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Rajeev Nair
| Oct 18, 2017
There is growing competition to Reliance – Jio in the new 4G Feature Phone segment in India. The latest entrant being Micromax, with its Bharat 1 device. ...
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Ken Hyers
| Oct 17, 2017
ZTE has unveiled a new smartphone with a strikingly new form-factor. The Axon M is arguably the most innovative new design in smartphones since the first iPhone...
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Neil Mawston
| Oct 16, 2017
With Apple abandoning fingerprint authentication for its flagship iPhone X, what is the future for this technology?
Will other handset makers follow suit,...
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Neil Mawston
| Oct 16, 2017
Bitcoin, a digital currency, soared to a record high in recent days. As Wikileaks posted recently, the price of Bitcoin has jumped from US$0.06 i...
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Neil Mawston
| Oct 11, 2017
After years of relentless decline and disastrous missteps, TCL-Alcatel has finally admitted defeat and sold half its mobile phone business to outside inves...
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Ville-Petteri Ukonaho
| Oct 10, 2017
Today, 10th of October 2017 Nokia announced that it will stop the development of its industry leading professional virtual reality camera OZO. Nokia justifies t...
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Ville-Petteri Ukonaho
| Oct 04, 2017
What is the first thing that catches the eye on a handset once it is turned on? The display.
The display has long been the main technology that defines usabil...
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Ken Hyers
| Sep 27, 2017
Refurbished handset sales continue to grow, by double-digit percentages year-on-year in 2017. Strategy Analytics’ Emerging Device Strategies practice find...
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Ken Hyers
| Sep 26, 2017
Today’s smartphones are loaded with advanced sensors and technologies. These have allowed the modern smartphone to replace PCs, standalone cameras, naviga...
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Neil Mawston
| Sep 26, 2017
In a recent announcement that flew under the radar screen for most of the industry, Asus introduced the world’s first WiGig smartphone with Gigabit LTE. I...
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Neil Mawston
| Sep 21, 2017
As expected, Google this week purchased HTC’s Pixel unit, taking on half the company’s handset R&D team. Google has paid US$1 billion to (once a...
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Neil Mawston
| Sep 13, 2017
Apple introduced the iPhone 8, 8 Plus and iPhone X on Sep 12, 2017.
Our EDS (Devices) service guides the most important TECHNOLOGIES you need to be aware of in...
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Neil Mawston
| Sep 08, 2017
According to the latest research from our Emerging Device Strategies (EDS) service, Apple has shipped 1.2 billion iPhones worldwide cumulatively in the past 10 ...
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Neil Mawston
| Sep 07, 2017
MWC Americas -- the new name for the old CTIA tradeshow -- takes place next week in San Francisco, USA.
The event is unfortunately timed, because it opens on t...
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Ville-Petteri Ukonaho
| Sep 02, 2017
Windows on Snapdragon
Microsoft and Qualcomm announced their initiative to bring Windows on Snapdragon in December 2016. Now the fruit of that co-operation is ...
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Neil Mawston
| Aug 31, 2017
LG this week launched its new V30 handset. It is the world’s first LTE 600MHz phone.
According to our EDS (Devices) service, the V30 has an attractive be...
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Ken Hyers
| Aug 31, 2017
Day 2 of the big IFA tradeshow in Germany, on Thursday, 31th August, 2017, turned up three notable new products that we saw from LG, Sony, CAT and Miele.
As ou...
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Neil Mawston
| Aug 31, 2017
Day 1 of the big IFA tradeshow in Germany, on Weds, 30th August, 2017, turned up three notable new products that we saw from Samsung, Fitbit and Diesel.
As our...
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Neil Mawston
| Aug 29, 2017
According to our EDS (Devices) service, NFC phone sales will grow +16% globally in 2018. NFC is used for paying, pairing and sharing by smartphone. The NFC segm...
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Neil Mawston
| Aug 25, 2017
HTC, of Taiwan, is rumored (again) to be selling its mobile handset division. This will be no surprise to anyone who has watched the company stumble from one di...
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