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Neil Mawston
| Sep 15, 2020
Android 11 Go edition is being updated this month. It is a stripped-down version of full Android, optimized for low-cost smartphones in emerging markets such as...
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Neil Mawston
| Sep 11, 2020
Huawei this week updated its new Harmony operating system for smartphones, wearables, TVs, laptops, cars and other gadgets. Harmony OS 2.0 is Huawei's "plan B" ...
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Neil Mawston
| Aug 12, 2020
HMD Global this week confirmed it is receiving some US$230 million of fresh funding -- from Google, Qualcomm and Nokia.
That is quite a "lockdown bonus".
All ...
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Rajeev Nair
| Aug 12, 2020
Vivo minimized its losses in a COVID hit quarter. In Q2 2020, when the global smartphone shipments declined in double digits, Vivo was better off with a -3% dec...
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Boris Metodiev
| Aug 10, 2020
TCL has launched its first 5G smartphone, the TCL 10 5G. With the new device the company offers a very solid spec sheet at an affordable price. It is TCL’...
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Yiwen Wu
| Aug 10, 2020
OPPO slightly outperformed global smartphone market in Q2 2020 with -15% annual decline rate amid COVID-19 pandemic. If adding back its sibling brand OnePlus an...
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Yiwen Wu
| Aug 08, 2020
Huawei outperformed the global smartphone market in Q2 2020 with a modest -5% YoY decline rate. It managed to ship nearly 56 million unit smartphones worldwide ...
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Rajeev Nair
| Aug 07, 2020
Profitability continued to elude Sony, as its smartphone volumes and revenues decline annually in Q2 2020. However, sequentially it did manage to grow ste...
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Boris Metodiev
| Aug 06, 2020
5G was off to a great start in the first year itself and the year 2020 is shaping up be the year of 5G. Qualcomm, the baseband market leader, has established it...
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Boris Metodiev
| Aug 04, 2020
Google unveiled Pixel 4a, Pixel 4a 5G and Pixel 5 on August 3, 2020. While the long awaited (and very much delayed) Pixel 4a is available to pre-order now and w...
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Boris Metodiev
| Aug 03, 2020
Apple’s total smartphone shipments grew +8% YoY. The company performed remarkably well, compared to the overall industry, with the total global smartphone...
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Rajeev Nair
| Aug 03, 2020
LG’s revenues declined by -18% annually as handset volumes dipped by -15%, in Q2 2020. It continues to incur losses from the mobile division. Detailed ana...
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Boris Metodiev
| Jul 17, 2020
Online retail channels will account for a record 28% share of all smartphones sold worldwide in 2020, soaring from 24% in 2019. Coronavirus is having a major im...
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Yiwen Wu
| Jul 02, 2020
We forecast global smartphone user base will grow 20% from 2020 to 2025. Despite of the impact of COVID-19 pandemic, we expect global smartphone penetration rat...
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David Kerr
| Jun 25, 2020
Online share of Smartphone Sales Set to Surge with Mobile Service Provider Stores losing out in US and UK
3 in 4 consumers in USA plan to buy through online c...
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Boris Metodiev
| Jun 25, 2020
The smartphone market in Western Europe, stagnated by lack of hardware innovation, subsidy removal and rising smartphone prices, will be additionally affected b...
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David Kerr
| Jun 11, 2020
Central and Eastern Europe: Smartphone Wholesale trade revenues grew by 5% YoY
Wholesale trade revenues grew by 5% YoY to US$ 4.6 billion in Q1 2020. Samsung f...
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Boris Metodiev
| Jun 08, 2020
Google’s total global smartphone shipments declined -13% YoY in Q1 2020 and its global marketshare by volume was at 0.5%. The firm dropped couple of place...
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Boris Metodiev
| May 29, 2020
Lenovo-Motorola total global smartphone shipments collapsed -39% YoY and wholesale revenues slumped by half in Q1 2020.
As a result, the firm dropped to number ...
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Boris Metodiev
| May 22, 2020
Sony’s total global smartphone shipments plunged -64% annually to 0.4 million units. That is the lowest number of smartphones shipped by the company for t...
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