The iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus propelled Apple to a record-breaking performance during the holiday shopping season, as the company sold 74.5 million iPhones in a single quarter. That's a 46% increase from the year-ago quarter, when holiday shoppers were picking up...
Qualcomm chipsets remained the industry leader in cellular and smartphone apps processors in 2014, according to a new report from research firm Strategy Analytics.
Although Qualcomm continues to dominate the LTE baseband processor space holding a unit share of about 80% in the third quarter of 2014,...
Chinese manufacturers are six of top 10
In 2014, Â smartphone sales totaled some 1.167 billion, an increase of 25.9% from 2013, according to a new report from market research and analysis firm TrendForce.
TrendForce’s Global Smartphone Analyst Avril Wu points out in the report, released Jan....
According to the GSMA, more than 65% of the global population will adopt smartphones by 2020, with emerging markets forecasted to lead this growth. In its 2015 forecast, global research firm Gfk states that seven of the 10 leading smartphone markets are emerging nations....
Xiaomi has made it crystal clear that it's ready to take on the smartphone establishment. The Chinese devicemaker launched a new smartphone that shares its name with Samsung's popular Note, and is marketing it as a direct competitor to the iPhone 6 Plus.
Xiaomi Chairman...
Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile US rumored to have pulled Softcard support
Mobile payment platform Softcard looks to be experiencing some operational challenges, as reports claim the m-payment consortium has laid off up to 30% of its staff.
According to Re/code, Softcard has let 60 employees go as...
Former Sprint executive joins PCIA to help with workforce training
Wireless industry trade association PCIA said that former Sprint executive John Harrison will take on the newly created role of senior adviser. Harrison will join Phil Larsen, director of training and education at PCIA, in...
AT&T has agreed to sell its Muve Music service to Deezer, a French streaming-music service. Muve was owned by Leap Wireless, which marketed wireless service through the Cricket brand and was last year acquired by AT&T in a deal that also included Muve Music....
LAS VEGAS – Chinese consumers may be the first to see some of the hottest new smartphones from this year's Consumer Electronics Show. Motorola's new owner (Lenovo), and Nokia's new owner (Microsoft), both released new smartphones at CES and said that they would target markets...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique insights and experiences.
The Consumer Electronics Show officially begins Tuesday, and 160,000 of us (including yours truly) will descend on Las Vegas to...
Before we turn the page on 2014, we thought we would take a look back at the past 12 months by highlighting what we felt were the top 100 stories across the mobile space. Since it would be foolish to rank these in order...
Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
The first wave of enterprise applications have emerged from the partnership between Apple and IBM, and the duo has snagged some large customers -- including Sprint. But whether they can help Apple maintain its strong position in the enterprise device market remains to be...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column where C-level executives and advisory firms from across the mobile industry share unique insights and experiences.
This has been an unusually active December for the telecom industry. We’ll begin this week’s column with an assessment of...
Device discounts biggest focus
With the holiday shopping season now officially on, mobile operators jumped into today’s Cyber Monday activity. Most of the Cyber Monday deals involved free or discounted device pricing, though some also threw money on the table for customers bringing over lines...
Editor’s Note: In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this Reader Forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible, but we maintain some editorial control...
New plan extends payments over 30 months
Apple’s iPhone lineup continues to be a main focus for Sprint’s recently installed CEO Marcelo Claure, with the operator again tweaking its device-specific iPhone for Life Plan.
The carrier unveiled a new 30-month lease option, which drops the per-month...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.
As the wireless industry’s business model evolves after the watershed migration away from long-term contracts and phone subsidies,...
Editor’s Note: Looking to bring a younger perspective to the mobile space, RCR Wireless News has tapped Jeff Hawn to provide insight into what’s on the minds of the tech-savvy youth of today.
Twenty years ago the world was a very different place: The cold...
Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News has made many questionable decisions over the years. One of which is agreeing to let a long-time industry observer provide commentary on what is chapping his hide across the wireless industry. His name is Hunter Gates. We call him...
Sprint quickly followed up on comments made by CEO Marcelo Claure by rolling out new promotions heading into the holiday shopping season. The new deals involve expanding its device-leasing program to Apple tablets.
Sprint said that beginning Nov. 14, customers can pick up an iPad...
Editor’s Note: In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this Reader Forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible, but we maintain some editorial control...
Palo Alto Networks has identified a new virus that it said can attack iPhones and iPads when they are connected to Macintosh computers via USB. 'WireLurker' is the name given to the malware, which is embedded in some apps for Macintosh computers. More than 350,000...
Microsoft clearly values mind share and market share more than software royalties when it comes to mobile, at least in the short term. The software giant is making more features of its ubiquitous Office software available for free on Android and iOS devices. The...
