Amazon’s Fire phone was an unmitigated flop, as evidenced by the $83 million worth of unsold handsets the company can’t unload. But there are reasons to believe the company could take… 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 »
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 »
Sales of the iPhone are plateauing because some carriers are balking at Apple’s terms, and operators are undermining the wishes of some manufacturers by demanding that Android handsets have their bootloaders… 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 »
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Microsoft is working with component suppliers to test a smartphone design. But the tablet market is very different than the smartphone market, and bringing… 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 »
The Wall Street Journal provides today’s must read with an insightful piece questioning the strategy behind Google’s $12 billion acquisition of Motorola. The move has widely been seen as a simple… Read more »