Taiwan market: Motorola launches Moto Z8, heating up competition for Symbian-based smartphones
Motorola on December 27 launched its first Symbian-based Moto Z8 in the Taiwan market, heating up the competition for Symbian-based smartphones in the local market, according to sources in the Taiwan channel.
The Symbian smartphone market in Taiwan had been dominated by Nokia and Sony Ericsson until September this year when LG Electronics also began marketing its Symbian-based KS10, the sources noted.
However, the competition will further intensify in February 2008 when Samsung Electronics is expected to start shipping its Symbian-based i458 in Taiwan, said the sources, noting that all of the world's top-5 vendors will then compete with each other for a piece of the Symbian smartphone segment pie.
Sales of high-priced smartphones will help raise the ASPs (average selling prices) of vendors and therefore, help push vendors to jump on the bandwagon, the sources stated.
Sales of all types of smartphones in the Taiwan market are expected to total 300,000 units in 2007, and to further expand to 500,000 units in 2008, according to a recent Chinese-language Commercial Times report.
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The Symbian smartphone market in Taiwan had been dominated by Nokia and Sony Ericsson until September this year when LG Electronics also began marketing its Symbian-based KS10, the sources noted.
However, the competition will further intensify in February 2008 when Samsung Electronics is expected to start shipping its Symbian-based i458 in Taiwan, said the sources, noting that all of the world's top-5 vendors will then compete with each other for a piece of the Symbian smartphone segment pie.
Sales of high-priced smartphones will help raise the ASPs (average selling prices) of vendors and therefore, help push vendors to jump on the bandwagon, the sources stated.
Sales of all types of smartphones in the Taiwan market are expected to total 300,000 units in 2007, and to further expand to 500,000 units in 2008, according to a recent Chinese-language Commercial Times report.
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