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 »
The low end of the smartphone market is blowing up, and Nokia and Samsung are reaping the rewards. Here’s what that increasing trend means for handset vendors, OS providers and app… Read more »
An analyst believes Samsung may be trying to slow the growth of Windows Phone by playing footsie with Microsoft. While that’s pure speculation, it would be a clever strategy given Samsung’s… Read more »
Google can’t produce any “transformative” new Android gadgets until it can drain the products currently in Motorola’s pipeline, an executive conceded this week. That’s a problem because Samsung is moving aggressively… Read more »
Apple’s share of the tablet market is slipping, according to data from IDC, as gadgets running Android and other platforms gain ground. But Apple still dominates the space it single-handed created,… Read more »
Google finally announced the closing of its $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola, officially marking its entry as a hardware manufacturer. But as CNBC explains here, the Internet behemoth must still figure… Read more »
New figures from IDC today highlight some fascinating (if not entirely surprising) trends in the worldwide smartphone market: Apple moved into second place in global smartphone shipments during the first quarter of… Read more »