Tuesday 11 April 2006

Notebook makers report high growth of sales    [ 11-04-2006 23:59 ]

Author: Klimov Oleg   Source: Digitimes     Translation by:     

Taiwanese mobile PC makers report high growth of sales marked last month, the positive dynamics concerns the four leading companies: Compal, Inventec, Quanta Computer and Wistron.

For example, Quanta Computer supplied 1.5 million notebooks, a 15% rise against February. The total shipments amounted to 4.1 million units in 1Q, a 25% rise compared with the year-ago quarter. Thus the company yielded $1.2 billion in March.

As for the rest companies of the top 4, they have similar growth dynamics, which is another confirmation of the fact this trend involved the whole mobile PC industry in Taiwan.

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Record subscribers base in the US    [ 11-04-2006 17:00 ]

Author: Kozlov Alexey     Translation by:     

According to the estimates of Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA), there appeared 25.7 million new mobile service subscribers over 2005 in America, outrunning the previous annual growth record set in June.

The total wireless subscribers’ base reached 207.9 million by the end of 2005. The figure makes almost 70% of the US population. To compare with 182.1 million subscribers by the end of 2004, the base grew by 14.17%.

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iRiver N12: new player-pendant    [ 11-04-2006 09:57 ]

Author: Verа Kozlova     Translation by:     

There appeared a new MP3-player iRiver N12 in Korea. This is the third model of the iRiver N pendant series, which is positioned as a fashion accessory. Well, the front panel of iRiver N11 is decorated with Swarovski crystal.

The player cover with the headphones jack has different design, there seems to be the possibility to plug other headphones. Unfortunately this info is unclear, as the only official info is available in Korean.

There is the support of SRS WOW 2.0 technology and 3D-sound. The player is offered in Black and Red shell colors, flash memory size – 1GB. The recommended price makes up 198 thousand Won, i.e. about $210. The sales start tomorrow.

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4 new Grundig Mobile phones at CTIA Wireless    [ 11-04-2006 02:16 ]

Author: Klimov Oleg   Source: Slashphone     Translation by:     

Grundig Mobile has introduced 4 new CDMA phones at the CTIA Wireless exhibition. Grundig CD400 is an inexpensive compact phone in the classical form, the CD500 and CD800 are packed in the popular slider form, and the CD601 has a folding shell.

The specs of Grundig CD400:

• Dimensions: 100x44x17 mm;
• Weight: 69 g;
• cSTN LCD, 1.41", 128x128 pixels, 65K colors;
• Battery : 650 mAh;
• Talk time: 2 hours;
• Standby time: 120 hours;
• Network: CDMA 2000;
• VGA-camera;
• Support of MMS, integrated WAP-browser;
• JPEG, GIF, PNG, JPG;
• 16-tones polyphony;
• 128 MB internal flash-memory + 32 MB PSRAM;

The specs of Grundig CD500:

• Dimensions: 87x44x23 mm;
• Weight: 91 g;
• TFT LCD, 1.8", 128x160 pixels, 65K colors;
• Battery capacity: 720 mAh;
• Network: CDMA 2000;
• 1.3-megapixel camera;
• Support of MMS, integrated WAP-browser;
• JPEG, GIF, PNG, JPG;
• 40-tones polyphony;
• 128 MB internal flash-memory + 32 MB PSRAM;

The specs of Grundig CD800:

• Dimensions: 83x36x21 mm;
• Weight: 78 g;
• TFT LCD, 1.55", 128x160 pixels, 262K colors;
• Battery capacity: 730 mAh;
• Network: CDMA 2000;
• 1.3-megapixel camera;
• Support of MMS, internal WAP-browser;
• JPEG, GIF, PNG, JPG, MP3;
• 16-tones polyphony;
• 256 MB internal flash-memory + 64 MB PSRAM;
• Slot for microSD cards;

The specs of Grundig CD601:

• Dimensions: 87x44x20 mm;
• Weight: 71 g;
• LCD: internal - TFT LCD, 1.8", 128x160 pixels, 65K colors; external - cSTN LCD, 1", 96x64 pixels, 65K colors;
• Battery capacity: 800 mAh;
• Network: CDMA 2000;
• VGA-camera with flash;
• Support of MMS, integrated WAP-browser;
• JPEG, GIF, PNG, JPG;
• 16-tones polyphony;
• 128 MB internal flash-memory + 32 MB PSRAM;

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