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While the mobe power base is shifting from the traditional players to the new upstarts, with Samsung and HTC suffering at the hands of Huawei and Xiaomi, Asus is having a good time in the good old handset market. Sales were up from three million in the first quarter to five million in the second and the company is predicting …

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  1. Dr_N

    Happy Asus phone customer here.

    Padfone Mini (Zenfone 4 version) surprisingly good.

    Even with an older Intel chipset.

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  2. vmistery

    "NT$99.37bn (£1.98)," I will have that exchange rate please :)

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  3. Chairo
    Facepalm

    So they make a phone that people actually want

    and it is selling well. What a surprise!

    Perhaps HTC, Samsung and the other traditional handset makers could ask themselves the question - what did we lose that they have now?

    Is it so difficult to offer a decent feature set for a reasonable price?

    Well, apparently it is...

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    1. oolor
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      Re: So they make a phone that people actually want

      Which explains the nearly 7% dividend yield.

      I've always liked this company as an investment AND their products. They also happened to make the guts of most my old non-ASUS compys kicking around. Funny that. Not that big of a company, so they don't need to own the market, just sell a good product with a good margin.

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