Taiwan smartphone shipments to drop slightly in 4Q on decreased iPhone 3G orders, paper says

With contract manufacturers seeing decreased orders for the iPhone 3G, Taiwan's smartphone shipments will drop 0.4% sequentially to 10.98 million units in the fourth quarter, much eclipsed by average global sequential growth of 17.9%, the Taiwan government-sponsored Market Intelligence Center (MIC) was cited by the Economic Daily News (EDN) as predicting.

MIC predicts that smartphone shipments from Taiwan makers will further decline in the first quarter of 2009 to 8-9 million units, the paper added.

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