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China’s Xiaomi grabbed a 12 percent market share in the third quarter to surpass Vivo and become the third-largest smartphone brand in Vietnam. Xiaomi reported sales growth of 114 percent year-on-year despite Covid-19 impacts, Singaporean technology market…
Samsung fans who haven’t yet caved and bought a Galaxy S20 FE are given another alternative if they’re still in the market for one. The South Korean giant has just revealed an improved version of the Galaxy S20 FE that will go on sale this week. The new…
In its never-ending battle to improve the Google Play Store, Google is testing a method to allow users to make comparisons between two or more apps. This comes after Hamburgers were removed from the Play Store menu earlier this month. No, Google wasn’t…
Android 11 is over a month old having been released on September 8th and already there are several complaints from users about apps that are supposed to go full screen but are not able to. And even when these apps are in full-screen mode, the status bar and…
Some of the phones in Samsung’s 2019-2020 flagship lineup are experiencing issues with the indicator that shows how much battery life remains on these models. The particular phones affected include those in the Galaxy S10 and S20 families and the Galaxy Note…
Priced at $2,000 in the US, the 5G-enabled Galaxy Z Fold 2 is not what we’d call widely accessible to the masses. But even though 2020 has been a tough year for high-end, high-priced smartphones in general and Samsung flagships in particular, this foldable…
Last year, after the U.S. Commerce Department banned Huawei from its U.S. supply chain, the Chinese phone and networking equipment manufacturer scrambled to find new sources. The one stateside supplier that it missed the most was Google since the ban…
The banker replaces Chew Show Zi, who will become president of Xiaomi’s international operations. Chinese consumer electronics company Xiaomi has hired Alain Lam as its new chief financial officer, according to people familiar with the matter. Lam was…
The banker’s best-loved gadget may be making a return from the dead – thanks in part to the pandemic sending millions of workers into work-from-home arrangements. Blackberry smartphones were phased out at banks years ago – Credit Suisse’s finance chief David…
Samsung increased its market share to 33 percent in the second quarter to become the largest smartphone brand in Vietnam. Despite the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the South Korean firm increased its sales by 4 percent year-on-year, Singaporean technology…
The world’s largest smartphone market is going to report a drop in shipments during the current quarter. The report states that the Q3 decline will show up both year-over-year and month-over-month (aka sequentially) and would appear following a huge…
Waiting too long for the battery powering your phone to charge? Qualcomm introduced Quick Charge 5. The technology will allow users to charge the batteries that power their phones from 0% to 50% in only five minutes. So let’s imagine that you need your phone…
VinSmart, a subsidiary of Vietnam’s largest listed company Vingroup, has produced its first 5G smartphones in cooperation with the U.S.’s Qualcomm. The Vsmart Aris 5G model is equipped with a Snapdragon 765G 5G module platform and a quantum security chip, the…
Last year, Xiaomi was the fourth-largest smartphone manufacturer in the world after shipping approximately 125.5 million units. The company has done an amazing job in India, the world’s second-largest smartphone market. That’s because Xiaomi produces handsets…
Just how much of an impact does 5G have on a phone’s battery life over 4G? Lu Weibing, general manager of Xiaomi sub-brand Redmi, took to Chinese microblogging site Weibo to explain. In his post, he points out that the power consumption of Qualcomm’s 800…
Thanks to the coronavirus, February was the worst month in the history of the smartphone industry as global shipments plunged 38% year-over-year. Strategy Analytics says that this was the biggest year-over-year decline in the history of the worldwide…
