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Tag: smartphones

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…

Apple’s revolutionary iPhone continues to own the premium smartphone market

Monday, December 31, 2018 1:33 pmMonday, December 31, 20187 Comments

According to Counterpoint Research’s Market Monitor Q3 2018, the global premium smartphone segment…

Beware: Some smartphone apps collect location data to sell to advertisers, retailers, and more

Monday, December 10, 2018 4:38 pmMonday, December 10, 20182 Comments

The millions of dots on the map trace highways, side streets and bike trails…

Can never be too thin? Battery-life of iPhones getting worse with each generation

Friday, November 2, 2018 2:02 pm31 Comments

It’s not a problem specific to iPhones, but something seen with Android flagships too…


Apple’s 6.5-inch iPhone Xs Max is making me neglect my iPad Pro

Wednesday, October 10, 2018 2:01 pmWednesday, October 10, 20188 Comments

I haven’t used my iPad Pro in days…

This is what happens when you take away teenagers’ iPhones

Thursday, August 23, 2018 1:30 pmThursday, August 23, 20188 Comments

More than half of teens are worried they spend too much time on their iPhones…

Apple’s 6.1-inch iPhone to feature A10 chip, DCI-P3 LCD display

Wednesday, August 22, 2018 1:32 pmWednesday, August 22, 20187 Comments

Details about Apple’s upcoming budget 6.1-inch LCD iPhone have leaked via the company’s own Xcode app…

How global smartphone sales growth ground to a halt

Monday, August 13, 2018 11:00 amMonday, August 13, 20189 Comments

After years of rampant growth, the global smartphone market is slowing down as consumers wait…

Apple learns a lucrative lesson

Tuesday, August 7, 2018 4:46 pm3 Comments

Last year, Apple introduced a trio of new iPhones…

South Korean dishwasher maker Samsung’s mobile profits fall as consumers pass on $1,000 iPhone knockoffs

Tuesday, July 31, 2018 10:30 amTuesday, July 31, 201815 Comments

Fewer buyers than expected have shelled out top dollar for Samsung’s Galaxy S9…

Anti-iPhone X ads show why South Korean dishwasher maker Samsung keeps losing to Apple

Friday, July 27, 2018 11:43 am8 Comments

Samsung has debuted three new ads designed not to promote its own products…

Visionary: Hear Steve Jobs, at the dawn of App Store, predict the future of mobile (and mention MacDailyNews)

Thursday, July 26, 2018 11:01 amThursday, May 16, 201911 Comments

Apple recently marked the 10th anniversary of the App Store,,,

Apple takes U.S. market share from Android, dominates with 8 iPhones out of 10 best-selling smartphones

Thursday, July 26, 2018 9:32 amThursday, July 26, 20183 Comments

The latest smartphone OS data from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech reveals a mixed performance…

Consumers contend that Qualcomm shouldn’t get import ban on Apple iPhones

Friday, June 29, 2018 9:37 am3 Comments

Qualcomm Inc. shouldn’t be able to use a U.S. trade agency to knock out Intel Corp. as a competitor…

The absolute best smartphone you can buy right now: Apple’s incomparable iPhone X

Wednesday, June 27, 2018 5:28 pmWednesday, June 27, 20188 Comments

Apple’s latest iPhone isn’t just the most interesting iPhone in years, but it’s easily the best smartphone ever made…

Apple petitions U.S. Patent Office to invalidate four Qualcomm patents

Friday, June 22, 2018 10:00 amFriday, June 22, 20181 Comment

Apple Inc. filed petitions challenging four Qualcomm Inc. patents Thursday…

Apple’s iPhone is only just starting to grow up: Flat sales of smartphones mask third industrial revolution yet to reach its peak

Wednesday, June 6, 2018 3:25 pmWednesday, June 6, 20183 Comments

Not many companies advise customers to use their most popular products less…

IDC: Apple iPhone sales to grow 2.6% in 2018 to 221 million total units

Wednesday, May 30, 2018 10:45 amWednesday, May 30, 20184 Comments

After declining 0.3% in 2017, the worldwide smartphone market is expected to contract again in 2018 before returning to growth in 2019…

The FBI overstated the issue of accessing smartphones

Wednesday, May 23, 2018 2:04 pm7 Comments

A programming error led the FBI to vastly overstate the number of phones…

Why you shouldn’t worry about radiation from your Wi-Fi router or iPhone

Monday, May 21, 2018 5:32 pmMonday, May 21, 201813 Comments

There’s a lot of bad ‘science’ floating around about radio frequency and electromagnetic field exposure…

Apple sells an iPhone X every three seconds in Europe

Wednesday, May 9, 2018 10:55 amWednesday, May 9, 20189 Comments

Apple sold at least one iPhone 6-type phone for every iPhone X…

Canalys: Apple’s iPhone X was Europe’s No.1 smartphone in Q1

Wednesday, May 9, 2018 10:21 amWednesday, May 9, 20183 Comments

This is a new era for smartphones in Europe…

Apple’s flagship iPhone X continues to be the best-selling smartphone in urban China

Thursday, May 3, 2018 3:03 pmThursday, May 3, 20185 Comments

The latest smartphone OS data from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech reveals that in the three months…

New iPhone SE could arrive in May with Touch ID, A10 Fusion, and no 3.5mm headphone jack

Friday, April 20, 2018 4:02 pmFriday, April 20, 201813 Comments

Apple will release an updated iPhone SE in May, according to…

Apple may be preparing to launch their next-gen ‘iPhone SE’ soon

Wednesday, April 18, 2018 4:27 pmFriday, April 20, 20184 Comments

A new Russian-language regulatory filing in the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) database points…

UBS: Apple’s iPhone unlikely to recover damaged Chinese marketshare

Monday, April 16, 2018 4:55 pmMonday, April 16, 201810 Comments

CEO Tim Cook once envisioned China as Apple’s next big market, set to eclipse even the U.S. in revenue…

Augusta National’s no-cellphone policy is awesome

Friday, April 6, 2018 5:30 pmFriday, April 6, 201839 Comments

For all the purple prose and tricked-up scenery that Augusta National inspires, there’s something special…

Apple iPhone surpasses Samsung to become world’s No.1 smartphone brand

Friday, February 9, 2018 10:03 amFriday, February 9, 20188 Comments

According to the latest research from Counterpoint’s Market Monitor service…

Apple’s iPhone was most activated smartphone in America last quarter

Tuesday, January 16, 2018 1:02 pmTuesday, January 16, 20182 Comments

Apple increased its share of smartphone activations in the fourth quarter of 2017…

Apple and Tencent reach deal to let WeChat users tip each other

Tuesday, January 16, 2018 8:25 amTuesday, January 16, 20182 Comments

Apple Inc. and Chinese technology giant Tencent Holdings Ltd. have settled their tiff over tips…

Apple’s iPhone 7 Plus was the 2nd-best selling phone in China last year; Apple was only foreign brand in the top ten

Monday, January 15, 2018 11:46 am5 Comments

Apple was the only foreign brand to have a smartphone model in the top 10 best-selling handsets…

Smartphone sales rebound in Taiwan in November; Apple iPhone dominates with top five bestselling models

Tuesday, December 26, 2017 12:31 pmTuesday, December 26, 20173 Comments

Smartphone sales in the Taiwan market expanded 11.88% on month and 3.17% on year to a nine-month…

Health officials: Cellphone radiation could increase risk for brain cancer and tumors, low sperm count, headaches, impaired memory, hearing, and sleep

Friday, December 15, 2017 12:57 pm16 Comments

Harmful cellphone radiation and how you can avoid it…

Michael Gartenberg: ‘2018 is going to be a huge inflection point for the mobile world’

Friday, December 1, 2017 12:56 pmFriday, December 1, 20172 Comments

I believe that 2018 is going to be a huge inflection point for the mobile world…

Researchers: Smartphone addiction creates imbalance in brain

Thursday, November 30, 2017 1:06 pmThursday, November 30, 201710 Comments

Researchers have found an imbalance in the brain chemistry of young people addicted to smartphones and the internet…

Piper Jaffray: Apple’s delayed ‘super-long cycle’ will be all the better

Thursday, November 30, 2017 10:58 amThursday, November 30, 20171 Comment

A second analyst today is calling for patience with respect to Apple’s iPhone sales…

TrendForce: Apple to overtake Samsung in worldwide market share thanks to iPhone X

Friday, November 10, 2017 9:31 am9 Comments

TrendForce estimates that the iPhone production volume for this fourth quarter will reach 81 million units with iPhone X accounting for 33% of the total…

Smartphones are killing Americans or something

Tuesday, October 17, 2017 4:52 pm12 Comments

Some of the biggest indicators are within the data itself…

Dumping Android to upgrade to Apple’s iPhone

Monday, October 9, 2017 5:32 pmMonday, October 9, 201720 Comments

Before you upgrade from an Android phone to a real Apple iPhone, the first thing you should do is ensure…

The most important iPhone features ever

Tuesday, September 5, 2017 11:28 amTuesday, September 5, 20173 Comments

Apple’s iPhone has become one of history’s most influential consumer electronics devices…

IDC: Apple’s next-gen OLED iPhone will spur a major upgrade cycle in 2018

Tuesday, August 29, 2017 10:37 amTuesday, August 29, 20172 Comments

According to a new forecast from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker

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