Smartphone Market Updates: 21Q1
The pace of recovery for the smartphone market accelerated in 1Q21 with 25.5% YoY shipment growth. According to IDC, smartphone vendors shipped nearly 346M smartphones during 1Q21. Samsung regained the…
iPhone 12 Pro Max Rear Camera Reverse Engineering
SystemPlus publishes a reverse engineering of Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max rear camera. One can see a high density of AF pixels on the SEM picture below:
Mobile: 2021Q1, +24% YoY
According to Strategy Analytics, global smartphone shipments are 340M units in 1Q21, up +24% YoY representing the highest growth since 2015. The smartphone market rebound was driven by the healthy…
Apple’s 2021 iPhone: 48MP main camera?
TF Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has indicated that Apple’s 2H21 iPhone line up will consist of two 6.1” iPhones and two 6.7” iPhones. The premium model is expected to gain…
Market: total 6.2B units of PC/Tablet and Mobile in 2021; iPhone Purchase Increase by 38% in 2021
The number of devices (PCs (laptops and deskbased), tablets and mobile phones) in use globally will total 6.2B units in 2021, according to Gartner. In 2021, 125M more laptops and tablets are expected to…
Wearable Market: Audio and Watch
According to Canalys, smart personal audio and wearable band devices were two consumer IoT segments that stood the test of 2020 to reach new heights. Smart personal audio devices grew…
AI M&A Race: Who is leading?
From 2016 to 2020, Apple has acquired 25 artificial intelligence (AI) firms, according to GlobalData. The rest of the list of leading AI company buyers included Ireland-based Accenture, Google, Microsoft,…
PC Market: Still boom in 2021?
In Feb 2021, UBS Evidence Lab completed its latest semi-annual proprietary global PC consumer survey of 1,500 PC owners in the US and China, providing a timely update to gauge…
Wearable: Apple vs. Xiaomi
Worldwide shipments of wearable devices reached 153.5M in 4Q20, a YoY increase of 27.2% according to IDC. Shipments for the full year grew 28.4% to 444.7Munits. Apple led the market once again with…
Mobile: Apple vs. Samsung vs. Xiaomi
SellCell has conducted a survey of 5,000 American phone users in early Mar 2021 indicating that Apple iPhone loyalty (willingness to buy the same brand again) is at an all-time high of 91.9% while…