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Neil Mawston
| Jan 20, 2022
We notice Vivo is quietly inching up the smartphone rankings in France.
Recent research from our Country Tracker (CST) places Vivo in 8th place during the seco...
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Neil Mawston
| Jan 20, 2022
Recent research from our Smartphone Country Tracker (CST) shows Honor grabbed a record 4% share of worldwide smartphone revenues in the third quarter of 2021.
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Neil Mawston
| Jan 20, 2022
New research from our WSS (Smartphones) service shows 5% of German adult consumers today in 2022 have used a smartphone insurance policy to repair their lost, s...
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Neil Mawston
| Jan 20, 2022
We notice HMD, maker of Nokia smartphones, is currently driving a major push into the United States market.
HMD Nokia wants in 2022 to be a leader in US prepai...
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Neil Mawston
| Jan 20, 2022
Russia is making a lot of headlines in recent months, but its smartphone market is holding up reasonably well for now. The market grew a mild +2% in the first 9...
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Neil Mawston
| Jan 20, 2022
We notice Xiaomi has continued to launch this year a rising wave of 5G phone models in China and Europe, and possibly upcoming to the US.
For example, Xia...
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Neil Mawston
| Jan 20, 2022
With the Internet currently working up a frenzy about a rumored new Samsung Galaxy S22 smartphone, we took a quick look at its predecessor S21 shipments last ye...
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Neil Mawston
| Jan 20, 2022
New research from our Wearables (WDE) tracker predicts global smartwatch sales will grow a healthy +22% in 2022.
Smartwatches, like Apple Watch, are a high-val...
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Neil Mawston
| Jan 20, 2022
CES 2022 in Las Vegas this month was a surprisingly active show for wearables.
Dozens of new devices and partnerships were unveiled. These are the ones that ca...
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Neil Mawston
| Jan 20, 2022
New research from our Wearables (WDE) tracker predicts worldwide shipments of cellular-enabled wearable devices will grow an impressive +30% in 2022.
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Neil Mawston
| Jan 20, 2022
Recent research from our Bluetooth Device Tracker (BDT) predicts half-a-billion Bluetooth speakers will be selling annually worldwide by mid-decade.
Bluet...
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Ken Hyers
| Jan 20, 2022
The Western European 5G smartphone market is growing quickly, up nearly 360% YoY in Q3'21 and more than 200% for the full year.
Apple and Samsung are the ...
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Neil Mawston
| Jan 20, 2022
We notice this week that several Bluetooth earbud players in the emerging India market have been offering fairly steep pricing discounts on some of their t...
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Ken Hyers
| Jan 20, 2022
The eSIM as a technology has been around now for around half a decade. Yet many smartphones do not have the technology and most consumers are not even aware of ...
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Neil Mawston
| Jan 20, 2022
We notice OnePlus this month is updating the firmware on its Buds Pro TWS Bluetooth headphones with a new Dual Connection feature. If you have a OnePlus sm...
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Chris Schreiner
| Jan 18, 2022
Chris, Lisa, and Diana have been UX professionals for more years than they wish to admit. They have all seen how UX has evolved within organizations, how it is ...
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Rajeev Nair
| Jan 17, 2022
realme’s unprecedented growth in the global smartphone market since its debut in 2018 has had a strong contribution from its number series. Our recent ins...
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David Kerr
| Jan 13, 2022
Only 1 in 5 smartphone buyers choose to add device insurance. So there is huge headroom for growth across both traditional and emerging players.
Strategy Analyt...
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Chris Schreiner
| Jan 11, 2022
The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was once again hampered by the pandemic. With Omicron surging, many companies pulled out while others scaled back the...
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Guang Yang
| Jan 10, 2022
The evolution of Midea’s Industrial Internet Platform
In my previous blog, I discussed the indoor positioning system in Midea Group’s fully connecte...
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