Friday, April 3, 2015
Asus ZenFone gets good reception in India
Asus has made further inroads into the Indian market, selling 40,000 handsets of its latest ZenFone in the four days since the smartphone went on sale in the country, thanks to the appeal of its high performance/price ratio.
Xiaomi is slated to roll out its Mi 3 model in the market soon and HTC aims to boost its share of the market to 15% in two years.
Peter Chang, regional head of South Asia and managing director for Asus India, said that the company aims to muscle into the top-five for smartphones, notebook PCs and tablet PCs in the Indian market next year.
Asus is pushing its products in India through both physical and virtual channels, at a ratio of 6:4, the latter via a colaboration with Flipkart, Indias largest e-commerce site.
Flipkart statistics put ZenFone sales at 40,000 units in the first four days after its rollout, ranking sixth place on the market in July.
Xiaomi has also set up a firm foothold in India, the world third-largest smartphone market, and the company is ready to kick off sales of the Mi 3 there soon, at an expected retail-price tag of 13,999 rupees (US$233). Xiaomi is also selling its products via Flipkart.
HTC debuted its high-end model the E8 and medium-end model the Desire 616 in India in the first half of July, eliciting a positive reception from Indian consumers, who favor the appearances of the firms products, according to Chang Chia-lin, president for global sales and chief financial officer. The company garnered 4% in the high-end sector of the market in the first quarter by selling mainly models priced over 20,000 rupees (US$331), double the average price tag of 10,000 rupees (US$165) or lower for the low-end sector.
With functional models priced at 10,000 rupees or lower still boasting 70%-80% of Indias mobile-phone market, demand for smartphones is surging, scoring 175% growth last year. The substantial demand has attracted the participation of all major brands worldwide. By comparison, with its penetration rate already hitting 66%, Chinas smartphone market has become increasingly saturated.
For the moment, the capacity of Indias smartphone market is still rather limited, due to low per capita income, but the potential is large, as Indians favor renowned brands. Apple and Samsung now dominate the high-end sector of the local mobile-phone market, which now accounts for 6%-7% of the entire market.
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Peter Chang 張旗浚
Chang Chia-lin 張嘉臨
Saturday, March 28, 2015
Idris Elba punch with ‘No Good Deed’ Marvels ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ the throne – Total Film
The second place is for a newcomer. The well received and $ 36.0-million family film Dolphin Tale 2 (RT = 73%, IMDb = 6.6) by director Charles Martin Smith scored a reasonable $ 16.6 million. The first part did a reasonable $ score to the global box office. 95.4 million in 2011
On the third spot is to be found. Guardians of the Galaxy In the seventh weekend scored an excellent $ 8.0 million and grew to $ 305.9 million in the States and $ 611.5 million worldwide. The fourth and fifth place for the TMNT reboot Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles , and the comedy Let’s Be Cops . Both scored well with $ 4.8 million and $ 4.3 million respectively.
A third newcomer is in sixth place and governs American directorial debut of Belgian Bullhead -regisseur Michaël R. Roskam. The $ 12.0-million crime drama The Drop (RT = 88%, IMDb = 8.0) with Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace and the late James Gandolfini scored a respectable $ 4.2 million. The film received excellent running this week in just over eight hundred theaters. On average, recorded last weekend alone No Good Deed better.
The last four places for the drama If I Stay , the action The November Man and the dramas The Giver and The Hundred-Foot Journey .
Next weekend welcomes the North American Box Office Top 10 probably four new titles in the horror film Tusk , the sci-fi thriller The Maze Runner , the drama A Walk Among the Tombstones , and the comedy This is Where I Leave You .
| DW | VW | Film | Revenue | Total yield | Budget * | Release NL | Trailer |
| 1. | (-) | No Good Deed | $ 24,500,000 | $ 24,500,000 | $ 13.2 | 27-11-14 | Trailer |
| 2. | ( -) | Dolphin Tale 2 | $ 16,550,000 | $ 16,550,000 | $ 36 | unknown | Trailer |
| 3. | (1) | Guardians of the Galaxy | $ 8,041,000 | $ 305,926,000 | $ 170 | running | Trailer |
| 4. | (2) | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | $ 4,800,000 | $ 181,041,000 | $ 125 | running | Trailer |
| 5. | (3) | Let’s Be Cops | $ 4,300,000 | $ 72,972,000 | $ 17 | running | Trailer |
| 6 | . (-) | The Drop | $ 4,200,000 | $ 4,200,000 | $ 40 | 30-10-14 | Trailer |
| 7. | (4) | If I Stay | $ 4,050,000 | $ 44,937,000 | $ 11 | Thursday | Trailer |
| 8. | (5) | The November Man | $ 2,750,000 | $ 22,495,000 | unknown | running | Trailer |
| 9. | (8) | The Giver | $ 2,626,000 | $ 41,329,000 | $ 25 | unknown | Trailer |
| 10. | (9) | The Hundred-Foot Journey | $ 2,461,000 | $ 49,409,000 | $ 22 | 09-10-14 | Trailer |
| Of revenues on average 55% returns to the film. |
© Total Film 2014
