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Smartphone Sales Fell Almost 10 Percent in 2020

Smartphone makers sold 1.32 billion handsets in 2020, a decline of 9.6 percent when compared…

Samsung to Provide at Least 4 Years of Android Security Updates on Many Devices

Samsung announced today that it will provide at least four years of Android security updates…

Huawei Expects Dramatically Lower Smartphone Sales in 2021

According to a report in Nikkei Asia, Huawei has alerted its suppliers that it will…

Google Announces First Preview of Android 12

Google today announced the first Developer Preview release of Android 12, which the firm expects…

Phone Hub for Chrome OS is Now Available for Testing

Last summer, we learned that Google was working on a Your Phone-like app for Chrome…

Google Investigating M1-Like OS Translation for Fuchsia

A new Google proposal would see its upcoming Fuchsia platform “natively” run Android and Linux…

Surface Duo Drops to $999, Heads to the UK

Microsoft reduced the price of the Surface Duo from $1399.99 to $999.99 this past week,…

Qualcomm Announces 10 Gigabit 5G Modem

Mobile chipset maker Qualcomm today announced the 4th-generation Snapdragon X65, which it describes as the…

Google Fit Adding Heart and Respiratory Rate Measuring on Android

Google Fit will add free heart rate and respiratory rate measuring capabilities using sensors that…

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Qualcomm Earnings Soar in Q4

Qualcomm reported today that it earned a net income of $2.5 billion on revenues of…

Microsoft Announces a Slew of Mobile App Updates

Microsoft is making sweeping updates to its productivity apps on mobile, including Outlook, Teams, the…

Office Lens is Renamed to Microsoft Lens

Microsoft revealed today that it has rebranded Office Lens mobile app to Microsoft Lens and…

AppSheet is Google’s New No-Code Platform for Custom Apps

No code/low code environments like Microsoft’s Power Platform are all the rage these days, so…

Samsung Reports Quarterly Earnings

Samsung reported this week that it earned an operating profit of $8.1 billion on revenues…

Now Huawei is Looking to Sell Off Mate, P Smartphone Lines

Two months after it jettisoned its Honor smartphone brand, a new report claims that Huawei…

Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 870 5G

Qualcomm today announced its Snapdragon 870 5G Mobile Platform, which it describes as a follow-on…

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