LED mobile phone market is expected to slow growth in 2008

Digitimes Research data show that now, 95% mobile phone has been used as LED backlight, so LED manufacturers estimate next year mobile phone market LED growth of only 10%, slow growth, and this increase is only slightly higher than the expected growth rate of 9.1% of the global mobile phone.

Market analysts believe that the mobile phone market LED yield increase is mainly due to the white box mobile phone market, the market from 2006 to 2010 the average compound growth rate of about 25% this year, the market China white box mobile phone production reached 4000-6000 million. Analysts explained that in the past Chinese white box mobile phone manufacturers are keen to lower prices, and now they Chinese focus on increasing the demand for high-end products, which require the application of LED backlight and LED flash photography in mobile phone design.

With the LED Backlight Market applied in the field of mobile phone manufacturers LED mature, mobile phone applications reduced the price of LED, in the next two years, with the related price reduced by 30%, the overall mobile phone LED market value will decline. Due to lower prices to the Japanese LED manufacturers to consider the issue of profit from the mobile phone LED market, Taiwan manufacturers will aim to increase sales opportunities. (http://www.digitimes.com/)