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Google cherry-picks the best bits of HTC for $1.1 billion

HTC has accepted $1.1 billion to hand over much of its smartphone engineering talent to Google.

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• 1 day ago

Samsung tries to crash the iPhone X party

On the day of Apple’s big smartphone event Samsung managed to get a bit of coverage of its own, which is no small feat.

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• 9 days ago

Huawei fleetingly grabs smartphone second spot from Apple

According to research firm Counterpoint Huawei’s smartphones outsold Apple’s over the summer.

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• 06 Sep 2017

IFA 2017 is more connected than ever

The world’s second biggest consumer electronics show is increasingly all about connected devices as IoT becomes endemic.

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• 31 Aug 2017

HMD launches Nokia 8 flagship smartphone with ‘bothie’ camera gimmick

HMD’s efforts to exploit lingering affection for the Nokia smartphone brand have finally resulted in a flagship device – the Nokia 8.

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• 17 Aug 2017

Galaxy S8 tops Android smartphone charts but still lags Apple iPhone 7

The latest numbers from Strategy Analytics indicate the Samsung Galaxy S8 has been a success, but not as much as the iPhone 7.

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• 16 Aug 2017

T-Mobile US encourages smartphone promiscuity

T-Mobile US has a habit of doing things that people don’t expect, to such an extent that it’s now expected. One of the latest moves is to have a go at rejuvenating the subsidized smartphone model.

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• 07 Aug 2017

Smartphone growth on the up but only good news for Chinese vendors

New estimates have pinned global smartphone growth at 4% year-on-year for the second quarter, but it is the Chinese vendors who are seeing the benefits.

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• 03 Aug 2017

Samsung semiconductor sales smashes second quarter

The Samsung consumer business might have gone down in a ball of flames last year, but 2017 is proving to be a different type of game as the semiconductor business unit reports impressive growth.

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• 27 Jul 2017

Vertu signals the end

Bafflingly expensive mobile handset brand Vertu seems to have finally called it a day following numerous reports of its demise.

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• 14 Jul 2017

Infographic: What do we actually use our smartphones for?

We all see more and more people glued to the blue-screens for an increasing amount of time, but what are they actually doing on there is they aren’t talking to anyone?

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• 13 Jul 2017

Huawei has launched a KFC-branded smartphone. Seriously

As the battle for differentiation in the brutally competitive smartphone industry intensifies, Huawei China is positioning a new smartphone as finger lickin’ good.

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• 12 Jul 2017

Is the telco industry taking our smartphone obsession seriously?

With Tencent’s Honour of Kings set to hit app stores across the US and Europe, should we be asking more of the telecoms industry in managing our smartphone addiction?

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• 11 Jul 2017

Xiaomi comes roaring back thanks to focus on Indian market

Chinese smartphone vendor Xiaomi reckons it shipped 23.16 smartphones in Q2 2017, a 58% increase on the same period a year ago.

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• 10 Jul 2017

HMD targets generation-narcissist with Zeiss smartphone partenrship

HMD Global, the current overseer of the Nokia phone brand, has announced a new partnership with Zeiss which promises to use photography as a means to create a ‘new’ USP for the brand.

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• 06 Jul 2017

Nokia says ‘Xiaomi the money’

Nokia’s Chinese whispers continue with the announcement of a business collaboration agreement with Xiaomi, which includes some smartphone patent cross-licensing.

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• 05 Jul 2017

EE, Qualcomm and Sony make a play for ‘Gigabit LTE’

At an event in Wembley stadium EE used its live network to demonstrate LTE on steroids using a Sony Xperia XZ Premium smartphone with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 chip.

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• 05 Jul 2017

The smartphone confessions of a 13-year-old boy

This guest article is written by 13-year-old Jack Bicheno, who is spending a work placement day at Telecoms.com and was tasked with writing a story.

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• 22 Jun 2017

Huawei reckons it has overtaken Apple as no 2 smartphone vendor

A Huawei exec has claimed that the company sold more smartphones than Apple last December, thus overtaking it to the global number two spot.

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• 12 Jun 2017

Android creator launches his own phone

Andy Rubin, the man behind ubiquitous mobile OS Android, has unveiled his first take on the smartphone since leaving Google.

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• 30 May 2017