Global sales of smartphones bounced back during Q3, as countries around the world eased lockdown measures that had stifled economic activity.Figures from IDC suggest the market shrank by just 1.3% …
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Your next big smartphone purchase could come with a hefty price tag
The global smartphone average selling price (ASP) rose by 10% during the second quarter as lower sales of cheaper handsets, the resilience of the premium segment, and demand for 5G devices helped o…
Samsung’s Q2 Chip Sales Unlikely Made Up for Smartphone Weakness: Analysts
HIGHLIGHTS Samsung is the world’s biggest supplier of DRAM and NAND memory chips Profit is expected to fall 4.5 percent to KRW 6.3 trillion Chips bring in roughly half of Samsung’s prof…
Oppo to Launch ‘Another Premium’ Smartphone in India, Company Executive Hints
HIGHLIGHTS The announcement came from Oppo India Vice President Tasleem Arif The company executive has not revealed the name of the ‘premium’ smartpho Oppo is yet to reveal the launch d…
DJI Osmo Mobile 3 gets new rival with this cheaper Zhiyun smartphone gimbal
The DJI Osmo Mobile 3 has long been our favorite smartphone gimbal for shooting smooth videos, but now it has a new, significantly cheaper rival in the form of the Zhiyun Smooth X.Zhiyun already ma…
LG’s Velvet smartphone was just unveiled a whole week before we expected it
The upcoming LG Velvet will be the company’s next mid-range smartphone and is set to replace the flagship G series. The launch is just a week away, but LG has gone ahead early and revealed al…
Samsung’s next smartphone could have a pop-up selfie camera
While it isn’t the newest idea to hit the smartphone world, the pop-up selfie camera is certainly a novel way of decluttering the handset’s face and allowing for an uninterrupted displa…
Smartphone sales slump sees memory market decline
Analysts say disruption caused by the coronavirus outbreak will result in a contraction of the worldwide semiconductor market.Many governments around the world have issued restrictions on the movem…
Samsung’s latest storage chip will make flagship smartphones faster
Samsung has started mass production on 512GB storage chips based on the new eUFS 3.1 standard. These are the chips already being used in the company’s Galaxy S20 lineup, so it won’t be …
Samsung’s new chips usher in smartphones with 16GB of DRAM
You could soon see more and faster DRAM in next-generation flagship smartphones than in many PCs. Samsung has just unveiled the first 16GB LPDDR5 mobile DRAM chips built on its second-generation 10…