Global mobile phone shipments grew a modest 2% annually to reach 1.6 billion units in 2012, according to a report from Strategy Analytics’ Wireless Smartphone Strategies (WSS) service. “Ongoing macroeconomic challenges in ...
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The U.S. International Trade Commission plans to investigate the smartphones of Samsung, Nokia and Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE for patent infringement, after wireless technology provider InterDigital filed a complaint. InterDigital ...
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Google chairman Eric Schmidt has labelled China a menace to the internet, complicit in the use of cyber-crime as part of efforts to undermine its corporate and political opponents. The claims are made in his upcoming book, The New Digital ...
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ZTE and China Mobile have successfully tested carrier aggregation, and achieved peak download speed of 223Mbps in the Chinese operator's LTE TDD network. Carrier aggregation is one of the technologies that will be used to increase ...
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On January 31, the U.S. International Trade Commission announced "337 investigations" on some 3G and 4G wireless equipment company, including Huawei, ZTE, Samsung and Nokia, to determine whether their products infringe the patents of U.S. ...
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Chinese phone maker ZTE is planning to launch a smartphone based on Mozilla's Firefox OS at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next month. That ZTE is planning to launch a phone based on the upcoming OS doesn't come as surprise; last ...
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Samsung sold more than 400,000,000 mobile phones in the world last year, increasing 22.7% year-on-year. Samsung has a market share of 23.7%, beating out Nokia (336,000,000) and Apple (137,000,000). ZTE (65,000,000) ranked 4th and LG ...
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Samsung led both the smartphone and overall handsets market in the fourth quarter, though analysts' estimates of shipments and market share varied. The South Korean company shipped 106 million handsets in the fourth quarter of which 60 ...
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Nearly 196 million smartphones and 451 million handsets were shipped during fourth-quarter 2012, according to the latest estimates from marketing anakyst firm ABI Research. This brings 2012 annual totals to 653 million smartphone and 1.6 ...
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A cheaper iPhone ? A deal with China Mobile ? Despite having neither of the two, Apple reported strong earnings in the Chinese market in its fiscal first quarter, with revenue buoyed by triple digit growth in iPhone sales. The company's ...
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Samsung posted a record net profit of $6.6bn (£4.2bn) in the final quarter of 2012, the firm announced in its Q4 earnings release, but warned of more difficult times to come. It comes one day after rival smartphone producer Apple ...
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Mozilla announced this week that it had launched Keon and Peak, two smartphones based on the web-centric Firefox OS platform. The first phones will start shipping in February, and have been developed in cooperation with Spanish operator ...
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Mozilla has launched Keon and Peak, two smartphones based on the web-centric Firefox OS platform. The first phones will start shipping in February, and have been developed in cooperation with Spanish operator TelefA3nica and Geeksphone, ...
HTC's upcoming flagship smartphone called the M7 has been revealed online ahead of its launch. It seems that HTC can't keep many of its phones under wraps until launch. The latest to break cover is the M7 which is expected to be announced ...
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Smartphones running Mozilla Firefox and Jolla Sailfish will launch separately in 2013 amid a crowded smartphone market. Their impact will be small but important initially, as the smartphone community seeks alternatives to the frontrunner ...
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