Australia’s competition regulator said on Thursday a court has ordered the local unit of Samsung Electronics to pay a penalty of A$14 million ($9.65 million) over misleading claims about a water-resistance feature in some of its smartphones. Samsung Australia admitted to misleading buyers of some of its ‘Galaxy’ phones about the water-resistance level, the Australian […]
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We may only be a few months away from seeing Asus’s 6th iteration of a long history of rolling out high-tech premium smartphones, the Asus ROG Phone 6. Although no one knows for sure, when you get the phone depends largely on where you live. The Asus Rog Phone 6, with ROG standing for ‘Republic […]
Motorola is working on a new version of its Razr foldable smartphones, according to a Weibo post spotted by Android Authority. The post is from Chen Jin, the general manager of the Lenovo Mobile Business Group in China (Lenovo is currently in charge of Motorola’s smartphone business), and describes how the company has been quietly […]
In a positive development during an economic crisis, smartphones shipments within China rose 30.6 percent year-on-year to 32.7 million handsets in October, the China Academy of Information and Communications (CAICT) reported earlier last week. As such, 26 new models were released last month, up 4 percent from a year earlier, especially after a large fall […]
The global wholesale smartphone price is expected to jump to $310 in 2021, up 11 percent year-on-year from $279 in 2020, according to Strategy Analytics. This will be the highest price in the smartphone industry since 2013. According to the latest research from market research firm Strategy Analytics, global smartphone wholesale revenue is expected to […]
The global population recently reached 7.8 billion, among which almost 15 percent suffer from disabilities mainly caused by ageing and chronic diseases. Lack of infrastructure and trained professionals in rehabilitation is a world issue that has been intensified by the ongoing pandemic and, as a result, healthcare access has been significantly reduced. Upcoming technologies like […]
Samsung Galaxy A52s 5G was launched in India this week, as the South Korean tech giant confirmed via a tweet. The color options for the upcoming smartphone have also been confirmed: Awesome Black, Awesome Violet, and Awesome White. The new 5G device may retain the same specifications as the variant sold in the UK. It […]
Synaptics has agreed to buy US-based chipmaker DSP Group, as part of efforts to expand its portfolio of components for low-power smart devices. The company will pay $22 per DSP share in cash, a significant premium on DSP’s previous closing share price of just over $14. The offer values DSP at around $532 million for […]
Xiaomi reported second-quarter revenues up 64 percent year-on-year to a record CNY 87.8 billion, as its smartphones continue to gain market share around the world. Adjusted net profit jumped 87 percent to CNY 6.3 billion in the period. In the second quarter of 2021, Xiaomi’s total revenue amounted to 87.8 billion yuan ($13.6 billion), higher […]
The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic hit smartphone shipments hard following two years of subdued growth and has drastically shaped our purchasing behavior. According to a report published by Singapore-based research firm Canalys, worldwide smartphone shipments reached 348 million units in Q3 in 2020, at a 1 percent decline year on year. However, they were up 22 […]