Google: 'Tensor was built for how people use their phones today and how people will use them in the future'
Blaming computing limitations of third-party options, Google announced that its newest smartphone series, the Pixel 6, will sport an in-house chip called Tensor. Critical to...
The global smartphone market grew even faster than IDC had expected during the second quarter, beating the analyst firm's predicted growth rate of 12.5% to come in at 13.2%, according to preliminary data from IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker.
Smartphone OEMs shipped about 313.2...
AIS launched 5G standalone services in July 2020
Thai mobile service provider Advanced Info Service Plc. (AIS) has partnered with Chinese smartphone manufacturer vivo to run 5G Standalone (SA) network tests in Thailand.
This is the first time that vivo has stepped outside of China to participate...
Ericsson exec: '5G is leading to a fully realized IoT and bringing us closer to a truly connected world'
Ericsson and MIT have made plans to jointly research and design hardware for 5G and 6G mobile networks. Specifically, Ericsson Research and the MIT Materials Research Laboratory are...
5G connections globally are forecast to reach 1.8 billion by 2025, according to a new study by the GSMA.
The study, "The Mobile Economy 2021", revealed that 5G technology will account for 21% of total mobile connections globally by that year.
Developed Asian countries and the...
The number of announced 5G devices has surpassed 800 for the first time and now stands at 822 announced 5G devices, according to the Global Mobile Suppliers Association (GSA).
This is an increase of 8.7% over the last month and 62% of all announced 5G...
German carrier Deutsche Telekom said it has completed the first 5G Voice over New Radio (VoNR) call in partnership with Ericsson, Nokia, Qualcomm, Samsung and Xiaomi.
The call was made over a 5G Standalone (SA) network set up at Deutsche Telekom's lab in Warsaw, Poland.
This...
Ultra-Wideband is a radio technology that can use a very low energy level for short-range, high-bandwidth communications
NXP Semiconductors announced that its Trimension Ultra-Wideband (UWB) platform now combines UWB and Bluetooth Low Energy solutions to deliver spatial awareness to the new Samsung Galaxy SmartTag+, making...
Is 2021 the year of the highly anticipated device "supercycle", when consumers upgrade their devices in large numbers in order to get access to 5G? T-Mobile US CEO Mike Sievert has said that for Apple devices, it's already here. Both Gartner and more recently,...
Smartphones account for the biggest source of gaming revenue — 43% of total revenue from all devices
Smartphones appear to be dominating the global gaming market, according to new data presented by 123scommesse. In 2020, the global gaming market generated an estimated $177.8 billion, 43% — or...
5G is already triggering changes in user behavior and indoor coverage is very important to early adopters, according to a new user survey from Ericsson ConsumerLab. 5G users are often more satisfied with their experience than LTE users are, but they find the selection...
South Korea ended March with a total of 14.48 million 5G subscribers, up from 7 million 5G users in May 2020, local news agency Yonhap reported, citing data from the Ministry of Science and ICT.
The total number of 5G subscribers at the end of...
Chinese vendor Huawei’s business felt the impact of the ongoing U.S. sanctions in the first quarter of the year, with a 16.5% year-on-year decline in revenues.
In a release, Huawei reported revenues of CNY152.2 billion ($23.5 billion) in the first quarter, while its profit margin...
Singaporean operator Singtel said it is paving the way for the launch of a 5G standalone (SA) network across the country.
The telco said it has already deployed 5G SA sites across the island in areas such as Orchard Road, the Central Business District, Harbourfront...
Analysts are expecting a good year for the global smartphone market, after years of device upgrade stretching out further and further as users held on to their existing devices and an additional hit in 2020 due to regional lockdowns that limited people's ability to...
Chinese vendor Huawei is not expecting the Biden administration to remove the company from the Entity List, the company’s rotating chairman, Eric Xu, said during a session with journalists at the Huawei Global Analyst Summit 2021.
“We believe that we will need to continue working...
Company will shift focus to "growth sectors including EVs, IoT and B2B"
South Korea's LG Electronics is exiting the mobile phone market, planning to wind down its mobile phone business by July 31.
The company has been the number three player in the U.S....
LitePoint exec: 'When compared to 4G, 5G attach rates are one to two years ahead'
LitePoint, a wireless device testing company, saw a 10x increase in 5G mobile phone shipments last year, according to the company’s Director of Marketing Adam Smith.
“We went from 20 million...
The most recent Apple phones have Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X55 modem
Several publications, including Fast Company and Bloomberg, have reported that Apple is working on the development of its own custom 5G modem. The modem, said to have been in the works since 2020, following the...
The Qualcomm platform tackles audio from the phone to the earbud
Qualcomm is hoping to address consumer wireless audio frustrations with the announcement of Snapdragon Sound, a new end-to-end optimized audio platform. According to the company’s VP & GM, Voice & Music and Wearables James...
The Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra supports enhanced intelligent Wi-Fi, OpenRoaming and Wi-Fi 6E
Samsung’s new Galaxy S21 Ultra, announced in January, has a number of features aimed at eliminating a particularly annoying pain point for consumers: The transition between Wi-Fi and cellular and vice versa.
“Our...
Apple was the top smartphone vendor, shipping 90.1 million devices in Q4
While the global smartphone market took a hit overall in 2020 — declining 5.9% compared to 2019 — the final quarter of last year showed significant improvement, with the market returning somewhat to...
The Lenovo AR glasses are equipped with Qualcomm’s Snadragon XR1 platform
While we might not have gathered in Los Vegas for this year’s CES, companies didn’t miss a beat when it came to announcing and showcasing their latest products and solutions. Lenovo used CES 2021...
Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 can aggregate T-Mobile's 600 MHz and 2.5 GHz 5G bands
Samsung this week debuted its latest flagship, the Galaxy S21, with across-the-board feature advancements and, of course, support for non-standalone and standalone 5G both sub-6 GHz and millimeter wave. Of interest n...
