Engineers who used to work for Nokia are hoping to grab a share of the lucrative and highly competitive smartphone market with a new handset, which is based on the former world No. 1 cellphone maker's old software and is faintly reminiscent ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Smartphone, Nokia
Apple yesterday signed a deal with China Mobile which could see it offer the iPhone to over 760 million Chinese customers from January. The company already sells its phones in China through two other carriers in the country – China ...
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Chinese rare earth miners are being forced to phase out excessive production capacity as rising overseas suppliers chip away at their dominance in the global market. Russia announced in April its plan to invest $1 billion in rare earth ...
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The IDC announced on November 26, 2013, the global smart phone market survey report shows that the sales of global smart phone in 2013 is expected to increase by 39.3% , more than 1 billion units, Japanese media reported. Although in many ...
Tags: Smartphone, Consumer Electronics, phone
Based on the data gathered by the "Solving the E-Waste Problem (StEP) Initiative," by 2017, all of that year's end-of-life refrigerators, TVs, mobile phones, computers, monitors, e-toys and other products with a battery or electrical cord ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Apple says it has reached a deal to bring the iPhone to China Mobile, the world's biggest phone carrier. The deal gives Apple a bigger entry into the huge Chinese market and China Mobile's estimated 760 million subscribers. The network is ...
Tags: China Mobile, iPhone, Apple
One of our readers from last month's article Make a PCB with your laser printer raised an interesting concern about the disposal of chemicals used to make a homemade PCB. In that particular article, we discussed making your own PCB using ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, CPU
The U.S. International Trade Commission has ruled against InterDigital in a complaint that alleged Huawei, Nokia and ZTE had infringed the company’s patents. On Thursday, the ITC upheld a previous ruling in June that found ...
Tags: Huawei, ZTE, Nokia, Patent Dispute
BlackBerry’s new CEO says he is “very interested” in trying to replicate some of the company’s signature security and enterprise productivity on rival platforms. BlackBerry has enjoyed favour in enterprises for its ...
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Oticon Medical, a manufacturer of bone anchored hearing systems, has obtained 510(k) approval the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its Ponto Plus bone anchored sound processors in regular version (down to a hearing loss of ...
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During holidays, when you and some of your friends go shopping in Wanda Plazas, you don't need to worry about not finding the destinations. Since you turn on your smart phones, the wireless network in plazas will provide " square map " to ...
Tags: Non-Steel Businesses, Mineral
Samsung has overtaken Apple to become the largest mobile phone company in the world, providing users with the leading smart phones priced over $900 to basic phones priced under $150. However, the demand for high-end smart phones is ...
Tags: Samsung, Apple, Electrical, Electronics, mobile phone
Five new series of micro-SIM card sockets from Molex are available from TTI. Designed to offer space savings and anti-short card detection and polarisation features, the series is targeted at wireless mobile devices. Both push-pull and ...
Tags: SIM, mobile devices
All of those cell phones, computers, tablets, toys, and toaster ovens really add up. Not only are consumers gathering more and more electrical and electronic equipment, but we are also tossing much of it in the trash. The piles of ...
Sales of smartphones in China are expected to grow 137% on year to 189 million units in 2012, buoyed mostly by a take-off in demand for EDGE and TD-SCDMA models in the second half of the year, according to Digitimes Research. Local brands ...
Tags: Smartphone, Smartphone in China, Chinese Smartphone Market