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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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...
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...
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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At $329, only one in five iPad minis will be purchased instead of a larger iPad, said Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster.
Hand(s) On With the New iPad Mini
A few hours ago, I got the chance to play with the newest member of the Apple family — the iPad mini. My first impressions: It’s really light and really appealing, but it also feels a bit like a tweener....
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Apple at Center of 60% of Major Mobile Patent Suits, Kanzatec Says
In the past two years, the wireless industry has turned into a minefield of patent lawsuits. While dozens of companies have been involved in litigation, Apple has been at the center of about 60 percent of the major mobile cases,...
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Nomura Equity Research's “2012 Smartphone Guide” shows the components that go into phones and their providers’ market shares.
What’s Costliest Part of Smartphone? Hint: It’s Not the Display
Nomura Equity Research recently released its “2012 Smartphone Guide,” which offers a graphical look at the components that go into phones and their providers’ market shares. More than 25 parts are needed to make a modern smartphone. What were the...
Read more »In Patent Wars, Apple’s Cook Prefers to ‘Settle Versus Battle’
Apple CEO Tim Cook was asked on yesterday’s earnings call whether it would be in the company’s best interests to clear the decks of all its various patent suits. Back in 2009, when asked about the mobile competition on a...
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