The upcoming Firefox OS will appear on higher-end smartphones, and not just entry-level handsets, with Sony expected to release a premium device running the operating system, a Mozilla executive said. "Sony is known for quality and user ...
Huawei founder and president Ren Zhengfei has finally broken his silence on the US government's October 2012 suggestion that Chinese companies pose security risks. Speaking during a company press conference in New Zealand yesterday, ...
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Taiwan and Hong Kong may be only the beginning of Xiaomi's expansion outside China. The popular Chinese vendor of low-priced handsets is aiming at getting into five more markets next year. "This year, we will only do Hong Kong and ...
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For its fiscal second-quarter 2013 (to 29 March), analog semiconductor maker Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has reported revenue of $425.2m (split 40% in linear products ...
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Established mobile baseband processor chipset vendors are anticipated to be key players LTE chipset market for handsets is expected to reach over 850 million shipments in 2018, according to a report from ABI Research. According to the ...
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Established mobile baseband processor chipset vendors are anticipated to be key players LTE chipset market for handsets is expected to reach over 850 million shipments in 2018, according to a report from ABI Research. According to the ...
Don't be fooled by Samsung's new flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone. Superficially, it looks like its predecessor, the outrageously successful S3, which attracted 40 million sales in six months. The S4 brings with it a bucketload of new ...
T-Mobile USA's "radical" service plans promising no annual contracts aren't quite as radical as consumers might think, and the mobile operator will change its advertising and offer refunds in a settlement with the state of Washington. On ...
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In first-quarter 2013, mobile phone shipments grew 12% year-on-year (YoY) to an estimated 405 million handsets, according to market analyst firm ABI Research’s Mobile Handset Markets database service. However, this was due to the ...
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In many parts of the world, smartphone shipments account for a larger percentage of mobile handset shipments than feature phones and low-cost handsets, yet among smartphones segmentation is increasing to three price tiers (low, mid, and ...
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Microsoft has signed up another major electronics manufacturer to its Android and Chrome patent licensing program, this time Taiwan's Foxconn, which will pay royalties to the U.S. software giant. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, ...
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The sleek BlackBerry Z10, one of the newest additions to our smart phone Ratings, is the first phone to run on the radically redesigned BlackBerry operating system. Taking a fresh, innovative approach to BlackBerry's renowned messaging ...
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HTC, LG and Samsung, global leaders in consumer electronics, have joined AT&T, Google and Starbucks in the Power Matters Alliance, marking a tenfold increase in membership in the past five months. The Power Matters Alliance (PMA) associated ...
The crisis at mobile phone maker Nokia is intensifying as sales of its once-bedrock feature phones fell by more than 21 per cent in the first quarter, according to the company's latest financial report. Feature phones have kept the ...
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The creators of Android originally dreamed it would be used to create a world of "smart cameras" that connected to PCs, a founder said, but it was reworked for mobile handsets as the smartphone market began to explode. "The exact same ...
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