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Retail Asia23/05/2023

Shipments of smartphones to Vietnam plunged 30% year-on-year in the first quarter, the deepest decline among the five major Southeast Asian markets, according to a new report. Malaysia came second from bottom in terms of negative growth, down 29% year-on-year. Thailand saw shipments drop 1%, according to market research company Counterpoint. The five main Southeast […]

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Retail Asia30/01/2023

Manufacturing hubs like Vietnam and South Korea could be hurt this year as global smartphone shipments suffered its worst quarterly drop on record, signaling a cool down in consumer demand. Shipments declined 18.3% year-on-year in the December quarter to a little over 300 million units, U.S.-based International Data Corporation said Thursday. Xiaomi’s shipment volume declined […]

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Retail Asia06/12/2022

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Smartphone exports fell nearly 10% in volume and 7.4% in value in November after the country’s largest manufacturer, Samsung Vietnam, lowered production the second time this year. According to the General Statistics Office, Vietnam produced 20.6 million phones in November, and export of phones and phone components was worth $5 billion. This is the third […]

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Retail Asia22/11/2022

As many of us know, premium smartphones are powerful and, at least in theory, last longer. But one huge downside is that they also come with a premium price tag, which not everyone can afford. So, if you want an expensive phone but don’t want to spend a lot of money on a handset, and […]

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Retail Asia29/07/2022

The U.S. has surpassed China to become the biggest buyer of smartphones and parts from Vietnam in the first six months with a purchase value of $6.61 billion, up nearly 54 percent year-on-year. It was followed by China at $6.45 billion, up nearly 17 percent, according to Vietnam Customs. Exports of smartphones and parts to […]

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Retail Asia22/07/2022

Apple is gearing up for the launch of the iPhone 14 series (which is inching ever so closely as we approach the fall), and it now seems Cupertino is set on not allowing any supply chain shortages to create issues. Reputable industry insider Ming-Chi Kuo now reports that Apple is looking to further expand its suppliers for the […]

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Retail Asia28/04/2022

Former Huawei unit Honor posted the fastest growth in China’s smartphone market in the first quarter, even as overall handset sales fell 14% year-on-year to levels close to those seen in the pandemic-ravaged first quarter of 2020. Android handset brands Vivo and Oppo, both under the privately owned BBK Electronics, claimed the largest share of […]

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Retail Asia01/12/2021

Smartphone sales in Vietnam plunged 28 percent year-on-year in the third quarter as shops were shut and mobility restrictions blocked deliveries. Sales started to fall in August and plunged deeply in September, a report by market research company Counterpoint revealed, without giving specific figures. Around 70 percent of smartphone stores in Vietnam were closed in […]

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Retail Asia24/11/2021

According to the China Academy of Information and Communications (CAICT), China’s shipment of smartphones grew 30.6% year-on-year to 32.7 million handsets in October. This is a significant increase from a year ago, in October 2020, when shipments reached 25 million. An increase in shipment, compared to the decline experienced in the first half of the […]

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Retail Asia06/09/2021

Samsung is set to expand its plant in the northern province of Bac Ninh this year to increase its production capacity of foldable devices. The company would kick off the expansion project within the second half of this year, targeting full operation by the end of 2021 or early next year at the latest. This […]

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Retail Asia13/08/2021

Back in 2011 Xiaomi launched the Mi 1 in China, and thus entered the increasingly competitive smartphone market, eventually overtaking goliaths such as Apple and Samsung, at least according to some research agencies. The successful Chinese phone maker is offering a reward to some of its first customers – those who bought the aforementioned Xiaomi Mi 1 ten […]

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Retail Asia11/08/2021

Vietnam’s largest electronics retailers, Mobile World and FPT Shop, saw H1 mobile phone and laptop sales in the first half of the year. Mobile World posted total revenues of nearly VND62.5 trillion ($2.7 billion) and pre-tax profits of more than VND2.5 trillion in the six-month period. Of this the sales of mobile phones, laptops and […]

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Retail Asia07/07/2021

Asian handset manufacturers like to be in the front lines when it comes to new technology, so it’s no wonder that many of them have already jumped on the mobile gaming bandwagon. What’s surprising is that there are still brands that haven’t yet entered the gaming smartphone market, even though it’s still considered a niche […]

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Retail Asia19/05/2021

Global smartphone shipments will decline during the current quarter (which is the calendar second quarter and runs from April through the end of June). The report said that top brands in the industry including Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo, are being impacted by the global chip shortage. As for the first quarter, Digitimes said that the […]

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Retail Asia08/04/2021

Google’s Play Music service is officially dead, but it seems that the Android app needed one last update that will allow users to completely get rid of it. Even those who have already migrated to YouTube Music are required to download the update since this is the only way to permanently hide the app. Most likely […]

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Retail Asia25/02/2021

Android 12 might not be ready for primetime just yet, but while adventurous users try out Google’s next big batch of mobile improvements and cool new features and the vast majority of the world’s smartphone owners continue to wait for a stable Android 11 update, the search giant is today taking the wraps off half a dozen smaller […]

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Retail Asia05/02/2021

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The global smartphone market was only one of the major industries to suffer a big and largely unexpected decline in 2020 as a direct consequence of the coronavirus pandemic, but while the COVID-19 threat is projected to linger this year and potentially even beyond that, 2021 should mark the beginning of a beautiful rebound. The […]

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Retail Asia21/07/2020

A double whammy negatively impacted the second-largest smartphone market in the world during the second quarter of the year. The global outbreak of coronavirus led to the shutdown of smartphone production in the country. And the demand for handsets dropped sharply as retailers both online and offline were not allowed to sell them. This was […]

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Retail Asia16/07/2020

Recently Samsung revealed what its second-quarter earnings numbers should look like when it soon reports the final figures. The manufacturer says that it expects to report a 7% annual decline in second-quarter revenue to 52 trillion Korean won. At current exchange rates, that works out to $46 billion U.S. dollars. Operating profit for the three months […]

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Retail Asia12/11/2019

Orders for iPhone 11 models soar to twice that of iPhone X last year, with more customers preferring authorized resellers for post-sale services. As of October 31, data from electronics chain FPT showed that customers have put down deposits for 12,300 iPhone 11 models, 2.5 times that of iPhone XR, XS and XS Max last […]

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