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Canalys: Apple leads Q4 sales for a third year in a row, Samsung stays on top in 2019

Posted: 30 Jan 2020 08:20 AM PST

Canalys posted its report on the worldwide smartphone shipments for Q4 and the full year 2019. The analysts estimate that in Q4 2019, Apple shipped over 78 million smartphones, surpassing Huawei and Samsung and becoming a holiday champion. The Cupertino company did the exact same thing in 2018 and 2017, revealing that people really want a new iPhone for Christmas. The smartphone market has switched from a growth era to cyclical era - this means companies won't grow as they used to, and now market results will alternate between peaks and declines. Research Analyst...

LG posts record sales, but mobile division keeps bleeding money

Posted: 30 Jan 2020 07:28 AM PST

LG published a report on its financial performance in 2019, boasting a record-breaking sales of $53 billion. The company recorded operating profits of $2.07 billion, 10% down from 2018, which LG explains with the additional investments it made in marketing and developing future tech. Most of the money came from the LG Home Appliance & Air Solution Company. It brought it a third of the revenue ($18.29 billion) and most of the operating profit ($1.7 billion). This division set company-wide records for both the revenue and profit it delivered this year. The financials for the fourth...

Oppo Find X2 and a Realme phone certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance

Posted: 30 Jan 2020 06:39 AM PST

The Wi-Fi Alliance has certified the Oppo Find X2 (CPH2023) and an unknown Realme phone (RMX2061). The Alliance doesn't give away much, but it does confirm that both phones will launch with Android 10. The Find X2 supports the new Wi-Fi 6 standard, which enables faster local connectivity. A certificate from Thailand shows only 4G support, but the country will only start the auction fro 5G bands later this year. The Oppo Find X2 Pro (CPH2025) is yet to receive a Wi-Fi certificate. Wi-Fi certifications: Oppo Find X2 (CPH2023) • Realme RMX2061 As for the Realme device, that only...

Sony Xperia 1.1 camera detailed

Posted: 30 Jan 2020 05:49 AM PST

Sony is hosting an event at MWC next month where it's expected to unveil its 2020 flagship. It is rumored to be the Xperia 5 Plus which is also referred to as Xperia 1.1. While Sony hasn't revealed any details about its upcoming smartphone, renders of the Xperia 5 Plus surfaced earlier this month, revealing dual front speakers and five cameras on the back. Leaked Sony Xperia 5 Plus render If the latest information that's surfaced is to be believed, this setup will include a 64MP unit, a periscope unit, and two 12MP modules (one with a huge 1/1.5" sensor and an ultrawide unit)....

Samsung Galaxy A51 in for review

Posted: 30 Jan 2020 05:02 AM PST

The Samsung Galaxy A50 was Samsung's most popular phone in 2019 and sold in droves. That makes the task of replacing it as big as that of replacing any of Samsung's most expensive flagship phones. A quick glance at the Samsung Galaxy A51 tells us Samsung played it safe, but is that a bad thing? No, it's not. Mid-rangers should be competent at what it does and bring good bang for yourbuck. Both are true of the Samsung Galaxy A51. It has moved the notched selfie camera into the display, which itself is a bit larger now and on the back there's a better camera array and an attractive...

SA: Apple shipped the most phones in Q4, Huawei slips

Posted: 30 Jan 2020 04:16 AM PST

Apple was the market leader in smartphone shipments in Q4 of 2019, followed by Samsung and Huawei, according to the Strategy analytics report for Q2. The Cupertino maker shipped 70.7M iPhones - a 7% increase compared to the 65.9M iPhones it shipped in Q4 of 2018. That's an impressive feat given that the global market remained flat. All in all Apple shipped an estimated 197.4M iPhones in 2019. Samsung remained the global leader for 2019 with a total of 295.1M smartphones shipped and was a close second to Apple in the fourth quarter with 68.8M Galaxies shipped. Despite a strong...

Samsung reports increased smartphone sales, dropping overall profit in Q4

Posted: 30 Jan 2020 03:34 AM PST

It is that time of the year when Korean companies announce their financial reports. Samsung has just revealed the Q4 profit dropped on a yearly basis due to fall in memory chip prices and weakness in display panels. The mobile business in particular saw increased quarterly demand for phones and tablets, mostly because it was the holiday season. However revenue and profit decreased following extensive marketing expenses and the lack of any flagship smartphone announcements. Rounding up Q4 means we have the full numbers for the fiscal year as well. The IT & Mobile Communications...

Huawei nova 7i is coming on February 14

Posted: 30 Jan 2020 02:47 AM PST

Huawei has announced that it will launch a new smartphone called nova 7i on February 14 in Malaysia. However, this isn't really a new smartphone and is actually a re-branded nova 6 SE that was unveiled in China earlier last month. The Huawei nova 7i will have a Kirin 810 SoC at the helm with 8GB RAM and 128GB storage. It will run Android 10-based EMUI 10 out of the box, but due to the US ban, it will not ship with Google's services. The nova 7i will sport a 6.4" FHD+ LCD with a punch hole in the upper-left corner for the 16MP selfie camera. Around the back, it will have a quad camera...

Moto G Stylus live photos leak

Posted: 30 Jan 2020 02:01 AM PST

Motorola's big upcoming event is scheduled for February 23 and will bring us at least four new phones. We've already gathered plenty of details about the Moto G8, G8 Power and the flagship Moto Edge+ but one of the big mysteries was the stylus packing Moto G Stylus midranger. Earlier today we got confirmation of its naming and suggested specs and now we have our first real images of the device. Twitter user Gustavo Gonzalez got a hold of a pre-production unit of the Moto G Stylus giving us our first real look at the device. As expected it packs a hole punch display and a stylus. The...

Poco X2 confirmed to feature 27W fast charging, leaked images reveal price and specs

Posted: 30 Jan 2020 01:16 AM PST

Chinese phone maker Poco launched the Poco F1 (aka Pocophone F1 outside India) back in August 2018, and after a long hiatus of more than a year, the company is set to make a comeback on February 4 with its second smartphone - Poco X2. The Poco X2, likely to be based on the Redmi K30, will be sold through Flipkart in India and the e-commerce giant has already revealed that X2 will boast a 120Hz RealityFlow display. Now Flipkart has also confirmed that the X2 will support 27W fast charging. The rest of the specs are yet to be officially confirmed, but if an image received by an Indian...

Realme C3 specs revealed: Helio G70 SoC and 5,000 mAh battery in tow

Posted: 30 Jan 2020 12:19 AM PST

The Realme C3 is arriving on February 6, but a week ahead of the launch Flipkart has set up a landing page for the C3 on its site revealing most of its specifications. The Realme C3 will be powered by the recently announced Helio G70 SoC and come in two memory versions - 3GB/32GB and 4GB/64GB. It will also likely have a microSD card slot for storage expansion. The Realme C3 will boast a 6.5" waterdrop notch display, which is the largest yet in the lineup. Flipkart doesn't reveal the resolution of the screen, but we are likely looking at an HD+ panel. The display will be protected by...

Oppo executive reveals first render of company smartwatch

Posted: 29 Jan 2020 11:31 PM PST

Oppo held its Inno Day back in December, where it teased its upcoming smartwatch and true wireless headphones. Now, a Vice President at Oppo shared the first image of the Oppo smartwatch - it will have a square screen with curved edges and two buttons on the side. It bears a strong resemblance to the Apple Watch, but unlike Cupertino's wearable that has one crown and one button, the Oppo smartwach has two keys, with a hole in between them. We think this might be a microphone, meaning you can talk on your Oppo smartwatch without needing the smartphone. The big question remains...

Leaked Xiaomi Mi 10 Pro specs suggest 16 GB RAM

Posted: 29 Jan 2020 10:45 PM PST

Xiaomi is about to launch the Mi 10 and Mi 10 Pro and we've been seeing multiple leaks for the past few weeks. The latest one comes from China, of course, and it is a screenshot of the About page of the Xiaomi Mi 10 Pro. The image suggests the phone will have 16 GB RAM and 512 gigs of storage, along with other impressive specs. We haven't seen a smartphone with 16 GB RAM yet, and there are just a handful of devices on the market that have 12 GB, so we are either looking at a revolution or a fake image. Looking at the image, some of the stuff isn't that surprising - Snapdragon 865...

Nokia 9.2 might have under-display camera

Posted: 29 Jan 2020 10:00 PM PST

HMD Global has postponed the launch of the next Nokia flagship smartphone in order to give it a better chance at competing in the 2020 market, according to recent reports. This means it will only be out sometime during the fall, which gives the company plenty of time to switch to the Snapdragon 865 chipset, which all of its competitors will be using anyway. This delay may also give HMD enough time to pull a first in the mobile world: an under-display selfie camera. Apparently this is now in testing for the Nokia 9.2, according to a source that's been reliable at times in the...

Moto G Stylus is what Motorola is calling that recently leaked stylus-carrying phone

Posted: 29 Jan 2020 09:00 PM PST

Motorola's G series is its most successful ever, and over the past few years has been what's kept the manufacturer going. While the company is expected to soon reveal its first true flagship smartphone in years, the Edge+, it's also getting ready to expand the G family even more. Remember that recently leaked stylus-toting Motorola device? Because its official-looking render leaked so soon after the first ever mention of the Edge+, some people assumed it was that, but it's not (and this should have been made obvious by its huge bottom bezel, unworthy of a true high-end device in this day...

Xiaomi leads in Indian smartphone sales while Realme grows exponentially

Posted: 29 Jan 2020 08:00 PM PST

Research firm Canalys frequently releases insight on how smartphone brands perform in various parts of the world. The latest report looks into the smartphone market in India, which performed quite well towards the end-of-the-year quarter. We also get a look at the total performance of 2019 and how it compares to the previous year. In Q4 of 2019, the Indian market grew by 14%, shipping 39 million smartphone units versus 34.1 million in the same quarter of 2018. Xiaomi leads the quarter with 11.2 million units with Samsung and Vivo in the respective second and third ranking spots, each...

Kantar: Global iPhone 11 sales dominated in Q4 2019

Posted: 29 Jan 2020 06:33 PM PST

Kantar Group released its latest smartphone shipments report, covering the October-December 2019 period. The main takeaway is the solid sales performance of the iPhone 11 which did solidly in markets across Europe, the US, Japan and Australia. 24.3% of all smartphones shipped during the Q4 period in the five major European markets (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom) ran iOS. The iPhone 11 specifically accounted for an estimated 10% of all smartphones shipments during the period in Europe and the US, which is more than double the share of the iPhone XR during the same period...

EU allows Huawei to deploy 5G technology if it follows a set of guidelines

Posted: 29 Jan 2020 05:15 PM PST

The European Commission decided to allow 5G companies to deal with union members, provided they follow a set of risk-mitigating measures, simply called an EU toolbox. This means companies like Huawei and ZTE will be free to deliver 5G network equipment to each of the 27 members if the country's governing body is okay with the progress a company has done towards network security and transparency. The decition is said to be an important step in "what must be a continuous effort in the EU's collective work to better protect the critical infrastructures", added Margaritis Schinas,...

Huawei Mate 30 Pro doesn't bend or break in durability test

Posted: 29 Jan 2020 04:01 PM PST

The Huawei Mate 30 Pro has one of the best mobile cameras that you can't have. And if this video by JerryRigEverything is any indication, the Mate 30 Pro is one of the best-built phones that you can't have. A signature feature of the design is the Horizon display, which wraps around the sides of the phone. It's an eye-catching design, though does the extra curviness of Gorilla Glass 6 make it more fragile? Not really, as it turns out. Though admittedly this seems to have more to do with the rigid frame that Huawei designed. Check out the video below to see how well the Mate 30 Pro...

Realme's fitness band leaks again, curved display revealed

Posted: 29 Jan 2020 02:34 PM PST

Here's our first look at the display of the upcoming Realme fitness band. The image shows the unreleased band on Realme India CEO Madhav Sheth's left hand. Sadly the screen isn't on - that would tell us if the band has a color screen. What it does tell us is that the band appears to have a slightly curved screen, much like the Huawei Band 5. The Realme fitness band is coming in February and will have a signature Realme yellow band. It appears the band doesn't wrap around the fitness tracker itself. Source
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