Articles tagged "Other"

EISA (Expert Imaging and Sound Association) has published its top picks for 2018-2019 in the "Mobile Devices" category. Let's start with the Honor 10, which was voted the best lifestyle smartphone. The handset won the award due to its...

Samsung has been working on its 5G modem for some time now and was first showcased during this year's CES. Today, the company formally announced the finished product and called it Exynos 5100. It's the companys's first 5G modem and complies to the...

Reports from South Korea announced that Samsung is closing one of its two smartphone factories in China. The Korean giant will withdraw from the plant in Tianjin by the end of 2018 due to difficulties and slowing growth. Reuters said that...

It's been two generations since the exploding incident with the Galaxy Note7 but the disappointment still lingers at the back of our tongue. The rather successful Note8 helped us forget but questions about the recently launched Note9 reliability...

YouTube just launched a Device Report website that lists the best devices for enjoying its videos. The list isn't particularly long but includes all the flagships from the major manufacturers. The YouTube team claims that every device goes...

Qualcomm's legal department is working overtime lately. It's got Apple's lawsuits, Korea Fair Trade Commission's $927 million fine and the European Commission $1.2 billion fine to contest. Now at least the American firm reached a deal with...

The front-mounted fingerprint scanner is being phased out as bezels keep shrinking. The trend led to the implementation of under-display fingerprint scanners, first introduced by vivo X20 Plus UD, later followed by the X21 UD, Xiaomi Mi 8 Explorer,...

Huawei is coming in strong this year with record-breaking market share in China for Q2 2018 according to various analysts. All of this comes amidst falling Chinese market, which is downright impressive. With climbing shipments, Huawei is...

Samsung dominates the OLED market for portable devices with 90% of all sales - LG struggles is a very distant second with just 7.7%. How the entry of a third major player will change this is an interesting question and one Sharp has decided to find...

The Chinese smartphone market isn't necessarily in a bad shape, but it has been declining for a while. Since Q3 2017, the numbers have been going down, which makes it as the first market in the world to have such correction. In Q2 2018, the local...

Sony just published its Q2 financial report and unfortunately it holds little good news for its struggling mobile business. The Japanese firm shipped just 2 million phones in Q2 this year compared to the 3.4 million in Q2 2017. That's just...

YouTube has just announced that the videos with an unusual aspect ratio watched on the desktop - hence on a desktop browser - will no longer appear with black bars. Instead, they will be optimized and stretched to appear bigger. It does so by...

Canalys published its quarterly on the smartwatch market. Q2 of 2018 saw great Apple Watch performance with 3.5 million shipped units, but it didn't manage to match the market growth rate and lost some share as a result. The research shows...

Samsung's ad game has always been strong, the company using its extensive marketing budget to deliver some entertaining clips. The latest of those is the Ingenius series of short clips mocking the Apple iPhone X. They are rarely more than 30...

According to specialists at CERT, a wide range of Bluetooth-enabled devices have a serious security vulnerability and it's not limited to just smartphones either - PCs, tablets and other devices need a fix ASAP. The issue resides within the data...

The US government gave ZTE green light to restart its business on US soil and also use US-made technologies but only if the Chinese vendor checks off a long list of obligations. The most impactful one is the required split and re-branding of...

After a disappointing first quarter this year, the Chinese market starts to make a slow recovery. Q1 in 2018 marked a 21% decrease in sales YoY while Q2 shows only 8% decline. But while the whole market isn't doing all that well, Huawei is making...

While LG focuses on the large panel OLED market for TVs, the company is missing opportunities in the smartphone OLED market where Samsung reigns. According to LG Display's latest earnings report, the division has recorded a 15% decrease in...

Microsoft published its financial report for the fiscal Q4 (ending in June) and the company has seen a 17% revenue growth ($30.1 billion) over last year. The company's operating income grew 35% to around $10.4 billion with net income of $8.9...

Pete Lau, OnePlus' CEO, sat down and answered some questions from fans. Only the first part of the interview is published, but it gave us some interesting insight about behind the scenes and how the company develops a phone. One thing that...