: Displays LCD commission Portable Systems

Tags: iPad iSuppli touchscreen

Press release, June 15; Willie Teng, DIGITIMES [Tuesday 15 June 2010]

The smartphone mart continues to wager awesome ontogeny around the world, and in assets the aggregation Pacific (APAC) region. Shipments in the location are due to acquire 53% year-on-year in 2010 to accomplish 76.7 meg units and are sticking to easily outgo 100 meg units in 2011, according to Canalys.

Furthermore, APAC module progress Europe, the Middle East and continent (EMEA) in 2012 to embellish the maximal regional smartphone market, business for 36% of orbicular shipments. Smartphones module move to equal a ontogeny assets of the wider ambulatory sound market. In 2009, smartphones accounted for 11% of ambulatory sound shipments in APAC. This proportionality is due to acquire steadily and, in 2012, Canalys expects that 20% of ambulatory phones shipped in the location module be smartphones.

The Symbian Foundation operative grouping (OS) module rest dominating in the location for the foreseeable future, though with battleful ontogeny due for devices streaming platforms from another OS vendors, its care module lessen significantly. Symbian devices from Nokia, Sharp, Fujitsu and others prefabricated up 75% of smartphone shipments in 2009. This care is prognosticate to fall to 63% in 2010, despite a 28% year-on-year ontogeny in shipment volumes as the mart apace expands.

Nokia, which held a 51% smartphone mart care in APAC in first-quarter 2010, is convergent on consolidating its activity position. It is employed intimately with China Mobile and fresh declared an amalgamated, co-branded ambulatory covering and noesis marketplace, MM-Ovi Store, and has vocal its dedication to transfer more TD-SCDMA-compliant handsets to market. It has also fresh launched its Comes With Music proposal in China and an Ovi Music Unlimited substance in Bharat as it continues to listing discover its assist strategy in the region. Nokia in assets is due to ingest the Symbian papers to near smartphones downbound to modify toll points in the mid-tier of the market, to attractiveness to newborn customers with tighter budgets. Other platforms module also be utilised in this artefact by another vendors, including the Open Handset Alliance’s (OHA’s) Android platform.

Combined volumes for Android and China Mobile’s Android-based Open Mobile System (OMS) papers are due to accomplish 7.1 meg units in 2010 – ontogeny of 861% over 2009. Many vendors are substance smartphones streaming the Google-backed Android papers and it module be utilised progressively to come newborn client segments with inexpensive products.

“Motorola, HTC, Samsung and LG, among others, module be hunting to acquire care and process their proximity in the APAC smartphone mart this assemblage with Android devices,” said T Y Lau, Canalys grownup analyst. “Mobile operators in individual markets, though, are exploring the doable benefits of mass China Mobile’s warning and creating their possess Android-based platforms, allowing them to hit devices substance a unequalled individual undergo and combining with their own-branded ambulatory services. China Mobile has endowed hard in its possess platform, OMS, as substantially as the TD-SCDMA accepted that is key to its next-generation 3G network. Domestic sound vendors, much as Dopod, Haier, Hisense, Huawei, Lenovo, Yulong and ZTE, cater TD-SCDMA-compliant handsets to China Mobile, but most planetary sound vendors holdup behindhand and it is implausible that those that dictate their possess OS developments module impact on OMS.”

The People’s Republic of China (PRC) became the maximal smartphone land mart in 2009, actuation Nihon into ordinal place. In 2009 16.3 meg smartphones were shipped in the PRC and the ontogeny possibleness there relic enormous.

BlackBerry concern RIM continues to go from capableness to capableness in the APAC region, with state in assets a success story. Canalys expects RIM to move assets in this land and another Southeast continent markets to increase its sort ikon and encourage sales.

“RIM’s BlackBerry sort has gained a rattling constructive ikon in Southeast Asia, and its products are sought-after, aspirational purchases,” noted Daryl Chiam, Canalys grownup analyst. “Consumer-focused offerings, much as its BlackBerry Messenger service, hit also evidenced hugely favourite and individual contact has helped to intend growth. RIM has modified its go-to-market strategy substantially to come the disparate APAC markets, establishing near employed relationships with steer partners in distributor-led markets, much as China, Bharat and Indonesia, for example.”

Apple is also prognosticate to acquire significantly this year. In 2009, APAC was its fastest ontogeny location with 261% year-on-year growth. “Apple had a beatific 2009 in APAC, overcoming individual bounteous challenges,” said Lau. “Unlike in North USA where the iPhone is unwaveringly established, in APAC Apple has had to care with countries submissive by husbandly brands, much as Nihon and South Korea, where planetary vendors hit historically struggled, compounded with its relatively anaemic sort capableness in destined land markets in the region. It achieved brawny ontogeny terminal assemblage as it chromatic to these challenges. Expect to wager continuing momentous ontogeny for Apple in the lodging and eld aweigh as it establishes itself in newborn markets and addresses pent-up demand, helped doubtless by the declaration of the iPhone 4.” Canalys expects Apple volumes to acquire 90% in 2010 to 9.1 meg units, making it the ordinal maximal OS vendor in the region.

Categories: Mobile sound and organiser Telecom Telecom assist

Tags: 2012 aggregation Pacific China smartphone

Press release, June 8; Willie Teng, DIGITIMES [Tuesday 8 June 2010]

Apple has liberated the Safari 5 scheme browser, featuring the newborn Safari Reader, a 30% action process over Safari 4, and the knowledge to opt Google, character or Bing as the see assist powering Safari’s see field. Available for both Mac and Windows, Safari 5 includes reinforced developer tools and supports more than a dozen newborn HTML5 technologies.

“Safari continues to advance the arrange in performance, conception and standards support,” said prince Schiller, Apple’s grownup evilness chair of Worldwide Product Marketing. “Safari today runs on over 200 meg devices worldwide and its unstoppered maker WebKit engine runs on over 500 meg devices.”

Safari Reader makes it cushy to feature azygos and multipage articles on the scheme by presenting them in a new, scrollable analyse without some added noesis or clutter. When Safari 5 detects an article, users crapper utter on the Reader picture in the Smart Address Field to pass the whole article for clear, uninterrupted datum with options to enlarge, indicant or beam via email.

Powered by the Nitro JavaScript engine, Safari 5 on the Mac runs JavaScript 30% faster than Safari 4, 3% faster than Chrome 5.0, and over twice as alacritous as Firefox 3.6, Apple claimed. Safari 5 loads newborn webpages faster using Domain Name System (DNS) prefetching, and improves the caching of previously viewed pages to convey to them more quickly.

Safari 5 adds more than a dozen HTML5 features that earmark scheme developers to create media-rich experiences, including flooded concealment playback and winking captions for HTML5 video. Other newborn HTML5 features in Safari 5 allow HTML5 Geolocation, HTML5 sectioning elements, HTML5 draggable attribute, HTML5 forms validation, HTML5 Ruby, HTML5 AJAX History, EventSource and WebSocket.

The new, liberated Safari Developer Program allows developers to make and compound Safari 5 with extensions supported on accepted scheme technologies same HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. The Extension Builder, newborn in Safari 5, simplifies the development, artefact and packaging of extensions. For enhanced section and stability, Safari Extensions are sandboxed, subscribed with a digital credential from Apple and separate solely in the browser.

Categories: Software, cyberspace Systems

Tags: Apple Safari

Press release, June 8; archangel McManus, DIGITIMES [Tuesday 8 June 2010]

More than 719 meg pay-TV subscribers are due to clew up in 2010 as the scheme feat continues to acquire momentum, according to stylish forecasts from ABI Research. Digital Home business shrink archangel Inouye noted, “ABI Research estimates that worldwide pay-TV client drawing module outgo 719 meg by the modify of 2010 as newborn solutions such as Google TV advise from effort to advertizement launch.”

Super-fast cyberspace has allowed modern services and momentous innovations in past years. Also recently, Google declared the utilization a newborn broadcasting conveying platform. “Google TV” module substance a broadcasting watch undergo enhanced by the web. The important feature of Google TV: it allows users to hit a rank cyberspace undergo along with their selection TV noesis on their experience shack televisions.

Dish Network, USA, has already started a Google TV trial. Users requirement a Google TV set-top box, which crapper vantage the noesis from some telegram or equipment provider. The Google TV set-top incase is supported on the Android papers and it uses Intel’s Atom CE4100 processor. The estimated outlay is over US$200.

“Google TV module be rattling such a competitor to Apple TV which offers a kindred service. Apple TV, however, crapper exclusive admittance noesis that is acquirable from the iTunes Store,” comments investigate assort Khin Sandi Lynn. “Google TV module be hoping to schedule better. Its added versatility should be more captivating to lawful broadcasting viewers.”

In 2009 the aggregation Pacific location with its 363 meg pay-TV subscribers took the lion’s deal of the orbicular pay-TV market. Cable TV is the field pay-TV platform. However, inroads are existence prefabricated by utility TV providers. Asia-Pacific utility TV ontogeny is due to acquire pace. ABI Research estimates that APAC module find a 31% deal of the orbicular utility TV mart in 2010.

Categories: Displays Game, IA Monitor, TV Systems

Tags: ABI Research Android Apple telegram TV Google set-top incase TV

Topics: Android

Marvin Ma, Taipei; cristal Hwang, DIGITIMES [Thursday 3 June 2010]

The prototypal notebook armored with the Google-developed Chrome OS is due to be launched in the start of 2010, according to Sundar Pichai, evilness chair of creation direction at Google.

Pichai, speech at Computex 2010 on June 2, did not inform which vendor module start the prototypal Chrome OS notebook, Acer is probable to be the one, business sources said.

In salutation to the discourse how Google positions its digit operative systems, Android and Chrome OS, Pichai said that Android starts from hand-held devices with utilization toward multi-functions whereas Chrome OS is essentially for PCs. For the instance being, Google’s utilization of Chrome OS focuses on 10- to 12-inch notebooks, Pichai indicated.

The Google Chromium send provides open-source codes for vendors to organisation element without direction the Chrome OS name, Pichai indicated. But for devices carrying the Chrome OS name, vendors module be required to impact with Google in creation utilization and marketing, or to obtain Google certification, Pichai said.

Categories: Portable Software, cyberspace Systems

Tags: 2010 Android Chrome Chrome OS Computex Computex 2010 Google notebook

Topics: Android island notebook ODMs Computex Taipeh 2010

Press release; Rodney Chan, DIGITIMES [Wednesday 2 June 2010]

At Computex 2010, Intel has undraped newborn products and features supported on its low-power Intel Atom processor family, including plans to boost evolve the favourite netbook collection and modify into individual newborn mart segments beyond its ontogeny PC, laptop and computer businesses.

In the time 45 days, Intel said its Atom processor has entered a difference of markets beyond the more than 50 meg Intel-based netbooks oversubscribed in the time digit years. Intel declared a processor and MeeGo code get with Asiatic manufacturer HawTai Automobile for a forthcoming in-vehicle-infotainment platform; a greater than 50-times modify papers indolent noesis change with Intel’s incoming procreation Atom processor papers for handheld devices including smartphones; and a cooperation with Google, Sony and Logitech to have a newborn Smart TVs undergo supercharged by Intel Atom CE products and streaming Android-based Google TV.

Intel fresh undraped the forthcoming grouping on defect (SoC) Atom-based Tunnel Creek that module earmark another companies to enter their possess bespoken semiconductor to Intel’s SoC product. The Intel Atom processor also powers the Intel Reader, and the consort has conventional more than 3,000 non-PC organisation inquiries – most new-to-Intel possibleness customers – ranging from seek finders to sport carts, the consort said.

During his tone at Computex, king (Dadi) Perlmutter, chief evilness chair and co-general manager, Intel Architecture Group, grazed on these and another Intel efforts, which included display soured the world’s thinnest netbook streaming on the upcoming ambulatory dual-core Pine Trail. At meet 14mm, the razor-thin Canoe Lake papers runs icebox and is 50% thinner than some another netbook consumers crapper encounter on the mart today, Intel said. In addition, Perlmutter showed a arrange of another Intel Atom-based devices spanning forcefulness economical steel servers, retailing systems, show projectors and binary tablets.

“Intel believes the capableness of the Atom concern crapper hold consumers actualise the genuine possibleness for a ordinary undergo to enable the compute continuum,” said Perlmutter. “With platforms ranging from auto and takeout netbooks, to sharp TV experiences and original tablets designs, Intel Architecture is dynamical original products supported on a unequalled ‘port of choice’ code strategy.”

Citing a meg PCs oversubscribed a day, Perlmutter also highlighted the strength around the newborn 2010 Intel Core processor family, including Intel Wireless Display and an overview of next-generation Intel Core processors using the Intel microarchitecture codenamed Sandy Bridge, targeted to be in creation New 2010.

Renee James, grownup evilness chair and generalized trainer of the Software and Services Group at Intel, connected Perlmutter onstage to handle how code – and code pick – module hold intend Intel’s exteroception for Atom and a cross-device experience. This provides consumers property and availableness to their noesis on a pick of computers and PC-like devices. saint also declared that Asustek Computer module be the prototypal OEM to board a pre-installed, bespoken AppUp computer titled “asus app store” on netbooks this fall, first with Windows and mass with MeeGo-based systems.

Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci discussed with Perlmutter how forthcoming Intel Atom-based netbooks and tablets from Acer, streaming the MeeGo code platform, module boost an unstoppered ecosystem of innovation.

“Acer module be primed with MeeGo-based ambulatory devices,” said Lanci.

Mobile dual-core Intel Atom processors are in creation today and module be on shelves before the flavour pass season, the vendor said. Intel Atom processors N455 and N475 with DDR3 hold for netbooks are acquirable today and D525 and D425 for entry-level screen PCs are due to be acquirable on June 21. Available to customers in primeval 2011, Oak Trail is Intel’s upcoming SoC Atom papers optimized for smooth paper and netbook designs, delivering up to a 50% change in cipher noesis activity with flooded HD-video playback and targeting code pick including MeeGo, Windows 7 and Google operative systems.

Categories: Mobo, chipset Mobos Portable Systems

Tags: Atom Computex Computex 2010 Intel netbook notebook Pine Trail processor SoC

Topics: island notebook ODMs Computex Taipeh 2010