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Ken Hyers
| Mar 05, 2021
Sales of Totally Wireless (TWS) Bluetooth headsets are skyrocketing. So is mobile gaming, video streaming and listening to music on smartphones. The...
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Neil Mawston
| Mar 04, 2021
Your 4G / 5G smartphone or featurephone is almost certainly manufactured in Asia or Latin America.
Learn more here.
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Rajeev Nair
| Mar 04, 2021
Chinese smartphone makers have taken over the Kenyan smartphone market in 2020. As our latest report available here from Smartphone Country Share Tracker ...
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Abhilash Kumar
| Mar 04, 2021
Strategy Analytics predict global handset and smartphone sales volume will rebound +6% YoY and +7% YoY in 2021 respectively. Both handset and smartphone market ...
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Yiwen Wu
| Mar 03, 2021
Strategy Analytics predicts global smartphone shipments will increase +7% YoY in 2021 and return to the pre-pandemic levels in 2022. Growth is driven jointly by...
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Chris Schreiner
| Mar 02, 2021
Derek and Chris discuss the recent Robinhood scandals from a UX perspective. What role did the user experience of the Robinhood app play in the GameStop saga? H...
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Ken Hyers
| Feb 26, 2021
Samsung has brought new hearing enhancements to its Galaxy Buds Live TWS headphones. The new feature, first introduced in its Galaxy Buds Pro TWS, let use...
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Yiwen Wu
| Feb 26, 2021
MWC Shanghai 2021 is the first tech show that held in person since the COVID 19 pandemic. It took place from February 23rd to Feb 25th, 2021 in China. Ana...
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Abhilash Kumar
| Feb 26, 2021
Strategy Analytics tracked global smartphone shipments (sell in) grew 3% YoY in Jan 2021. Sales (sell through) to end-users also improved 10% annually. Apple to...
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Abhilash Kumar
| Feb 25, 2021
Google’s smartphone business was unable to meet expectations in Q4 2020. Shipments declined -54% YoY but were up 56% QoQ due to new launches and seasonali...
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Rajeev Nair
| Feb 25, 2021
Realme launched the next iterations of its Narzo series smartphone in India. Of the two models Realme Narzo 30 Pro is 5G capable and is being touted as the chea...
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Neil Mawston
| Feb 24, 2021
Mobile operator, 1&1, has partnered recently with TCL to launch a 4G kidswatch in Germany.
TCL's Movetime Family Watch MT40 comes with LTE videocalling, an...
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Ken Hyers
| Feb 24, 2021
Huawei this week revealed its newest foldable, the Huawei Mate X2. The newest flagship from the Chinese smartphone maker boasts a sizeable foldable displa...
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Neil Mawston
| Feb 24, 2021
Vivo (of China) is expanding swiftly across the Czech Republic, Romania, Ukraine, France, Germany and elsewhere.
Vivo stands a good chance of being a top-5 Eur...
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Rajeev Nair
| Feb 24, 2021
Indonesia is the largest smartphone market in Q4 2020 and of the 45 tracked in our recently published report. The report with detailed analysis is available her...
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Chris Schreiner
| Feb 23, 2021
Lisa talks with the "grandfather of VR", Dr. Tom Furness from the University of Washington. They talk about the potential for virtual and augmented reality, the...
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Neil Mawston
| Feb 23, 2021
OPPO introduced today, in China, its prototype Wireless Air Charging (WAC) accessory for smartphones.
OPPO WAC will enable your 5G handset to re...
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Neil Mawston
| Feb 22, 2021
Encouraging news today from the World Health Organization (source).
WHO says new Covid cases worldwide have fallen by HALF from 5 million per week on January 4...
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Neil Mawston
| Feb 22, 2021
Huawei today launched its new Mate X2 foldable with a huge 8-inch display.
The X2 costs almost $3,000 and is the world’s most-expensive mainstream smartp...
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Abhilash Kumar
| Feb 22, 2021
HMD (Nokia) returned to profit for both smartphone and feature phone divisions. This is driven by company redoubling its effort on higher end smartphones which ...
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