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Neil Mawston
| Oct 23, 2017
Essential Phone, developed by Android creator Andy Rubin, has this week announced it will slash the retail price of its flagship smartphone by almost 30%, ...
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Steven Waltzer
| Oct 21, 2017
Reports have surfaced that cellular connectivity of the Apple Watch Series 3 Cellular has been suspended in China. This comes after an initial software issue ca...
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Eric Higham
| Oct 20, 2017
It occurs to me that “we” (collectively) have a tendency to take things for granted. Perhaps it’s human nature, perhaps it’s a bit of en...
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Yiwen Wu
| Oct 20, 2017
HMD unveiled its latest smartphone Nokia 7 in China today. The China-focused model is the 5th new smartphone from HMD. HMD has Nokia 6, 3, 5, 8 and 7 five model...
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Prabhat Agarwal
| Oct 19, 2017
Uber’s buzz in the market enabled it to slide into the top 10 list, replacing Snapchat, for mobile brands in 2017 (year to date). Despite the resign...
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Ville-Petteri Ukonaho
| Oct 19, 2017
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become and important differentiator among smartphones. Virtual Assistants, machine learning and on-device AI are all important ...
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Paul Brown
| Oct 18, 2017
At a press event in New York on October 17th 2017, ZTE unveiled the ZTE Axon M, a foldable dual screen smartphone. The Axon M features two separate 5.2-in...
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Yiwen Wu
| Oct 18, 2017
Qualcomm recently filed a new lawsuit against Apple in China, alleging the vendor’s infringement on three patents related to Force Touch technology. Qualc...
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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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Rajeev Nair
| Oct 18, 2017
Apple would have to think beyond just subsidizing the iPhone, if it intends to grow in the Indian market. Our recent insight report from the Handset Country Sha...
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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
Huawei announced its new Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro smartphones on October 16th, 2017.
According to our WSS (Smartphones) service, their main differentiators are ...
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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 12, 2017
Everyone has to wear, make or buy clothes. We estimate 80 BILLION “dumb” garments will be produced worldwide in 2018. The potential for “smart...
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Roger Lanctot
| Oct 12, 2017
There hasn’t been this much excitement in Munich since the 1920’s. Nvidia’s great pivot was on display at the GPU Technology Conference ...
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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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Juha Winter
| Oct 11, 2017
As we’ve discussed earlier on this blog, during most of the year, Apple’s latest iPhone range and Samsung’s Galaxy S series and Galaxy J serie...
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Rajeev Nair
| Oct 10, 2017
Xiaomi is re-entering the premium smartphone price tier in India with the launch of Mi Mix 2. The vendor has had a high focus on the entry and mid-price tiers o...
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Neil Mawston
| Oct 10, 2017
Microsoft has this month confirmed publicly what everyone already knew -- Windows 10 Mobile for smartphones is dead. But what comes next? Is rumored Andromeda O...
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