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Apple iPhone gains significant market share in Germany

Tuesday, September 29, 2020 10:53 amNo Comments

Apple gained share as the company’s new iPhone SE 2020 hit the sweet spot in Germany, even as the country’s smartphone market…

Apple iPhone’s U.S. Q220 market share ballooned to 47%

Wednesday, August 12, 2020 12:08 pm1 Comment

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

Thursday, July 30, 2020 10:41 amThursday, July 30, 20206 Comments

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…

Smartphone shipments in China down 16% in June

Monday, July 13, 2020 1:26 pm1 Comment

According to government data released on Tuesday, smartphone shipments in China fell 16% in June compared with a year earlier…

IDC expects worldwide smartphone shipments to plummet 11.9% in 2020

Wednesday, June 3, 2020 9:13 am1 Comment

Worldwide smartphone shipments are forecast to decline 11.9% year over year in 2020 with shipments totaling 1.2 billion units, according to…


Micron exec: Smartphone demand in China is starting to come back

Monday, May 4, 2020 3:03 pmMonday, May 4, 2020No Comments

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.

Global smartphone production to plunge a record 16.5% in June quarter – TrendForce

Thursday, April 30, 2020 9:06 amNo Comments

Despite supply chains resuming after weeks of shutdown, global smartphone production is expected to plunge an historic record 16.5% to 287 million phones

Here’s who benefits from ‘massive’ slowdown in smartphone sales

Thursday, April 23, 2020 3:50 pm6 Comments

The COVID-19 pandemic is massively slowing the pace of smartphone sales and that could benefit many wireless carriers, Morgan Stanley says…

EU lawmakers, eyeing Apple, overwhelmingly call for standard device charger

Thursday, January 30, 2020 1:01 pmThursday, January 30, 202013 Comments

EU lawmakers overwhelmingly called on Thursday for rules to establish a standard charger for all mobile device makers across Europe…

It’s a bad idea for the EU to force Apple to dump iPhone’s Lightning port

Friday, January 24, 2020 11:08 am11 Comments

Apple disagrees with the European Union’s idea. It’d be a lose-lose-lose situation for the EU to force Apple to dump iPhone’s Lightning port …

Apple pushes back against EU call for common phone charger

Thursday, January 23, 2020 2:05 pm9 Comments

Apple on Thursday again pushed back against European Union lawmakers’ call for a common phone charger standard, warning the move could hamper innovation…

EU wants to force all smartphone makers to use the same charging port

Tuesday, January 14, 2020 11:07 am22 Comments

Members of the European Parliament want binding measures for chargers to fit all mobile phones and other portable devices…

iPhone is ahead of time, as usual: U.S. 5G coverage is still two years away

Friday, January 10, 2020 6:50 pm8 Comments

By tracking US carrier comments related to 5G deployment along with the number of 5G cities launched and coverage within those cities…

Decade in Review: What the smartphone has wrought

Thursday, December 26, 2019 11:02 amThursday, December 26, 201914 Comments

When the first Apple iPhone hit the market in 2007, not everyone was convinced it would supplant the flip-phone…

Apple’s iPhone XR was the top-selling smartphone worldwide in Q3 2019

Tuesday, December 24, 2019 11:15 amTuesday, December 24, 20193 Comments

According to Counterpoint Research’s Market Pulse, the iPhone XR was the top-selling model globally in Q3 2019…

Russia bans sale of gadgets without Russian-made software

Friday, November 22, 2019 11:32 am11 Comments

Russia has passed a law banning the sale of certain devices that are not pre-installed with Russian software…

Apple’s iPhone 11, 11 Pro, 11 Pro Max off to a strong start in the U.S. – Strategy Analytics

Thursday, November 21, 2019 11:39 pm1 Comment

Apple’s new iPhone 11 series of smartphones started shipping on the week of Sept. 20th, the official launch date…

Hackers unlock any smartphone using photographed fingerprints in just 20 minutes

Friday, November 1, 2019 11:27 amFriday, November 1, 201910 Comments

In other words: fingerprint security sucks…

Apple chip supplier TSMC boosts capex by up to $5 billion, sees Q4 sales jump on smartphones

Thursday, October 17, 2019 8:57 am1 Comment

Apple Inc supplier TSMC raised its 2019 capital spending plan by up to $5 billion on Thursday and forecast a nearly 10% rise…

IDC: 2019 will be challenging for iPhone, shipments expected to drop to 177.9 million, down 14.8% year over year

Monday, September 9, 2019 5:14 pm6 Comments

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…

With changes to phone sales in Japan threatening its bottom line, Apple hits out at ‘unfair’ rules

Wednesday, August 28, 2019 11:00 amWednesday, August 28, 20192 Comments

Apple has been riding high in the Japanese smartphone market, enjoying the largest share of any company, but changes to the discounts mobile carriers…

Apple to acquire the majority of Intel’s smartphone modem business for $1 billion

Thursday, July 25, 2019 5:15 pmThursday, July 25, 20196 Comments

Apple and Intel have signed an agreement for Apple to acquire the majority of Intel’s smartphone modem business. Approximately 2,200 Intel employees will join Apple, along with intellectual property, equipment and leases….

Apple is poised to lose lots of iPhone users if it keeps ignoring the mid-range consumer

Monday, July 22, 2019 11:53 amMonday, July 22, 201925 Comments

It’s no secret that the iPhone’s average selling price has creeped up over the past several years….

Analysts: Apple could gain smartphone market share thanks to Trump administration’s Huawei ban

Thursday, June 13, 2019 4:40 pmThursday, June 13, 20193 Comments

While the Trump administration’s ban on Huawei is causing trouble for the smartphone maker, Apple has a chance to gain smartphone market share…

Sony sees its anemic smartphone business as ‘indispensable’

Wednesday, May 22, 2019 7:25 am4 Comments

Sony Corp sees the smartphone business as indispensable to its brand portfolio…

Piper Jaffray: 86 percent of U.S. teens plan to choose iPhone as next smartphone

Monday, April 8, 2019 9:26 am9 Comments

A newly-published survey of 8,600 U.S. teens found that a higher number than ever are hoping to make Apple’s iPhone their next smartphone….

ACLU files complaint with U.S. DHS over unwarranted interrogation of Apple employee and attempted device search

Wednesday, April 3, 2019 7:55 amWednesday, April 3, 201923 Comments

Today the ACLU Foundation of Northern California (ACLU-NC) filed a complaint with the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on behalf of Apple employee…

Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple’s next-gen iPhones will have significantly larger batteries

Monday, April 1, 2019 5:28 pmMonday, April 1, 20197 Comments

Apple’s 2019 iPhone lineup could include new iPhone models with significantly more battery capacity…

New adware with destructive capabilities infects hundreds of Android apps in Google Play store

Wednesday, March 13, 2019 6:02 pmWednesday, March 13, 20199 Comments

Researchers have uncovered a new adware strain that was running rampant on the Google Play Store…

Energizer’s new Android phone has an 18,000 mAh battery. Yes, it’s a wee bit thick

Tuesday, February 26, 2019 10:32 amTuesday, February 26, 20199 Comments

The Energizer Power Max P18K Pop promises up to fifty days of standby time between charges

Cringely: ‘Everything is changing and nothing will ever be the same again’

Monday, February 25, 2019 12:00 pmMonday, February 25, 20197 Comments

This is, I believe, my 22nd and possibly last year of looking ahead…

Premium smartphones continue to fuel sales growth

Monday, February 25, 2019 11:35 am2 Comments

Although global smartphone demand declined three percent in 2018 to 1.44 billion, sales remain strong and reached $522 billion…

When Apple’s iPhone doesn’t change, knock off-happy Android phone peddlers don’t know what to do

Friday, February 22, 2019 1:44 pmThursday, August 15, 201911 Comments

Things are about to get weird…

Analyst: Smartphone sales will stabilize or even rebound slightly in 2020

Thursday, February 21, 2019 11:00 amThursday, February 21, 20192 Comments

Despite the chatter around flattening smartphone sales, sales of devices…

Gartner: Apple’s iPhone unit sales suffered worst quarterly decline since first quarter of 2016

Thursday, February 21, 2019 8:56 amThursday, February 21, 20195 Comments

Global sales of smartphones to end users stalled in the fourth quarter of 2018…

IDC: Samsung edges Apple as smartphone woes continue with worldwide shipments down 4.9% in holiday quarter

Wednesday, January 30, 2019 7:14 pm9 Comments

Smartphone vendors shipped a total of 375.4 million units during the fourth quarter of 2018…

China’s smartphone market dropped 14% in 2018, with just under 400 million units shipped

Monday, January 28, 2019 2:02 pm5 Comments

In 2018, smartphone shipments in China fell to their lowest level since 2013…

Analyst: Apple may be headed for ‘serious ramifications’ from ‘superapps’ like WeChat in China

Friday, January 25, 2019 12:01 pmFriday, January 25, 20193 Comments

A recent update of the WeChat app from Chinese tech juggernaut Tencent…

2019 iPhone could deliver big upgrades where it matters most

Friday, January 18, 2019 4:25 pmFriday, January 18, 201910 Comments

This year’s iPhone refresh will bring big upgrades for some of the handset’s most important features…

Smartphone production will plummet 19% this quarter – Credit Suisse

Monday, January 14, 2019 10:37 am3 Comments

A couple of weeks after Apple announced that its holiday quarter earnings would be dramatically lower…

The maturing of the smartphone industry is cause for celebration

Friday, January 11, 2019 11:25 am2 Comments

Analysts reckon that the number of smartphones sold in 2018 will be slightly lower than in 2017…

Is Apple at risk of becoming the next BlackBerry?

Wednesday, January 2, 2019 12:35 pmWednesday, January 2, 201920 Comments

BlackBerry once ruled the smartphone world…

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