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Women Drain Cellphone Batteries Faster Than Men
Women in the U.S. use their smartphones more than men, and premium-phone owners use their devices more than owners of entry-level phones, causing them...
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Where’s My Smartphone Update? The Feds Are Asking Too
Want to know why your smartphone hasn’t received the latest security update? So does Uncle Sam. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has ordered eight...
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Sprint To Join Verizon, T-Mobile In Dropping Contracts?
Sprint is backing away from a statement that it would move completely away from contracts later this year but reiterated CEO Marcelo Claure’s observation...
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Tops Hits From Apple’s WWDC
San Francisco — The 26th annual Apple Worldwide Developers Conference launched Apple’s long-awaited music-streaming reboot, served up enhancements to the iOS and Mac operating...
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Windows 10 Due July 29
Redmond, Wash. – Windows 10 will be available July 29 on new tablets and PCs and as a free upgrade to Windows 7 and...
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Lenovo Unveils Smart Watch, Smartphone Concepts
Beijing – New product concepts demonstrated here by Lenovo at its first global technology event include a two-screen smart watch and a smartphone that...
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T-Mobile, U.S. Cellular Price LG G4
New York – T-Mobile and U.S. Cellular revealed their plans for LG’s flagship G4 smartphone following last week’s announcement by Sprint. The phone was...
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T-Mobile, MetroPCS Launching Value-Priced LG Phones
Bellevue, Wash. – T-Mobile is launching two new value-priced LTE smartphones, the LG G Stylo phablet and LG Leon, with T-Mobile service and with...
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LG Expanding G Series
Seoul, Korea – LG is on the brink of rolling out its flagship G4 smartphone in the U.S., and as it did last year...
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Survey: 40% Of iPhone Users Have Upgraded to 6, 6 Plus
Chicago – Forty percent of iPhone owners upgraded to an iPhone 6 or 6 Plus between the phones’ September 2014 launch and the end...
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Microsoft Sees Surface, Lumia Gains In Fiscal Q3
Redmond, Wash. – Microsoft’s Surface tablets and Lumia smartphones are gaining traction, but Xbox lost steam in the company’s fiscal 2015 third quarter ending...
Financial
HTC Stays In Black In Q1
Taipei, Taiwan – HTC remained in the black in its first fiscal quarter of 2015 on a 25.4 percent surge in revenues to NT$41.5...
Blogs
Internet Radio In The Car: Still A Way To Go
More people are streaming online music into the car by connecting their smart phone to a car audio system, but among people who do...
Blogs
MWC Shows Wireless Directions For 2015
The 2015 edition of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) emitted strong signals on the directions that the wireless market will take in 2015. Samsung...
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Gap Tracking Smartphone Pricing, Promotions
San Diego – Research company gap intelligence launched a weekly competitive-intelligence service covering smartphones at retail. The company is tracking more than 1,000 device...
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Gartner Sees Rising Tide Of Used Phones
Stamford, Conn. – The number of used cellphones sold privately by their owners is growing rapidly in mature markets because of demand from consumers...
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Qualcomm Brings High-Tier Features to Mid-Tier Smartphones
San Diego – New Snapdragon smartphone processors unveiled by Qualcomm will bring top-end features to the mid-tier segment and upgrade the capabilities of high-volume...
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Asus To Step Up Smartphone Presence
Taipei, Taiwan – Taiwanese PC maker Asustek Computer wants to increase its global smartphone unit sales by 50 percent in 2015, in part be...
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AT&T Gets On Board With BlackBerry Passport, Classic
Dallas – BlackBerry’s Classic and Passport smartphones will finally be available through a U.S. carrier on Feb. 20 when AT&T offers the devices through...
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Xiaomi To Offer Smartphone Accessories In U.S.
San Francisco – Rising Chinese smartphone vendor Xiaomi will enter the U.S. market, but not with affordable smartphones. The company is entering the U.S....
Financial
Lenovo Raises Mobile Share As Motorola Sales Soar
Hong Kong – Motorola’s smartphone shipments jumped 188 percent to more than 10 million in Lenovo’s fiscal third-quarter ending December, boosting Motorola sales to...
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InfoSonics Targets Frequent Selfie Takers
San Diego — InfoSonics is targeting people who are very into themselves with the launch of a new Verykool-brand smartphone. The Verykool-brand S5015 smartphone,...
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iPhone ASPs Up, iPad ASPs Down In Q4, Survey Finds
Chicago – Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) sees iPhone average selling prices (ASPs) rising in last year’s fourth quarter and iPad ASPs falling based...
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Survey: iPhones Grab 50% Share Of Q4 U.S. Phone Sales
Chicago – The strength of Apple’s iPhone launches last September boosted its share of cellphones sold in the U.S. to 50 percent in the...
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Alcatel One Touch Adds Direct-To-Consumer Sales
Irvine, Calif. — Alcatel OneTouch is supplementing smartphone sales to carriers and MVNOs with the launch of direct-to-consumer sales of unlocked phones, unlocked cellular-equipped...
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Smartphones, Smart Watches In CES Spotlight
Las Vegas – Smartphone suppliers are looking to differentiate their products with licensed brand names, affordable LTE price points and niche designs, while smart...
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Alcatel OneTouch to Add Phones, First Smart Watches
Irvine, Calif. –Alcatel OneTouch, the TCL Communications brand, will go to International CES with its first smart watch selection, an expanded selection of LTE...
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Boost Mobile Gets A Pair, Makes Plan-Price Cuts Permanent
Irvine, Calif. – Sprint prepaid no-contract brand Boost Mobile began offering two new smartphones and made permanent its Data Boost service plans, launched in...
Financial
BlackBerry Phone Shipments Rise Slightly In Q3
Waterloo, Canada – BlackBerry’s third-quarter smartphone shipments rose slightly to around 2 million units compared to the year-ago 1.9 million, but for the first...
CES-2016
AT&T Stuffing Stockings With Smart Watches, Phones, Camera
Dallas — AT&T is gearing up for the holiday season with the launch of the Moto 360 and LG G Watch R smart watches,...
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Caterpillar Brand Crawls Into U.S. Cellphone Market
Reading, England — Bullitt Group, the licensee of the Caterpillar brand for ruggedized cellphones, is expanding its U.S. selection of smartphones with a 3G...
Financial
Analysts See Potential In Lenovo’s Motorola Purchase
New York – Lenovo’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility could boost both companies’ global smartphone shares by delivering greater scale, expanding the distribution channels of...
Financial
Lenovo Completes Acquisition Of Motorola
Research Triangle Park, N.C. — Computer, tablet and smartphone maker Lenovo completed its acquisition of Motorola Mobility from Google and will operate Motorola as...
Financial
Tablets Help Bolster AT&T’s Postpaid Net Adds In Q3
Dallas – The number of net new AT&T wireless postpaid subscribers grew 116 percent in the third quarter to 785,000, but the gains fell...
Financial
Tablets Take Lead In Verizon’s Q3
Bedminster, N.J. — Third-quarter sales of LTE-equipped tablets again powered a double-digit percentage gain in Verizon’s retail postpaid net new subscriber additions. The carrier...
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FM-Radio App For Smartphones Gets Major Update
Chicago – NextRadio will update its interactive radio application for FM radio-equipped Android smartphones to offer a visual tuning interface. The Live Guide feature...
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Sprint Prepaid Brand Sharpens Price Plans
Overland Park, Kan. – Sprint expanded its selection of Sprint-brand prepaid plans for feature phones and smartphones, reduced prices, and packed them with more...
Industry
CTIA Panelists: Mobile Video Surging
Las Vegas – Video-streaming accounts for the majority of mobile-data usage worldwide, and video-content providers such as Hulu and ESPN view streaming to mobile...
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Samsung’s Galaxy Phones, Tizen Wearables To Offer Nokia Off-Line Navigation
Berlin – Samsung is teaming up with Nokia to offer Nokia’s HERE off-line navigation app free on Samsung Galaxy smartphones, including the Galaxy S5....
Imaging
Toshiba Reveals 20MP Smartphone CMOS Sensor
Tokyo – Toshiba launched on Wednesday a new 1/2.4-inch 20-megapixel back side illuminated CMOS image sensor for 6mm z-height camera modules in smartphones and...
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T-Mobile Expands Low-Price LTE Smartphone Selection
Bellevue, Wash. – T-Mobile is building up its selection of low-price LTE smartphones with today’s availability of the Samsung Galaxy Avant at an unsubsidized...
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