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by | August 18, 2016 · 9:00 am

OPPO is growing much faster than its competitors

I remember the first day I bought my first mobile phone. It was in 1992. It was a big black phone and that beast was three times bigger than an ordinary Apple phone. After a few minutes in my conversation, the battery was flat, and I spent hours to fill it up again.

It didn`t take long before I bought a new one; Ericsson from Sweden. Once one of the greatest in the world. I changed the phone onece again, and this time to Nokia from Finland. Also one of the greatest in the world.

 

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Both, Ericsson and Nokia are falling stars. The Americans came into the market and Apple started to rule the world. Not only that. In a short period of time, they became the biggest company in the world. But how is it now?

There is no doubt that China is the largest smartphone market in the world, and Apple is not at the top three. Smartphone shipments in Q2 amounted for 111,2 million units, and top thee vendors in China accounted for 47% of total shipments.

Who are at the top three? Is it Ericsson? Nokia? Or Apple? No, none of them are at the top three. The biggest names are Chineese brands like Huawei, OPPO and Vivo. Its a surprice to see that Apple are fifth in this important market. Its a bigger surpise to see Samsung below top five.

Its a big market, but its also a very important market, and Its also a big surprise to see the low cost company Xiaomi has dropped down about 40%. Its obviously tough for them to grow in the market with so many aggressive competitors.

OPPO is one of the greatest. Up over +124%. The company is founded in 2004 and the brand is a Chinese electronics manufacturer based in Dongguan, Guangdong.

OPPO Digital is based in Mountain View, California, Unitted States. It is known for its universal upconverting DVD and Blu-ray Disc players. Its first product was the OPPO OPDV981H Up-Converting Universal DVD Player.

OPPO entered the mobile market in 2008.

Last year, OPPO signed an agreement with FC Barcelona to become an official partner of the Spanish football club. OPPO has become a stiff competitor in the Chinese market, which is growing faster than any other mobile company.

 

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by | February 27, 2014 · 2:15 pm

Smartphone prices are dropping

This week is a Smartphone week with the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. This congress is the industry`s biggest annual trade fair. Everybody at the congress is talking about the smartphones. So, what`s up in this business industry?

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The problem with all the smartphones is like the car industry. Their all look the same, which means it is hard to differentiate themselves from the competitors. The strongest brands in this industry is no doubt Apple and Samsung.

 

It is predicted that the growth in global smart phone shipments will fall sharply in 2014 and keep falling for the next four years. The average price will drop sharply as the demand shifts to China and other developing countries.

 

More low-cost devices are coming out to the market to retail at near $100 or cheaper than that. Those devices has a lack of some of the features of the top models, which is more expensive. It is the low-cost Chinese players with enough technical and design expertise that is now coming to the market and draw down the prices.

 

We are talking about brands like Huawei (the world`s third biggest phone maker), Lenovo, TCL Communications and more unknown brands like Oppo, CorePad and Gionee that is poised to be big known brands in the coming years. All of them coming from the world`s largest phone market.

 

China`s ZTE Corp are searching for tech solutions to reach the $50 price target, but the strong demand is pushing up the cost of the components which is a surprising twist in an industry more familiar with falling material prize as technology evolves.

 

Components like screen display, keyboards and memory are key hardware components wich is important to differentiate them all from the other smartphones. Alcatel`s Onetouch brand owned by TCL launched a new sub-$100 smartphone this week.

 

I don`t think you can expect to see Apple and Samsung selling their smartphones for $100 or lower the coming year. Nope. Forget it.

 

Reports today:

 

  08:30 AM ET Core Durable Goods Orders (MoM)
  10:00 AM ET Fed Chair Yellen testifies

 

 

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by | November 1, 2013 · 1:55 pm

Samsung Up

Gold bugs are trading down and are now below 50MA. Many of the gold stocks have had a terrible year so far in 2013.

It`s difficult in this mining business. Barrick gold plans $3B capital raise. This stock has plummeted so far this year. Stock price yesterday was down -4,8% AH, after announcing plans for a bought-deal public offering of 163,5M common shares at $18,35 each, for gross proceeds of $3B.

Barrick Gold plans to use 2,6B of the net proceeds to strengthen its balance sheet and improve its long-term liquidity position by redeeming or repurchasing outstanding debt.

It`s better to stick with the tech stocks, but as we all know; shares follow earnings. How is to take over a job after a geniues like Steve Jobs? John Sculley know everything about that when he became the new boss at Apple in 1983.

Steve Jobs died October 5, 2011. The new boss is Mr Tim Cook, and he has a tough job to fill Jobs shoes. The two last quarters has not been so good for Apple, but I hop the holiday season is gonna be good for Apple so we can see a change for Apple.

Samsung is a huge competitor for Apple and thay are doing it well. The earnings are still raising and they are probably going to change the tech battle soon. When you look their earnings compared to Apple`s, you know what stock you should own?

News today: ISM Manufacturing PMI @ 10:00am

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