Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS), has launched a single-pole, single-throw (SPST) antenna tuning switch for LTE-Advanced ...
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Up-and-coming Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has hired Hugo Barra, former Google vice president for Android product management, to lead its expansion worldwide. The hiring of Barra is a high-profile move for Xiaomi, a company that only ...
Tags: Computer Products, smartphone, Xiaomi
RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA says that it has shipped more than 1 million RF7196D high-power, high-efficiency CMOS power amplifiers (PAs). As the firm's newest and most innovative CMOS PA, the low-cost RF7196D is in mass ...
Tags: RFMD RF CMOS, Power Amplifier, Electrical, Electronics
China white-box handsets have seen declined popularity in emerging markets where mobile telecom carriers and retail channels are eager to look for products of better quality, according to Taiwan-based supply chain makers. This is likely to ...
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has said the company is now worth 10 billion U.S. dollars after a new round of funding, presenting the latest evidence of Chinese smartphone makers' breakneck growth. The private company owns the ...
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BlackBerry this week took the wraps off a special edition Q10 handset, which will come coloured in gold and white.? The handset is exclusive to the Middle East, and comes in white with gold-coloured, stainless steel frame, BlackBerry ...
Jolla, the mobile operating system start-up established by ex-Nokia employees, says that it has sold out the first batch of its forthcoming debut smartphone. Based on the Sailfish operating system, a refined version of Nokia's Linux-based ...
Tags: mobile, Computer Products, software
Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile customers: Motorola's bonafide, American-made Moto X smartphone should be available for purchase within the next few days. The company's own Vice President of product management, Punit Soni, revealed in a ...
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Production of BlackBerry smartphone devices has been cut in half after the company's CEO, Thorsten Heins, effectively put the company up for sale. Heins, who under his contract of employment stands to earn more than $50m if the company is ...
While shipments of touch panels for handset applications will continue to dominate the touch panel industry in China in the second half of 2013, the ratio of tablet touch panels will rise in the fourth quarter as China-based touch panel ...
Tags: Tablet, Notebook, Touch Panel
With an aim to give the best possible 3G mobile experience at an affordable price to the consumers who like staying connected to social media and accessing the Internet, Lava International has introduced its entry-level 3G Android ...
Nokia is hoping to boost the number of applications available for the Asha 501 to make it more competitive with low-cost Android smartphones with the release Thursday of the first version of a software development kit (SDK) for the phone. ...
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Though still unsubstantiated, a low-cost iPhone is now widely seen as a possible product announcement in early September, along with a new high-end phone. And it’s finally possible to create a coherent explanation of why such a move ...
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Google is distributing patches for a cryptography flaw in Android that may affect hundreds of thousands of applications. The patches have been passed to partners belonging to the Open Handset Alliance, a trade group dedicated to ...
The shake-out of the mobile phone market has continued with the news that Japanese consumer electronics giant Panasonic is to discontinue making smartphones. It comes a week after its rival NEC announced a similar withdrawal. However, ...
Tags: mobile phone, Panasonic