Large-screen smartphones — often called phablets — have been getting a lot of attention lately. But so far, the devices make up only a tiny portion of the global mobile market, according to a new study. Flurry, a mobile analytics company,...
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Are Phablets a Fad? Flurry Report Looks at Screen Size
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The new HTC One will be the first to feature the HTC UltraPixel Camera.
HTC’s UltraPixel Cameras Are Becoming an Ultra Headache
It was supposed to be the feature that makes HTC outshine Samsung Electronics and Apple. Instead, the complications of producing a camera with what the company calls UltraPixels has forced HTC to delay the roll-out of its HTC One smartphone....
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Samsung Braces for Next Battleground With Google
Samsung made itself the brand to beat in the crowded smartphone space by backing Google’s Android software –- 96 percent of the South Korean company’s shipments ran on the platform. Now, it’s planning a high-end smartphone powered by Intel-backed open-source...
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Samsung introduced the Galaxy S4 at a Broadway-style event in New York.
Samsung’s Galaxy S4 Launch Was From Another Planet
Gadget makers tend to go over-the-top with their product launches, but Samsung Electronics was in another galaxy tonight. The Korean tech company brought in Broadway performers for a mammoth production at New York’s iconic Radio City Music Hall, which seats...
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Forget the Batphone. Here Comes the Merkelphone
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is getting a new phone. In fact, she’s buying almost 10,000 of them, for something in the neighborhood of $31 million. This summer, the German government will get the first of about 9,600 hack-proof handsets. The...
Read more »Paying With Your Digital Wallet? Don’t Forget to Charge Your Device
Near-field-communication technology, or NFC, may allow consumers to someday leave their wallets at home and instead use their mobile devices as digital wallets, where credit cards, gift cards, coupons and bus passes are stored. But what happens if you forget...
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Lee Jae Yong's rise to Samsung's vice chairman and heir apparent was a long time in the making.
How Samsung Is Developing Its Next-Generation Leader
Samsung unveiled its upcoming flagship product yesterday: Lee Jae Yong. He’s the son of company chairman Lee Kun Hee, the billionaire who transformed the former fish exporter into Asia’s largest consumer-electronics company. Yesterday’s promotion of Lee Jae Yong to vice...
Read more »Hollywood’s Next Heist Flick Should be Set in Suwon
George Clooney led his team of ingenious Las Vegas thieves through all sorts of tricks in the “Ocean’s” series of casino heist movies, Val Kilmer tangled with the Russian mafia in “The Saint” to steal the secrets to cold fusion,...
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A customer inspects mobile devices at a kiosk selling Samsung products in Ambience Mall in Gurgaon, India.
A Spotlight Foxconn Is Willing to Share With Samsung
Foxconn doesn’t like to be compared with Samsung. Founder and Chairman Terry Gou has gone out of his way to tell audiences how the world’s biggest assembler of electronics is better and can defeat its South Korean rival on multiple...
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Played at a high volume, the Pill has much less distortion than the Jambox.
Beats Moves From Headphones to Listening Out Loud — Really Loud
Ever since its release, Jawbone’s Jambox has set the standard for grab ‘n’ go mobile-device speakers. Now it has a new competitor: the Pill from Beats Electronics, purveyors of the ubiquitous Dr. Dre-endorsed stereo headphones. It’s an interesting time for Beats,...
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