Intel, Lenovo and Google withdraw from CES due to Omicron surge
More major tech players have joined the list of firms pulling out or limiting their presence at Las Vegas tech mega-show CES.
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Lenovo earnings reveal the damage COVID-19 can inflict
With its main smartphone manufacturing sites situated in Wuhan, Lenovo has been hit hard by COVID-19, spoiling what would have otherwise been a very productive year.
Motorola enters premium 5G bracket, but does it have the brand to justify a grand?
Lenovo-owned Motorola has announced the launch of its first 5G phone, coming in towards the top-end of the pricing scale at $999 in North America and €1,199 in Europe.
PC shipments back into growth, but can connectivity make it sustainable?
PCs are often seen as the forgotten child of the technology family, though new estimates suggest there is life left in the segment.
Interdigital sues Motorola-owner Lenovo over 4G patents
Mobile and video tech developer Interdigital has filed patent infringement action against Lenovo in the UK because they can’t agree a price for use of its 4G patents.
Going under the hood of Qualcomm Snapdragon 855: plenty to like
More details of Qualcomm’s first 5G chipset have been released, bringing all-round improvements. 5G chipset for PCs was also announced.
Qualcomm tries to make friends and influence people in China
Embattled chip giant Qualcomm is so keen to acquire new allies it has held a special event in China to court its smartphone vendors.
Android adds new LBS feature as first Project Tango smartphone is launched
Google’s Android smartphone OS has introduced a new location-based facility to the Play Store, while Lenovo has launched the first smartphone based on Google’s Tango AR technology.
Microsoft and Sony continue their retreat from smartphones
Q4 earnings season has revealed a global smartphone market approaching a plateau and a couple more of its major players seem to be positioning themselves for an exit.
Global smartphone market Q4 2015 – peak smartphone approaches
The Q4 2015 smartphone shipment numbers point to an industry at an advanced stage of maturity struggling to find its next growth driver.
Lenovo to phase out Motorola brand from phones
In an interview at CES 2016 Lenovo confirmed that it is commencing the process of phasing out the Motorola brand from handsets, but it’s not quite goodbye Moto.
OpenDaylight open source NFV/SDN project joined by Comcast and Lenovo
Comcast and Lenovo have thrown their hats into the OpenDaylight Project, an open source collaboration between many of the industry’s major networking incumbents on the core architectures enabling software defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualisation (NFV), writes Business Cloud News.
Global smartphone market Q4 2014 – Apple and Samsung share top spot
While opinion about unpublished numbers, such as Samsung’s, will always be divided among analysts, it’s clear that Apple’s stellar Q4 has brought its shipment numbers very close to Samsung’s. This isn’t a total surprise as Q4 is always Apple’s blow-out quarter for the iPhone, but considering Samsung operates across all price tiers, while Apple is premium-only, it’s still quite an achievement.
Motorola set to return to China
Motorola has announced it is to return to China after being absent from the market since 2013 when it became a Google-owned company. This follows Chinese tech giant Lenovo’s October acquisition of the US-based mobile vendor.
Acer, Asus, LG, Lenovo, ZTE all launch smartphones at CES 2015
Acer, Asus, LG, Lenovo and ZTE have all announced new mid- and lower-end smartphones. This flurry of new mobile devices comes just ahead of the CES event commencing in Las Vegas later today, and each of the Far Eastern device makers seemed keen to ensure their new mobiles were getting noticed early.
Amazon in Fire sale, other smartphone vendors feeling the heat
Amazon has taken another hit on its faltering Fire phone, by conceding a second price slash on its first smartphone offering. The online retailer has now listed the phone for $199.00 unlocked, which also includes a full year of its Prime service worth $99.
Global smartphone market Q3 2014 – Xiaomi up to third
Telecoms.com tracks the top 10 smartphone vendor’s quarterly shipments through a combination of their own published numbers, analyst numbers and, when neither are available, our own research and estimates. We collate them in a table to make it easy to track global smartphone trends.
Lenovo completes Motorola Mobility acquisition
Lenovo has announced the completion of its acquisition of Motorola Mobility from Google, claiming that makes it the 3rd largest smartphone maker in the world. The company said it expects the mobile firm it purchased for a total of $2.91 billion to be profitable within four to six quarters.
Lenovo mobile goes straight to consumer China
Lenovo has announced it is to establish a direct-to-consumer, internet-based mobile business in China next year. The new company, which will operate under a separate brand name (yet to be announced), will focus on smart devices and services. According to Lenovo, the motivation behind the new business is to target the fast growing mobile device […]
Chinese vendors drive smartphone market to new high in Q2 2014
The worldwide smartphone market broke its record for quarterly shipments in Q2 2014 with market trackers Strategy Analytics and IDC in rare agreement on the figure of 295 million units, although Juniper reckons it was a bit lower than that.
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