British luvvies want a new smartphone tax to fund the arts
UK Parliament is apparently considering a new tax on any device that can store digital content with a view to handing the cash over to the arts sector.
UK Parliament is apparently considering a new tax on any device that can store digital content with a view to handing the cash over to the arts sector.
Smartphone shipments are expected to bounce back this year as the pandemic eases, but component supply issues will limit the recovery.
Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, Telia, and Vodafone jointly start Eco Rating labelling scheme to score how sustainable mobile phones are, aiming to encourage device makers and device buyers to be more environmentally minded.
Strategy Analytics was the first out of the blocks with its global smartphone numbers this quarter and it reveals a significant rebound from last year’s challenges.
New data from research firm Counterpoint reveals Vivo and Oppo are scrapping it out for the top smartphone spot in China, with Huawei now a distant third.
Huawei is benefiting from the popularity of the latest iPhone model, whose success demonstrates the strength of the Chinese vendor’s 5G networks in Europe, insists the Huawei founder.
Giant analyst firm Gartner likes to take its sweet time about publishing smartphone numbers and has eventually come up with a more pessimistic view than its quicker peers.
Qualcomm has told Reuters it has received licenses from the US authorities to supply Huawei with a bunch of products.
Soft demand and restrictions on Huawei’s supply chain led to a 14.3 percent fall in Q3 smartphone shipments in China.
Yet another set of restrictions have been placed by the US on Huawei and anyone even slightly associated with it.
Estimates from rival analyst firms might contradict these figures, but Canalys is suggesting Huawei has overtaken Samsung as the worlds most popular smartphone brand.
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Samsung has added 5G to two of its A-series smartphones, aiming to bring 5G smartphones to the mainstream segment.
Tech retail group Dixons Carphone has announced it will close all of its remaining standalone Carphone Warehouse shops because they lose money.
Operator group Vodafone will be flogging the Fairphone 3 to its European customers from next year.
Struggling Taiwanese device maker HTC has finally found a full-time CEO by tapping into the European telecoms scene.
Social media giant Facebook is blocking the preinstallation of all its apps on Huawei phones according to a report.
The smartphone market in China declined by 11% in Q4 2018 and by similar magnitude the whole year, according to numbers from the research firm Strategy Analytics.
While the vast majority will have to wait some time before experiencing the euphoria of an extra ‘G’ Deloitte is predicting there will 50,000 early adopters in the UK.
A judge in the District Court for the Northern District of California has denied the police a warrant which would force suspects to open their phones through biometric authentication.
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