We take a look at nine phones that helped Android become the world's most popular mobile OS. Android may be the world's most popular mobile OS (currently, around 87% of smartphone users are Android adherents) but it didn't get there ...
Global shipments of small- to medium-size panels will decrease from 2.647 billion units in 2017 to 2.189 billion units in 2021 or a CAGR of negative 4.6%, according to Digitimes Research. The decrease will be mainly due to fast growing ...
Tags: LG Display, LCD
Tim Cook has revealed Apple might not meet demand for the iPhone 7 Plus by the end of the year, during an investor call to discuss fourth-quarter earnings. The company is hoping for a return to growth following declining sales ...
Last year, during MWC, Sony unveiled its latest attempt to conquer the smartphone market in the form of the Xperia X and Xperia XA. Unfortunately, in a year that saw the launch of the stellar Galaxy S7 and HTC 10, the Xperia phones failed ...
Despite the fact the iPhone 8 is almost a year away, the rumours have been stacking up lately, with suggestions of OLED tech and edge-to-edge screens doing the rounds. The latest report, from Nikkei Asian Review, claims that Foxconn, one ...
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, today announced that it has begun mass production of Exynos 7 Quad 7570, the company’s newest mobile application processor (AP) built on 14-nanometer ...
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology, announced today that it has begun mass producing the industry’s first 10-nanometer (nm) class* , 8-gigabit (Gb) DDR4 (double-data-rate-4) DRAM chips and ...
Tags: Samsung, 10nm-class DRAM, DDR4
More mobile devices are expected to feature wireless charging which will stimulate demand for related analog ICs and protective components, according to industry sources. Wireless charging will be mostly built into high-end smartphones in ...
Tags: Wireless Charging, Mobile Devices
China-based Huawei and Xiaomi have entered the notebook market and Korea-based smartphone brand vendors Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics are also releasing products for the market. Sources from the upstream supply chain have commented ...
Tags: Smartphone, Notebook
The production value of Taiwan's IC design industry is expected to increase 6.7% sequentially in the second quarter of 2016, thanks to a pick-up in handset demand, according to Digitimes Research. Demand in China's smartphone market is ...
Tags: smartphone, IC
China's smartphone shipments declined 5% on year in the first quarter of 2016, according to Strategy Analytics. About 104.9 million smartphones were shipped to the China market in the first quarter of 2016, down from 109.8 million units ...
Tags: Smartphone, China market, smartphone market
Worldwide IT spending is forecast to total US$3.49 trillion in 2016, a decline of 0.5% over 2015 spending of US$3.5 trillion, according to Gartner. This is down from last quarter's forecast of 0.5% growth. The change in the forecast is ...
Tags: device market, printers
Microsoft has made some surprisingly honest statements about Windows Phone, and has indicated that it won't be the focus in 2016. While Windows 10 has gotten off to a good start with 270 million active users in less than a year, the same ...
Tags: Microsoft, Windows Phone
Suppliers in the PC and handset supply chains have begun to worry about piling up inventories of parts and components as current demand for PC and handset products has been falling short of market expectations, according to industry ...
Tags: PC, Handset, smartphone
HTC has continued its teaser campaign for the launch of its new flagship phone, the HTC One M10, with a new video. The Taiwanese company has fallen on hard times of late, as better-funded rivals such as Samsung and Motorola have ...