Research Reports

Within the overall market, the contractual trend continues to grow with more than 1.8 million units being shipped for managed print services in 1Q16.

Across the 10 markets surveyed, the smartphone was the most bought item both online and offline. India, Vietnam, and Indonesia had the highest incidence of smartphone purchases during this period.

Gartner predicts that by the end of 2019, 25 percent of retail banks will use startup providers to replace legacy online and mobile banking systems.

While liquid crystal display (LCD) technology is still the dominant technology in the display industry, Amoled display shipments will grow 40 percent, year-over-year, to reach 395 million units in 2016.

First quarter seasonality combined with an overall disinterested customer base led to an annual decline of 14.7% in worldwide tablet shipments during the first quarter of 2016 (1Q16).

The biggest change to the market was the addition of lesser-known Chinese brands Oppo and vivo, which pushed out previous fourth and fifth place players Lenovo and Xiaomi, respectively, in the top five.

Led by key products from Samsung, Sony, HTC, and Oculus, the category should generate hardware revenues of approximately $2.3 billion in 2016.

Network operators, vendors, and standards bodies will finalize technical details concerning the millimeter wave by 2020, with rollout ramping up afterward.

Analyst firm Gartner said global smartphone sales will for the first time exhibit single-digit growth in 2016.

The mobile phone market remains the dominant force in overall shipments, led by the Samsung Galaxy smartphone series, which comes equipped with dual-mode Qi and Power-Matters-Alliance- (PMA-) certified low-frequency charging retained for this year?s S7 model.