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Eric Smith
| May 01, 2020
The first quarter of 2020 presented enormous challenges as the COVID-19 outbreak hampered the supply chain in China as well as domestic consumer demand there. D...
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Eric Smith
| Feb 13, 2020
It remains to be seen whether travel restrictions, extended Lunar New Year holidays, and quarantines are simply fear and panic or prudent public health policy, ...
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Eric Smith
| Feb 27, 2019
Edge computing is a lofty goal meant to offload data processing on end user devices onto the network, leveraging high throughput and low latency, so it’s ...
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Eric Smith
| Feb 26, 2019
If I had a nickel for every time I heard 5G today, that would be a really weird way to make money. I can’t take credit for that line, but I can testify to...
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Eric Smith
| Feb 24, 2019
Mobile World Congress has not officially begun yet and there are already some major announcements to talk about. Huawei had a big presentation about its newest ...
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Eric Smith
| Jan 31, 2019
We just reported that several major tablet vendors had very happy holidays in 2018 and Samsung posted its first global quarterly shipment growth since 2014. App...
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Eric Smith
| Oct 16, 2018
The first two weeks of October have been exciting for the computing world. First, HP unveiled its new Spectre Folio convertible PC which utilizes a leather fold...
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Eric Smith
| Mar 03, 2018
Huawei, Alcatel, and Lenovo all launched new computing devices at MWC 2018, which we covered in our first two blogs from the show. Some over-arching themes...
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Eric Smith
| Mar 02, 2018
We saw Huawei and Alcatel launch tablets and PCs during the press days of Mobile World Congress and Lenovo rounded out the show with its own PCs. It should...
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Eric Smith
| Feb 26, 2018
Before MWC kicks off, we saw two vendors come out with new tablets spanning the high and low tiers of the market.
Alcatel kicked things off on Saturday with the...
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Eric Smith
| Jan 11, 2018
Two of the biggest stories here at CES have important implications for tablet vendors: 1. The proliferation of voice control; and, 2. Bringing the phone experie...
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Eric Smith
| Jan 09, 2018
The Windows ecosystem is getting key upgrades this year thanks to some serious technology commitments from Qualcomm, Intel, and Microsoft. These advancements in...
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Eric Smith
| Aug 03, 2017
After 13 straight quarters of year-on-year shipment declines, Apple posted a sensational increase in Q2 2017 of +15%. Meanwhile Huawei has thrilled the industry...
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Eric Smith
| May 18, 2017
In an attempt to jumpstart slowing growth of its ultra-low priced tablets, Amazon announced a relaunch of its two most popular tablets as well as an increased f...
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Eric Smith
| Mar 24, 2017
Apple’s market share has been in decline for six years and the company has been unable to spark replacement of millions of older iPad 2 devices still bein...
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Eric Smith
| Feb 28, 2017
There were several tablet announcements on Day Two which we will cover fully in a wrap-up report after the show, but these were the models and features that cau...
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Eric Smith
| Feb 27, 2017
After a day of new phones from Blackberry/TCL-Alcatel, Huawei, Motorola, and Nokia/HMD, Samsung spent Sunday night announcing two new tablets at MWC. Both devic...
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Eric Smith
| Dec 19, 2016
With an announcement by Hiroshi Lockheimer, Google’s Senior Vice President for Android, Chrome and Chromecast, that Android and Chrome OS will not me...
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Eric Smith
| Jul 29, 2016
Global Tablet shipments fell 8% year-on-year in Q2 2016 to 46.7 million units while average selling prices (ASPs) went the other way, climbing 9% during the sam...
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Eric Smith
| Jun 09, 2016
In search of higher margins and conquest sales from the PC market, Tablet vendors 2-in-1 and Pro Slate devices have garnered higher revenue and stabilized avera...
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