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Bored with the cold, silver minimalism of today's TVs? Taiwanese TV maker Hannspree offers models designed to appeal "on an emotional level." The 100 or so LCD sets, priced from $450 to $1,400, come in three lines. The Style range, an eclectic collection of TVs in such shapes as cellos, flowers and pearl oysters, are clad in wood, rubber or bright plastic...
Most printers today cost far less than $200, but that's a price point I like to watch since it's where most of the cool new technology gets introduced. Generally, $200 printers can generate borderless 4x6s and 5x7s, and have color LCD screens and card readers so you can turn a shot into a print without turning on your computer. HP just delivered a new player at the $200 mark, and as expected at this price, it delivers a lot of performance. It's also a huge step forward...
...Taiwan taking on the industry's heavyweights. An easy-going engineer, Lee began using the BenQ brand in 2001 when his organization was spun off from Acer, Taiwan's well-known computer company. The BenQ logo can now be found on MP3 players, LCD TVs and monitors, notebooks and mobile phones. An 80-person design team, led by a former Porsche designer, has created trendy gadgets aimed at Asia's youth, such as a coin-sized MP3 player that can be worn as a pendant and sleek laptops called Joybooks. In May, the company launched a square phone, the Qube...
...BenQ is getting noticed. So far this year, its branded products generated 44% of its revenues (the company still produces projectors, LCD monitors and mobile phones on a contract basis). But Lee's bold strategy has serious risks. According to consulting firm Gartner, Motorola last year discontinued buying phones from BenQ because the Taiwan firm had started selling its own mobile phones. (Neither Lee nor a Motorola spokesperson would comment.) The acquisition of the Siemens unit is also risky. Burdened with stodgy phones, high costs and falling market share, the German operation is losing about $1 million...
...Since Wang took over as Acer's president in 2000, the company has undergone a no-prisoners downsizing that jettisoned all of Acer's electronics manufacturing operations. The computer-making arm and contract manufacturing businesses were spun off and renamed Wistron. The consumer-electronics division became BenQ, and an LCD maker became AU Optronics. The new Acer exists primarily as a computer design, distribution and marketing company that hires contract manufacturers such as Taiwan's Quanta Computer to ship Acer-branded machines from factories in mainland China directly to distributors...