Thursday, September 7, 2006
GPS devices boosting Mitac's bottom line
Posted by Nurhisham Hussein in "NEWS" @ 08:30 PM
"The contribution from GPS-enabled devices, including PDA phones, will climb more than five percentage points to 30.6% of Mitac International's full-year revenues in 2006, the Chinese-language Apple Daily cited investment firm Merrill Lynch as reporting. The Taiwan-based maker is estimated to ship 4.1 million GPS devices in 2006, with an on-year increase of 46%, according to the paper."
GPS is gearing up to be the next big leap for mobile devices - it's the main selling point for HP's new rx5000, and the Fujitsu-Siemens Loox N-series and T-series. Not as well known as the more established PDA vendors, Mitac International are of course the guys behind the Mio line of GPS-enabled PDAs and PDA phones, as well as being contract manufacturers for Navman and Magellan (who are big names in the GPS arena). Based on what I've been reading on PDA/GPS forums, pretty soon we'll need to split the Wireless and GPS forum :wink:
GPS is gearing up to be the next big leap for mobile devices - it's the main selling point for HP's new rx5000, and the Fujitsu-Siemens Loox N-series and T-series. Not as well known as the more established PDA vendors, Mitac International are of course the guys behind the Mio line of GPS-enabled PDAs and PDA phones, as well as being contract manufacturers for Navman and Magellan (who are big names in the GPS arena). Based on what I've been reading on PDA/GPS forums, pretty soon we'll need to split the Wireless and GPS forum :wink:
