• Xiaomi Rekindles Global Ambitions

    Enters Western Europe with Launch in Spain Xiaomi's star burned bright early on. About three years after it began selling smartphones, the Chinese phone-maker became a top-five brand, coming to ...

  • The iPhone Ultrasound Machine

    Butterfly iQ Is a Portable Imaging Device Smartphones continue to seep into previously unrelated industries. Now they're being used to power medical equipment. Last week, Butterfly Network, a start-up from ...

  • Mobile Broadband Set to Dominate 5G Adoption

    Video Content Will Be a Major Driver of Subscriptions Autonomous driving, remote healthcare and fixed wireless access have regularly been touted as the "killer" services for new 5G networks. Although ...

  • iPads and Jet Engines

    Apple and GE Ally on Industrial Apps and Employee IT Apple and General Electric (GE) announced a two-part enterprise partnership on 18 October 2017. One part of the deal makes ...

  • Seeing Double

    Can ZTE's Dual-Display Phone Start a Trend? This week, ZTE launched its dual-display Axon M, a flagship Android smartphone with two full high-definition, 5.2-inch colour screens. The phone opens lengthwise ...

  • Game On in Smartphone Market

    Will There Be Demand for Razer's Gaming Smartphone? Razer, a maker of laptops and accessories aimed at gaming, is rumoured to be introducing its first smartphone on 1 November 2017. ...

  • Google Touts Gigabit LTE Advantage

    Aims to Enhance Android Experience on High-Tier Phones It's common knowledge that differentiation is difficult in the smartphone space, particularly for Android manufacturers targeting the high tier. Android is hugely ...

  • 5G Phones on Track to Take Off Faster Than 4G

    FDM CCS Insight Forecast Signals 300 Million 5G Phone Shipments in 2021 There seems to be a growing view that the mobile phone market has become rather dull and predictable. ...

  • A Big Boost for NFC

    NFC Forum and Apple Expand NFC Support In many ways, near-field communication (NFC) has had its share of hiccups, and has been blocked from its achieving its potential owing to ...

  • Particle Accelerator

    Wireless Technology Has Become a Piece of Ikea's Strategy According to Pacific Standard magazine, Ikea uses about 1 percent of the world's wood supply each year. Much of this is ...