• India to Become Manufacturing Hub for Apple

    Foxconn will shift production from China to India This week, Foxconn, the largest assembler of Apple products, announced that it will begin mass-producing flagship iPhones in India. Until now, Apple ...

  • New Snapdragon Chips Signal Changes in Smartphone Market

    Mobile platforms give Qualcomm the scale to take artificial intelligence to the cloud There was a time when the smartphone market was straightforward. Portfolios were neat and manageable, and consumers ...

  • Samsung’s Galaxy S10 Playground

    Huge investment in promotional pop-up store To mark the launch of its Galaxy S10 family of devices and 10 years of Galaxy products, Samsung has opened a giant two-storey pop-up ...

  • The Next Big Merger

    Will two device designs fold into one? For those old enough to remember the turn of the century, there was a term used so often that it felt like it ...

  • A Cosmopolitan Alternative

    Planet Computers aims to improve on its first phone-with-a-keyboard Last week I went to see Planet Computers to check on the progress of their second iteration of the Gemini phone, ...

  • Verizon Claims 5G Gold Medal

    As Chicago gets 5G services, so does Seoul In the always confusing and sometimes debatable world of 5G firsts, here are more announcements to add to the list, as Verizon ...

  • The Year of Reckoning for On-Demand Companies

    A reality check nears as Uber, Postmates and others go public Over the past decade, innovations in mobile app-based technology have powered the on-demand economy and revolutionized consumer behaviour. In ...

  • Global Mobile Phone Sales Will Decline in 2019

    Buyer behaviour and macroeconomic challenges dampen phone demand We recently published our latest forecast of the global mobile phone market, and the picture isn’t rosy. Sales in 2019 will be ...

  • A Good Year before a Difficult Year

    Huawei report shows smartphone strength, but the network business is challenged On 29 March, Huawei published its annual report for 2018. Huawei is a private company and isn't obliged to ...

  • The Eye of the Beholder

    Smartphone camera selection is becoming a subjective choice It's been a busy few weeks in new premium smartphones, and a common theme has been the emphasis on the camera, or ...