Lower average selling prices for millions of new smartphones and tablets will help keep the global market for technology in 2014 at 1% below last year’s level, according to the Consumer Electronics Association. The global technology ...
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China-based smartphone vendors Huawei and Gionee Communication Equipment will follow the steps of fellow company Xiaomi Technology to market smartphones online with aggressive pricing, a move which is expected to heat up competition in ...
For Motorola, the "touchless control" used on the Moto X could be just the beginning. If a just-published patent application from Google-owned Motorola Mobility is any indication, the company is actually more interested in devices that ...
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Mobile devices will be able to talk to wireless charging platforms through a partnership between the Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP) and the backers of Bluetooth. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group and the A4WP announced a memorandum ...
Samsung has confirmed its next generation of smartphones, including the Galaxy S5 we assume, will use a 64-bit processor. Apple's new flagship smartphone, the iPhone 5S, features the A7 64-bit processor with "desktop-class architecture". ...
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Apple has capped a summer of speculation with the launch of two new iPhones - an iPhone 5S and the iPhone 5. But with most of the pre-launch rumours proving to be true, the two main surprises were the inclusion of a 64-bit microprocessor ...
Mobile management company MobileIron has announced its Anyware enterprise mobility management platform, and the product's integration with Salesforce.com's existing AppExchange platform. Following an IDC report stating that one billion ...
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NEC will introduce no new smartphones, and will make current models only to order, as it struggles to find the economies of scale required to compete in the market. The Japanese company is ending the development, manufacturing and sale of ...
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Apple's iPhone sales are sputtering as rival smartphone makers ramp up their offerings, a market research firm says. The survey by IHS iSuppli said smartphones are still going strong around the world, but that Apple is lagging. "Apple's ...
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Faster network speeds are better, right? LTE cis coming soon to the Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone, offering double the downlink speeds of LTE (Long Term Evolution). But U.S. carriers still have to upgrade LTE networks to operate with LTE ...
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The first mobile devices to use Nvidia's Tegra 4 chips will be announced this quarter, meaning smartphones and tablets based on the new processor should be available soon. Nvidia unwrapped Tegra 4 at the International CES trade show in ...
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Six years after the sale of the first iPhone and 14 years after the first BlackBerry email pager was unveiled, smartphone shipments have outnumbered sales of other types of mobile phones, IDC reported late Thursday. IDC said 216.2 million ...
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Sprint warned Wednesday that it will be "slightly delayed" with its full launch of the Samsung Galaxy S 4 on Saturday as planned. Sprint said in an emailed statement that the problem stems from "unexpected inventory challenges from ...
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The next generation of smartphones could have bullet-proof sapphire-glass screens thanks to improved production techniques and falling prices. One of the many rumours surrounding Google's upcoming X Phone is that it will feature a ...
BlackBerry chief executive Thorsten Heins has revealed plans to expand the Canadian firm's smartphone portfolio, to incorporate lower-end devices, in a bid to keep up with the likes of Samsung and Apple. In an interview with The Canadian ...
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