The analysis features findings about trends in mobile phone activations from April-June 2021 for Apple’s iOS and Alphabet’s Android …
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Half the world now owns a smartphone
Half the world’s entire population now owns a smartphone as of June 2021. Some 4 billion people use a smartphone today. It’s taken 27 years…
UK to investigate Apple and Google’s ‘effective duopoly’ in mobile operating systems
The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is taking a closer look at whether Apple’s and Google’s “effective duopoly” over the supply…
Google, following Apple yet again, to allow Android settlers to opt out of ad tracking later this year
Once again following an earlier move by rival Apple to further bolster privacy protections on iPhones, Google will allow Android settlers…
Apple’s iPhone 12 series sold spectacularly well in Europe in Q4 2020
2020 was a rollercoaster year for the European smartphone market, but Apple’s iPhone 12 series sold spectacularly well in Europe in Q4 2020…
Leaked screenshots reveal Apple-like privacy features in Android 12
Google is expected to unveil Android 12 in a few weeks and XDA Developers has shared screenshots that show some Apple-inspired (of course)…
Google explores ‘less stringent’ knockoff of Apple’s anti-tracking privacy feature for Android
If there’s anything Google focuses almost as much as being an online advertising broker masquerading as a search engine, it’s copying Apple…
LG Electronics mulls exit from smartphone business
LG Electronics may exit the smartphone business after losing about 5 trillion won (US$4.5 billion) over the past five years. Its CEO…
China’s Xiaomi devices added to U.S. military blacklist, shares plunge
The shares of China’s Xiaomi, the world’s third-largest maker of smartphones, plunged in Hong Kong trade on Friday after the U.S. DOJ…
Apple iPhone’s U.S. Q220 market share ballooned to 47%
Vendors ranging from the industry’s progenitor to South Korean dishwasher makers shipped 31.9 million smartphones…
Huawei passes Samsung to become No.1 in global smartphone unit sales
In the never-ending quest of fake iPhone peddlers to make it up on volume, Huawei last quarter passed Samsung to become No. in global smartphone unit sales…
Apple’s iPhone leads all others in smartphone customer satisfaction
According to the ACSI Wireless Service and Cellular Telephone Report 2019-2020, Apple’s iPhone leads all others in smartphone customer satisfaction …
Xiaomi co-founder Lei Jun caught posting from his Apple iPhone
Today Lei Jun, Xiaomi’s CEO and co-founder, inadvertently revealed that he uses an Apple iPhone at least occasionally, and not one Xiaomi’s…
Micron exec: Smartphone demand in China is starting to come back
Micron’s executive vice president of global operations Manish Bhatia is starting to see some smartphone demand coming back in China, post-COVID-19 lockdown.
Xiaomi claims China smartphone sales already close to full recovery
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp is seeing signs of a sales recovery in China, it said on Tuesday, as the country claims it is returning to normal…
8 things Apple’s iOS does better than Android
There are many things that Apple’s iOS does better than Google’s Android…
Decade in Review: What the smartphone has wrought
When the first Apple iPhone hit the market in 2007, not everyone was convinced it would supplant the flip-phone…
Apple, Gucci, Burberry, and Nike among counterfeit goods seized before Christmas
Thousands of imitation products originating from China were seized by Border Force officials in recent weeks from ports…
Apple dominates global handset market with 66% of industry profits and 32% of overall revenue
Overall global handset profits declined 11% YoY to USD 12 billion in Q3 2019 due to an increased mix of entry to mid-tier products…
Toxic Hellstew: 146 new vulnerabilities all come preinstalled on Android phones
The vulnerabilities encompass everything from unauthorized audio recording to command execution to the ability to modify system properties and wireless settings…
Google’s new Pixel 4 is an overpriced disappointment; get a real iPhone instead
Google today announced the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL smartphones at an anticlimactic event in New York…
‘Call of Duty: Mobile’ obliterates records with 100 million downloads in first week
PUBG, Fortnite and Electronic Arts’ “Apex Legends” scored 26.3 million, 22.5 million and 25 million respectively in their first week of release…
How Apple’s iPhone devastated the camera industry
One of the standout features in Apple’s latest iPhone XS is the camera….
IDC: 2019 will be challenging for iPhone, shipments expected to drop to 177.9 million, down 14.8% year over year
A new forecast from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker shows signs of market recovery in the second half of 2019 and into 2020…
Android settlers besieged by factory pre-installed malware
There’s a flow of Android malware that those who settle for pretend iPhones cannot defend themselves against: malicious apps that have been factory pre-installed…
Beleaguered Samsung Electronics posts 56% plunge in June-quarter profit
Samsung Electronics warned on Wednesday that Japanese curbs on the export of chip-making materials was blurring…
Google to knock off Apple iPhone yet again with ‘Face Unlock’ Face ID clone in Pixel 4 phone
Google on Monday previewed a pair of features coming to its Pixel 4 smartphone, including “Face Unlock,” to compete with Apple’s Face ID technology…
Apple dominates the global premium smartphone market
The premium segment remains the most difficult for OEMs to penetrate as it requires brand power to command such a high price across the world…
Why 492 out of 500 people at one company chose iPhone over Android
Of the 500 employees at the company, only 8 of them chose to use an Android phone. Everyone else — all 492 of them — chose an iPhone…
Huawei’s phone shipments could fall by up to a quarter this year
China’s Huawei, hit by crippling U.S. sanctions, could see shipments decline by as much as a quarter this year…
Gene Munster: China tariffs on Apple products unlikely
The impact of President Trump’s Huawei ban and escalating China-U.S. trade tensions on Apple…
Sony sees its anemic smartphone business as ‘indispensable’
Sony Corp sees the smartphone business as indispensable to its brand portfolio…
Why Apple’s TV app port isn’t to Android, but to Samsung’s Tizen
It once seemed necessary that Apple’s iTunes worked on Windows PCs…
Apple keeps iPhone 6S alive with ‘Made in India’ campaign
Apple is known to keep its older iPhone models and designs around to flesh out the entry-level…
Solid middle-ground is needed on ‘Right to Repair’
The debate over whether or not to have the so-called ‘Right to Repair’ guaranteed has both sides…
Ontario’s ‘Right to Repair’ bill killed after big tech lobbying including Apple
The bill aimed to force companies like Apple to provide…
California pulls its right-to-repair bill following pressure from Apple, other firms
An Apple lobbyist has quietly managed to get California to postpone its right-to-repair bill until 2020 at the earliest…
Ars Technica reviews Samsung’s Galaxy S10+ flagship: Too many compromises at too high a price
Despite being a premium, $1,000 smartphone, the Galaxy S10 comes loaded with ads, even my unlocked version…
Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple’s 5G iPhone coming in 2020 with bigger battery, modem chips from Qualcomm and Samsung
Apple could release iPhones in 2020 equipped with 5G modems…
Apple continues to dominate premium smartphone market with 51% global share
Apple continues to lead global premium smartphone segment by capturing more than half of the market…
Apple’s App Store revenue projected to more than double by 2023
Global revenue on Apple’s platform is projected to reach $96 billion in the next five years…
Leaked internal documents show Apple is capable of implementing ‘Right to Repair’ legislation
As Apple continues to fight legislation that would make it easier for consumers to repair…
