We had an inkling that the fourth quarter smartphone sales crown was close: Last month, Strategy Analytics suggested it was a dead heat between Apple and Samsung. On Tuesday, research firm… Read more »
Samsung Electronics announced a fourth quarter earnings decline on Thursday, its first holiday season drop in three years. The earnings report wasn’t as gloomy as the past few quarters have been: Samsung made… Read more »
Xiaomi, the low-cost Chinese smartphone maker, plans to start testing four new smart home modules on Jan. 26 according to a presentation its executive made this weekend in Beijing. A Bloomberg… Read more »
Xiaomi has suddenly emerged as one of the world’s largest smartphone producers, but those phones generate razor-thin margins. The company’s ever-increasing footprint may give it a chance to build lucrative app… Read more »
Xiaomi reported only 347.5 million yuan in net profit last year on a regulatory filing which works out to USD $56 million — which means Xiaomi’s operating margin works out to… Read more »
The eight-core Nuclun application processor is LG’s first in-house effort, with a debut slated for this week in a South Korea-only handset called the G3 Screen. Read more »
Number crunching leads to some not too surprising results for Microsoft’s Surface, which is increasingly looking like a boat anchor, pulling the company down. The company’s 8-K statement filed with the… Read more »
Xiaomi overtook Samsung to become the largest smartphone vendor in China during the second quarter. Duplicating that success in outside its homeland will be difficult, but Xiaomi’s success provides some important… Read more »