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Ville-Petteri Ukonaho
| Jun 16, 2022
Geopolitical turbulence is affecting the shipments of the Chinese vendors. COVID lockdowns are closing factories and hindering availability.
Apple is s...
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Neil Mawston
| Jun 16, 2022
Latest research (here) from our Bluetooth tracker shows TWS music headphone shipments jumped a healthy +30% YoY across the US and Canada during the first q...
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Neil Mawston
| Jun 16, 2022
Latest research from our Bluetooth tracker predicts the worldwide installed base (IB) of Bluetooth and TWS headsets will top 1 billion units for the first ...
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Ville-Petteri Ukonaho
| Jun 07, 2022
- boAt is the fastest growing vendor and rose to third position globally in Q1 2022.
- India is the fastest growing market.
- Apple remains the world’s la...
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Ville-Petteri Ukonaho
| May 30, 2022
Mono Bluetooth headset global sales peaked in 2008 at 103 million units, and thereafter declined.
Stereo headset sales began to take off a few years l...
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Ville-Petteri Ukonaho
| May 27, 2022
India and Africa are the fastest growing markets for the near future
India has biggest volume potential of the growing markets. Any vendor seeking grow...
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Ken Hyers
| May 18, 2022
An end of an era came on May 13, 2022, when the Japanese audio technology company Onkyo filed for bankruptcy.
Best known for its high-end amplifiers and other a...
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Neil Mawston
| May 10, 2022
New research from SA (here) shows China is now by far the world's largest market for TWS Bluetooth earbud shipments.
China's TWS market is bigger than the US a...
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Neil Mawston
| May 10, 2022
New research from SA (here) predicts TWS earbud sales will halve in Russia in 2022, due to war, economic recession, price inflation, international sanctions, fi...
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Ville-Petteri Ukonaho
| May 02, 2022
• Latin America has emerged as a new growth driver for Bluetooth headsets. The Latin culture loves music which makes the region fertile ground for differen...
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Neil Mawston
| Apr 08, 2022
Bluetooth tracking devices have come of age.
Those pocket-sized Bluetooth trackers -- to find your lost smartphone, luggage, or car keys -- are set to double i...
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Ken Hyers
| Apr 07, 2022
Bluetooth trackers are an emerging class of devices for locating lost objects. While 2021 was a boom year for Bluetooth trackers, as a class of devices they&rsq...
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Ville-Petteri Ukonaho
| Apr 01, 2022
Entry-tier becomes the biggest during 2022 as Premium-tier suffers momentarily stagnation due geopolitical uncertainty, inflation and looming recession.
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Ville-Petteri Ukonaho
| Mar 28, 2022
• Apple continues as the leader in shipments as well as in revenues, but competition is closing in. Apple’s share in shipments is shrinking faster th...
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Ville-Petteri Ukonaho
| Mar 25, 2022
Geopolitical turbulence slows the growth of some vendors and overall market. CEE market will see shipments decline in 2022 due Russia – Ukraine war a...
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Neil Mawston
| Mar 17, 2022
The 1MORE ComfoBuds Mini, launched this month, claim to be the world’s smallest TWS noise-cancelling earbuds. They are certainly small and light (at 4g) a...
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Ville-Petteri Ukonaho
| Mar 17, 2022
Apple is still the main vendor in the TWS devices and sets the benchmark for others.
To make it in the high- or premium-tier innovation is needed. Feat...
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Neil Mawston
| Mar 17, 2022
Good to see Xiaomi updating this week its popular TWS range, with the new Buds 3T Pro model.
The 3T Pro earbuds are a premium design, priced from US$180 retail...
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Neil Mawston
| Mar 17, 2022
Interesting TWS headphones launch this month from LG.
LG's new Tonefree FP9 earbuds come boxed with a UV cleaning case. After listening to music, you pop ...
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Ken Hyers
| Mar 03, 2022
TWS earbuds have become one of the most popular smartphone accessories. In 2021 the industry recorded continued strong growth.
While Apple remains the market l...
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