BlackBerry, what’s left of it, has announced that the legacy services for BlackBerry 7.1 OS and earlier, BlackBerry 10 software, BlackBerry…
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China’s Oppo cuts jobs after trying to compete with Apple’s iPhone
After trying to compete in the premium smartphone segment with Apple’s iPhone, phone maker Oppo is cutting around 20% of staff in…
Who stands to gain from LG’s smartphone exit?
LG Electronics’ move to kill its failed smartphone business is expected to create more opportunities for Samsung than other companies…
South Korean dishwasher maker LG pulls the plug on smartphones
South Korean dishwasher maker LG Electronics has pulled the plug on its failed smartphone division after failing to find a buyer…
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…
Apple’s App Store generated more than double the revenue of Google’s Play Store in 2020
Apple’s App Store has once again captured the bulk of the revenue generated between the two major platforms, iOS and the derivative Android…
Google underwhelms with latest Pixel phones
Google today unveiled a pair of underwhelming 5G Android smartphones: the Pixel 5 and the Pixel 4a 5G with features and lower price points…
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…
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…
Disgraced Google executive Andy Rubin’s Essential shuts down
Essential Products, an Android smartphone peddler founded by disgraced Google executive Andy Rubin is shutting down, the comnpany confirmed Wednesday…
Samsung warns on phone sales amid strong demand for Apple iPhones
Samsung warned of weaker phone sales on Thursday after Apple set a new all-time quarterly revenue record and gave a positive iPhone sales outlook…
Bloomberg reviews Google’s Pixel 4: Can’t beat Apple’s iPhone 11; blends into the crowd of iPhone wannabes
Google’s Pixel smartphones have always been defined by iPhone-beating cameras, backed by the know-how of its software coders…
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…
Beleaguered Samsung ends mobile phone production in China
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has ended mobile telephone production in China…
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…
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…
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 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…
Microsoft recommends switching to iPhone or Android as it prepares to pull plug on Windows phones
Microsoft says anyone who still uses its Windows 10 mobile platform — once called Windows Phone — should switch over to an iPhone…
The maturing of the smartphone industry is cause for celebration
Analysts reckon that the number of smartphones sold in 2018 will be slightly lower than in 2017…
After years of mocking Apple, slavish copier Samsung kills headphone jack in latest iPhone wannabe
Samsung’s first smartphone without a 3.5mm headphone jack appears…
Why iPhones and Android wannabes will get more expensive
Remember when the only phones with over-$1,000 price tags were made of leather, ruby and sapphire crystal?
iPhone owners happier, richer, have more friends than those who settle for Android knockoffs
Apple iPhone users tend to have more money, more friends, and are generally happier…
Around 1 in 5 Android phone owners plan to switch to an Apple iPhone
Among Android brands, the intention to switch to Apple’s iPhone has grown dramatically while loyalty to Android has softened…
Huawei crashes Apple store queues to hand out its own chargers in battery critique stunt
The Chinese phone maker took to the streets…
Samsung Galaxy Note 9 bursts into flames inside New York woman’s purse
Samsung’s Galaxy Note 9 cellphone spontaneously combusted inside a Long Island woman’s purse…
Apple ‘wants to serve everyone,’ says Tim Cook: Wider price range opens up developing Asian markets
Apple clearly intends to maintain its position in the high-end segment…
How global smartphone sales growth ground to a halt
After years of rampant growth, the global smartphone market is slowing down as consumers wait…
People will pay $1000+ for a real Apple iPhone, but not for an Android iPhone knockoff
Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. entered the second decade of the smartphone era…
Apple iPhone takes U.S. smartphone market share from Samsung
A research report recently published by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners…
Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S9 is a flop
Earlier this year, Samsung announced the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus smartphones…
Corning unveils glass less likely to break when you drop your iPhone
Corning Inc., which makes the glass used in Apple Inc.’s iPhones and smartphones from Samsung Electronics Co…
First quarter U.S. smartphone sales declined 11% YOY, Apple iPhone sales grew a record 16% YOY
Apple shipped a record 16 million iPhones for the first time ever in a Q1 in the US. This is a 16% YoY increase…
Latest iPhone X news is good for Apple but bad for Android phone peddlers
Research on global smartphones sales for March 2018 shows Apple’s groundbreaking iPhone X well out in front…
Microsoft wants to work with Apple to bring iMessage to Windows
Microsoft first acknowledged at Build last year that its new mobile strategy is to make iOS and Android devices…
Google’s latest Android version tries to make Android phones more like Apple’s iPhone X
Google has a new version of Android coming to your phone with features…
Apple iPhone X supplier Samsung warns of weak display panel demand
Samsung Electronics posted record first-quarter profits on Thursday, but warned about a slowdown…
Apple’s new iPhones are going to destroy Samsung’s dog-slow Galaxy Note 9; in fact, Apple’s current iPhones will, too
Samsung’s Galaxy Note 9, which will launch around the same time as Apple’s 2018 iPhone lineup, won’t even be as powerful as last year’s iPhones…
Refurbished, high-end Apple iPhones are suffocating the growth of cheap, new Android phones
The fastest growing segment in global smartphones isn’t Google’s vision for super-cheap, simple Android phones…
Essential sold fewer than 90,000 phones in its first six months
Essential, Android co-founder Andy Rubin’s new smartphone venture, had a rough go of it…
Google’s next Android version to mimic Apple’s iPhone X notch
Google is working on an overhaul of its Android mobile software for a new generation of smartphones…
