China smartphone sales fall five percent
Latest Strategy Analytics figures
The size of China's smartphone melt-down is surprisingly small, if the latest figures from Strategy Analytics are to be believed.
Huawei launches new P9 and P9 Plus smartphones
Featuring a Leica-made dual-lens rear camera
Huawei has officially launched its two new flagship smartphones, the Huawei P9 and P9 Plus, both featuring a Leica-made dual-lens 12-megapixel rear camera.
Asustek thinks it can sell 30 million smartphones
Cunning third world plan
Asustek has a cunning plan to ship 30 million smartphones and become a worldwide top-10 smartphone vendor this year by flogging its products to India, Brazil, Russia and Africa.
Xiaomi misses sales targets by 10 million
But what is 10 million between friends?
The Western Press is having a field day after Xiaomi failed to meet its rather ambitious target of flogging 80 million handsets in 2015.
Hands on with Huawei's Mate 8 and Nexus 6P at CES 2016
During CES 2016, Chinese multinational smartphone giant Huawei unveiled its 6-inch Mate 8 flagship smartphone to succeed the 6-inch Mate 7 released in October 2014. While both devices have beautiful 1080p, 368ppi IPS-NEO panels that take up roughly 78 percent of the device’s screen-to-body ratio, the Mate 8 is Huawei’s first device running its own silicon with the Kirin 950 16nm octa-core FinFET processor as we wrote about back in November.
Nintendo delays mobile game releases
Shares tank
Shares in Nintendo tanked yesterday as the company announced that it was delaying the release of its games onto mobile phones and tablets.
Google officially unveils new Nexus smartphones
LG-made Nexus 5X and Huawei-made Nexus 6P
During its press event, Google has officially unveiled its two new Nexus smartphones, the LG-made 5.2-inch Nexus 5X and the Huawei-made 5.7-inch Nexus 6P.
Mediatek wants to push power management
Targeting TV and smartphones
Beancounters at Digitimes research claim that Mediatek's moves to buy Richtek Technology will help the analog IC vendor to push its power management (PWM) gear to the smartphone and TV panel sectors.
Phones With 6GB RAM Incoming
6GB of RAM to enable real phone productivity.
Moore's law may not hold true in processor tech any more, but memory chips keep getting denser, bigger, faster.
Brits prefer smartphones
Overtaken laptops
The British regulator Ofcom has said that smartphones have overtaken laptops as the preferred way for Britons to go online.