The new iPhone sales in China outpaced those in the US for the first time, helped by the Chinese Lunar New Year celebration and it boost Apple's profits in Q1. Apple Inc beat Wall Street's revenue and profit forecasts on Monday on the back ...
Tags: iPhone 6, Apple Watch
With a growing number of Chinese cell phone makers taking giant strides in overseas markets, Africa, with its huge population, is also in its sights. OPPO, a Chinese producer, has unveiled two smartphones, OPPO N3 and OPPO N5, in Morocco, ...
Tags: Cell Phone, African Market
IC demand from China's smartphone market is showing signs of a pick-up, as inventories at non-Apple vendors ease, according to sources at Taiwan-based IC design houses. Strong sales of Apple's iPhone 6 devices in China resulted in excess ...
Cavendish Kinetics of San Jose CA, USA, which provides RF MEMS tuning solutions for smartphones, handheld and wearable wireless devices, says that its SmarTune antenna tuning solution is gaining significant traction in the LTE smartphone ...
Tags: MEMS, Cavendish Kinetics, Electronics
Handset IC suppliers including Qualcomm, MediaTek and Spreadtrum tend to lower prices to win orders from their major clients, which may negatively affect their gross margin performance in 2015, according to industry sources. With China's ...
Tags: Handset IC, Smartphones
Beijing-based Xiaomi Inc has set a more ambitious goal for smartphone sales in 2015, the company's founder and CEO revealed on Friday. Xiaomi is expected to sell between 80 million and 100 million smartphones for the whole of 2015, Lei ...
Tags: Xiaomi, smartphone sales, ambitious goal
Apple has taken three years to regain the crown as the world's top smartphone maker. The latest market data show that the iPhone maker beat Samsung for the first time since 2011. Leading market research firm Gartner has released a ...
Tags: Apple, Samsung, Smartphone Market
Forget about the upcoming Galaxy S6 and HTC One M9, Huawei has introduced a new pair of entry-level handsets. Although far from the stars of this week’s MWC 2015 gathering, the wallet-friendly Huawei Y635 and Huawei Y360 are helping ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, MWC
Global smartphone shipments grew 31% annually from 290.2 million units in fourth-quarter 2013 to a record 380.1 million in fourth-quarter 2014, according to the latest research from Strategy Analytics. "An impressive 1.3 billion ...
Tags: Smartphone Vendor, Electrical
Samsung and Apple continue to lead as top global semiconductor customers in 2014. The two companies consumed – together – 17 percent of the total semiconductor demand. Samsung Electronics and Apple remained the top ...
Tags: semiconductor demand, pricing implications, Electrical
Microsoft has lifted the lid on two new Lumia devices for emerging markets, and they're both extremely easy on the wallet. The Lumia 435 sells for just €69 (£54), while the Lumia 532 goes for €79 (£61). That makes ...
Tags: Microsoft, Consumer Electronics, Windows 8.1
Sources claim executives from both firms, along with advisers, met as recently as last week in order to discuss the terms of a potential deal. The report claims Samsung is offering up to 60 per cent more per share than the current trading ...
Tags: Samsung, Blackberry, Consumer Electronics
Motorola has announced it will re-enter the Chinese smartphone market from February with at least three products.Lenovo will offer the Moto X around the Chinese New Year- the Spring Festival- in February. The Moto X Pro with a 6-inch ...
Tags: Motorola, Smartphones
Motorola has announced a new 6-inch addition to its smartphone lineup, the Moto X Pro - but it's probably only coming to China. Last year, Chinese manufacturer Lenovo bought Motorola from Google. While this appeared at the time to be an ...
Tags: Motorola, CES, Consumer Electronics
After a troubled year in 2014, the global tablet market is not returning to the levels of growth seen in the last four years as demand for tablets will continue to be slow in 2015. Gartner estimates that worldwide tablet sales will reach ...
Tags: tablet market, Tablet